Chapter Eighteen
Life Flow One
The Solution For Heart Diseaseby
Karl LorenElimination Of Pain And Disease With Water
The Socrates Story Of The Cave
Picture a world described by Socrates, the world of the Cave. In this world men are born underground and bound to a wall, facing the rear of a large Cave. Their only viewpoint is toward the back of this Cave. They have never seen "outside."
Above them, and behind their position in the Cave are a series of bon-fires, set by men who come down into the Cave from above ground. These men keep the fires burning, and then, walk and gesture in the space between the fires and the rear of the Cave.
Doing this, the fire casts their shadows on the rear of the Cave.
If you will look at the rear of this Cave, from the position of those bound to the wall below, you would see these endlessly changing shadows of human figures on the far wall. In your own darkness, you could not discern your own features, or those of the person chained to the wall next to you. You would only know darkness and shadows -- the light and shadows on the far wall -- the shadows of persons who look very much like you imagine yourself to be -- shaped and formed in the same proportions.
As these shadows move along the wall, they begin to take on personalities -- for after all, the men walking above, casting the shadows, have those personalities.
"Look," you might say to the others, "here comes Demitrius, the boy with the ax! See how he chases that girl with the long hair." Your colleagues on the wall could argue with you, and discuss with you, the endless implications of the behavior on the far wall -- whether Lydia really meant to walk past Brutus, without a nod, or just didn’t see him -- whether Augustus was meant to become the King when his father died. You could have a world of discussion about the world of shadows.
And so your world could be very real to you -- made up of shadows with names and personalities.
Behold! human beings living in an underground den . . . Like ourselves . .. they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the Cave.
NOW! The men from above come down to those chained against the wall -- and select one. Call him Titus. They take him away from the wall -- out of the Cave -- up above ground.
What does he experience?
At first, of course, he cannot stand the light. They wait until the night. Cautiously he opens his eyes. He can see some shadows -- that’s comforting.
But, he sees objects moving. He sees the moon. He finally sees his own shadow!
Can you imagine the rush of new concepts he must grapple with.
Then, in the daylight! Colors! Three dimensions!
Now, finally, he is to go back to his colleagues, in the Cave, to explain to them the unreality of shadows!
MORAL: Like the shadows which capture the fish, shadows can seem to be the only reality. Likewise, millions of Americans believe in the reality of shadows for health care.
One of the most important pain signals the body can send you is the pain of indigestion. It is an early sign that the body is crying out for water!
These pains are typically treated with pain killers or antacids which make the water problem even worse!
Ulcers are another problem in our society, and should be treated with water. Instead the leading drugs, Tagament and Axid simply aggravate the problem.
I’ll develop this subject in a separate Book, or in my newsletter.
More than 50 million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis and 30 million suffer from various types of back pains.
Dear Karl,
I’ve been using the XX [brand of oral chelation] for eight years and am pleased to report that it eliminated my arthritis pain and lowered my blood pressure.
Those pains are treated with a variety of fraudulent drugs and procedures. I’ll be writing about these in another book, or newsletter. But, in the meantime, consider just drinking more water to get rid of back pains.
I, myself, had back pains for several years. I would regularly visit a chiropractor but got relief that would last for only a few days. I could suppress the pain with Advil, or a massage would help, but basically for several years the one unhealthy condition that absorbed most of my attention was back pain.
One reason I’m such an enthusiastic proponent, now, of increasing your water intake is that this technique has worked wonders for me.
I now drink a great deal of water every day. I have banished completely all my back pains! I may still wake in the morning with slight back pains, but I take water immediately and usually in less than 15 minutes the pain is gone. It is a miracle in my life.
I invite you to have this same miracle in your life.
In my case I became a believer BEFORE I understood the mechanism, and I suggest that you do the same. You are getting, in this Section, some of the factual details of why your body is probably starving for water and why water is so important. But these dry facts can never replace the personal experience of having some chronic pain or disease and then getting relief from that pain or disease.
Well, if you get those results, you will want to keep on drinking the water, I think. Here’s the story of a friend of mine -- someone who read an early manuscript of this Book, and immediately started to drink MUCH more water. She also refers to my monthly newsletter, called Viewpoint.
Dear Karl,
I’ve enjoyed all of the copies of Viewpoint that I have received. They have been very educational and very real to me.
