Water: For Health, For Healing, For Life (24 page)
The DNA repair system is complex, and many different mechanisms are involved. One of these involves a small enzyme that has been discovered to cut and splice faulty DNA replications and correct the mistake. The enzyme is composed of lysine-tryptophan-lysine, discovered by Claude Helene, who published his findings in 1985. As has been explained, dehydration causes a drastic run on the tryptophan reserves of the body. Not only may the body be short of tryptophan, but the delivery of the amino acid to the microscopically dehydrated areas may also be a contributing factor and may affect the quality-control mechanisms for the DNA replication process.
Protein kinase enzymes are involved in manufacturing new proteins inside the cells. Proteases are a class of proteins that enzymatically break down already made proteins for their recycling process. This balancing process is going on in all the cells of the body all the time. If you exercise, you activate the enzymes for making new muscles. If you do not exercise, you activate the enzymes that break down already made muscles. In either case, water and the materials it normally transports play a major positive—or, if water and the materials are lacking, negative—role in this balancing process.
Dehydration has another impact on these enzymes. The protease activity and protein breakdown inside the cells become dominant in persistent dehydration. The cells produce fewer and fewer cell membrane receptors that would keep up communication with the physiological commands from different hormones in the body. The process is called receptor down-regulation. At a certain level of protease activity, the new class of protein-manufacturing enzyme known as protein kinase M, which is more befitting primitive cell functions, becomes produced. It is this enzyme that drives the cell into incessant reproduction. If you want more information on this topic, you can review my article “Receptor Down-Regulation” on
www.watercure.com.
Unfortunately, medical experts in cancer research have not understood the immune system suppression caused by persistent dehydration. It has not been realized that histamine can directly and indirectly suppress the immune system. When histamine is engaged in the drought-management programs of the body, it suppresses its own direct influence on the immune system, even at the bone marrow level. This is an essential process; the role of histamine in drought management could otherwise constantly flare up the immune system. As it happens, this safeguard may become ineffective and give rise to conditions known as lymphomas, myelomas, and leukemia.
The way excess histamine activity in persistent dehydration inhibits the immune system is simple. All the white cells in the body have histamine receptors. There are two major groups of white cells that are engaged in the immune system control mechanisms. They are known as helper cell and suppressor cell lymphocytes. There are twice as many suppressor cells in the bone marrow as there are helper cells. As their designation implies, the suppressor cells are there to inhibit any bone marrow manufacturing process. This is how inhibition of the role of the normal bone marrow activity within the immune system needs of the body is brought about, when the body is dehydrated.
Another major inhibitory effect of dehydration on the immune system is the role of vasopressin as a strong cortisone release factor. With increased cortisone activity, two things take place. First, more interleukin-1, a chemical produced by some white cells, is produced. Second, this chemical accentuates tissue breakdown for the release of raw materials from the protein reserves of the body. It also accentuates the action of cortisone in the inhibition of interleukin-2 and interferon production. These two elements are vital for efficient defensive functions of the immune system. They prime the cells that are on the forefront of the battle against infections, foreign agents, and aberrant cells that do not conform with the normal tissues of the body—such as cancer cells.
The function of interferon is crucial to the immune system. It causes a local release of hydrogen peroxide and ozone, which kill bacteria and cancer cells.
Scientists have for years tried to manufacture interferon for use in cancer treatment. What has been produced commercially has not worked as effectively as the natural form. Naturally, they did not realize that dehydration, and its other immune system impacts, should also be taken into consideration.
With this explanation on the direct impact of dehydration on tissue transformation and cancer production in the body, I am convinced that water is the best naturally preventive, and
curative,
cancer medication in the world. If you have any doubts about this, you can refer to my published scientific articles now posted on the Web site
www.watercure.com.
When we wish to use water to help with cancers, we also need to provide the body with the right ingredients to correct the metabolic complications that have placed a depleting run on its raw material reserves. We also need to make sure that the body chemistry is directed toward a more
alkaline
state. Cancer cells are produced when the body becomes more and more acidic. Cancer cells are somewhat anaerobic; they do not like oxygen. In fact, oxygen is said to kill cancer cells. When water is available and brings with it all the defending agents and the needed ingredients, it also brings oxygen to the cancer cells. This is another reason why water is a good cancer medication.
For more information, take a look at my DVD or video
Health Miracles in Water and Salt.
THE WATER CURE: HOW MUCH WATER AND HOW OFTEN?
Let me give you the single most effective prescription for well-being, improved health, disease prevention, potentially reversible stages of degenerative diseases— and finally the best pain medicine in the world. It needs no doctor's prescription. It is freely available. It costs nothing. It has no dangerous side effects. It is the medication your body cries for when it is stressed. It is good old plain, natural
water
—ready cash for the industrial systems of the body.
Every twenty-four hours the body recycles the equivalent of forty thousand glasses of water to maintain its normal physiological functions. It does this every day of its life. Within this pattern of water metabolism and its recycling process, and depending on environmental conditions, the body becomes short of about six to ten glasses of water each day. This deficit has to be supplied to the body every day.
If you think you are different and your body does not need this amount of water, you are making a major mistake. The body uses up the equivalent of between six to eight glasses of its total body water for essential functions. It needs on average upwards of half its weight in ounces of water per day—a minimum of eight to ten glasses. Water should be taken in eight- or sixteen-ounce portions spaced throughout the day. In the same way you don't let your car run out of gas before you fill the tank, the body must not be allowed to become dehydrated before you drink water.
