Dr. Madhukar Dama
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The term disease basically means “inconvenience”. We get inconvenient whenever a need (something essential for survival and reproduction) is not met.
For instance, when we get thirsty, we need to drink water. As long as we remain thirsty, we feel inconvenient. Water is the solvent of life, all body processes and organs need water to function. As soon as we drink water, the inconvenience disappears. Infact, it is highly pleasurable when we get to drink the water after this phase of inconvenience. This pleasure feedback is the body's mechanism to signal that it is absolutely necessary to drink water when thirsty. Pleasure feedback is built in for all the things and activities necessary for survival and reproduction. If we continuously fail to quench the thirst for some or other reason, and remain thirsty, the inconvenience intensifies. And when a point is reached beyond which the body starts failing without water, dehydration sets in and death occurs.
In this case, it can be seen that the inconvenience is a signal of the body indicating deficiency of water. The inconvenience is not a disease; the lack of water is a disease that needs to be corrected.
Usually a healthy adult in a comfortable atmosphere can survive without water for 3-7 days.1 Going without water produces various symptoms like headaches, muscle cramps, dizziness, fatigue, etc.
If this person comes to his senses and realizes that he is not drinking enough water, and starts drinking enough water, his symptoms disappear permanently.
This is how the body works. Whenever an essential need is not met (water), the body signals it with increasing intensity (escalating thirst). If the need continues to remain unmet, the body starts breaking down (dehydration, headache, fatigue etc). If the need is met even when the body is disintegrating, it recovers completely. If the need continues to be unmet, the body reaches a point of complete failure (death). And if the need is continuously met, the body never breaks again for this reason.
You may be thinking that water deficiency can never happen. Just look at a few facts from WHO and the problem of water scarcity becomes very clear.
- 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water service, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water.
- Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces.
- By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.
- In least developed countries, 22% of health care facilities have no water service, 21% no sanitation service, and 22% no waste management service.
We die when water is absolutely unavailable. However, in reality this hardly happens. What happens is even worse. Lots of people are having a chronic scarcity of water. This includes even so-called rich people. In addition to lack of access to water, dietary factors (less greens and fruits, low fiber foods like wheat/maida/sugar/rice, dehydrating foods like sugar/coffee/tea etc), chronic diseases (like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, kidney diseases etc), long working hours, and prolonged medication use (diuretics etc) cause chronic water scarcity.
Less water intake has been proved to lead to kidney stones, obesity, constipation, diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, heart diseases, stroke, dental diseases, cancer, gallstone, glaucoma and so on.2 If you or anyone you know has suffered these symptoms, it is very likely that they have been drinking less water. Unfortunately, such a person has been ignoring thirst for many years!
The above example illustrates how just a very basic unmet need for water ends in various life threatening symptoms.
There are also variants to this issue. The water, if contaminated, leads to hundreds of microbial infections like cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and so on. The water can also be contaminated with industrial effluents, plastics, pesticides etc.
Various outcomes are possible. This person may realize that his water intake is less, or contaminated, and correct it. If this is the sole reason for the diseases, most of these may be resolved automatically. This person may not realize that his water intake is not meeting the body's needs, and continue to suffer these inconveniences (including diabetes and other complications). Eventually resulting in early death.
Another terrible possibility is to visit a Doctor. In case the Doctor is able to diagnose and guide him to correct water intake, he will recover. But this may not always happen. The Doctor may not even realize in most cases, especially in chronic water scarcity when the person has developed serious symptoms like diabetes, eczema, obesity, cancer, high BP and so on. Have you ever heard from anyone that diabetes, cancer, eczema, etc could have been caused by chronic water deficiency? I haven't. When I tell this to friends including Doctors, they are surprised.
Let me summarize the meaning of this example. Our body needs water. When it’s not available, it dies. When it’s available in lesser quantity or quality, various symptoms that are called diseases (diabetes, cancer etc) develop as the body suffers and disintegrates. If water quantity and quality is restored, diseases are reversed. In some cases, the damages would have been too much and may never be reversible (for instance, kidney failure and cancer).
Let me make a claim here – THERE ARE NO LIFESTYLE DISEASES. THERE ARE ONLY SYMPTOMS OF LIFESTYLE ERRORS. As you can see from this example, there are only symptoms of unmet needs of the body. The sooner the symptoms are realized, it’s easier to reverse by just meeting the needs.
We also have other needs like food (many more components like vitamins, minerals, fiber, etc), sunlight, rest, movement, air, security, stability, love, care, bonding, and so on.
Thousands of symptoms and inconveniences (diseases) are manifested when the needs are unmet.
It is possible to understand our needs and meet them. Such an effort eliminates all disease and sufferings.
Well, this all looks very simple. You may ask, if it’s so easy to reverse the symptoms (diseases), why are there so many people still suffering? Because instead of correcting yourself, you want to buy the solution.
You will not be impressed if I just leave you with my opinions. So let me give substantial proof of reversing these so-called lifestyle diseases using no medications at all.
By working on eliminating the root cause, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee has reversed type 2 diabetes, eliminated irritable bowel syndrome, lowered blood pressure without drugs, reduced menopausal symptoms naturally, improved sleep and energy levels, controlled autoimmune conditions, restored harmony to their circadian rhythms, and added years to their life in numerous people. See his superhit ted talk and youtube channel for hundreds of videos on this.
Dr. Khader Vali has been able to correct diet and lifestyle errors and cure about 128 diseases without any medication. The list includes cancer, diabetes, fits, autoimmune diseases, thyroid problems, PCOD and so on. Millions of people are following his guidance and reversing all types of lifestyle diseases.
Dr. Namrata Shah has reversed diabetes (including type 1) in thousands of people during the last two decades solely through vegan diet.
There are many such examples. Look at some of your old relatives and neighbors who are aged but in very good health. They all practice simple living and eat basic traditional food.
I have helped hundreds of people in improving their lifestyle through guided training. Tremendous health benefits like reversal of lifestyle diseases, loss of excess weight, improved energy levels & immunity, and awareness were developed in them.
Lifestyle diseases cannot be reversed through medicines. Correction of lifestyle is the best way to heal from most of the modern diseases. And it never fails as it addresses the root cause.
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1. How long can the average person survive without water? (2002, December 09). Retrieved April 17, 2021, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-the-average/
2. Popkin BM, D'Anci KE, Rosenberg IH. Water, hydration, and health. Nutr Rev. 2010;68(8):439-458. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2010.00304.x
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