The body manifests dehydration in the form of pain. 
 
Depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there.  Pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

This is linked to the fact that many drugs readily available and consumed by the western world are various types of antihistamine in the form of different medications. Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines. 
 
Why is this significant?  Because histamine is a water regulator in the body.  So the very substance in the body that is responsible for regulating the flow and usage of water in the body, is being suppressed every time a person takes pain medication, antidepressants or antihistamines.

Headaches
The brain is more than 75% water and when it detects a shortage of available fluids it implements a water-rationing process by producing histamines, causing pain and fatigue.  This natural process is meant to slow us down and conserve water for defense uses (just as an animal lies in the shade when ill). Histamines are released as a warning signal that something is wrong. When we take antihistamines or analgesic medicines like ibuprofen we mainly turn off the signal and do little or nothing for the problem.  A big glass of pure water and a 20 minute decompression break will overcome most common stress-related headaches. (It takes medications longer to work than that!)

Back pain
It is often the result of a deficiency in body fluid levels.  The discs in the back are really little hydraulic shock absorbers.  These discs are made up of an outer shell of flexible joint tissue filled with fluid pockets, primarily water.  A properly hydrated disk creates a cushion that absorbs the normal shock of physical activity and supports the weight of the upper body.  These discs are self-hydrating as long as there are adequate fluid levels and regular movement.  Movement that compresses and releases pressure on the disc creates a suction that allows body fluids (99% water) to be pulled inside the disc, keeping it properly hydrated.  When a disc is fully hydrated, the shell of the disc supports 25% of the weight load and the fluid supports 75%.  When these discs become dehydrated, the shell has to support a larger portion of the load, causing pain, swelling and soreness which can lead to more serious problems, also more permanent ones.

Passive activities like standing in one place or sitting at a desk without regular movement for prolonged periods, allow constant pressure on the discs which slowly forces the fluid out. Without sufficient body fluid levels and spine movement, the pressure on the discs increases, resulting in pain and stiffness.  Simply by maintaining a constant and adequate intake of water, as well as regular movement such as bending forward, backwards and side to side, with your head and upper body allowing the discs to hydrate, you can prevent most minor back and neck pain.  Try it; you’ll be amazed how easy and effective these natural solutions can be.
Drought management means that the body clogs the holes where water is lost from the body. Water is the most precious commodity in the interior of your body, and when not enough is coming in and more is being lost, this is a no-no situation for your body.  The intelligence behind the design of the body is such that a drought management program will kick in.  Allergies are a sign of dehydration because the system that regulates water balance of the body suppresses the immune system, because it’s an energy-consuming situation. Then you get asthma.

The link between dehydration and asthma
You see, we lose about a quart of water through breathing every day. It is actually the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs that produces contraction of these tiny membranes, and air is pushed out.  And in the process, that water will leave with the air that is leaving.  So you lose about a quart of water in breathing.  We need to replenish that.  When we don’t replenish it, the body tightens up the bronchials and plugs up the holes and we call this reduced air flow in the lungs because of dehydration, we’ve labeled it as asthma.

Now there are 17 million children in America and over a million children in Australia, probably more because the numbers rise every year, who have asthma.  The reason is, at the same time, children have been consuming more and more sodas. Three year olds to five year olds have been consuming three times as much soda in the last ten years than in the ten years before that. 
 
So these children are getting dehydrated, they are consuming more sodas, which doesn’t function in the same way as water, and that is why they get asthma.  Dr Batman has treated many many children with water, and their asthma disappeared very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, with breathing becoming normal.  The need for inhalers will also disappear.
 
Softdrinks cause dehydration
A lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become “stupid”, but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously — C’s and F’s become A’s and B’s.  So, there is something in caffeine that suppresses the enzymes from memory-making.  And this is exactly how the plant survives, because caffeine is a toxic chemical – it’s a warfare chemical for the plant.  Anything that would eat it will lose its art of camouflage, its alertness, good reaction, good response, and becomes easy prey to its own food chain predator.

Caffeine is technically an insecticide. So is morphine and so is cocaine. They are the same family of drugs — neurotoxic substances.
 
Cholesterol
Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body.  When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that.  It is certainly not to block the arteries of the heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body.

So, it is not the stickiness of the cholesterol that is the problem, which has been drummed into the minds of people — cholesterol is sticky, reduce it otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all nonsense.  Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed.  When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic (which happens when a person is dehydrated), and is being rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in the capillaries of the heart first.

Now if cholesterol wasn’t there to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly.  Cholesterol is actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its problems.  Often the thought process is if something’s up, bring it down, if something’s down, bring it up.  Often questions like “why is it down” or “why is it up” are not asked.

There is a report that shows the statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, produce amnesia.  In other words, the brain totally loses track of what it’s doing, and it is published by a doctor who is an eminent doctor.  He was a flight surgeon, he is a researcher at NASA.  And he knows what he’s talking about. He had the problem himself.

There are also a huge number of side effects that have been recorded from using statin drugs. Some people have extreme muscular pain, amnesia is very common, and yet a study just came out talking about how blueberries have phytonutrients that are shown to lower so-called fatty cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, more powerfully than statin drugs.

You see the body manufactures cholesterol as an emergency situation, when it raises the level of its production.  Its normal rate of production is of course is to create membranes for the cell membranes and brain cells and nerve insulation and of course the hormones of the body, vitamin D for the body.  So these are the essential components that cholesterol makes in the body.  We should never interfere with cholesterol without knowing why the body has starting raising its level.
 
Chronic Disease Caused by Lack of Water
There is a clear correlation between water consumption and chronic disease.  In his book called “Water Cures and Drugs Kill” Dr Batmangelidj explains why dehydration is the cause of pain and disease, and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged this information or covered it up and instead of letting people drink water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill.  
 
Recent figures (US statistics but the trends are similar for Australia) have shown that prescription medications, when used according to the instruction of doctors, kill over 106,000 people, and make 2 million people sicker than before taking the medication.  And then there is another group who die from faulty and incorrect prescriptions.

So between them, about 250,000 people die from drug-related or medication-related problems. This makes the use of drugs the number three killer processes in the USA — protected and licensed killer process.  After heart disease, which kills about seven or eight hundred thousand, cancer which kills about 500,000, drugs kill 250,000 people.

The human body manifests dehydration by a series of symptoms and signs, perceptive symptoms of dehydration — in other words, brain senses dehydration, or tiredness when you haven’t done a good day’s work, or first thing in the morning when you want to get up out of bed and you’re tired, you can’t get up — that is a sign of dehydration. 
 
Then anger, quick reaction, depression, these are all signs of dehydration, when the brain has very little energy from hydroelectricity to cope with the information or take action.  These are some of the perceptive signs of dehydration.  Then the body has its drought management program, which are allergies, hypertension, diabetes, and also immune diseases.