• Water should be drunk before meals. The optimum time is thirty minutes before eating. This prepares the digestive tract, particularly in people with gastritis, duodenitis, heartburn, peptic ulcer, colitis, or gas-producing indigestion.
• Water should be taken anytime you are thirsty— even during meals.
• Water should be taken two and a half hours after a meal to complete the process of digestion and correct the dehydration caused by food breakdown.
• Water should be taken first thing in the morning to correct dehydration produced during long sleep.
• Water should be taken before exercising to have it available for creating sweat.
• Water should be taken by people who are constipated and don't eat sufficient fruits and vegetables. Two to three glasses of water first thing in the morning act as a most effective laxative.
WATER OR FLUIDS?
Naturally, we wonder why we should drink water and not the pleasing and taste-enhancing beverages that are now the staples of our modern society. After all, they are made from water and do the job of quenching our thirst—or at least we feel they do. In fact, much of the problem of bad health is founded on this misconception. As far as the chemistry of the body is concerned, water and fluids are two different things. As it happens, popular manufactured beverages contain some chemicals that alter the body's chemistry at its central nervous system's control centers. Even milk is not the same as water. Milk is a food and must be treated as food.
The body needs water—nothing substitutes for water. Coffee, tea, soda, alcohol, and even milk and juices are not the same as water.
CAFFEINE IN BEVERAGES
• A cup of coffee contains about 80 milligrams of caffeine, and a cup of tea or one soda has about 50 milligrams.
• Chocolate also contains caffeine and theobromine, which acts like caffeine.
• Caffeine further dehydrates the body—you urinate more than the volume of water contained in the beverage.
• Caffeine blocks the production of melatonin in the brain. Dr. Kenneth Wright Jr. discovered the melatonin-inhibiting effect of caffeine in 1994. This inhibitory effect of caffeine on melatonin production by the pineal gland of the brain seems to last six to nine hours. Melatonin regulates the functions of the body during sleep; it induces sleep. Thus, melatonin inhibition is one reason why coffee induces wakefulness.
• Caffeine intake on a regular basis by pregnant women can increase the risk of producing low-birth-weight infants. It can even cause spontaneous abortion or damage to the fetus.
• Caffeine inhibits the enzymes used in memory making, eventually causing loss of memory. It has been shown to inhibit the enzyme phosphodiesterase
(phospho-di-esterase),
which is involved in the process of learning and memory development.
• Caffeine can be toxic to brain cells. Some plants use caffeine as a defense against their predators. Caffeine toxicity in predators decreases their natural wit and ability for survival against their own predators. They forget how to camouflage themselves and become prey to their own predators. This is how the coffee plant gets rid of its pests.
• Seniors and children should not take caffeine. It can affect their normal brain functions, and their wit to survive may become less sharp.
• People taking five to six cups of coffee a day are twice as likely to suffer heart attacks.
• Caffeine can damage DNA and cause abnormal DNA by inhibiting the DNA-repair mechanism.
• Caffeine has been shown to cause genetic abnormalities in animals and plants.
• Caffeine attacks the brain cells' reserves of energy and lowers their threshold of control, so that the cells overspend from their energy pool. It indiscriminately turns on many energy-consuming functions to the point of causing exhaustion. When brain cells that have been influenced by caffeine confront a new situation that demands their full cooperation, they have a shortfall of energy. This creates a delay in brain response— hence exhaustion and irritability after excess caffeine consumption. Caffeine may cause attention deficit disorder in young people who consume too much soda.
• Water by itself generates hydroelectric energy. Caffeine in the same water stimulates the kidneys and causes more water to exit the body than is in the drink. This exhausts the brain cells' reserves of energy.
Caffeine-containing sodas with artificial sweeteners are more dangerous than those containing regular sugar. Artificial sweeteners are potent chemical agents that fool the brain cells by masking as sugar. Sweetness normally translates to the entry of energy into the body. The sweeteners, through the taste buds, program the brain to behave as if ample sugar for its consumption has reached the body and will imminently reach it through the circulation. Since there is strict control on the level of sugar in the blood, the brain calculates the outcome of the sweetness and instructs and pro-grams the liver not to manufacture sugar from other raw materials, but to begin storing sugar. When the sugar that was promised through the taste buds is nowhere to be found, the brain and the liver prompt a hunger sensation to find food and make good on the promise of energy. The result is a state of anxiety about food. It has been shown that people who consume artificial sweeteners seek food, and eat more than normal, up to ninety minutes after the intake of the sweetener. This is part of the reason why more than 37 percent of the population is obese.
Caffeine-containing diet sodas, therefore, constitute a sort of double jeopardy to the body in that caffeine causes many complications, while artificial sweeteners have their own detrimental chemical effects. Decaffeinated diet sodas may be particularly harmful in diet programs, especially if the sweetener is aspartame. Aspartame has been implicated in the increased incidence of brain tumors and seizures.
ALCOHOL IN BEVERAGES
Alcohol in beverages causes dehydration—the kidneys flush water out.
Alcohol prevents the emergency water supply system to the brain. It inhibits the action of vasopressin and causes brain-cell dehydration. It is brain dehydration that signals as a hangover after you have taken a few drinks.