Prevention of disease, deficiency and headaches relating to water intake

   Have all of you heard of water? If you haven't well then I don't know where you've been all your life. Water is essential to all of us! Water flows in our rives, water comes from the rain, from the heavens! Water flows out of our faucets, we cook with water and we bathe with water, and most importantly, we drink it! Without water it would be hard to survive. It doesn't matter who you are. Water carries minerals in it and vitamins if the water is enhanced with vitamins of course. Minerals are natural though.

   With out water we can become all the way to severely dehydrated, we develop more headaches than usual, our blood will thicken up and our body will contain less oxygen in it period. I know there are people who dislike water and refuse to drink much of it and then there are people who swear by water, even the dieters out there.

  Yeah we all get stressed and depressed/anxious which can bring on a headache but it's mostly from not drinking enough water. There's been a long time saying that 8 glasses of water a day is good but it's sort of a myth. Why? Well because not everyone needs 8 glasses. Some may need more or less, it depends if you're an athlete or any kind of athletic person who exercises, a hard laborer or a person who doesn't do much and works in an office. It all depends and you have to read your body-go by what your body tells you.

   Some deficiency symptoms include: severe dry mouth, or it could be because of breathing with your mouth frequently, your throat is big time dry, that's not a good, your eyes are sunk in, skin is dry, you get sever headaches daily, or you're muscles and different body parts are going numb or all of your body parts. When you're severely dehydrated, you'll know it! You experience flu like symptoms, headaches, weakness, numbness, it's all bad! I've been there before I know how it feels!

Here are 10 real good common reasons why we should drink water more that I found: First of all, More than two-thirds of your body weight is water. Without adequate water your body's biochemical and electrical processes begin to break down. The list of reasons your body needs water is as plentiful as the functions in your body, so due to space limitations. 

1. Your blood is over 80 percent water and needs water to make healthy new blood cells.

2. Your bones are over 50 percent water and, you guessed it, need water to make healthy new bone cells.

3. Drinking more water actually helps lessen pain in your body by getting your lymphatic system moving. The lymphatic system is a network of nodes, tubes, vessels, and fluid that move waste out of your tissues. It requires water to function properly.

4. Water helps to eliminate wastes and toxins from your body through the lymphatic system, kidneys, and intestines.

5. Water lubricates your joints and helps reduce joint pain and protect against wear and tear.

6. Water regulates your metabolism so if you're overweight chances are you may need more water.

7. Water balances body temperature.

8. Water helps to ensure adequate electrical functioning so your brain and nervous system function properly. Your brain and nervous system send out electrical signals to function properly. Researchers estimate that your brain gives off about the same amount of electricity as a 60 watt light bulb. So, there's some truth to the image of a light bulb going on when someone has a good idea.

9. Water alleviates dehydration (and I've already mentioned that most people are chronically dehydrated).

10. Every cell and organ in your body requires adequate water to function properly.

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/surprising-reasons-drinkmore-water.html, Wed April 28, 2010

Experiencing an injury in whichever joint: Elbow, ankle, knee, etc, What to do if you can't afford a doctor

   How many of you have experienced some kind of injury in any part of your body? Well I have, and it has been my ankle mostly with a severe ankle sprain. I have had Itband tendinitis in each of my legs too from running but they healed around the same time as a sprain would typically heal, that is if you kept up with it. A muscle strain or tear is way different than a sprain in your joints. Itband tendinitis is one kind of muscle strain and it happens to be in your legs, on the side. It's a long band that extends from your hip down to your knee and hooks. A strain or a joint sprain is either acute, moderate or sever....1st degree, 2nd degree or 3rd degree.

   Now in terms of a broken joint, such as an ankle or elbow, you'll know if it's broken or not if you'll just realize what your abilities are, how much pain you are in and how much inflammation you may have in that area. An acute break can involve just some pain and instability, a moderate break can involve more pain, instability and some inflammation and a sever break involves lots and lots of pain, no instability what so ever and a ton of inflammation in the area. Lots of pain everyday. The key is to ice, ice and ice to get the blood to slow down so you can see what's going on with the joint so you can make a judgment. You don't need to get an X-ray right away, just don't move the hurt joint at all!! And get the inflammation down first to determine things.Once you have gotten the blood flow to slow down and the area to shrink, then you can feel around the area with your fingers for like holes or pointy spots where a bone could be broken or pierced through your skin. If there's a hole, that means maybe it's an avulsion fracture where the muscle tendon pulls real hard and pulls a chunk of bone with it. Closed bone fractures are when the bone breaks inside the skin and open bone fractures are wen the bone breaks through the skin. A compression fracture happens when two bones collide or compress each other. If you're unsure and it's very painful, I would try to get an X-ray as cheap as you can!
Now a sprain can almost feel the same way. You get the acute, moderate or sever symptoms. Whether you can function a little bit not at all and how much inflammation you have. You do the same thing - just ice, ice and ice, and elevate your foot if it's your foot, if not then still... just let your affected area turn to normal almost again and massage it/exercise it. As long as you keep working it and stretching it, letting it recover in a healthy way it will get strong again, and nothing should happen for a while or ever again, if you pay attention!

I have sprained my right ankle in soccer when I was in middle school. It happened during indoor soccer. Year s later in 2006 during a cross country meet I rolled the same ankle on a root and sprained it. Just after 2 weeks and some treatment I was back to running and I ended up going to Ohio's state tournament for my high school. Then 5 years later again I was running in a park through a hilly trail, I was running and hit a root once again. I messed up my ankle bad. I sprained 2 ligaments severely. Without any X-rays or huge treatments, I healed it myself and rehabbed just because I'm a specialist and I've studied these things. By the second week I was walking and partially running on it. By the 3rd week it was flexible again.