Water Cure

Date: Nov 9, 2006 4:40 AM
Subject: transcript of Batmanghelidj interview on water cure

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the elixir of life... read on.....


Exclusive Interview with: Dr. Batmanghelidj "Any time you
begin to adjust your water and salt intake, asthma will go away"
F. Batmanghelidj, MD has written three books:
Your Body's Many Cries for Water, which has been translated
into six languages How to Deal with Back Pain & Rheumatoid
Joint Pain ABC of Asthma Allergies & Lupus Eradicate Asthma

Now! He has also produced numerous special reports and
videotapes. Dr. Batmanghelidj dedicates his time to promoting
public awareness of the healing power of water. Sit back,
get a glass of water and enjoy.

Today, we have an MD with us, who has written a ground-breaking
book, The ABC's of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus: Eradicate Asthma
Now. That was the phrase that jumped out at me personally.
On occasion, I'm one of those who has a problem with an asthma
thing which I hope to get rid of now with the help of Dr. Batmanghelidj.
Did I get your name right?

Close enough. My name is not important. The information is what's
important.

Were you a medical doctor in the respiratory area?

No, I was an internist. I was trained at St. Mary's Hospital Medical
School of London University. When I completed training, I was picked
up as one of the house doctors in my own hospital which was a great
honor they bestowed upon me. I have the privilege of having been
one of the last students of Sir Alexander Flemming, who discovered
penicillin. So I'm an historic person.

Really. That's pretty cool.


I'm telling you this to let you know I've been brought up in a scientific
environment. I trained at the best medical school in the world and, now,
as a result of my discovery that water is the better pain medication,
asthma medication and the best anti-histamine medication there is,
I have to abandon some of my past learning and build a new landscape
for the science of medicine in the future. Chronic, unintentional
dehydration is the origin of most pain and degenerative diseases
in the human body. The body manifests dehydration in as many ways
as we, in medicine, have invented diseases. Dry mouth is not a sign of
dehydration and waiting to get thirsty is wrong. Thirst should be
prevented. When the body doesn't receive water and you have pain
that is a sign of dehydration.

The mouth is not dry. Pain in the body is a crisis call of the body for
water. If you have heartburn, your body is telling you it's short of
water in your gastrointestinal track. You've had a heavy meal,
there wasn't enough water to liquefy and break down the food
and get it absorbed and it gives you pain. You didn't have a dry
mouth because you swallowed all the food, but nonetheless,
since you didn't have enough water in the body, it manifested
dehydration by producing heartburn. Heartburn can be cured
with water. I use the word "cured" because it is a sign of dehydration.
When you cure dehydration, the disease will go.

Not only asthma, allergies and lupus, but also heartburn which is a
major problem in the United States.

Yes, yes. Actually, water will cure heartburn much faster than any
medication. So if you're having heartburn after a spicy dinner, just
drink a bunch of water? The best thing is to drink water before food.
Drink water half an hour before food if you're a heartburn sufferer.
That is the best time because that water will go into the stomach and
then into the intestines and get absorbed. Then that water is re-
secreted entirely in the stomach, simultaneously priming the mucus
membrane to receive food. And, water is in the stomach to be used for
liquefaction of food –to break it, to prepare the food into smaller
particles so they can be absorbed.

That is what water does. If you don't drink water beforehand, the
body doesn't have enough water that it can liberate for other activity.
Any water that is in your body is already engaged in an activity.


You need fresh water for fresh activity. If you're introducing solid food,
this is a fresh activity. You need fresh water to dissolve it and break it down.
Basically, the major pains of the body, such as, heartburn, rheumatoid joint
pain, back pain, colitis pain, migraine headaches, fibromyalgic pain, even
angina pain are signs of dehydration in the human body. Where you
have pain, it's showing that that area is dehydrated. The mechanism
is very simple. Toxic chemical waste builds up when you don't drink
enough water. If there is not enough water to wash away the chemical
toxic waste from an area that is still active metabolizing, then toxic
waste builds up. It is just like the garbage collector not collecting the
garbage that you are still creating and putting it in front of the house
to be cleared away.

