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let’s talk about the kidney and how

amazing it is and how to protect it and

exactly what you should be taking to

minimize any type of toxicity or damage

to the kidney especially long term the

kidney is actually very rugged it’s

similar to the liver and that it can

take a beating but it can regenerate

each kidney is composed of roughly about

a million tiny little filters and these

kitties have to filter all day and all

night long 24 7 constantly and they

filter blood and so where does the Blood

come from well it comes from what you

eat right so all the food that you eat

all the junk food all the alcohol that

you drink all the medications and the

drugs that you’re exposed to all the

pollution all the Plastics end up in the

blood and then they end up in the kidney

and your kidney just has to be able to

differentiate what it wants to recycle

and what it needs to get rid of so

there’s a high degree of complexity

going on in this little filter called

the Nephron and as you age you start

losing these little filters to the point

where you can actually lose up to 20 of

your kidney okay they can shrink as you

age and so it becomes even more

important that as you age you really

start eating better and are exposed to

less toxins drugs and medications of

course that’s just the opposite as we

age we take more medications and

unfortunately you know older people

especially if they end up in some type

of home are not eating

the right Foods the kidneys also make

certain hormones uh one being to make

red blood cells the other one is for

blood pressure but let’s dive into some

things that really destroy the kidney

and there’s even so-called healthy foods

that are destroying the kidney and we’ll

talk about those as well let’s first

talk about what makes up a kidney stone

right because having a kidney stone can

create a lot of damage to your kidney

especially because it has these little

crystals that can damage and create scar

tissue of the kidney itself as well as a

little tube that connects the kidney to

the bladder so kidney stones most

commonly come from what’s called oxalate

Stones like calcium oxalate stones but

you can also get them in a form of uric

acid Stones as well one of the most

important things to do especially if

you’re prone to kidney stones is to

limit the amount of oxalates that you’re

exposed to and if you’re on the

ketogenic plan uh chances are you’re

probably eating something right now that

is very high in oxalates so almonds

spinach

beet tops peanuts grains beans sweet

potatoes cassava tapioca which comes

from cassava kiwi chocolate Swiss chard

turmeric has a good amount of oxalates

however turmeric has a lot of other

properties to help decrease inflammation

as well as prevent The Binding of

calcium and oxlets but also cinnamon is

a bit high in oxalates as well as clove

now the other point I want to mention

about these oxalates because they can

really create

some issues that go beyond just problems

in the kidney they can create arthritis

as well as something called pseudo gout

gout is normally created by this uric

acid crystal that’s developing

but with pseudogao it’s not uric acid

there’s some other types of crystals

that are developing from calcium and

also can be worsened if you have high

levels of oxalates right either in the

diet or your body is just making them

one point about pseudogout is that

anything that increases the excretion of

too much calcium could worsen it okay

and interestingly enough uh too much

salt can cause a release of this calcium

from the kidneys so if you currently are

consuming a lot of salt and probably not

enough potassium you might want to just

make a change and see if that doesn’t

help you because most of the population

you can handle a lot of salt but for a

select small group of people especially

if they have gout or even pseudogout

they might do better without excessive

salt I think really the big problem is

the ratio of potassium to sodium and if

you had enough potassium you know your

salt level would be fine but I would

just recommend playing around with the

dosage and start lowering the salt and

raising the potassium and see if you

don’t feel better so by decreasing the

salt you’re going to be excreting

calcium a lot less and it won’t develop

into crystals the other interesting

point of about oxlets has to do with

malabsorption in your gut if you have

malabsorption and I’m talking about

damage in the gut let’s say you have

inflammation you have Celiac or Crohn’s

or irritable bowel syndrome gastric

bypass for example so there’s a certain

level of damage in your digestive tract

that doesn’t allow you to absorb certain

things especially fats

and if you’re doing like the ketogenic

diet and or even carnivore and you have

all this fat that’s coming into the gut

but you can’t really absorb the fat some

of that fat is going to bind with the

calcium and that’s going to leave the

oxlets free to be reabsorbed okay go

into your blood and end up in a kidney

so there is this interesting connection

between fat binding to calcium and then

freeing up this oxalate if you’re eating

foods low in oxalates you’d have nothing

to worry about also another point about

that if you’re eating foods high in

oxalates and you take more calcium with

it maybe through the dairy then you’re

also protected so if you’re going to do

some spinach dish and you had cheese

with it that might be helpful so that’s

just another way to counter the damage

of these oxalates on the kidney since

the kidney can be very sensitive to Too

Much uric acid and oxalates when they

usually do a urine test

for people with gout or kidney stones

they usually always find that there’s

excessive amounts of calcium in the

urine excessive amounts of uric acid

oxalates and there’s also lower amounts

of this other thing called cetrates

Citrus now what are citrates well your

body makes them also you can get it from

consuming Citrus like lemons or limes

right and citrus is really interesting

because it actually binds with the

oxalates in a way that prevents the

calcium from binding and it can lower

your risk of getting kidney stones and

the thing about consuming lemons is that

they’re alkaline that’s one way to

counter gout if you have too much uric

acid so this is why lemons are really

good for that kidney okay they protect

the kidney there they have potassium in

there they provide some alkalinity but

they also protect against these oxalates

another interesting natural remedy would

be out apple cider vinegar take like a

tablespoon in your water in the morning

as a way to prevent Stones Let me just

kind of circle back to potassium again

and talk a little bit more about that

