In clinical practice, I see a plethora of people with digestive
disturbances. And now, thanks, to the QRMA I notice many have over viscous
blood whilst scores are dehydrated. I was glancing through a medical blog the
other day, and the physician concerned screamed out to the world that drinking
more water as a tool for good health was a medical myth. This caught my
attention as the contention was so lamentably inaccurate.
Most people drink insufficient water. Now, by water I don’t mean liquids
like tea, coffee and juices, I mean good old fashioned, plain water. Drinking
insufficient water makes the stomach too dry. When the chyme is churned over by
the acid stomach before journeying onto the duodenum as part of the digestion
process, it becomes dry and lumpy.
Digestive enzymes from the pancreas are not
evenly distributed in this globular mess of partially digested food. It is this
over dry chyme, which then arrives, in the next step of the process. Secretin
prompts the pancreas to produce sodium bicarbonate, which is required to raise
the pH from an acid 2 to a lovely neutral 7. A bit like an over floury batter
the chyme cannot absorb the sodium bicarb in an evenly distributed form. Pockets
of acid hide amongst the lumps of digesting food. These pockets allow bacteria,
that should have been killed by the more alkaline environment, to thrive and of
course the acids interfere with the proper function of the alkaline base small intestine.
This condition can easily be halted by each one of us drinking more water
before a meal, drinking more water after a meal and more water between meals.
As a rule of thumb, simply down a small glass of room temperature water every
hour that you are awake.
Secondly there is the question of conductivity; this is usually measured
in the urine. Minerals are metals and salts are bases with an acid content.
Both are capable of conducting electricity. All the nervous system comprises neural
pathways along with synaptic changes which are all electrically driven.
If the urine
conductivity is too high, it tells us that the mineral content of the blood is
too high. This makes the system super excitable and toxic because minerals and
salts become poisons if they are not diluted to a safe level. You may notice
this condition when your urine is too dark. To balance the system, drink more
water. Curiously, just by drinking more water can lead to the elimination of symptoms
such as headaches. Dr. Batmanledj wrote a book about this called “The Body’s
Many Cries for Water.”
The opposite can of course occur,
too. This slows down reactions and can often show itself by a low blood
pressure reading. If the mineral and salts are too dilute, you need to take
more of them.
The lowering of cholesterol levels has become a monster size business. Cholesterol
is a naturally occurring substance manufactured by the liver, necessary for various
body functions. However, high levels of salts in the blood can cause
cholesterol to form on the inside of arteries. Sometimes clumps of this break
loose causing obstruction in the blood supply. If such an accident occurs in
the heart or brain, death can of course occur. There is no need to take statins
to stop this because they will do absolutely nothing to prevent the cholesterol
clump from breaking loose, but if you keep the salts sufficiently dilute by
drinking plenty of water the condition will not occur in the first place.
Train yourself to drink more water, starting right now!
Alister Bredee
Koh Samui
May 2013
