Chapter Seventeen --
The Water Rationing System
There on the equator the sun shines straight down through the clear water.
The natives take blocks of wood and string them along a long rope.
They stretch this rope between two canoes and with these abreast begin to paddle toward the shoal (shallow) water.
By the time they have reached the shoals, schools of fish are piled and crowed into the rocks and onto the beach.
The blocks of wood on the rope made shadows which went all the way down to the bottom of the lake and the fish, seeing the approach of these shadows and the apparent solid bars which they formed in the water, swam fearfully away from them and so were caught.
L. Ron Hubbard
from Self Analysis
Medical myths often are nothing more than gray shadows in the water. You are convinced that your sensation of hunger is real. You eat food. It turns out that the sensation gave a false signal to you -- you responded with something that didn’t really help the body -- but often hurt it badly.
What Happens When
The Brain Needs Blood?
The toes on the left foot get short-changed! The body has an elaborate electrical and chemical system that turns on and turns off the blood flow to various individual organs and parts of the body.
When you eat food, your stomach has to digest it. The process of digestion includes the stomach pumping in the digestive juices to digest the food. One of the main liquids involved here is hydrochloric acid. It’s good stuff to help you get the nutrients out of your food. It happens that as your body feels a shortage of water, it cuts back on the production of hydrochloric acid so that the brain can be sure to get enough blood flow.
But, for the moment just look at what happens when the stomach gets a good batch of that hydrochloric acid. The food is being digested in a liquid that would eat paint off a car! The stuff is strong!
In fact the acid content in your stomach is so strong that if the food, mixed with these digestive acids, were to leave the stomach and enter the intestine with that same high acid strength, it would eat holes in the intestine.
So, the body is designed with a special organ, called the pancreas. One of the jobs of the pancreas is to produce liquids (made from blood) which neutralize the strong acid in the stomach. The pancreas pumps these neutralizing fluids into the intestine just in time to mix with the food entering the intestine. That’s a very important priority within the body, so when food is getting ready to leave the stomach, the body automatically sends an increased flow of blood to the pancreas, along with the appropriate chemical messages, so that the pancreas can suck up some of that blood, mix it up a bit, and convert it into those special liquids which will neutralize the acids coming out of the stomach.
This is an example of how the body rations water, according to what particular need is important in the body at the time.
The main chemical messenger used to give signals on blood flow and water usage in the body is something called histamine. Virtually every cell in the body can produce histamine. When a cell is under attack, or has some problem, it generally creates and emits this chemical, histamine.
When histamine floats along in the body and hits a nerve ending, you perceive a message of pain. So, much of the pain sensation in the body is caused by histamine sent out by a cell in trouble.
For instance, when a mosquito bites you, the cells in that area are invaded by a strong poison -- strong from the point of view of those individual cells in that area.
Those cells emit histamine. The mosquito bite is not a terribly painful event so that amount of histamine emitted from those cells is not a lot and you experience an itching sensation rather than a pain sensation.
IF those cells invaded by poison had more water in them, and around them, the effect of the poison would be less itching -- histamine production would be quickly diluted and dispersed -- less pain.
Another effect caused by histamine is that it immediately causes blood to flow TOWARD the area where the damaged or unhealthy cells are located. These cells need an increase in blood, and the nutrients carried with that blood, to heal themselves.
There is then an action which science has not yet understood. Even though histamine causes blood, instantly, to flow TOWARD the injured cells, almost as quickly the flow of blood stops. It is as if the person is withdrawing his mental attention and energy from that area and because of that withdrawal the energy and blood flows also stop.
Here is an explanation how the being himself, not chemicals, not his brain nor his body, can communicate with an area of the body which is diseased or in non-optimum health. Medical science is just starting to explore these non-material aspects of health:
Every single physical illness stems from a failure of the being to communicate with the thing or area that is ill. Prolongation of a chronic injury occurs in the absence of physical communication with the affected area or with the location of the spot of injury in the physical universe.
When attention is withdrawn from injured or ill body areas, so are circulation, nerve flows and energy. This limits nutrition to the area and prevents the drain of waste products. Some ancient healers attributed remarkable flows and qualities to the "laying on of hands."
Probably the workable element in this was simply heightening awareness of the affected area and restoring the physical communication factors.
L. Ron Hubbard
The Message Of Histamine
One of the most important messages you SHOULD be getting when histamine starts causing sensations is that some area of the body needs more attention. When you sense this need for attention you should also give your body more water. Histamine is the primary chemical signal of the body that the body needs more flows of water (blood) into a particular area.
Note, when I say that "blood" is needed in some area, it is more complex than that. The fluid in the arteries consists of two components, the fluid carrying the blood cells, mostly water, and the blood cells themselves, mostly water.
When some part of the body NEEDS water, this could be that that part of the body needs the fluid outside the blood cells -- mostly water.
Or, it could be that that part of the body needs what is being carried along inside the blood cell -- mostly water.
Whether I refer to it as water or blood, it is the pure water component, in all sorts of body fluids, which I’m referring to.