When that garbage doesn't get cleared away, in time it will become
stagnant and it will produce stench in your environment. It is exactly
the same in the environment of the cells in the body. When there is
activity, there is a build-up of toxic waste. If that waste is not cleared
up, the environment becomes pungent. It will become acidic and
this acidic toxic environment is sensed by the nerve endings in
the area.

The signal is sent to the brain and the brain registers it with our
conscious mind in the form of pain. Pain means build up of toxic
waste where you have the pain.

All you need to do is to wash that toxic waste by drinking more water,
letting it circulate to the area, clean the area, wash the toxic waste,
bring it out into the circulation and then pass it out through the
kidneys or neutralize it in the liver or some of the gases could be
passed through the lungs. That's what pain means.

There are a 110 million Americans who have pain, not knowing that
they didn't drink enough water to wash the toxic waste out of their body.

This is such a simple answer. How did you discover that water was the
answer, the universal solution?

I discovered it in a peculiar situation. One late night I was called to see
someone who was doubled up in agony of peptic ulcer disease. He had
no medication and wanted some from me. I didn't have any so I just
gave him two glasses of water and within three minutes his pain
diminished and within eight minutes it disappeared completely.

Just from two glasses of water?

Yes. That's all it takes, two or three glasses of water will remove
any severe pain.

Should it be warm water?

No, ordinary tap water will do. Any water will do. What I gave him
was a little more than one pint of water. I virtually gave him two
glasses of water.

You're supposed to drink, what is it, half your weight?

There is a formula, but basically you need about two quarts of
water as a minimum because you produce about a quart and a
half of urine a day under ideal circumstances when you're getting
rid of your toxic waste. You're losing about a quart of water in
breathing. Every time you breathe out you lose water. You know
the winter steam in front of your nose?

Yes.

That's water that's leaving your body every time you breathe out.
When you have wet clothing and you hang them out to dry, if there
is wind they dry very quickly.

Now imagine the lung tissue being confronted with the wind of breathing
in and out. It dries up very quickly unless there is water from the base
to replace that water. Under these circumstances, if you don't drink
enough water, the lungs are going to become dry. The tiny membranes
that normally pick up oxygen and give up carbon dioxide, very delicate
membranes, would quickly become brittle unless water gets to them.
The only alternative is to shut down the breathing process so that the
lung tissue doesn't dry up. This process of shutting down the breathing
process they call asthma. Now, give an asthmatic water and let it circulate
and reach the lungs from its circulation and you can try to dry it as much
as you want, but it won't get dry because you're constantly replacing the
water. That is why water is the best asthma medication there is.

We've heard people throughout the years have all kinds of homeopathic
cures, but no one ever said that water was the answer. I'm a research
scientist. I've researched dehydration at the molecular level for the
past 20 years. I've presented my findings at more conferences,
international conferences and published in major journals. When I
discovered that the solution to most of the pain and disease
conditions of our society is not a money-maker so
no one is interested in it, then I decided to go public and take my
information to the public. That's why I've written my book.

This is amazing.

My first book is Your Body's Many Cries for Water which is now a
best-seller. It's sold over 300,000 copies so far, translated in many
different languages, and the new book, ABC's of Asthma, Allergies
and Lupus, is a focus on the drought management programs of the
body because allergy is a sign of dehydration, when the body goes
into conservation of its resources. Histamine is a main neuro-
transmitter in charge of water regulation in the body. Histamine
is the element that everyone takes antihistamine for, but
histamine is a good guy. It is regulating the available water
in the body according to very strict rules.

You don't want to dry it up with antihistamine.

No. It's harming your body. Yes. What you want to do is provide
the water that histamine is seeking. Once you give the body water,
it acts as an antihistamine itself.

