January 21, 2009
How do you know if you are dehydrated?
How do you know if you are dehydrated?
- By Dr Ferey Batmanghelidj, M.D
If you are thirsty, it means your cells are already dehydrated. A dry mouth should be regarded as the last outward sign of dehydration. That’s because thirst does not develop until body fluids are depleted well bellow levels required for optimal functioning.
Monitor your urine to make sure you are not dehydrated:
- A hydrated body produces clear, colorless urine.
- A somewhat dehydrated body produces yellow urine.
- A severely dehydrated body produces orange or dark-colored urine.
The effects of even mild dehydration include decreased coordination, fatigue, dry skin, decreased urine output, dry mucous membranes in the mouth and nose, blood pressure changes and impairment of judgment. Stress, headache, back pain, allergies, asthma, high blood pressure and many degenerative health problems are the result of UCD (Unintentional Chronic Dehydration).
- Extract from “The Water Prescription”, by Dr Christopher Vasey, N.D., Inner Traditions
2006
You may be experiencing chronic dehydration if you display any of these symptoms
2. Constipation: When chewed food enters the colon, it contains too much liquid to allow stools to form properly, and the wall of the colon reduces it. In chronic dehydration, the colon takes too much water to give to other parts of the body.
3. Digestive Disorders: In chronic dehydration, the secretion of digestive juices are less.
4. High and Low Blood Pressure: The body’s blood volume is not enough to completely fill the entire set of arteries, veins, and capillaries.
5. Gastritis, Stomach Ulcers: To protect its mucous membranes from being destroyed by the acidic digestive fluid it produces, the stomach secretes a layer of mucus.
6. Respiratory Troubles: The mucous membranes of the respiratory region are slightly moist to protect the respiratory tract from substances that might be present in inhaled air.
7. Acid-Alkaline Imbalance: Dehydration activates an enzymatic slowdown producing acidification.
8. Excess Weight and Obesity: We may overeat because we crave foods rich in water. Thirst is often confused with hunger.
9. Eczema: Your body needs enough moisture to sweat 20 to 24 ounces of water, the amount necessary to dilute toxins so they do not irritate the skin.
10. High Cholesterol levels: When dehydration causes too much liquid to be removed from inside the cells, the body tries to stop this loss by producing more cholesterol.
11. Cystitis, Urinary Infections: If toxins contained in urine are insufficiently diluted, they attack the urinary mucous membranes.
12. Rheumatism: Dehydration abnormally increases the concentration of toxins in the blood and cellular fluids, and the pains increase in proportion to the concentration of the toxins.
13. Premature Aging: The body of a newborn child is composed of 80 percent liquid, but this percentage declines to no more than 70 percent in an adult and continues to decline with age.
How To Increase Your Overall Health And Vitality…
…And Avoid Dehydration?
Hydration can be easy to accomplish but it is not just about drinking lots of water
everyday. This is because you can be drinking 8 glasses of water (world standard
consumption quantity) yet you can still dehydrated…
The key to proper hydration is to achieve adequate exchange, absorption and
assimilation of healthy water molecules through your cells.
Water with molecular chaos (common know as ‘dead water’) does not hydrate but
irrigates our tissues. The body has to work very hard to re-structure the regular water into smaller clustered water that can be used by the body. Energy is wasted in the process.
On the other hand, water with organized molecules will provide the health and vitality you desire!
You can sign up for this F.R.E.E Energy And Water Course to learn more about achieving better health.
