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Dehydration symptoms can lead to very serious health issues

Importance of drinking water and health risks of dehydration symptoms

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* Critical body functions greatly effected by shortage of water supply
* Dehydration syndroms we can’t afford to ignore
* Consequences of ignored dehydration symptoms
* How much water is enough to avoid hypertension syndromes

Water is our body's primary component. It makes up 75% of our body and 85% of our brain.

Our body is constantly trying to ensure that adequate amount of water and nutrients reach the most vital organs first — the ones that have to confront any kind of new stress.

Our brain is the absolute priority and takes the very first available resources - it is 1/50th of our total body weight, but receives 18-20% of all blood circulation.

Our body has a water supply monitoring and regulation function, which purpose is also to avoid hypertension symptoms. When any part of the body is short on water it creates an alarm in a form of unknown to mainstream medicine disease conditions.

Our doctors usually don’t know what prescription to write in such cases and starting a long, exhausting but producing nothing but bills testing process, not leading to any definite result. As of today these tests practically never link our health problems to dehydration symptoms.

Our medical schools don’t teach our doctors to consider dehydration symptoms as a usual cause of these “unknown” diseases. Instead, doctors are taught and encouraged to silence these signals with chemical products (called drugs).

Thus they further shut down these indicators of simple thirst and drought within our body.

Our brain must be hydrated at all times. So our body, if it lacks water, will do everything possible to keep adequate water supplied to our brain. This means limiting water flow to other areas of the body.

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Since simply breathing causes the loss of a significant amount of water each and every day — depending on the climate in which we live and our level of physical activities — our lungs can also be badly affected.

If we experience chronic dehydration symptoms from drinking insufficient amount of water — or from drinking water-depleting drinks such as coffee, beer or popular sugar-laden beverages — our body tries to prevent respiratory water loss by producing histamines which close off the capillaries in our lungs.

By constricting these capillaries, the body reduces water loss. But of course breathing becomes far more difficult and we experience various allergy symptoms.

It becomes clear from above example that our body is doing us a big favor by trying to protect from results of dehydration.

It is producing histamines as a strategy, not as a disease or something gone awry. Our body wants to constrict the capillaries in our lungs because it is trying to save our brain.

WE need to make sure that sufficient hydrating our body is a part of our href="http://www.age4ever.com/Brain-Fitness-Program.html">brain fitness program.

Our conventional medicine answers to this production of histamines by prescription of antihistamines, or other drugs that are designed to counteract the histamines produced intentionally by our body in order to conserve water and limit dehydration symptoms.


Critical body functions greatly effected by shortage of water supply

Water is a basic need for cellular health. Our cells contain water and they must be surrounded by water.

When we are dehydrated, our cell membranes start obstructing the flow of hormones and nutrients into our cells and preventing waste products, such as oxidants that cause cellular damage, from flowing out.

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Water does more than act as a solvent for nutrients and oxidants. It generates energy. It is necessary for the metabolic breakdown of cellular energy. In addition, water acts as a bonding adhesive in our cell structure. Any symptoms of dehydration is a sign of this process being disrupted.

On a larger scale, water is essential for our digestive system to break down and digest food — and water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in collecting oxygen in the lungs.

Dehydration symptoms we can’t afford to ignore.

We can't rely on just feeling thirsty. We have to take a pre-emptive actions and prevent symptoms of dehydration BEFORE we feel thirsty. By the time we have a dry mouth, it's already too late that may be the biggest medical or health mistake doctors and people routinely make.

There are more very damaging mistakes we make by wrong assumptions:

1. We treat our dry mouth as the only symptom of dehydration. Fact: There are many signals of dehydration besides a dry mouth.
2. We assume that water has no actual chemical properties. In fact, nothing we consume orally can even hope to be utilized without water.
3. We presume our body is able to regulate water intake throughout our life span. In reality, older people tend to become dehydrated more quickly without realizing it.
4. We often assume any fluid can replace water. Patently false - soda, caffeinated coffee, and tea make disastrous substitutes for water. Alcohol and caffeine dehydrate our body — and flush more water out of our body than they allow entering.

According to many studies, when we don't drink enough water to get rid of toxic waste build-up, we manifest dehydration symptoms -- in the form of allergies, asthma, and many other diseases.

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Consequences of ignored dehydration symptoms

When we are dehydrated, all kinds of diseases manifest themselves.

Here are some of the symptoms and diseases we should be watching for:

* Fatigue, tiredness
* Dark-colored urine
* Thirst
* Migraines
* Irritability
* Anxiety
* Depression
* Agoraphobia (fear of crowds and public places)
* Food cravings
* Morning sickness during pregnancy
* Allergies
* Asthma
* Diabetes
* Immune diseases
* Cancer
* Peptic ulcers
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Hypertension
* Angina
* Fibromyalgia

In case of suffering from any of these symptoms, disorders and diseases we are usually relying on our doctors running a lot of tests on us, instead of first eliminating the real possible cause – the chronic dehydration.

For example many people suffer from angina possibly because their heart muscles become dehydrated and short of vital nutrients as a result.

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A similar picture can be even in case of cancer, which is known to survive in an acidic environment. Water and sea salt or Himalayan salt are needed to prevent it. The best alternative doctors believe cancer really can be cured with proper nutrition.

Doctor F. Batmanghelidj who developed this healing power of water theory described it in his book - Your Body's Many Cries for Water believes we should give water the first chance. In this book he details many different diseases as manifestations of dehydration. You can buy this book by following the above link.

Obviously, we can’t expect drinking water to be the "magic bullet" cure for every medical condition. But it sounds like it's worth a shot to at least try.


How much water is enough to avoid hypertension syndromes

According to the best holistic doctors and researchers 200 pound person needs 100 oz throughout the day for getting rid of toxic waste. That is 12 and a half caps a day – much more than the 8 cups we often see recommended.

If we have an active life moving a lot and in a hot climate then we need much more. We need even more if we drink coffee or caffeinated tea, soda or alcoholic beverages.

We need more water in earlier morning after sleeping all night – 2-3 glasses first thing in the morning would help restoring the balance.

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