In other words, histamine is no longer concerned with dehydration.
Histamine has another role in the body and that's management of
the immune system. In dehydration, histamine suppresses its own
activity on the immune system; otherwise dehydration would
constantly flare up the immune system. In allergies, because the
body is short of water and histamine is acting in drought manage-
ment, the immune system is shut down and antibodies are not
produced. Antibodies are soldiers that defend the frontiers of
the body. Lung tissue is a frontier with an external environment
– the nose and the eyes. If offending pollen, which is a protein,
hits these tissues, it must enter into the system. It could cause
damage. Normally, antibody soldiers would be there to neutralize
these offending pollens, but in dehydration antibody soldiers
are not active. They are not there. The only alternative is to
wash these particles away. That's why when you get an
allergic reaction, your eyes begin to water and it washes
the pollen out of your eyes. Your nose will begin to water;
it washes the pollen out of your nose and will not allow it to
go to the lung tissue.

If you hydrate the body well, antibody soldiers will be made
and you will not be allergic.

The old thing we've been hearing for years... that you've got to
drink eight to ten glasses of water a day is really very accurate.
It's a grandmother's discovery and all grandmothers are wiser
than we are, but you never to listen to them.

And then salt is really important too. In your book you mention
that the salt works on your brain cells and prevents Alzheimer's
disease.

Yes. The brain is 85 percent water and it lives in a salty lake.
It is encased in a salty lake. Cerebral spinal fluid is a very salty
environment and in order to make it salty, salt is pumped into
this environment constantly. Salt is responsible for taking acid
out of the brain cells. There are nine trillion brain and nerve cells
that constantly chatter to one another. They use up energy and
there is toxic waste. There is acidity involved in the toxic waste.
Salt goes into the cell and pushes the acid out.

And then this acid is taken out of the system by a mechanism of
pumping systems and taken to the kidneys and flushed out.
If we are short of salt and the toxic waste builds up in the cell
environment of the brain, then hydrogen iron acidity, which
lowers the pH making it more acidic, will eat away into the
brain cell mechanism. We're told not to have salt because of
the high blood pressure.

This is where medical science has gone wrong because the
human body retains salt in order to keep a body of water outside
of the cells of the body. From this body of water, which is called
edema fluid, water is filtered and injected into the vital cells.
There is a reverse osmosis program that the body operates.
The drier the body becomes the higher the injection pressure
has to be for the operation of the reverse osmosis. This injection
pressure is measurable and we call it hypertension. This
injection pressure force is needed in order to force water into
the vital cells. You take water and some salt and expand the
volume of water outside of the cells and allow water to get into
the cells and this need for reverse osmosis that operates across
the board in the body is taken away and so the blood pressure
drops. So water and salt are better medications for lowering blood
pressure.

I'm surprised when you presented this to your professional colleagues
that they didn't jump for joy and become so excited to share it.

A lot of them have jumped for joy, but commercial medicine is not
interested inthis. A sick-care system that survives and thrives on
people being sick will not survive on people being healthy. The
sick-care system is not interested, but a good doctor, and there
are lots of good doctors, have bought into the information and
they are sharing it with their patients all the time as a way of
guiding them.


Drink more water, take more salt. Salt is one of the most important
elements to the human body.

Just regular iodized salt?

Table salt is not good because it's refined and the good elements
have been taken out. Sea salt is a better version. I've given information
about salt in The ABC's of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus. Actually, quite
a lot of elderly people who have a problem with bladder control, and you
know this is a major problem, are salt sufficient. If they increase their
salt intake, that bladder will retain its control. No more incontinence.

They won't get that. Those are the two keys to health – water and salt
which are provided for us by God and by the Universe – are the
universal healers that we've not been aware of.

If you had a chronic condition with asthma or allergies, this can
reverse that situation totally and cure it?

