Re: Drinking too much water can kill you

But notice no one in that entire article ever referenced the importance that salts and minerals play in regulating our bodies hydration or use of water?

Too much of anything is detrimental. But dehydration can manifest itself in so many ways that are nearly always misdiagnosed as 'disease conditions', that it is essential to remember the mountain goats you see in Glacier Park. They travel great distances, as if instinctively drawn to the salt licks above the river that can be seend from US Highway 2 that forms the southern border of the park.

They 'know' instinctively how important salt is to them. Witness also the livestock that will often chew up their corrals or stalls, seeking the salt they also instinctively know they need. But we are so much smarter, right?

Then why is there so many people, who are trying to up their intake of water, as we have been advised, yet still buying into the fallacy of the 'no salt - low salt' diet craze? And why are people plagued with high blood pressure prescribed diuretic medications that are designed to remove water from your blood? When you do that, your blood thickens, the volume decreases, the cirulatory system contracts to meet that lower volume, and the heart has to pump harder to cirulate thicker blood through smaller vessels than before! This makes sense?

The bottom line is that hydration in the body is controlled or regulated by salt, primarily, and other minerals like potassium and sodium. So if you are going to increase your intake of water, you had better supplement it with at least 1/4 tsp of good Sea Salt (because of all the other trace minerals it contains) with every quart of water you consume. At least 1/4 tsp of Sea Salt , twice a day, if you are drinking 48 to 96 ounces of water in a day. Otherwise you will risk washing these same vital minerals out of your body, over time, and begin to experience the symptoms described in that article.

So water is important, but c'mon! So is salt! The body needs them both in order to regulate a properly hydrated body. So the popular press likes to print these articles that will only further dissuade people from trying to avoid the chronic dehydration that most people live with. And then we wonder why all the health problems turn up in our 30s, 40s and beyond.

As was said before, visit the Water Cure forum here on CureZone as a beginning point. And also visit Bob Butts' website, http://www.watercure2.org to look into this issue. 'Your Body's Many Cries for Water' [AND Salt!] should be on everyone's reading list. Don't let this article convince you that you are drinking too much water... maybe you are just not taking enough salt along with your increased water intake. Your body's health depends on it!

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