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what are the best foods for kidney

disease well they’re somewhat different

than the foods that you would eat to

prevent a kidney problem if you were

trying to prevent kidney disease you

would consume the Foods on my program

which is the healthy version of the

ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting

because that provides not just low carb

but high quality foods since the cause

of most kidney problems stem from

diabetes insulin resistance high sugar

high carb diets but that being said we

want to talk about what do you eat if

you have a kidney problem there are

various stages of kidney problems you

have stage one two three four and five

five being end stage which means you’re

usually on the list for dialysis and

it’s irreversible so I’m going to kind

of split this up into kind of the make

break point of when you would start

eating what I’m going to suggest okay

and that would be stage 3A through stage

five so if you’re between a three and

five then we’re going to talk about what

foods you should eat and the kidney has

a bunch of tiny little filters called

nephrons and they’re basically there to

filter the blood so when they can’t

filter anymore because they’re damaged

you start getting waste that backs up

into the blood and you also have

problems with these very specific

nutrients

phosphorus becomes too high

potassium becomes too high sodium

becomes too high and then protein in

general so that’s one way to diagnose uh

kidney problems is having protein in the

urine so let’s first take a look at

protein okay you need to lower your

protein a little bit okay but of course

keep the quality there as well which

I’ll talk about so how much protein

would you really need a normal amount of

protein let’s say for myself I weigh

about

185 pounds I would need to apply this

one formula and this is kind of really a

rough estimate like 0.8 grams of protein

per kilogram and what that really comes

out to is about 65 grams of protein per

day that’s kind of what I need right now

but if the kidney becomes a problem you

can’t handle that much protein so you

have to lower it to about 45 grams of

protein per day I would go from like

nine ounces of beef per day to about six

ounces of beef per day if it was eggs

okay it’s a little bit different protein

ratio shown there I would go from nine

eggs a day to six eggs a day if it was

seafood or fish I would go from nine

ounces of fish or seafood to six ounces

of seafood or fish now less per day okay

so you just reduce your protein you

don’t want to reduce it too low you just

want to have it just right and you want

to make sure the quality is there the

best protein as far as quality goes is

the egg

then the fish or seafood and then beef

but you have to make sure it’s grass-fed

grass finished and the eggs

pasture-raised organic and then the fish

well caught now as far as sodium goes

you don’t want to bring your sodium down

too far because you need sodium for

various reasons but you want to bring it

down to roughly about

23 100 milligrams of sodium per day so

in other words don’t use a lot of salt

on your foods and of course you’re not

going to be eating processed foods or

junk food so you’re not going to get

that hidden sodium but you want to have

just a little bit but not excessive

amounts and then with potassium okay

let’s talk about potassium what foods

are high in potassium that you would

have to avoid beet greens avoid those

avoid spinach kale avocados are very

high in potassium but you would want to

have foods low in potassium if we take a

look at the vegetable family we would be

consuming like cabbage cauliflower rad

radish cucumber onion regular lettuce

bell pepper and of course protein in

general doesn’t have a lot of potassium

so you could do like tuna and cod and

eggs especially turkey and even some

organic chicken now let’s talk about

phosphorus okay how do you lower the

phosphorus well you definitely want to

avoid anything with a lot of phosphorus

like phosphoric acid as in sodas sodas

are the worse for kidney disease because

you’re going to really jack up your

phosphoric acid not to mention the sugar

but also meat in general is higher in

phosphorus and so is milk in dark

chocolate but most vegetables are low in

phosphorus berries are low in phosphorus

poultry is lower in phosphorus if you

look at the meats and certain seafood

and even eggs are low on phosphorus even

though they have phosphorus there’s some

conflicting data on potassium in other

words there’s an equal risk of dying

from too much potassium or too little

potassium and again always work with

your doctor to make sure that they

monitor these key nutrients to make sure

they’re not out of range

that being said a lot of the

recommendations as far as food for

end-stage kidney problems include grains

which I totally disagree with there’s no

benefit of having grains when you have a

kidney problem instead focus on the

foods that I recommend as well as adding

a natural source of the B vitamins

natural vitamin C vitamin D3 as well as

omega-3 fatty acids probably from cod

liver oil that would be the best so

these recommendations are for those

people that have kidney damage already

like I said before if you want to

prevent kidney problems you can have

more of these nutrients and for that I

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