Yes. Yes. The information on dehydration is ground-breaking,
but the explanations I've been able to put together will educate
people about dehydration. And basically it will turn everyone into
a healer of their own bodies. And they in turn become healers for
others around them. This is how information is spread and how the
information is spreading so far. I'm crusading to eradicate asthma
from the list of human diseases within five years by going around
he country as I am here now and explaining that asthma is a state
of dehydration in the body. It is not a disease. Any time you begin
to adjust your water and salt intake, asthma will go away. And if
you stop taking water and salt, it will come back because
that is your body's blueprint of drought management. It shuts
down the lung tissue.

That is so interesting. Now, does this have any affect on diabetes?

Diabetes is another sign of dehydration. The brain needs water, 85
percent water and it needs salt. If your body is short of water and is
low in salt, the body has to resort to make the blood a little more
sweet or sugar it for asthmatic purposes and also to shut down
secretion of insulin. Once insulin is secreted, it opens up the gates
into all the cells and sugar will rush in, other elements will rush in
and water will rush in. Insulin is the key to the gates for intake of
elements into the cells of the body. In dehydration, this key has to
be inhibited because otherwise it will embarrass the circulation.


But the brain will receive both the water and the sugar that the other
cells are not receiving. In dehydration, the hydroelectric energy that
water will generate in the brain is diminished so it needs more sugar
to convert into energy elements.

So there is a logic behind old age diabetes. Insulin dependent diabetes
is one of the autoimmune diseases which again is produced by
dehydration.


Isn't that amazing? So if you're diabetic you can reverse it?

Old age diabetes can be reversed completely and healed. It's another
drought management program for the brain. People who are on insulin
will benefit by water and their need for insulin will diminish. Lymphoma
is another complication of dehydration and so is cancer.

So tumors cannot exist if you are well hydrated inside the body. If it's that
simple to reverse all these negative processes that are going on in the body
that are harmful to us, then would this have an effect on our aging? Can we
reverse the aging process?

Aging is a complication of dehydration because when you age, you
gradually lose water from the surface of your skin. The circulation to the
surface will diminish and gradually as the skin loses water, there isn't
anything coming back in its place. So you get the creases and the furrows
and so on. Also in dehydration, you lose a lot of the elements in the body.
I've got a website – http://www.watercure.com/ – where there is a lot
of information. People can go to it and learn why there is no such thing
as bad cholesterol. Actually that bad cholesterol is a life-saving element.

I'm curious if you have had any negative feedback from the pharmaceutical
companies and drug companies.

I was actually threatened by emails. Someone sent me an email that said
my claim that angina is produced by dehydration is under scrutiny by the
American College of Cardiology and FDA. I am delighted that at last they
have opened up to this thing. They will be very pleasantly surprised. You
see, medicine has based its understanding that it's a solid matter in the
body that regulates all functions of the body. I have explained scientifically
at the molecular level that it is water that regulates all functions of the
body including functions of the solid matter. Without water, this solid
matter is absolutely useless. It is water that energizes and activates
the solid matter.

That makes sense because our bodies are composed mostly of water.

Yes, 75 percent optimally. The brain is 85 percent water. Now, if the
solid matter is not active without water, therefore water is more
important than solid matter. And if you don't take enough of it, then
some function of the body will begin to suffer. This is the paradigm
change that I have introduced at the molecular scientific level. I
was invited to make a presentation at the 13th Science World
Conference on Inflammation that histamine is a neurotransmitter
in charge of water regulation in the body. That is its primary
function and if it produces pain in the body, whatever pain it
produces is an indication of thirst. And that they should consider
pain as a sign of dehydration.


So at a scientific level, I understand my field. This information is now
made available to the public on my many years of research that has
been presented at the scientific level so people can take it as bona fide.
It is also built on my clinical observations. First, I treated over 3,000
people with peptic ulcer disease with only water and I came away
with the understanding that these people were thirsty. We have
mislabeled human thirst signal as a disease condition.