This does not downgrade the materials which are carried along WITH the water, but simply points out the purpose of this Section -- to emphasize the value and importance of the water, itself, in contrast with the materials carried along with the water.
Most medical drugs interfere with the production and flow of histamine. When the histamine messenger doesn’t go where it is supposed to go, or doesn’t go at all, the body gets all sorts of confusion -- wrong signals, no signals, unnecessary signals. Even when there is sufficient water available in the body, the drugs prevent the histamine message from causing that water to go where it is needed.
Histamine is the substance which SEEMS to cause allergies. The truth is that the allergy is the body's attempt to tell you that there are some toxins or irritants that you should be handling -- and water will do a wonderful job on this. Yes, it's amazing, drink more water and get rid of allergies -- avoid drugs. Read the book, image on the left.
One of the results of the messed up signal system is that you probably get the message of hunger when the body really was trying to tell you that it was thirsty.
There are literally many hundreds of different chemical and electrical messages being sent all over the body, turning on blood flow, turning it off, sucking water out of reserves to make more blood so that the blood can be sent off to do the master’s bidding.
What Happens
Within Individual Cells?
Every cell of the body holds water, from a little water in a bone cell to a great deal of water in a blood cell. While traditional medical science considers that the water is nothing more than a means to hold and carry the elements and nutrients, it turns out that the water itself, without regard to what it carries, has an extremely important function within the cell.
Water Pressure
The first important aspect of water in the cell has to do with the difference in fluid pressure inside the cell versus outside the cell.
When the pressure is different on two sides of a cell wall, there will be a tendency for fluid to move from the side with high pressure to the side with lower pressure. That seems logical and natural.
In the young healthy body, the cells work very well with the pressure always higher on the outside of the cell than on the inside. What happens is that the cell has little pumps and turbines around the outside of the cell -- these turbines create electricity as the higher pressure water on the outside seeks to move into the cell. On the other hand, there are pumps which push waste materials from the inside of the cell toward the outside. One of the main waste materials is the left-over hydrogen (free radicals) after the cell has stripped the oxygen out of the water coming in. The oxygen, of course, is needed for the cell to live and function. The hydrogen is not as useful, is considered a waste product and these special pumps force it out into the higher-pressure area, outside the cell.
Normally the pressure difference is substantial, so there is always a source of creation of all the energy needed by the cell to live. The cell turbines create this energy because of the difference in pressure between the water inside and outside of the cell.
You can now see the dangers of having too little water in the body. The water pressure outside the cells will be lower in comparison to the inside of the cells -- that means that the little turbines will not make as much electricity. That means there is a lack of energy in the cells and not as much energy for pumping out the toxins and free radicals that are accumulating inside the cell.
Do you see how you could get heart disease, from free radicals, simply because you don’t have enough water in your body to maintain the difference in pressure between the fluids outside the blood cells and the fluids inside those cells?
Disease surely sets in when the cell retains unwanted toxins! These toxins cause the cell to produce histamine which then produces pain. Pain SHOULD be the signal to you that you need more water. Instead, too many people treat the pain with an aspirin which aggravates the need for water.
It’s hard to believe, because it seems so simple, but if there were more water in the system, there would be a greater difference between the pressure inside and outside the cell -- more electricity being created by those little turbines and a considerable improvement in the health of the cell.
When you use your body, cells die. The creation and growth of new cells requires more than water -- so food can’t be eliminated for maintenance of body health.
Finally, there is definitely a mental and spiritual control over electrical and chemical functions in the body, starting with the pituitary gland. These are senior to the mechanical action of water moving through a turbine. These mental and spiritual aspects are not otherwise covered in this Section beyond the simple truth described referenced on page
*.Insufficient water intake causes a chronic fatigue state of the body.
Another unwanted symptom of lower water pressure outside the cells, and lowered amounts of energy production by the cells: All nerve transmissions depend on the electrical signals sent by various cells. If there is insufficient water, insufficient electricity, the nerves won’t carry the messages needed to tell various organs of the body to do whatever they are supposed to do (keep the heart beating, for instance!).
Water Quantity
In addition to the water pressure being higher on the outside of the cells, there is another factor to look at. A certain amount of the body’s water is contained within cells, while the remainder is outside the cells. When a body is young and healthy, a majority of the water is inside the cells. Lots of cells! And, the cells are full!
When the body gets older, almost always with insufficient water intake, the cells die to give up some of their water because other areas need it -- the majority of water can eventually be outside the cells rather than inside. The PRESSURE remains lower inside the cell, but eventually there is more water outside than inside.
That comes from a smaller number of blood cells! That’s more bad news!
Also, individual blood cells get robbed of their proper water supply and become smaller. This means that there is less water, inside the cell, to handle the toxins being produced. More importantly, the membrane of the cell becomes easier to penetrate by outside toxins, and free radicals, when there is less water inside the cell.
Water is tremendously important in the body.
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Endnotes
Chapter 17
Histamine: Chemical name: 1H-imidazole-4-ethanamine. A decarboxylation product of histidine, found in all body tissues, particularly in the mast cells and their related blood basophils, the highest concentration being in the lungs.
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