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let’s talk about the seven warning signs

that your kidneys are

toxic now i want to do a comprehensive

video on the kidney but in a very very

simple way without teaching you all the

fluff and the extra things that you

don’t need to know so we’re just going

to focus on the most important things

you need to know

to prevent a toxic kidney as well as

what to do if you have toxic kidneys now

what is the purpose of the kidneys

well it mainly filters the blood but not

like an oil filter in your car it’s much

more complex

it gets rid of the toxic things and it

will help to reabsorb all the good

things so the more you lose this complex

filtering function you start getting rid

of nutrients that you need and you hold

waste products they start backing up

into the system and so all of the

symptoms both in the early stage kidney

problems as well as the late stage

kidney problems are directly related to

this filtering system becoming damaged

now some of the top early symptoms would

be a metallic taste in your mouth that

means your toxins are backing up into

the system you have itchiness in your

body and you can also have ammonia

breath now some of the later signs that

your kidneys are toxic would be edema

okay swelling where you put your finger

into your lower leg and it leaves a dent

and so you’re going to notice swelling

in the lower ankles and feet now this

also shows up with the kidney because

the liver and the kidney work together

but if you have pitting edema in your

lower extremities

your kidneys are toxic now the other

place you’re going to see edema is

underneath the eyes okay you’re going to

see these kind of puffy swollen bags

underneath your eyes

that is the kidneys backing up another

symptom that you may get is called

uremic frost now what is uremic frost

things are backing up in the system

especially uric acid

and it’s backing up through the skin

usually on the scalp or the front part

of your head you’ll see these little

white specks like frost

on your skin that is urea backing up in

the system because the body’s not able

to get rid of it and it’s coming through

your skin

another common sign would be high blood

pressure because think about it if the

filter is damaged it’s going to kind of

inhibit blood flow to the kidney and

it’s going to back up its back pressure

and one of the problems with high blood

pressure is that pressure itself will

damage the kidneys because if you think

about having too much pressure through

this pipe

and hitting this filter it’d be very

similar to having a water filter in your

house and you you put way too much

pressure in these pipes it’s going to

damage the filtering mechanism so the

kidney being a filter

is really made up of these tiny little

filters

called

glomeruli

and each kidney has about a million of

them and they do the work of filtering

and kind of recycling

certain nutrients so you’re not wasting

all the vitamins and minerals and amino

acids all right another really common

sign that your kidneys are toxic is that

you are exhausted okay you’re tired now

the mechanism of what makes you tired is

urea which is kind of a waste product of

protein too much of that in the blood

and you’re just going to be so tired

number five

protein in the urine if you get a urine

test and there’s

large amounts of protein that you’re in

suspect that your kidneys are toxic and

they’re damaged now if there’s a small

amount of protein that could mean

something else but if you have a lot of

protein coming through this filter

there’s holes in the filter okay they’re

damaged all right number six is very

acidic urine your body becomes more acid

and this comes from

a imbalance with ammonia because ammonia

is very very alkaline and so it’s not

able to buffer things that well and so

you have ammonia building up in certain

places in the body and not in others and

it throws off your ph now the other

reason why you can become acidic is

especially if you’re a diabetic is that

you’re running out of insulin so you

have these uncontrolled

blood sugars

and if you don’t watch it you can

develop something called

ketoacidosis but i just want to mention

that’s completely different than

nutritional ketosis where you’re

changing your diet you’re getting into

ketosis ketoacidosis

occurs when you are a diabetic and

you’re not taking your medication and

you’re not regulating your blood sugars

well all right number seven

low vitamin d now if you watch some of

my other videos in the vitamin d

the kidney is very very important so is

the liver but the kidney helps

in the first conversion

from the inactive vitamin d to the

active vitamin d so without good kidney

function you’re not going to be able to

change vitamin d into its active form

and so you’re going to have a vitamin d

deficiency despite how much vitamin d

you take

as well as a calcium deficiency and that

can lead to all sorts of other problems

like calcification your arteries

atherosclerosis

kidney stones calcium and building up in

the arteries calcium building up in your

eyes calcium building up in the nerves

as neuritis and the list goes on and on

and on now i want to actually shift

gears to the main causes

of

kidney damage hands down the number one

cause is diabetes specifically when you

have

high levels of glucose flowing through

the body and through the kidney glucose

to the kidney is like taking steel wool

or sandpaper and just rubbing the inside

of your kidney it just destroys the

kidney the kidney is one of four main

body tissues

that gets destroyed with high glucose

the other tissues is the heart like the

blood vessels then you have the nerves

in the brain and then the eyes so

diabetes just hammers the kidney and

destroys the kidney now i just want to

bring up one little side note which i’m

going to do another video on

if you take a look at normal blood

sugars right normal blood sugar would be

like 80

milligrams per deciliter

okay what does this 80 mean

how much sugar is in the blood when it

says 80. it’s only four grams that’s

like one teaspoon of sugar

okay to make up normal blood sugar

an average person

per day consumes

well over usually it’s 15 or more

teaspoons every single day and they have

that going through their blood system

right but a lot of times well initially

it doesn’t show up in your blood test it

doesn’t show up as abnormal blood sugar

and this is because your body works

really hard

at

keeping sugar out of the blood and it

does that through a hormone called

insulin so it’s constantly just taking

the sugar out and so it’s trying to keep

your arteries free of this excess sugar

because of the damage it creates but

think about this where is all the sugar

going your body is putting it in other

places and this is one of the signs of

diabetes is where you have sugar in the

urine and so the kidney filter has to

work really hard at getting rid of

excess sugar and this excess sugar is

like a blow torch to your kidney it just

it creates oxidation and it creates a

lot of damage i’m just amazed that the