This is published as the main editorial in the Journal of Clinical
Gastroenterology in June of 1983. In 1987, I presented Pain,
A Need For Paradigm Change where I explained that pain indicates
dehydration and dehydration produces damage in the tissues of
the body and that can also cause cancer. I presented this as
a guest lecturer of an international cancer conference in
Greece. I had shocked the entire scientific community. They came
back to me afterwards and said,

"Now we understand we are talking about a system disturbance.
We were looking at the particles."

They were only looking at particles in the body. I was saying that
dehydration produces a multi-system upheaval. I explained all of
that to them.

How does this help with things that are hormonal, like PMS and
menopause?

All of them will adjust to a normal setting. A lot of these symptoms
that you have of dehydration show the body to be in an abnormal
setting.


So even osteoporosis, which is brittle bones, would be helped as well?


Osteoporosis is another complication of dehydration. Now let me
explain. Water is the main source of energy for all physiological
functions. As we grow older, we lose our perception of thirst and
we under-hydrate our body and we constantly are waiting for
our mouth to tell us that we are thirsty, which is wrong. When
water is not available and when the urge for intake of water
builds in us, we confuse it with hunger. Instead of drinking
water, we go and eat. So, we overeat. We eat when the body
wants water. When we hydrate the body, energy is formed
in the brain and water is the best pick-me-up there is. And
the excess of it is thrown out. Excess water is thrown out.
When we have to eat to energize brain function, only 20
percent of that food reaches the brain. The other 80 percent,
unless we are athletes, will build up in the body in the form of fat.

Right? Now, at a certain level, calcium in the bones and calcium
stored in the body is a source of energy. Each atom of calcium
sticks to another atom of calcium to make up a molecule of
calcium which builds up until it becomes bone... each atom
also stores one unit of energy. The body has learned in low energy
levels to tap into that energy. The body has learned to break
up this calcium bondage and take away the energy. Loose calcium
is built and is thrown out of the body. Gradually, as we tap into
the energy stored in the bone tissue, we discard the calcium itself
and that's how osteoporosis begins. If you don't want osteoporosis,
drink water, take salt, take some minerals. The body will retain
calcium from the food you are taking. But without water, no
supplement will work. If you are taking calcium, make
sure that you drink water because when you drink water you
will create energy, high heat of activation at the cell membrane.
And calcium has got the property of bonding to another calcium
when there is heat. Calcium is a means of converting heat into
usable energy.

This is so amazing. It makes me feel like all of us are just walking
around, just drying up. Get more water!

Absolutely, we are all drying up. You see a lot of these people
with spider veins and varicose veins. They are salt-deficient.

How much salt do you put in water?

You need basically 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt per quart of water.
Sea salt contains the other sea minerals, 84 different minerals
in trace quantities which are vital. A quarter teaspoon is 1-1/2
grams. One teaspoon is six grams. The body needs basically
three to four grams of salt a day. That is when you are taking
10 glasses of water. If you are not taking the 10 glasses of water,
a build up of salt intake will gradually make you swell.

You need to constantly measure yourself. If you suddenly have
gone up two or three pounds in two days, you have retained too
much salt. Just drink water, don't take salt for one day and then
continue the next day.

Any pain you have in your body, assume initially it is due to
dehydration.

Pain in the body is a sign of dehydration in 99 cases out of 100.


Is the salt best added to the water, not just on your food?

You can take it any way that you want. This is a liberal method.
You need to drink water before your food, to have it available
for the act of chewing, swallowing, breaking down food, absorbing
and metabolizing the particles.


You need water if you are exercising, before the exercise, because
the exercise will expand your vascular bed and you will sweat more
and you become very quickly dehydrated. So it is best to take water
beforehand.

You need water before you sleep because for eight hours you are going
to be drying up gradually. In the hot bed, you perspire. Your vascular
system expands. You breathe out a lot of water. You manufacture urine
even though you don't evacuate it until the morning. So you are dehydrated
by first thing in the morning. The first thing in the morning, drink two
glasses of water. It's the best laxative there is. Within a half hour, two
to three glasses of water will produce a better result if you are fully
hydrated.

