As I have been writing on the
importance of drinking water and indeed the therapeutic use of water, I also
want to let into the further benefits you can access through adequate daily water
consumption. Let us now look at hydration again, as well as what other issues
there are that relate to water therapy especially when you don’t drink enough
of it, for as Dr.
F. Batmanghelidj once said, if you are feeling unwell, you are not
actually sick, but that you are only thirsty. He further emphasised by concluding that
you “don’t treat thirst with medication”.
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Water is the vehicle of life |
Lubricating fluid
Water is the major lubricant
surrounding your joint areas; in this wise, water helps you to prevent
arthritis, backache and joint pains.
Immune booster
Also, water helps to boost your
immune system because it helps to transport blood and nutrients to all parts of
the body and its organs. Thus the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, skin, eyes,
muscles, blood vessels, liver, etc are all happy beneficiaries of adequate
water consumption and hydration. As a result therefore, you are not likely to
fall sick or catch infections easily.
Prevents clogging of blood vessels
Water helps to avert clogging of
the blood vessels in the heart and brain, and by so doing it prevents you from
having or alleviates, high blood pressure; it also prevents the conditions that
would predispose you to a heart attack, and even stroke.
Brain function
As mentioned in my earlier
article on water therapy, your brain is made up of 76 percent water, which is
needed for the manufacture of neurotransmitters including serotonin. It helps
in the manufacture of hormones produced in the brain such as melatonin, while
it also aids in other brain functions. In functioning as attention span builder,
water ensures that you do not fall victim of attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Anti-ageing agent
Water is an anti-ageing
ingredient; it helps to keep your skin supple and sparkling while giving you a
pleasant appearance. When you maintain the habit of drinking enough water, it
helps you to prevent memory loss as well as other degenerative diseases that
come with old age such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou
Gehrig’s disease.
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You are what you drink |
Protection of ‘vital’ organs
Your body thus needs to be well
hydrated on a daily basis, but suffice it to say here that our body system is
also very smart enough to prioritise the distribution channels of water to adequately
water the entire mass of our body whenever it is in a drought situation. At these
critical moments, the body as designed is able to select the five most vital
organs and serve them first so as to sustain their equally vital and paramount
functions and so we do not suffer dire consequences. These five vital organs
that are given preferential treatment are as follows:
- Brain
- Heart
- Lungs
- Liver
- Kidneys
But as a result of this rationing
action of the body when the system is not well hydrated, some other (non vital)
organs still will suffer due to neglect or dehydration. And these resultant
effects are what you may observe or experience in such instances as – skin reactions
like wrinkles and lack luster appearance, gastrointestinal tract problems, joint pains and arthritis, etc. These are usually the places that will first
display the symptoms of dehydration in the human system.
By Morgan Nwanguma
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