Does Dehydration Cause Neurological and Autoimmune Disorders.?
A question asked by Wanderer: Does Dehydration Cause Neurological and Autoimmune Disorders.?
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“Dehydration Also Causes Neurological and Autoimmune Disorders.
Persistent dehydration inside some vital cells, in its extreme stages, will result in a number of disruptive conditions that have been labeled as different diseases – depending on the specialty of the “medical specialist” who first labels the problem. The initial stages of these health problems will begin by the loss of some of the most essential amino acids that get used up as detoxifying agents – antioxidants, when the person is not producing enough urine to get rid of the toxic waste of metabolism.
Since brain activity desperately depends on the presence of some of these amino acids, their depletive overuse will result in an inadequate presence of certain neurotransmitters – such as serotonin, tryptamine, melatonin and indolamine that are made from the amino acid tryptophan; or adrenaline, noradrenalin and dopamine that are made from the amino acid tyrosine.
As a result of an imbalance in the neurotransmitter composition of the brain, and based on proportionate depletion of a number of primary elements, a wide range of health problems have been recognized by the medical profession. Instead of recognizing these conditions as “deficiency disorders, they have been labeled as “diseases of unknown cause.” In short, when dehydration produces health problems, instead of correcting the dehydration and its metabolic complications, people are given toxic medications.
These conditions have received various labels. Most frequently used labels are: depression, impotence, anxiety neurosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit disorder in children. At more serious pathological stages, they are labeled as autoimmune diseases – such as insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer disease, and even AIDS.
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Anything is possible. However, parkinson’s and alzheimers disease was rare or non existent before the industrial revolution. The link to industrial toxins on the body and auto immune diseases/neurologicial problems is very strong.
When I read articles like this, I usually look for the research studies which suggest or support such extravagant claims. So I did. And frankly, I couldn’t find an study which supported the arguments in this article which was written by a “staff writer” for A Healthy Place, a mental health site. Neither the original article nor your copy have footnotes. That in itself should tell you something.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t some serious results from dehydration, there are, but unless we are dealing with infants, the chances are the lack of electrolytes and fluids is not going to cause all of neurodegenerative disorders which have been listed. However, the symptoms of dehydration can indeed mimic neurological and psychological disorders.
Dehydration can lead to severe adrenal gland issues which can possibly lead to diabetes, kidney disease, chronic lung disease. It can cause confusion, constipation, and certainly neurological symptoms, cognition issues can be severe. Syncope caused by hypovolemia can be a serious issue as well. Orthostatic hypotension is a symptom of several neurological – neurodegenerative conditions.
Dehydration has a few causes, it is not just the lack of fluid intake, it is also a severe restriction of carbs and fats. Severe dieting can lead to a number of symptoms resulting from this kind of dehydration including heart and kidney failure, seizures, brain damage and the every popular death.
Electrolyte balance is very important for the production of “natural electricity” for healthy joints, bones, blood sugar levels, oxygen delivery to cells, dental health and muscle impulses (does that last sound a bit like some of the neurodegenerative disorders?) But in most cases, health can be restored with proper restoration of electrolyte balance.
I did find that there were scientists in Iran who are studying the relationship of dehydration to Alzheimer’s. In 2006 they published “Chronic dehydration may be a preventable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease” and some related papers.
My own feeling is that the real question is why some people suffer from dehydration when there are fluids and nutritional resources around them. Dehydration is not only a problem in infants but also in the elderly. And it is possibly from from these sources that the reverse assumptions were made. These neurological conditions may be responsible – possibly symptomatically or cognitively – for the person not taking in enough fluid and eat a healthy diet which will maintain the electrolyte balance.
PD is not an autoimmune disease although it has been called an autoimmune process. It has been called an inflammatory condition but that is not quite the same.
“Autoimmune disease and risk for Parkinson disease: a population-based case-control study”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19776374
There is information in this article which bears study but this article is opinion and not hard fact. It might be anecdotal but it is not a research finding. Still it does make one think, a little about the claims but more about the importance of hydration for maintaining health.
Severe dehydration would cause kidney failure. All the rest is crap. How could dehydration cause a communicable disease like AIDS (ACQUIRED immune deficiency syndrome). Ridiculous.
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