Now, to the quality of water. How important is it that we get water
that doesn't have anything in it?

Seventy-five percent of bottled water is tap water. It's just been processed.

Tap water is chlorinated, which is a blessing because without chlorine you
will get so many waterborne diseases. Chlorine is a blessing of God to
mankind. Chlorine is at the same time a gas. If you leave water stand
for 1/2 hour, it will evaporate. So it will not stay in the water when it's
in an open glass.

So, basically, the water in this country is very good.

Your current book mentions asthma, allergies and lupus.

Lupus is an autoimmune disease. I use it as a model to explain why
lupus is a dehydration-produced problem. This is a new concept for
autoimmune diseases that I'm presenting. Because I believe in the
paradigm shift and this can explain a whole lot of disease conditions
in the human body.

I exercise that understanding of autoimmune diseases explains how
they arise as a result of dehydration.

Basically, we have the new knowledge that is going to be here,
scientific knowledge, that is going to be here from now to eternity
and all we have to do is to build up on it.

They spent 100 years of money and time researching the solid matter.
If they spent a quarter as much time and one-tenth as much money
on investigating dehydration, we will become a much healthier nation.
We will reduce our healthcare costs by at least 50-60 percent.

And age will become 120 years naturally.

Deepak Chopra says we're only half way through when we're 60 or
70, so why not?


This is new information based on science. It's simple information,
very simple. The origin, design, of the human body is made on
simple events. Integrating these simple events has produced
an integrated body but the foundation of it is simplicity based on
water. Water is what it needs. The elements, minerals are what
it needs. We have given it until now all the elements of food,
this diet, that diet, but we've never focused on water. Use water
as a primary nutrient. They say that oxygen is the most important
element of the human body. Water is more important. If water
wasn't around, oxygen would dissolve in what? And how would
it act? It's only water that allows it to dissolve and carries it to its
destination.

So water is the most important thing on this planet!

Yes. Water is the most important thing on this planet. For life,
it is more important than anything you can imagine. The unfortunate
thing is that sodas, colas and caffeine-containing beverages don't
replace the water needs of the body. Caffeine is a dehydrating
substance.

Dry cells are just like sponges. It takes time for the water to get into
them. Caffeine does not allow the water to stay in the body long enough.
Within an hour you will urinate more than the cup of beverage that you
drank.

This is so amazing! You've given us the key to everything... health and
longevity.

I didn't give it to you. God gave it to me to give it to you.

Well, you're the crusader for it and we certainly do appreciate you
being on your white horse out there!

I truly am a missionary. And I have no commercial interest in selling
water. And I don't even tell you to go buy designer water. So I have
no ulterior motive other than truth.

What's the most dramatic case that you've seen turned around
due to following just salt and water?

One late night at 11 pm, I followed a howl, a shrieking, a groan, an
agony in the

corridor. I went to the source. And I found a young man in fetal position
on the floor, doubled up and just groaning. I asked him, "What's the
problem?" He said, "My ulcer is killing me." And he was right. It was
killing him. And I said, "What have you done for it?" He said, "I've
taken three Tagamets and a whole bottle of antacid and it hasn't
done any good." I said, "When did it start?" He said, "At one o'clock
in the afternoon." For 10 hours he was in that position and no one
could help him. I examined his abdomen to see whether he had
perforated.

Fortunately, he had not. And I gave him two glasses of water and
sat next to him and observed him for 10 minutes. He held it down.
I went back and came back in another seven minutes. He was not
groaning anymore. He was far more alert. I gave him another glass
of water and then another.

He opened his eyes, sat up and was once again pain-free. Three
glasses of water removed his pain in 20 minutes whereas the best,
strongest medication that man had to offer couldn't do anything.