The last one on "Wellness" was especially my favorite. What a novel idea, "Wellness" and "What is Natural Death?"!! That’s one you don’t hear of often or ever!
Please keep up the good work.
Also, I’ve talked to you before about my daughter’s epilepsy, and now after reading the Wellness issue, my understanding is greater and she and I now know what she needs to do to handle this condition.
Another thing -- I had a big upset recently and stopped drinking water (unknowingly). The second day, in the evening, I went shopping with two of my daughters. I started to feel really strange and in fact, I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown! I felt my forehead because I was getting so hot. It was icy cold and I was clammy! Then, I realized I was dehydrated. Also, I was having very bad back pain and I was worried that my back was going to go out. I could hardly get in and out of the car.
I got to my apartment and drank one glass of water after another. I didn’t count how many I had but I know I was surprised how much I could drink. My back pain stopped immediately after 4-5 glasses of water.
All the pain and stiffness was gone. During the night I was still so thirsty that I woke up many times and drank water.
Thanks, again.
That letter, from Bernadette G., of Glendale, California, is one of many I’ve received from people who read the First Edition of this Book. Bernadette had been given some "water pills" by her doctor -- to get rid of the puffiness of her ankles and legs. When I met her, with these swollen ankles, I loaned her a copy of the manuscript. She started, immediately, drinking more water, and the excess water in her ankles started to disappear. In this letter Bernadette makes reference to Issue #4 of the Journal, Viewpoint. The remarkable information which she expects to help handle her daughter’s epilepsy, and many related subjects, are presented in great detail in my new book, Four Roads To Ruin, published in 1995.
When will doctors learn??
So, have a bit of faith and give it a try, but if you’d like some more logic behind the elimination of back pain with more water intake, here it is.
When you have finished reading this Section, or at least once you have given water a try, you should realize that the pain of arthritic joints, and back pain, are simply an indication that the affected area, the joint cartilage surfaces, is deficient in water.
But, now we are dealing with cartilage and spinal disks. This is not a matter of a few cells pumping in or out more or less water. We are now into long-term dehydration. The cartilage is mostly water, and as the body supply of water becomes less, the cartilage has low priority for what is available. So, slowly, the cartilage gives up water, fails to replenish the water, and shrinks in size and function. Eventually, we have arthritis or fused spinal bones!
As you can guess, arthritis drugs only make this problem worse!
The various joints in your body have cartilage between the bones -- that is, the ends of the two bones in any joint are covered with cartilage and it is the cartilage, not the bones, which come into contact.
So, it is cartilage to cartilage at your joints. As the cartilage surfaces rub against one another, cells of cartilage die and peel away. New cells take their place from the growing ends that are attached to the bone surfaces. In a body with sufficient water the actual friction damage between the two surfaces of cartilage is minimal. When that cartilage has less water in it, it is much more abrasive. THEN, when the two dehydrated cartilage surfaces rub together you are getting an action much closer to two bones rubbing together.
It hurts! Fluids build up inside the joint, get inflamed and hurt even more -- but it all started with insufficient water for the bones, short-changing the cartilage.
If the cartilage has not been de-hydrated for many years, it is possible that an immediate increase in water will gradually restore the cartilage back to its "plump" well-watered condition. Remember that the water priority for the cartilage is rather low. For instance, the marrow in the bones also needs water and if the bone marrow is short of water, there will certainly be no water to share for mere cartilage.
The bone marrow, of course, is one of the sources for immune system cells that help fight infection in your body. So bone marrow has a high priority for water usage. You probably won’t feel any pain connected with a shortage of water in the bone marrow -- you might get colds and infections more easily when your immune system is compromised by a shortage of water to the marrow of your bones.
Your cartilage is a long ways away from help when the bone marrow is in short water supply. The cartilage that gives you the most problems is, of course, in the spine. There the cartilage is called the disk. When your disks have a shortage of water, you have backaches and many other problems.
The spine is one of the most important areas that needs more water, and if you have any back problems, you SHOULD be drinking much more water.
I actually know people who think that drinking one or two glasses of water per day is adequate. These are often people with indigestion, arthritis, low back pain and who die at an early age from cancer or heart disease.
I no longer wonder why!
If the cartilage has been worn away to the point that actual bones are exposed to rubbing on each other, it is unlikely that water will do any repair action.
Water Is So Much More Wonderful Than People Realize!
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