Ulterior Health

An often underlying or ulterior cause of disease processes is improper hydration. In other words, we do not have enough water in our body to maintain optimal health.

There are a number of theories that suggest that diseases or conditions like peptic ulcers, asthma, back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, and lupus can all be treated with just drinking water.

Memory enhancement, boosting our immunity, stress reduction, even expelling the waste from toxic foods we take ingest are all affected by our water intake.

Additionally, there are a number of studies and papers that demonstrate that water will successfully treat these health problems. Here is a secondary cure. If it cures our health then it could also cure our chronic lack of money. Think, if we have better health, less lost work days and have less medical bills, we will have more money.

Before the conspiracy theorists start going off on this, consider this, there is no money to be made in this. If people cannot make any money, they do not have jobs. If they do not have jobs, they cannot keep roofs over their heads.  If they are pharmaceutical company executives, it could even result in them being second and third homeless (as they would eventually not be able to afford their second and third vacation homes).

So they could care less if you drink water. They are only concerned if you buy their medicine. Perhaps they don’t even care if you take it. Just buy it so they can maintain their second and third home. It is capitalism at its finest.

Now, back to the water thing.

We need at least 2 quarts a day. We pee about 1.5 quarts and lose at least 0.5 from breathing. If we are working hard and sweat, exposed to elevated temperatures or are exposed to dry conditions, then the need increases.

Next, we need to take in about half of our body weight in ounces.

So if you weigh 250 pounds, half would be 125 pounds or 125 ounces which would be about one gallon a day.

Don’t go out and start drinking this much if your not used to it. You could get sick.  Too much of anything, even water, is not a good thing. If you drink to much water you could even die.

Develop this into a good habit.

But when should we drink. How does the alkalinity or acidity of the water affect our health? More to come.

This is an ancient article from a scientific standpoint, 1998 to be precise.

Uncooked, lactobacilli-rich, vegan food and rheumatoid arthritis.

Caution needs to be exercised when eating raw foods, as now there is risk of other disease. Make sure it is cleaned and safe to eat.

Check it out. It is from Pub Med.

Br J Rheumatol. 1998 Mar;37(3):274-81.
Nenonen MT, Helve TA, Rauma AL, Hänninen OO.

Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio, Finland.

We tested the effects of an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, in rheumatoid patients randomized into diet and control groups. The intervention group experienced subjective relief of rheumatic symptoms during intervention. A return to an omnivorous diet aggravated symptoms. Half of the patients experienced adverse effects (nausea, diarrhoea) during the diet and stopped the experiment prematurely. Indicators of rheumatic disease activity did not differ statistically between groups. The positive subjective effect experienced by the patients was not discernible in the more objective measures of disease activity (Health Assessment Questionnaire, duration of morning stiffness, pain at rest and pain on movement). However, a composite index showed a higher number of patients with 3-5 improved disease activity measures in the intervention group. Stepwise regression analysis associated a decrease in the disease activity (measured as change in the Disease Activity Score, DAS) with lactobacilli-rich and chlorophyll-rich drinks, increase in fibre intake, and no need for gold, methotrexate or steroid medication (R2=0.48, P=0.02). The results showed that an uncooked vegan diet, rich in lactobacilli, decreased subjective symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Large amounts of living lactobacilli consumed daily may also have positive effects on objective measures of rheumatoid arthritis.

Just a thought…many vegies are rich in cystine. Cystine intake is an essential part of boosting our GSH or Glutathione. Being very fragile, it is easily destroyed in cooking. Anecdotal evidence suggests it plays a role in pain management. Problem: it is not possible to get enough Cystine when we are in a disease state. It needs supplementation.