This week, I wanted to share a great book I came across a few years ago titled: “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: You’re Not Sick; You’re Thirsty. Don’t Treat Thirst with Medication,” written by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. If you had a chance to read last week’s blog post, “Do You Have a Healthy Thyroid Gland?”, we discussed five causes of thyroid disease. One or more of these causes may directly apply to you.
The five main causes of thyroid disease for the overwhelming majority of my patients are:
- Poor protein metabolism leading to protein deficiency.
Great Protein Meal
2. Poor water metabolism leading to dehydration.
Good Safe Water
3. Blood sugar imbalances.
Starchy Foods
4. Chronic stress, often emotional in nature.
Emotional Stress
5. Poor digestion and/or immune system health.
Today, we are going to focus on the second cause of thyroid dysfunction—poor water metabolism. This is something that likely relates to you, as you may fit into one of the following five categories:
- You drink enough water, the right type of water, and drink it often enough to hydrate yourself properly.
- You drink enough water, the right type of water, and drink it often enough, but you are still dehydrated. (We’ll discuss how this happens in a future blog post.)
- You drink the correct type of water, but not enough of it.
- You drink the correct type of water and enough of it, but not frequently enough.
- You are drinking the wrong type of water. The water you’ve been told is good for you may actually be dehydrating you and making you sick.
Insights from F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
In his book, Dr. Batmanghelidj shares the following:
“Despite the passage of over 25 years since it was discovered that water has powerful pain-relieving properties and the ability to reverse some disease processes, the medical community is still in denial, and the pharmaceutical industry is reaping the harvest of this professional indifference to the all-time medical breakthrough that water can serve people better than drugs.
It is a fact that correctly prescribed medications make over 2 million people sicker and kill over 100,000 every year. A further 100,000 deaths occur due to mistakes involving prescription medications, including misdiagnosis, errors in medication selection, illegible handwriting by physicians, and dispensing errors at pharmacies. But the most fundamental mistake is the use of normally prescribed chemicals in standard treatment procedures. This is the real killer. When the body needs a top-up of water, it is given toxic chemicals instead.
In December 2003, something unthinkable happened. Dr. Allen Roses, international vice president of GlaxoSmithKline, one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world, publicly admitted that ‘The vast majority of drugs—more than 90%—only work in 30 to 50% of people.’ This admission was made in a front-page interview with The Independent newspaper in London, England. According to the newspaper’s science editor, it is an open secret within the drug industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients. But this was the first time such a senior figure from a major drug company had publicly acknowledged it.
Dr. Roses blamed patients, suggesting some have certain genes that neutralize drugs. However, he failed to realize the real reason these drugs don’t work: they’re not designed to quench the patients’ symptom-producing thirst. Unfortunately, not only do these drugs not work—they actually make patients sicker.”
Stay Tuned for the Next Blog Post
In our next blog post, we’ll discuss the best type of water to drink and how much water you should be drinking.
Interestingly, Dr. Batmanghelidj also discusses in his book why a salt-free diet is harmful and emphasizes the importance of minerals, salt, diet, exercise, sunlight, and maintaining a good mental/emotional state in stopping and reversing disease (3rd edition).
