Water For Our Basic Health

Water serves to assist our bodies in functioning in an efficient and healthy way. It lubricates our joints, serves to produce our blood. It is the actual make-up of many organs in our bodies and keeps every part of our being in its correct condition just by being adequately lubricated. Even our brain needs to be sufficiently supplied with water to function at its peak.

Douglas Morrison, author of ‘How we Heal’, illustrates the very many illnesses and disorders that he believes are associated with the lack of water in our bodies. He even suggests, very convincingly, that occurrence of arthritis and Alzheimer’s can be attributed to the lack of the necessary amount of water needed for good health.

Due to lack of water our joints and soft bones cannot sufficiently provide a moist buffer zone between two connecting bones. Also a dehydrated brain is not able to function well.

If you were to increase your water supply suddenly in order to address health problems you could cause yourself discomfort and other unnecessary situations. Instead Morrison advises that you increase your water intake gradually. Apart from being easier to do, it is also more beneficial to you. If you were to imagine a dried out pot plant that you suddenly decided to revive with an entire jug of water you would observe that the plant absorbs little of the water and the excess water would not serve to do the job required. It would simply flood outside of the area where it was needed.

In your body a similar situation would occur and the extra water would accumulate around the heart and lungs in the body.

By adding small glasses of water to your regular daily intake throughout the day your body can more easily absorb the water. Over a period of time you would increase the amount that you drink at a time and the amount of times a day that you would drink the water.

This amount of water would be necessary to drink even if you were not feeling thirsty because as an adult you cannot accurately gauge the amount of water that your body needs by your own thirst. On average it would take between one to two months to bring your water levels up to a satisfactory level.

Once you are at this stage it is necessary to always maintain it in order to keep your body operating at its optimum performance.

Reference: ‘How We Heal’ Douglas Morrison, North Atlantic Books, Berkley, California

Evangelia Zonnios is the writer for the website Positive Family Initiative which serves to provide essential and constructive advice to families on many issues. Visit the site and sign up for the FREE Positive Family ezine at http://www.positive-family-initiative.com

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