So you see water does have pain-relieving qualities. The medications
weren't effective because they affect the local site. He was sensing
his dehydration inside his brain, at the brain level. Only water could
produce the desired effect to the brain.

There are two levels of pain. One is peripheral understanding,
which pain killers could remove. Then there is the central nervous
system level of pain which no medication cures. And that's why a
lot of elderly people are suffering despite all the medication they're
receiving. If these people begin to drink water and regulate their
salt intake they will be completely pain-free.

This is why I've seen the miracle of water. I see light at the end of
this tunnel. And yet I was trained at the best of medical schools
and at no time do they tell you that water is a medication. Water
is a healer. So when I use the word "cure," I'm referring to curing
dehydration. They call it this disease or that. To me, they are states
of dehydration. So, I cure dehydration with water.

Well, you know, Dr. B. we are so happy you wrote this book. Both of us
have been in awe of you and the mission you are doing. We will help you
spread this word.

I wish you would, not for me, but for the sake of 14 million children
who can't breathe who are constantly in fear of suffocation.

We wish you much joy along the path as you go out there and spread
the word

Thank you.

Dr. Batmanghelidj's website is http://www.watercure.com/
Biography Fereydoon Batmanghelidj M.D.
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D., an internationally renowned
researcher, author and advocate of the natural healing power
of water, was born in Iran in 1931. He attended Fettes College
in Scotland and was a graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical
School of London University, where he studied under
Sir Alexander Fleming, who shared the Nobel Prize for
the discovery of penicillin.


Dr. Batmanghelidj practiced medicine in the United Kingdom
before returning to Iran where he played a key role in the
development of hospitals and medical centers. He also helped
establish sport projects for youth in Iran, including The Ice
Palace in Tehran, the first ice skating and sports complex
in the Middle East.


When the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979,
Dr. Batmanghelidj was placed in the infamous Evin Prison as
a political prisoner for two years and seven months. It was
there he discovered the healing powers of water.

One night, Dr. B. had to treat a fellow prisoner with crippling
peptic ulcer pain. With no medications at his disposal,
Dr. B. gave him two glasses of water. Within eight minutes,
his pain disappeared. He was instructed to drink two glasses
of water every three hours and became absolutely pain free
for his four remaining months in the prison. Dr. B. successfully
treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced
peptic ulcer disease with water alone. While in prison he
conducted extensive research into the medicinal effects of
water in preventing and relieving many painful degenerative
diseases. Evin proved an ideal “stress laboratory,” and despite
his being offered an earlier release, Dr. B. chose to stay an extra
four months in prison to complete his research into the relationship
of dehydration and bleeding peptic ulcer disease. The report of his
findings was published as the editorial of the Journal of Clinical
Gastroenterology in June 1983.

The New York Times Science Watch reported this discovery on
June 21, 1983.


On his release from prison in 1982, Dr. Batmanghelidj escaped from
Iran and came to America. At the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine
he began to research the effect of chronic unintentional dehydration on
the human body. His findings were published in the Foundation’s
“Journal of Science in Medicine Simplified” in 1991 and 1992. They
can be read on the web site http://www.watercure.com/.


Dr. F. Batmaghelidj wrote his first self-help book
“Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” in 1992, in which he stated that
a dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of dehydration.

The body signals its water shortage by producing pain. Dehydration
actuallproduces pain and many degenerative diseases, including asthma,
arthritis, hypertension, angina, adult-onset diabetes, lupus and multiple
sclerosis.

Dr. B’s message to the world is, “You are not sick, you are thirsty.

Don’t treat thirst with medication.”


Dr. F. Batmanghelidj devoted the last 20 years of his life promoting
public awareness of the healing powers of water. He appeared on
hundreds of radio and television programs and lectured around the
world. He has left a body of valuable works of six books and more
than a dozen educational audio and video seminars. His work has
created an international community that has embraced the natural
healing of the water cure. His ground-breaking book
“Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” has been translated into
15 languages and continues to inspire readers all over the world.