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Biography F. Batmanghelidj M.D.
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D., an internationally
renowned researcher, author and advocate of the natural
healing power of water, was born in Iran in 1931. He
attended Fettes College in Scotland and was a graduate of
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School of London University,
where he studied under Sir Alexander Fleming, who shared the
Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.
Dr.
Batmanghelidj practiced medicine in the U.K. before
returning to Iran where he played a key role in the
development of hospitals and medical centers. He also helped
establish sport projects for youth in Iran, including The
Ice Palace in Tehran, the first ice skating and sports
complex in the Middle East.
When the
Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Dr. Batmanghelidj was
placed in the infamous Evin Prison as a political prisoner
for 2 years and 7 months. It was there he discovered the
healing powers of water. One night, Dr. B. had to treat a
fellow prisoner with crippling peptic ulcer pain. With no
medications at his disposal, Dr. B. gave him 2 glasses of
water. Within 8 minutes, his pain disappeared. He was
instructed to drink 2 glasses of water every 3 hours and
became absolutely pain free for his remaining months in the
prison. Dr. B. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners
suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with
water alone. While in prison he conducted extensive research
into the medicinal effects of water in preventing and
relieving many painful degenerative diseases. Evin proved an
ideal “stress laboratory,” and despite being offered an
earlier release, Dr. B. chose to stay an extra 4 months to
complete his research into the relationship of dehydration
and bleeding peptic ulcer disease. The report of his
findings was published as the editorial of the Journal of
Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. The New York Times
Science Watch reported this discovery on June 21, 1983.
On his
release from prison in 1982, Dr. Batmanghelidj escaped from
Iran and came to America. At the Foundation for the Simple
in Medicine he began to research the effect of chronic
unintentional dehydration on the human body. His findings
were published in the Foundation’s “Journal of Science
in Medicine Simplified” in 1991 and 1992. They can be
read on the web site
www.watercure.com.
Subheadings:
Amazing Secrets -
http://www.watercure.com/wondersofwater.html
Unintentional Chronic
Dehydration -
http://www.watercure.com/udc.html
News and Media Reports -
http://www.watercure.com/print_media.html
Dr. F.
Batmaghelidj wrote his first self-help book
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water in 1992, in which he
stated that a dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of
dehydration. The body signals its water shortage by
producing pain. Dehydration actually produces pain and many
degenerative diseases, including asthma, arthritis,
hypertension, angina, adult-onset diabetes, lupus and
multiple sclerosis. Dr. B’s message to the world is, “You
are not sick, you are thirsty. Don’t treat thirst with
medication.”
Dr. F.
Batmanghelidj devoted the last 20 years of his life
promoting public awareness of the healing powers of water.
He appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs and
lectured around the world. He has left a body of valuable
works of six books and more than a dozen educational audio
and video seminars. His work has created an international
community that has embraced the natural healing of the water
cure.
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water has been translated
into 15 languages and continues to inspire readers all over
the world.
