Three Ways to Know You Are Experiencing Dehydration

We often equate dehydration with some poor soul stumbling across a sandy desert under the hot sun, unable to find some clean, clear water. But you don’t have to be devoid of any water, or in a hot climate to be chronically dehydrated. Not drinking enough water; and not drinking the right kind of water can make us sick. Many of us have been unknowingly adjusting for most of our lives to deep-cell thirst and fluid acidity.

Our resilient, magnificent bodies cover for our ignorance. Many people with chronic health problems have become sick, adjusted, been well for awhile (or may have never gotten well) have become sick again, and adjusted again, until here they are…in reality, chronically dehydrated…but according to the U.S. medical model they are a person who has a heart problem, has cancer, or is a diabetic; or is quite simply suffering from psoriasis; or is a person with one or more auto-immune disorders. Once you have one, you are susceptible to them all, and on and on.

Is it possible that at the root of most of these illnesses are some very thirsty cells in your blood, in your organs, and in your muscles? Does this explain why it is frequent to see “miracle recoveries” from any one of these diseases almost overnight when the right kind of water or hydrating liquid is introduced…including some of these miracle juices?

Stage 1 Dehydration - Impatience and Irritability (or How to Avoid Anger Management classes)

Your brain needs water (with minerals)…in order to conduct electrical impulses. These bio-electric commands automatically regulate body temperature, process information, help us move muscles, automatically breathe, help us eat and digest, and cause us “to feel” both physically and emotionally. When there isn’t enough water available to your brain, your brain basically shuts down to conserve energy. Stage 1 Dehydration mostly occurs at a FEELING level. Thus, you get impatient responses like: “I don’t have time for this!” “I don’t know!” “Who cares!?” Other symptoms include anxiety, depression, feeling flushed, disturbed sleep, and the craving of sodas or alcohol.

Stages 2 and 3 Dehydration – The next level of symptoms begins where our most common and most creative television commercials and memorable jingles end. Phase 2 and 3 problems are summed up by a “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is!” approach. Early in our lives we learn to accept that many “normal” illnesses, such as being born a sick child, or experiencing disruptive chemical imbalances, or natural aging, must be treated with chemicals (prescription and over the counter –OTC- drugs). Everyday examples are indigestion, acid reflux, asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, constipation, diarrhea, migraine headaches, colitis pain, debilitating pain from fibromyalgia, auto-immune disease and then ultimately, all types of cancer, heart attack, and even bulimia and morning sickness from pregnancy. Do you suffer from any of these?

Over a 110 million Americans rely on pain medications in order to get through a normal day. If you think about it, where does pain come from when it’s not caused by an infection or an injury? Inflammation and pain have at their root (their core) a lack of enough, and the right kind, of water.

We have learned to take these inconveniences in our stride. Mild pain, shortness of breath (without a heart problem), allergic reasons, post nasal drip, indigestion, obesity and even the onset of blood sugar problems just seem “par for the course” when everybody else has them too. We gladly purchase OTC drugs because they are available and affordable. We’re happy when it’s not a prescription drug. But at some point, that becomes unavoidable, as you slip into a black hole of “dis-ease” and desperation. The U.S. model tells us that some things can’t be avoided. Genetic and inherited disease is considered “fate” in the medical model that we use in this country. There’s nothing you can do about them. But have you ever thought about why OTC drugs may work? They require you to “drink a glass of water” with them. We drink it because we don’t want to burn our tender throats with potent drugs, so we wash the pills down. But what else happens? We hydrate too. This is not to say that the pills don’t do their magic, but it does suggest that water plays a different role than you might have previously considered.

Many of these illnesses started when you were a kid. Maybe you missed sports because you were always ill or allergic or short of breath. I’ve had autoimmune disease (visibly) since I was eight years old. That means I’ve been dehydrated for decades and decades. How about you?

Read the article: Self-Correct & Become Healthy Again

Alka Seltzer Commercial: http://www.videosift.com/video/Plop-plop-fizz-fizz-oh-what-a-relief-it-is-Alka-Seltzer

Celebrex Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GvYI4VdVEI&feature=related
Pay attention to the announcer droning on and on about all the health disclaimers! Yikes!

Drought Management Books by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.:

• You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty( a must read)


• The ABC of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus


• Your Body's Many Cries for Water


• How to Deal With Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain

Other Authors:

• What's the Big Deal About Water?
  by Tonita d’Raye


• The Water Prescription
  by Christopher Vasey, N.D.
  

Timi Gleason is a leadership coach specializing in a step-by-step focus on reaching long-term goals. She has this "thing" about not having to take prescription drugs either "at all" or "not for long". Visit her site at www.rx-freezone.com!