Water Retention - Gulping Water

[2009]

[Jim]

It's about water retention. It was a whole lot worse before the primal diet, but I can push on my ankle and it makes it a dent and it gradually comes back and that sort of thing.

And it gets worse if I eat cooked food with a lot of salt, but it never really goes away, particularly in the summertime. Is there something else I should be doing?

[Aajonus]

Well, the trick is not to gulp any liquids at all, and if you're going to drink water, it should be no more than let's say a sip, a tablespoon, two tablespoons at a time. When you gulp your fluids, the body rushes the H2O to the kidney and then the nutrients cannot transport the H20 to the cells. When you're eating raw food, you've got all the active ions and everything available to transport and when you cook a food, all the ions fractionate from the water, so then it's water.

It's just water. It's not bound ionically active H20. So, you will dehydrate by drinking water, that's why I suggest people do not drink water. It's also a solvent. Why do you think people go around hosing things off, washing things with water? Because it's a solvent, it breaks things down and dissolves them. When you have it in your intestines and the rest of your body, it'll wash your nutrients away. It'll destroy your bacteria. It'll do all kinds of negative things, unless you're just sipping and your body converts that little bit of water into solvents to help dissolve matter that needs flushing out of the system.

But mainly we can do it with the water in foods. Milk is 86% water, meats 55% water, fruits, including cucumbers are 93% water. That's plenty of water. But you cannot gulp, you gulp it rushes to the kidneys, you dump it out the bladder, where's your water going? So it doesn't go, go to the kidney and it's rushing into the system too quick, it's going to be absorbed too quick and the body's gonna keep it in the connective tissue, until it can find some way to utilize it. It's usually if you have a poor kidney and you don't have the greatest kidneys in the world.

[Jim]

So, then I should eat slowly as well?

⁠[Aajonus]

Well, you don't have to eat your meats and other solid foods slowly, but you certainly need to drink your fluids slowly.

Now I suck, that's what I do.

[Attendee]

What about chewing your foods?

⁠[Aajonus]

You can chew it, but if you do like an infant does, I put my teeth together, I put my tongue behind my back teeth and I suck. I only consumed about two tablespoons of milk just then, but because I sucked, I got all the saliva with the bacteria and that's what infants do, they get that bacteria in the milk.

We have almost two times more bacteria in our salivary juices than a dog and a cat do. In fact, we have more bacteria than any other creature on the planet besides a fly. A fly, they'll spit on you and start dissolving your tissue, that's what flys do. They spit on their object that they're eating to start predigesting it even before they suck it up.

We need to suck, so if you suck your fluids then you'll have more bacteria in it and you won't be gulping. You won't be as thirsty, when you gulp, rushes to the kidneys or the connective tissue and then you're dehydrated and people who drink and drink and drink.

Now, I used to drink a gallon of milk a day, when I stopped gulping, I cut it in half and then cut out water completely. I used to drink a half a cup a day in the summertime, a day cup at the very most when I'm in Asia where it's very hot. I never drink water here, except for maybe an ounce a week, two ounces a week.

[Attendee]

With mineral water too?

[Aajonus]

Same thing that same with any fluid, any fluid at all, you want to take it in slowly.

[Jim]

Even the whey?

[Aajonus]

Oh my gosh, yes. The whey is 98% water. Pardon?

[Attendee]

Coconut water

[Aajonus]

Coconut water is just water: it's got a lot of minerals in it, it's got a tiny bit of sugar, it's got a tiny bit of protein, but it's basically water.

[Attendee]

A whole coconut is too much for one person?

[Aajonus]

In Asia women do not drink coconut water because it causes them to bloat, it causes them to swell. Men will drink it there without swelling, but women will swell.