Waters Role in the Body

Water is not only life giving, but life saving. The importance of water to our health and its role in disease processes has rarely been considered. As we accept new ideas of natural healing and alternative medicine, we can look at water in a new way.
When we don't take in enough water each day, some parts of the body are forced to do without it. When our bodies become dehydrated, the first symptom is not thirst, or a “dry mouth”. Depending on your genetic makeup and lifestyle, dehydration shows up in other ways. You notice a dry mouth only after the body has been dehydrated for a long time, or when the need is critical. Our bodies are such miracles of adaptability that we can function reasonably well without adequate water for a very long time. We can go along for decades, harming our bodies without even realizing it.
And in all that time, we don't see the damage that is being done. Smoking, alcohol, toxic waste buildup, poor nutrition, stress, even living in a polluted environment — all of these things take time to create observable effects. By the time we finally notice a problem, we are already in big trouble!

We have been conditioned to believe that modern medicine and its arsenal of drugs and chemical solutions is the answer to most of our health problems. These potions seem to work for a time, but rising health care costs indicate that they are not complete cures. They only postpone the consequences and allow the biological clock to keep running a while longer. Thus more damage is done. Our bodies were created as a perfect interface between our brains and our external world. We are self-propelled, we can regenerate after wounds, and we replenish depleted energy through sleep and nourishment. Doesn't it make sense that we can also use natural substances around us to heal us? After all, what did we do during the more than 150,000 years of human existence before we could go to the drug store?