Book Review – You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty!
According to Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, affectionately known as Dr. Batman, you may be VERY thirsty and just not realize it.
Batmanghelidj believes that a dry mouth isn’t the first symptom of thirst. It’s one of the last. In fact, as people age, their ability to recognize thirst decreases. This means they’ll probably drink less than they actually need, and age even faster.
In his first book, Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, he makes the claim that chronic dehydration is the root cause of all physical diseases and goes on to explain its damaging effects. He discusses the role of water in the body and his belief that water can transform the health needs of humanity.
Based on his research, Dr. Batman claims that water can protect us from the following conditions:
Asthma and allergies
Obesity
High blood cholesterol
Heart disease and stroke
Diabetes
Hypertension
Infection
Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Sleep disorders
Lack of energy
Addiction
Osteoporosis
Leukemia and Lymphoma
Attention Deficit Disorder
Hot flushes
Gout
Kidney stones
Batmanghelidj definitely has his detractors, who claim his evidence is mostly anecdotal. But there is sure a lot of it!
Here’s what one of his fans has to say:
Dr B’s book is one of the most useful detailed observations about wellness and disease relating to our relationship with water, well correlated and compellingly illustrated with concurring scientific findings–all of which are available in any good medical text on the human physiognomy.
The book covers detailed understandings of water shortage in the body related to asthma, allergies, blood pressure disorders, diabetes, constipation, auto-immune diseases, pain, heartburn, hiatal hernia, colitis, ulcers, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, depression, gout—the list goes on and contains practically all the well-known and well-experienced villains of ill-health!
Although there are no clinically detailed case studies, for a book of this nature these are not needed. Dr B’s observations and references to the relevant current medical teaching make for a solidly convincing case for reversing with water therapy what Dr B calls “Chronic Unintentional Dehydration”. Most of our body is composed of water (about 75%). To think that dehydration takes place only when severe symptoms and bodily reactions take place is one the greatest single errors anyone can make as far as health and wellness is concerned. Like Coleridge’s ancient mariner, in the present day we seem to be marooned upon a painted ocean going nowhere, losing our health because we have forgotten what it means to drink enough water.
So maybe it’s worth a try.
What do you think?
