The Importance of Drinking Water

In addition to releasing tension, massage breaks up metabolic by-products that accumulate in your muscles from factors like diet and exercise. This waste has nowhere to go except into your bloodstream. Water is necessary to flush out your system. Otherwise, that waste gets absorbed back into your body, resulting in aches and pain.

Your blood stream is a water-based system. Consider water as the fuel that your body needs to function properly. Just like a car can be damaged if you don’t put water into it, or refuse to run smoothly when it is low on gas, your body needs water for optimal functioning. Most people run around dehydrated and don’t even know it.

According to Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj on his website, www.watercure.com, the muscles that move your body are 75% water; your blood that transport nutrients is 82% water; your lungs that provide your oxygen are 90% water; your brain that is the control center of your body is 76% water; even your bones are 25% water.

Just through normal daily activities of your life, you can lose about 3-4 liters of fluid a day in sweat, urine, exhaled air and bowel movements. That amounts to about 10-15 cups of water you are losing every day. If you exercise or do strenuous activity, you’ll be losing more.

By the time your mouth gets dry or you feel thirsty, your body is probably already in a dehydrated mode. Dehydration, according to Dr. Batmanghelidj, produces system disturbances. A lot of our physical ailments can be simply cured by drinking enough water. “My research revealed that unintentional dehydration produces stress, chronic pains and many degenerative diseases,” said Dr. Batmanghelidj.

In 1941, Professor Szent-Gyorgyi proved that by keeping the body’s proteins hydrated with water, they become semiconductors of energy. He states that by taking away the water to study the body’s tissue, you are studying non-life. Dr. Szent-Gyorgiyi emphasizes that our body’s communication system relies on water. A 10% change in water content can trigger a million-fold change in charge transportation along a protein. (Massage Magazine October 2007)

To keep yourself healthy, consider drinking more water. The water formula you can use is to drink half your weight of water, in ounces. For example, if you weigh 100 pounds, drink 50 ounces of water. If you exercise or have had a massage, drink more water to help flush out more toxins. If you are sick, drink more water to flush out the germs.

Drinking more water is a simple and inexpensive method to help yourself stay healthy. According to William Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II, “Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.” We should heed that notion in regards to hydration. Drink enough water to fill your body’s wellspring of hydration so that your body can function in a smooth, optimal level.