Information about a certain Japanese study is subject to social networks, which showed that drinking four glasses of water on an empty stomach treats and prevents numerous diseases. We decided to check if there is such a study and whether scientists really came to such conclusions.

Sending It reports that four glasses of water on an empty stomach can help with a 100 percent guarantee in various pathologies: headache, anemia, gout, paralysis, epilepsy, obesity, gastritis, constipation, tonsillitis, tuberculosis, dysentery and meningitis. It is argued that the methodology treats diseases of the genitourinary system, organs of vision, hearing, and also normalizes the menstrual cycle. Even the terms are given in which getting rid of diseases is guaranteed. It is claimed that the headache (three days) will pass the fastest, the stomach and kidneys should pass in ten days, the menstrual cycle will improve in 15 days. Only a month is needed to cure diabetes, hypertension and anemia. The longest time is treated with water for those who have tuberculosis or meningitis (six months), as well as cancer (nine months). The healing effect of water is explained by the fact that it activates the work of internal organs after sleep. Information on the method of treatment with water is found on social networks ("VKontakte", "Classmates" And Facebook), as well as on sitesdedicated Healthy image life.

To begin with, it is worth noting that it was not possible to detect an appropriate study on different combinations of keywords in such authoritative bases of scientific publications as Pubmed or Google Scholar. The factor of the American project to debunk Snopes myths also could not Find a study describing the declared in the mailing list. It is only known that already in 2010 the newsletter spread in English.

In the newsletter, diseases caused by different groups of pathogens are listed: bacteria (tuberculosis), bacteria or protozoa (dysentery), bacteria, viruses or fungi (meningitis, angina). There are also diseases with the genetic component (diabetes, asthma). Among others, cancer is also indicated (without specifying the type of tumor and its location), while oncological diseases also can have a genetic predisposition, develop as a result of the accumulation of carcinogens or become the result of irradiation.

Moreover, part of the diseases that are proposed to be treated with water today belong to the group incurable. For Diabetes, asthma, gout or epilepsy In principle, the concept of “recovery” is not used, doctors speak only about the possibility of access to a long non -united remission when the disease does not manifest itself with symptoms.

Of particular danger is that the newsletter about the treatment of water proposes to use this method even for diseases in which emergency medical care is indicated in the hospital. So, WHO Indicatesthat without adequate treatment of meningitis in half of the patients ends death. But even with treatment, mortality is high: with bacterial meningitis, approximately every tenth dies, and every fifth develops heavy complications. Ametail dysentery is no less dangerous: in terms of mortality from parasitic diseases, it occupies Second place in the world after malaria.

A separate question for the logic of mailing arises after reading the assertion that such consumption of water is treated by an irregular menstrual cycle in 15 days. Normally a cycle varies In the interval from 24 to 38 days, in 15 days of water consumption in most cases it will be impossible to even determine whether the cycle has become regular or not.

The only disease from the newsletter in which increased water consumption can be useful is constipation. In the article in the journal "Clinical Surgery of the Tolstoy and the rectum" It is notedthat water and physical exercises can be useful for the prevention of this state. At the same time, there is no scientific data that an increase in water consumption effectively copes with the already arising chronic constipation, if only it arose not due to dehydration.

It is also worth noting that water can be poisoned. This condition is called hyperhydration, even recorded Flying The outcomes. From four glasses of water, such a pathology, of course, will not develop, but in general, the consumption of too much fluid can cause a reduction in the concentration of sodium in the blood, which, in turn, can can bring To the edema of the brain and lungs.

The public danger of this newsletter is as follows. One of the causes of high mortality from oncological diseases Consistent The fact that, having received such a diagnosis, instead of starting treatment for medical protocols, a person converts To such pseudo -scientific, esoteric or "folk" methods. At the same time, the patient misses the time, the disease progresses and achieve a significant improvement is becoming more and more difficult. Thus, the newsletter can be considered not only inconsistent and useless, but also dangerous.

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