Your Body's Many Cries for Water: A Preventive and Self-Education Manual for Those Who Prefer to Adhere to the Logic of the Natural and the Simple in: ... - Don't Treat Thirst with Medications [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Being an educated, rational woman I am not prone to ideas that border to the skeptic on quackery. But this book is serious medical and science information and should be in every community library and every home library. It is that basic and that simple.

Add to the fact I had been diagnosed with Lupus and beginning stages of Fibromyalgia. Then when I sought information in order to make informed decisions on treatment and lifestyle changes all I got was either major pity party and victim mode information or it is mental and one just needs to learn to live with it. Well I refuse to allow anything to stop me from living a full and healthy life so I started to seriously look into lifestyle changes and came smack dab to this wonderful book.

Like way to many Americans I thought if the beverage was "wet" that it was akin to water. And yes I am embarrassed to admit that I have worked in third world countries re: Peace Corps and Doctors Without Borders and know firsthand that clean water projects are #1 as far as preventative health care goes. So this book basically spells this simple fact out. Our bodies need water and as Americans we have such easy access to water with filter systems if needed, and as such we are looking at one of the least perhaps the least expensive preventative as well as healing gift around.

And if you are a woman and have any type of menses pain before during or after, or have had bouts with skin flare ups and urinary track infections and yes yeast infections this book will be the best medicine you ever gave yourself. Not only do I have no signs of the Lupus or Fibromyalgia but since drinking even more water than Dr suggests (because I like water) my joint pain is no more, my skin is healthy,my hair is healthy and my insomnia is gone. And yes, because I drink more water my kidneys function better, thus the toxins are flushed out more and so I have been losing weight easier and faster. My muscle tone is better and the only thing I have had to do was shower twice a day since I sweat from my workouts and need to wash the toxins in my sweat away. And I often ask myself "why did it take me so long to discover such a simple secret to health?"

As a side note, stop and think about how often water is mentioned in history as a healing tool. One need not be religious to realize that water is a basic need in life. That our bodies being mostly water, are akin to a river that needs fresh water flowing thru it at all times.

My only question is this. What do you have to lose and what do you have to gain by trying his simple suggestion?

And while I can't say it is 100% gone, my asthma is SOOO much better than it was using white man's medicine--you know, inhalers, prenizone, shots, etc. 20 years of that left me wheezing all the time. 1 month of water took care of it by and large, with occassional recurrances.

I would love to be an out an out believer in water. Dr. B certainly promises a lot with this book. My hunch is that he right on with most of it. I FEEL so much better since I started drinking at least 80 oz. of water daily.

It's just so simple, like he says. I mean, like plants, humans need water. Without water, plants shrivel and dry and die--is that really much different than what happens to dehydrated people as they age?

But the books reads like a 12th grade science project. With the exception of the letters from doctors and patients, and his own research into peptic ulcers (which DO seem grounded in scientific inquiry), I don't have the feeling that the rest is on a solid scientific ground. Let me be clear about it--my own experiences and my intuition tells me that Dr. B. is correct and justified to proclaim water as miracle. But the book itself, and the style its presented in don't by themselves give that degree of credibilty.

And he really could use a good copy editor and some advice to substitute his greatly overused "paradigm" word for "approach", because there is nothing world-view or all-encompassing about water, as "paradigm" is defined (inaccurately--read Thomas Kuhn's original work and try to come up with that definition! Just try!) No, drinking and studying water and its effects are more about approach than "big meta-idea" of the new paradigm.

Dr. B. is to be commended for this work. It has helped me immeasurably. It's a good book, but it demends follow up, further documentation, which might include footnotes and endnotes published with the work for more clarification (an issue he was to work out with his publisher--negotiate, man!) and all in all needs a less dogma and more explanation.

But thank you, Dr. Batmanghelidj for this work. It is much needed. It is so good that we need more of it! Keep it coming!