Job of the Bible’s Book of Job, is the earliest known person who suffered from fibromyalgia.

“I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. When I go to bed, I think, `When will it be morning?' But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn…And now my heart is broken. Depression haunts my days. My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones.” (Job 7:3-4; 30:16-17 - NLT)

Florence Nightingale, an English army nurse in 1854 and a founder of the International Red Cross, experienced symptoms like fibromyalgia while working on the front lines of the Crimean War. Bedridden with pain and fatigue after the war, she never truly recovered and died in 1910.

Yet it wasn’t until 1976 that this distressing condition was given a name: Fibro means fibrous tissue, my means muscle and algia means pain. While two indicators are needed for diagnosis—1) a history of widespread pain in all four quadrants of the body lasting a minimum of three months; and, 2) pain in a minimum of 11 of 18 specific tender points when the doctor applies four kilograms of pressure—it can take several months until the doctor rules out any other illness.

The discomfort affects muscles and soft tissue and symptoms result in chronic pain. Like Job, it makes you fatigued and creates sleep problems. Until recent times relief came only from use of medication, limited activity that resulted in lifestyle changes and management of stress which is the number one acidifier of the body.

But patients are taking a more proactive role in managing their debilitating condition and this is where the baby boomers come in. Not a generation to take disability lying down, baby boomers like answers. Today there is an increasing trend toward alternative treatments in the form of icepacks, massage, acupuncture, and acupressure and the National Institute of Health [NIH] and the World Health Organization [WHO] are endorsing them.

The one commonality in all of these therapies is the stimulation to pressure points. This is pressure applied to the spot that triggers changes in the body in a good way. This gives a positive effect most of the time because pressure points have nerve connections to major nerves in the body that affects physiological processes.

According to the Mayo Clinic, “Doctors don’t know what causes fibromyalgia.” All we’ve gotten out of the studies is the name given to the condition and the meds and therapies that can make someone a bit more comfortable. This is good, but there is more…and it’s logic.

We grow in utero in a sack bathing us in water from the moment of conception. When our mother’s give birth, we are 90% water. By the end of our first year, we are 75% water. As we age, we grow more and more dehydrated. We are shriveling up. And when we get closer to our end years we are basically dried up. We drop to perhaps 50% water and that alone can be very, very painful. It’s tantamount to a car being without oil to make its engine run smoothly or a radiator that goes empty and can’t keep the engine cool. Eventually, the car will stop running.

Since the Kangen Water™ movement has introduced to the world exciting water that is micro-clustered, an antioxidant and is alkaline, those who suffer from fibromyalgia are getting relief like never before.

A doctor I’m not, but I am suggesting that the cause of fibromyalgia is symptomatic of simple yet severe dehydration, a condition that can be solved with good electrolyzed water [Kangen Water™]. This kind of water can potentially solve better than any other water available the harsh realities of this debilitating disease. It can do this because of its incomparable micro-clustering properties that allow it to be absorbed deeply into the interstitial tissues upon which the cells of muscles and soft tissue depend for oxygenation and hydration. These two components are critical to flexibility and freedom from pain. Combined with alternative treatments, electrolyzed water [Kangen Water™] is certain to increase in your body the efficacy of all the alternative modalities—water, massage, acupressure and acupuncture.