Water, water, water

"Once you understand how the human body works, the wonderful simplicity of water as a free and permanently available choice of medication for so many health problem begins to make sense."

If you only ever read one book on health and making the most of yours, choose one of Dr F. Batmanghelidj's books. "Water and Salt" or "Your Bodies Many Cries for Water". I have found these to be excellent, foundational tools for all health concerns.

Following this simple advice can be life changing. It can affect your mood, your ability to cope, your quality of sleep, your skin, your clarity of mind and your general feeling of wellbeing.

In the book "Water and Salt", he lists a huge number of illnesses and diseases that can be dramatically influenced with these simple tools, including Asthma and Allergy, stomach problems, hernia, pain, obesity, depression, high blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer, headaches, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and alzheimer's disease. Many of these diseases have their basis in dehydration. "Obesity, depression and cancer are three of the labels we in medicine have created to describe the killer process of persistent unintentional dehydration in the body" (Water and Salt, page 35).

But read the book carefully or look at the website www.watercure.com, because you must use a pure salt and a pure water. Table salt, for example, is extremely toxic to the body. It is "not real salt" (page 37).

These are wonderful books and good information. Enjoy!

Be well,

Deidre.

More on "Water and Salt": signs of dehydration

I found this information really interesting - he talks about "perceptive markers of dehydration" as follows:

discrepancy in the rate of water supply to the brain
produces a certain number of sensory outcomes that
I consider thirst perceptions. They are as follows:

Feeling tired
Feeling flushed
Feeling irritable
Feeling anxious
Feeling dejected
Feeling depressed
Feeling inadequate
Feeling a “heavy load”
Cravings
Agoraphobia
When you are too tired to get out of bed first thing
in the morning, you are, in fact, so dehydrated that
your brain is refusing to get engaged in your daily
routine.

The book contains amazing stories of healing through the use of water and salt: cancer, asthma, ulcers, mental illness, diabetes, pain in the body, auto-immune disorders (Lupus, Chronic Fatigue etc) and many others.

If you are interested in knowing more about the water and salt therapy, look at the websites, particularly http://www.watercure.com/

As with all information, you need to know more than what I have told you here. In the interests of brevity, I will do several more posts on the topic to divide it up for you.

Be well!
Deidre.

Morning Sickness

I suffered very bad morning sickness with both of my pregnancies, the second one being so bad that I vomited everything I ate and in desperation ended up being prescribed Maxolon which I was on for the duration of the pregnancy.

One of the books I bought Sunday at the Phillip Day Seminar was "The essential guide to Water and Salt" by Dr F.Batmanghelidj and Phillip Day. After reading it cover to cover, I now think what we described as "morning sickness" was actually a form of bulimia. Listen to this:

Uncontrollable and repeated vomiting of the
stomach contents, which has been given the medical
labels of "heartburn" or "bulimia", could be one
of the waysthe body prevents irreparable damage
when it is severely dehydrated. When it is said
that bulimics feel hungry all the time, there is
confusion. As far as I'm concerned, they are
confusing their sensation of thirst with hunger.
When they should be drinking water, they eat.
Naturally the body rejects the food because it
does not possess enough water to digest and
assimilate the food. (extract from page 67)

I am unlikely to ever have another pregnancy myself, but if anyone suffering from severe morning sickness comes across this post, I would strongly recommend getting a copy of this book and reading it (or check out www.watercure.com) before taking a drug that masks the symptoms.

If you need any motivation to increase your water intake (that is, WATER, not any other beverage!) this book is a must read. I might do a book review to give you a taste of what a sensational book it is.

I delved into it because I was looking for a solution to my eldest son's hacking, wheezy cough which had been constant for several weeks (he is an asthmatic). Applying the water and salt therapy as described (using Himalayan pink salt) I can see a huge improvement in two days. I only remember him coughing twice today, as opposed to constant, lung wrenching spasms.

If you aren't sure where to buy the book, check Phillip's website at credence.org. You can also read more of Dr Batmanghelidj's work on the websites www.tagman-press.com and www.watercure.com.

Be well!

Deidre.

Phillip Day video testimonials

I spent 4 hours yesterday glued to my seat listening to Phillip Day speak at the Brisbane Mercure hotel. Fabulous speaker, fabulous information! I couldn't wait to get home and try some of the things he suggested myself.

Phillip is a health reporter and researcher with 20 years experience investigating. He heads up a publishing and research organization called Credence and tours the world educating every day people on how to dramatically improve their health with simple changes, simple solutions. His research is thorough, enlightening and life changing.

On Friday I found this link to some video testimonials by Australians, who have had remarkable healing in their lives as a result of going to a Phillip Day seminar - listen to them for yourselves:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2257361582609712661#

Do you reckon his information is worth hearing? Absolutely!

Be well,
Deidre.

A new approach to health

I am just reading The Hon. Kim Carr's An Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century and this phrase caught my attention:

There is more to improving health, however, than inventing new drugs and medical devices. We also need to improve our understanding of the physical, environmental and social determinants of disease. We need to focus on prevention, not just on cure. We need to get smarter about the way we deliver healthcare, especially as our ageing population puts increasing pressure on services.

This is the 100th post to my blog and I think it is appropriate that the post turned out to be on prevention.

In the few years that I have been running the Health Highway I've been amazed time and again at how little we really know about wholistic health in modern western society and have been quite shocked at the fabulous results that can be achieved outside of the realm of "accepted" medicine (shocked, I think because we aren't brought up to believe that its possible, or that alternatives already do exist). I live and work with people who have experienced amazing healing and believe I am one of them (my 13 month old child reminds me of miracles every minute of every day!). I fully admire the work of evangelistic health educators like Dr Mercola and Phillip Day and aspire to help people on the scale that they do.

There is so much we can do to help ourselves, at so little cost. I have come to believe that there are easy solutions. I know from my own experience with Chronic Fatigue and Infertility that there is a better life, a better health.

What are you looking for? If its better health, better sleep, clearer thoughts, clearer skin, stronger bodies, in short, MORE LIFE, then get in touch. Its simple.

Be well,

Deidre.

Minerals make a huge difference

I decided to join a local Gym this week. Although I am fascinated by health and wellness in general, being physically active in a formal sense is not something I've done regularly since my mid 20's. So I decided it was about time to take notice of all the commentary about the importance of exercise and do something about it in my own life.

I have engaged in some fairly demanding activities this week, including a "step" class for the first time and I have really expected to be "sore". But to my amazement and delight, I have almost no muscle soreness. I put this down to the excellent nutritional supplements and particularly the minerals that I take. I have also found in several instances over the past couple of years that my recovery from minor injuries has been much quicker than I would have expected. Another example springs to mind when I had a particularly hard deep tissue massage. Ten years ago I would have been sore for days, but my body barely reacted.

This is great! At the end of my first week I am quite excited to think I can go to the gym and work out quite hard and not have to put up with much soreness as a result, something which used to put me off of going.

I have so many things to blog about that have come to my attention this week, but I had to share this one with you.

Be well!

Deidre

Help for everyone!

A conversation last Friday with a highly respected colleague reminded me that the information I have to share should never be placed within limits. It is available to everyone! I often say that I want to help women and working women feel better but this recent encounter made me realize that my male colleagues need just as much help - sometimes they may need it more, because women are used to "nurturing" and men often don't have time to look into their options!

So I am changing my blog profile because I don't ever want someone to feel this information isn't just as relevant for them.

A dear business friend brought this home when he said to me yesterday "if you can fog a mirror, you need this information!".

So always feel free to contact me about any information on this blog. I'll look forward to helping you as much as I can.

Please, be well!

Deidre.