potassium is probably one of the best

minerals to protect the kidney and

people are so concerned about taking

potassium because they’ve heard

something that potassium is bad for the

kidney it’s only bad if you have a stage

five kidney disease like end-stage

kidney disease where you would want to

take potassium but apparently even if

there is some damage of the kidney

potassium can be protective so since the

general population doesn’t consume a lot

of potassium foods potassium in a like

electrolyte powder or just high

potassium foods are very very beneficial

for the kidney and they can help balance

it the sodium leafy greens large solids

avocados very very high in potassium

well but so are our beet leaves the beet

leaves are very high in oxide

so you want to consume

um vegetables that are high in potassium

but low in oxalates and so even though

spinach is very high in potassium you

wouldn’t want to do it because it’s high

in oxalates as well but there’s other

things you can do to counter that damage

you can actually again have a little

cheese with that and that way it’ll give

you the calcium to prevent some of those

Outlets from binding but I probably

didn’t talk about the the most uh

damaging thing to your kidney which is

sugar okay because the number one cause

of end-stage kidney disease is diabetes

all right and that comes from a high

carb diet you know it’s so interesting

if you look at the flips out of that the

ketogenic diet low carb you might hear

reports that oh the ketogenic diet is

really bad for your kidneys so you need

to avoid it because you might develop a

ketoacidosis and well first of all we’re

always recommending the the healthy

version of the ketogenic diet so you’re

not going to develop ketoacine doses

ketoacidosis occurs when you’re a

diabetic and you forget to take your

insulin and you have super high levels

of acidity and ketones which you’re

never going to see if you’re not a

diabetic actually ketones are very

healthy for the kidney and a high carb

diet is not very healthy to the kidney

because you’re exposing the kidney the

little filters with so much oxidation

and that’s basically kind of rusting out

the kidney and then what happens is once

you destroy that filter then you start

seeing glucose in the urine because

we’re not recycling it anymore and one

test to evaluate what’s going on the

kidneys is actually to check your blood

like your waste product of protein is

called urea so it’s called blood

urea nitrogen so with kidney disease

you’ll see excessive amount of protein

in the urine which is not good but you

also see

urea or a waste product protein in the

blood but you also see another compound

called creatinine in the urine as well

in excessive amounts and that just

indicates there’s another protein

problem with your muscles not being

handled by the kidney but creatinine can

also occur from other reasons as well

because when you like eat a lot of

cooked meat okay when you cook it you

actually convert creatine to creatinine

and that can show up in the urine as

well as consuming just large amounts of

protein but typically you’re only going

to see a problem with that if your

kidneys are not healthy if your kidneys

are healthy and you’re eating a lot of

protein I think you’re not going to see

any problem in fact I really have not

found any really good evidence to show

that eating too much protein will do any

damage to the kidney it’s usually when

someone’s eating a lot of protein and a

lot of sugar at the same time but

creatinine can also show up if there’s

liver damage or even as a side effect

from taking ACE inhibitors which are

medications for blood pressure or if

you’re doing heavy duty exercise it can

show up so you have to be able to

differentiate is a kidney problem or is

it something else so let’s just

summarize some of the things that you

can do to really keep these kidneys in

check I would do lemon water every

morning actual if you can squeeze a

lemon that would be best put it in the

water add your apple cider vinegar drink

your liquids it’s probably a good idea

especially if you’re prone to kidney

stones to consume two and a half liters

of water because kidney stone occurs

because there’s a super saturated amount

of urine and you’re getting all these

crystals developing so if you’re

drinking enough liquids you’re going to

be fine with that second point is to

avoid High oxalate type foods and of

course there’s a lot more to talk about

that but I gave you the ones that are

like the most important and if you do

eat foods high in oxalates We’ll add

some Dairy to it or add some calcium to

counter that and of course a really

important point is to go on the low carb

ketogenic plan with intermittent fasting

and also out of all the sugars fructose

by the way and I want to just add this

to the mix can really spike your uric

acid more than a lot of other things so

fructose is really really bad as in high

fructose corn syrup also when you’re

consuming a lot of vitamin C and I know

there is some benefits of doing high

levels of vitamin C for certain things

but if you’re trying to get rid of your

gout or your pseudo gout and you’re

consuming massive amounts of vitamin C

in the form of ascorbic acid well just

make some changes cut that out for a

couple days and see if your pain doesn’t

just go away I just wanted to in this

video include a lot of different links

to things that could be aggravating your

condition now let’s say you are a

diabetic or you have kidney damage

already there are things you can do to

help protect the kidney even more in

addition to potassium and that would be

consuming a lot of the phytonutrients or

the antioxidants and certain plant Foods

especially in micro greens okay which

are these little baby plants they grow a

little bit more than Sprouts okay and

they’re I recommend the ones grown in

soil if you can get them and the reason

I’m saying that is if you’re consuming

like microgreens right compared to adult

vegetables you’re going to get some of

these phytonutrients in levels that are

you know 20 50 to 100 times more than

the adult vegetables so all it takes is

a small amount of these things to create

a big effect and if you’re trying to you

know protect the kidney this is very

doable it’s very easy just add it to

your salad and it can help protect you

and I’m talking about the phytonutrients

like sulforaphane flavonoids carotenoids

even chlorophyll all of those are really

good to protect the kidney but just one

last point about that turmeric does have

high levels of oxalates so there’s mixed

reviews on that powerful phytonutrient

now that you have that information if

you have not seen my video on the seven

warning signs of a toxic kidney I put

that up right here check it out