Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (we will just call him Dr Batman, OK?) was born in Iran. He practiced medicine in Iran, England and the United States and died in Virginia in November of 2004.
He has achieved some level of prominence with his sometimes controversial views on the medical value of water. He has written books to include Your Body’s Many Cries for Water (translated into 15 languages and sold around the world). Dr Batman’s startling discoveries and treatments deal with chronic unintentional dehydration and its effects on the human body. He demonstrates that a dry mouth is not the only symptom of dehydration. The body signals its water shortage by producing pain from inflammation. His premise is that dehydration actually produces pain and many degenerative diseases including asthma, arthritis, hypertension, angina, adult onset diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
Again, I provide my disclaimer that I am a distributor for the Enagic water processing machines that provide electrolized and filtered water for the health of your family. But that is not my topic today . Although Dr Batman talks about electrolized water in later years, his primary research speaks to the benefits of ordinary tap water.
The epiphany for Dr Batman occurred under unusual circumstances. After medical school and practice in the United Kingdom, he returned to Iran as a physician and was caught up in the Iranian revolution in 1979. He spent more than two years in Evin Prison in Iran as a political prisoner. He tried to treat a fellow prisoner with severe pep tic ulcer pain with no medications available. He gave the patient two glasses of water and within eight minutes the pain went away. WIth two glasses of water every three hours, the patient experienced no more pain for the four months until he was released from the prison. During the remainder of his confinement, Dr Batman conducted organized research concerning the power of water and its effects on many other chronic degenerative diseases among 3,000 prisoners that he treated.
Dr Batman states, “My research revealed that unintentional dehydration produces stress, chronic pains and many degenerative diseases. …When I use the word water cure, I am referring to curing dehydration with water”
Dr Batman’s writing avoids the current legal entanglements that would come with claiming that his water cure “cures” specific diseases. No studies will be undertaken on this specific point when there is no commercial product to be tested. There are many studies that show that persons that drink specified quantities of water are more healthy than those who don’t but that is not proof. Despite the fact that thousands of anecdotal reports exist that suggest that water cured this or that person with this or that disease – that is also not proof.
I do not believe that there is any study that proves that smoking causes cancer or anything else other than statistics. There appears to be a connection between those who smoke and incidence of lung cancer. But that is not proof of causation. You can draw inferences, but it is not possible to have the type of control on a long term study that would eliminate other variables. Our society will not endorse a research protocol which condemns our control group to suffer or die from a disease just to prove an hypothesis. Also these studies tend to be paid for by the drug company (or tobacco company) and with no commercial product or profit motive – complete testing of water cures is unlikely.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not permit unproven claims of disease cures in advertising. Which is why we have a market for nutritional products which is relatively free from regulation but products which cross the line are soon investigated by the heavy hand of the government.
We read in Dr Batman’s books and in many testimonial messages that water did cure some conditions. Dr Batman, now deceased, would say that water cured the dehydration which may have been causing the other health problem.
Mike Adams, writing for NaturalNews.com wrote of a lengthy interview with Dr Batman. I recommend you read the article in its entirety. It may change your view of holistic and alternative medicine. It is a must read for those who feel that the control of healthcare by big Pharma is only a little preferred to control by government – neither alternative is acceptable to me.
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