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Water is the basis of all life and that includes your body. Your 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.

Our health is truly dependent on the quality and quantity of the water we drink.

Dr. B's pioneering work shows that Unintentional Chronic Dehydration (UCD) contributes to and even produces pain and many degenerative diseases that can be prevented and treated by increasing water intake on a regular basis.

via WaterCure | The Miracles of Water to Cure Diseases.

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water's effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence. I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about “The Healing Power of Water.”

In a fascinating one-hour phone conversation, Dr. B. shares:

• Which common ailments and “diseases” are actually caused by dehydration

• Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain

• How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties

• Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled “diseases”

• Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body's water reserves

• Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration

• Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance

• Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS

• How dehydration impairs mental functioning

• Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public

• How lack of water causes depression

• Why popular beverages are no substitute for water

• How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension

• How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate

• Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks

• Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation

via The Water Cure: An interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj page 0 – Introduction.

Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease.

Functional medicine is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.

via The Institute for Functional Medicine.

ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription on the Net) is a free resource for the exercise professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast.” ExRx.net consists of over 2000 pages, most of which are found in the Exercise and Muscle Directory.

via ExRx (Exercise Prescription) on the Net.

“Music is a gateway to emotion and memory, pleasure and intellectual stimulation throughout our lives,” says writer and director Christina Pochmursky. “THE MUSICAL BRAIN follows Sting on his journey of discovery into his own musical brain, and also explores how music can define each stage of our lives.”

via Sting.com news.news.

(NaturalNews) The use of mouthwashes that contain alcohol as an ingredient can drastically increase a person's risk of cancers of the mouth, head and neck, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Australia's University of Melbourne and University of Queensland School of Dentistry.

via Common Mouthwash Products Boost Risk of Oral Cancer by 900 Percent.

When you consume caffeine, the drug begins its effects by initiating uncontrolled neuron firing in your brain, according to Stephen Cherniske in his book, Caffeine Blues. This excess neuron activity triggers your pituitary gland to secrete a hormone that tells your adrenal glands to produce adrenalin.

via The hidden dangers of caffeine: How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction.

Newly released studies reveal that coffee drinking lowers risk of stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia. It even improves social skills and depressive symptoms. Other recent research has shown that drinking coffee reduces the risk of diabetes.

via Drinking Coffee Reduces Risk of Stroke, Cancer and Dementia.

(NaturalNews) In the past twenty years, thanks to modern technology, researchers have been able to scientifically prove that we have definite and distinct, physical responses to our emotions. There are currently thousands of books relating to stress and the toll it takes on the human body and psyche. The following is a synopsis of recent research demonstrating how stress kills and the protective, preventative effects of adapting stress management skills.

via An Overview of How Stress Kills and How to Develop Your StresSkills.

A new study by Harvard researchers and colleagues shows that eating fewer calories leads to weight loss, regardless of where those calories come from.

via Weight loss bottom line: Fewer calories | HarvardScience.

The revolution we call mind-body medicine was based on this simple discovery: wherever thought goes, a chemical goes with it.”

Chronic inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and liver disease cause “sickness behaviors,” including fatigue, malaise, and loss of social interest. However, it has been unclear how inflammation in other organs in the body can impact the brain and behavior.

via How Inflammatory Disease Causes Fatigue.

Interpreting and expressing emotion are defining characteristics of being human. The psychiatric rehabilitation community confirmed in recent years that as many as 50 percent of TBI patients had lost this ability. In the past, people with TBI who reacted inappropriately, such as joking at a funeral, or didn't react at all, were considered to have behavior problems. This capacity to understand and respond to emotions now is known as affect recognition.

via Brain-injured patients can relearn emotions (2/12/2009).

Brain Facts.

What’s involved when a musician sits down at the piano and plays flurries of notes in a free fall, without a score, without knowing much about what will happen moment to moment? Is it possible to find the sources of a creative process? Is it possible to determine how improvisation occurs?

via The Improvising Brain | HarvardScience.

The pH Nutrition Guide to Acid / Alkaline Balance page 0 – Introduction.

Over the last 20 years, researchers have used a medical procedure called bronchoscopy that involves taking lung cells with a scope to study the effects of air pollutants on the lungs. The procedure must be done in a clinic under medical supervision. In contrast, EPA scientists expect the breath-borne biomarkers to be usable in more situations outside the clinic, cost less to administer, and provide much more comfort to the volunteer.

This new diagnostic tool can help researchers more easily determine if individuals are being adversely impacted by air pollutants. Breath biomarkers also will help to link the source of a pollutant more directly to the health effect. This is important because it will enable EPA to develop more effective and strategic controls for dealing with air pollution.

via Science That Takes Your Breath Away | Research & Development | US EPA.

The finding resulted in the well-known advice to reduce dietary fat and especially saturated fats (those that are firm at room temperature), and to replace these harmful fats with unsaturated ones like vegetable oils. What was missed at the time and has now become increasingly apparent is that the heart-healthy Mediterranean diet is not really low in fat, but its main sources of fat — olive oil and oily fish as well as nuts, seeds and certain vegetables — help to prevent heart disease by improving cholesterol ratios and reducing inflammation.

via PERSONAL HEALTH; New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart – New York Times.

“Our results also show that social conformity is based on mechanisms that comply with reinforcement learning and is reinforced by the neural error-monitoring activity which signals what is probably the most fundamental social mistake-that of being too different from others.”

via Brain mechanisms of social conformity (1/19/2009).

An acid pH of body fluids is fertile ground for disease but balance can be restored by knowing about correct quantity and type of foods best suited for us to consume.

via The Acid-Alkaline Balance in the Human Body: Measurement of pH can Inform Us to Switching to a more Alkaline Diet.

Medical Information Websites: Helpful Health Resources for Computer Users.

The weakest part of most golfers’ bodies is the part they need most: the core. Without strong, pliable muscles in your stomach, hips, butt and lower back, you can’t make a golf swing that is both powerful and technically sound.

via Fitness: Get to the core of your swing: Golf Digest Magazine.

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via Honest Food Guide Free.

(NaturalNews) There are many reasons why a doctor may prescribe a strong pain killer to manage a patient’s pain. Injuries, strained muscles, arthritis, cancer, or even recovery from surgery are all situations where a patient may be prescribed strong prescription pain relievers. Unfortunately, it is all too common for patients to become dependent on pain relievers such as OxyContin, Vicodin, and other opiate painkillers. When this happens, the drugs that were initially prescribed to help a patient now harm them. It is possible to attempt to recover from these addictions without creating a second addiction, however.

via Detoxify Naturally from Methadone.

(NaturalNews) The Budwig protocol is the food treatment and cure for cancer and other major debilitating diseases created by Dr. Johanna Budwig. It was designed for use with extremely ill and wasted cancer patients who had been sent home by their doctors to die.

via The Proven Cure and Prevention for Cancer the Medical Establishment Doesn’t Want You to Know (Part II).