body actually responds and survives as

well as it does with the amount of sugar

that an average person consumes all

right so the primary cause of kidney

problems is diabetes and the second

cause is high blood pressure which a lot

of times is caused by diabetes

because glucose hardens the arteries

increasing the pressure because there’s

no elasticity the other two

really big causes of high blood pressure

is low vitamin d which could be caused

by a kidney problem

and low potassium which can then cause

kidney damage and high blood pressure

can also affect diabetes as well so it’s

kind of this circuit that just one

causes another problem and causes

another problem back and forth now

another cause not very common but it can

cause

kidney damage is polycystic kidney

disease now this is usually a genetic

problem

that

manifests when you get

kidney damage and so the genes are

usually expressed or get triggered when

your body becomes toxic especially the

kidney in later stage kidney disease

people a lot of times will develop these

cysts all right then another cause of

kidney damage would be

glomerulonephritis which is inflammation

of those little

filters those glomeruli so the question

is what causes inflammation of these

little filtering units well if you guess

diabetes you are correct so you pretty

much conclude that the majority of

kidney problems come from

high blood glucose okay so what can you

do with that information

well

let’s see

go on the low carb diet that might help

all right before i get to the foods i

want to just mention potassium for a

second

if you have end stage

kidney disease

you’re not supposed to be consuming too

much potassium okay

you’re not supposed to be consuming too

much phosphorus because both of those

minerals are in high levels and of

course if you have end stage kidney

disease you know your doctor is going to

advise you on what to take what not to

take

but i want to tell you something

if you don’t have end stage kidney

disease okay

and you want to prevent end stage kidney

disease potassium is one of the most

important minerals to consume enough of

because potassium can protect the kidney

and i’m going to put some links down

below for those of you that want

hardcore data and i’m talking about not

just a supplement i’m talking about

consuming high potassium foods now the

other two things i want to mention is

vitamin d when you have kidney damage

you’re nearly always going to be

low in vitamin d and then because

vitamin d is low you’re also going to be

low in calcium the problem is now we

don’t have this transportation mechanism

of calcium and you start building up

calcification in your arteries and in

your joints

and then your kidney as kidney stones

all right now that you have that let’s

talk about the best

foods for the kidney in preventing

kidney damage hands down the best foods

are

leafy greens okay asparagus is awesome

for the kidney because it also helps

detoxify uric acid we also have kale

which is loaded with all sorts of

phytonutrients that are kidney

protective and then celery celery has

great nutrients to help detoxify the

kidneys and keep the kidneys in good

health

and do it in a very very gentle way

celery juice

taken periodically is a great way to

kind of filter out the kidney and you’re

going to see if someone has puffy eyes

they tend to clear up very fast when

someone consumes a good amount of celery

i think if someone had weakness in the

kidney

and they consumed celery every single

day maybe right at the meal last meal or

maybe a little bit later

it would not just help the kidney it

would also help them sleep but celery is

really good for edema

both in the ankles and underneath the

eyes now as far as protein fish and

seafood is the best as well as high

quality meats i’m talking about organic

talking about grass fed but you don’t

want to do necessarily high protein you

want to do a moderate amount of protein

you don’t want to do a low protein

a moderate amount that would be between

three and six ounces maybe seven ounces

per meal now it’s very very important to

step up the quality of food

when you want to prevent kidney problems

because

yes diabetes high blood glucose destroys

the kidney but also

drugs destroy the kidney and medications

destroy the kidney

many different medications have a side

effect to the kidney itself because the

kidney is always filtering blood and

that’s where your medications and drugs

end up so if you’re constantly exposing

the kidney to medications and drugs

it’s going to damage those kidneys we

don’t want to consume food with

pesticides and herbicides

we don’t want to have coffee that’s not

organic because of the amount of

pesticides that they spray and the other

point i want to bring up is many people

that

have kidney problems

are on a low sodium diet and so

they’re obviously probably not even

consuming any salt okay which then makes

your muscles weak okay you’re going to

feel very weak and you’ll feel very very

lethargic there is a very

awesome salt that is naturally very low

in sodium

so sea salt which has like 90 minerals

normally has over 95 percent of it

sodium but there’s a type of sea salt

called baja gold sea salt that is 70

percent

sodium and it has 90 minerals

it’s very high in potassium and very

high in magnesium so it’s very very good

not just for the kidney but good for the

entire body and it’s quite delicious on

your food in fact it’ll really bring out

the flavors of your food and i will put

a link down below i’m not associated

with this company at all but it’s a very

very good salt to get your potassium

magnesium without just going really

heavy on the sodium now obviously

refined foods junk foods

high sugary foods high carb foods

are all damaging to the kidney but there

are so called healthy foods that are

also damaging to the kidney because they

have high amounts of oxalates okay

oxalates form with calcium to form

oxalate stones that can damage the

kidney so the foods that you probably

should avoid

if you do have kidney problems would be

spinach

almonds

kiwi

beet leaves

and of course things like beans and

grains

things like that the other point i want

to bring up with how much liquid you

should drink and if you have damage in

your kidney you should drink at least

2.5 liters per day that will keep your

kidneys from concentrating and

developing these little stones

all right last point and this is very

very important

if you have

damage in your kidney

there is a very very good supplement

that i would recommend

and i don’t sell it you can do a search

on the internet and find it

it’s from a product called standard

process and it’s called rena food just

take one of these before bed

for about two to three months

i used to recommend it in practice with

really good results with kidney damage

all right now that you have this

information the next most important

thing you need to know is

what’s the complete diet look like what

should i be eating okay

you need to be on the healthy keto plan

and i have several short step-by-step

videos right here check them out

you