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urinary retention what is it well it’s a

situation where your bladder is not

releasing all the urine so any urine

that is retained sometimes can back up

in the system it can create congestion

within the kidney and lead to a lot of

complications

i’m going to cover the causes of urinary

retention and also a really good

solution one third of the adult

population and 80 percent of females

have some form of bladder issue it could

be the sensation of having to urinate

but not a lot of urine comes out so how

does this affect someone well the kidney

is a filter and it’s supposed to filter

the blood it works very closely with the

liver which by the way also filters out

the blood to some extent it helps to

break down caffeine alcohol medications

toxins and so the liver and the kidney

work together if you’re not able to

fully eliminate all your urine

that can lead to edema in your feet or

in your lower legs it can lead to a loss

of protein in the urine which you might

identify as albumin and so when you lose

too much protein then the protein in the

blood goes down and then the tissues

start backing up with fluid now when you

urinate and you smell a very strong odor

in your urine like this super pungent

ammonia smell

that has to do with the incomplete

breakdown of proteins there’s something

called the urea cycle where your liver

is breaking down protein and as it

breaks down to ammonia it’s supposed to

then break down to urea

and it should be eliminated through the

urine but what happens if this whole

biochemical pathway doesn’t work

you’re going to get a buildup of ammonia

in your urine and it can even back up

into the blood it can go to the brain

and it can lead to all sorts of

additional symptoms like brain fog

even

very extreme to the point where you lose

consciousness

so

smelling too much ammonia in the urine

is not good now if you’re a diabetic you

may have sugar in the urine and by the

way the number one cause of kidney

damage is

too much sugar or a diabetes situation

that’s called diabetic nephropathy not

neuropathy but nephropathy nephropathy

means there’s a problem with the kidney

now if you have a problem with the

metabolism of protein guess what you’re

going to lose a muscle the term for that

is called sarcopenia and it happens that

someone gets older because you’re just

not able to get the protein into your

muscles and your tissues other

complications of this would be fatigue

you can experience itchiness and like i

said brain fog so before i get into what

to do about this

uh let’s just briefly talk about what

causes it okay

uh diabetes does because the high levels

of sugar

damage the capillaries of your

kidneys so the nephron which is the

little filter in your kidneys basically

it’s a little bowl of capillaries

small blood vessels that help

filter the blood and high levels of

sugar flowing through your blood damage

those arteries that create scar tissue

and they can create permanent damage and

on top of it when someone is a diabetic

they’re usually doing a lot of high carb

meals

and that alone will cause a tremendous

amount of retention of fluid an average

person on a high carb diet is carrying

around i would say anywhere between 11

and 13 pounds of extra fluid see

the goal is to get rid of this fluid not

to retain it so we need to understand

why the kidney would retain fluid it

could be your diabetic you’re doing high

carbs it could be simply you’re just

getting older and you’re naturally going

to have a loss of these little nephrons

or

filters in the kidney now it also could

be in a large prostate pushing up into

the bladder that can cause you to retain

urine as well or if you’re female you

have a fibroid which is pushing up into

the bladder now another common situation

is the

huge amount of sodium people consume

with very very low amounts of potassium

an average or standard american diet is

heavy on the sodium uh including

monosodium glutamate and very low in

potassium as in high potassium foods

like vegetables

and the reason i know that is because

the average person only consumes one and

a half cups of vegetables every single

day that’s pretty pretty low and the

definition of vegetables is very very

wide it could be a potato it could be

corn it could be that tomato v8 juice

all right another common cause of

bladder retention is a problem with the

autonomic nervous system that’s the

system that controls the contraction and

relaxation

of the urinary bladder as well as a lot

of the valves in your private part and

so if you have a problem let’s say you

have your sympathetic dominant and you

don’t have a strong parasympathetic that

alone can create a loss of capacity to

hold urine eliminate urine control the

valve which also controls the release of

urine and on top of that the more

pregnancies a female has the more things

get stretched out of the normal form

then you also have kidney stones and

bladder stones

that can back up the urine in the

kidneys and and then the rest of the

body as well and lastly medications

antidepressants other medications have a

side effect of

causing urinary retention okay well

that’s all very interesting what do you

do about it well

number one probably a very important

thing to do is to start cutting out your

carbohydrates and sugar because that is

usually the thing that is destroying the

kidney so we want to stop the bleeding

and stop the oxidation and damage to

these little capillaries not to mention

you’re going to find that you’re going

to dump a lot of water you’re probably

gonna dump between 11 and 13 pounds

within the first week or two so that’ll

take a lot of stress off the kidney all

right number two you do want to increase

your fluids to help build up more volume

to add more pressure to start cleaning

out the kidneys and the associated pipes

or tubules that are connected so i would

recommend drinking about three liters of

fluid that’s 12 cups per day it’s not

that hard and i would highly recommend

that you drink this in the first part of

the day not the second part of the day

especially right before bed

now the other thing that you can do is

uh instead of

taking a synthetic drug as a diuretic

and i’m not telling you to come off your

medication check with your doctor i’m

saying there are alternatives there are

natural herbs that act as a diuretic

okay one of them is dandelion greens you

can go to the grocery store and you can

just buy those and put those into your

salad okay it’s a very potent diuretic

the other powerful diuretic that i

recommend would be watercress at the

grocery store or health store they sell

watercress it’s a type of leafy green

that’s actually a cruciferous vegetable

and it’s probably one of the first

vegetables ever consumed by humans it’s

a potent diuretic now next point is

potassium you want to increase your

potassium why because potassium is a

natural diuretic it pushes fluid out and

so the way you do that is you consume

more vegetables and i’m talking about at

least seven cups per

day now it might seem like a lot but you

can just break it up through the meals

and it doesn’t have to be just salad it

could be like celery it could be

asparagus other leafy greens now you can

also enhance this with a good high

quality electrolyte powder that has a

lot of potassium and yes i do recommend

my brand because it’s high quality i

will put a link down in the description

now the phytonutrients

in these salads

also will protect you

against whatever condition you have like

if you have some type of chronic i don’t

know diabetes or arthritis or

existing chronic kidney damage or

inflammation these phytonutrients are

very very powerful to lessen the

complications from that issue so they

will greatly lessen the symptoms that

you have even if you never get rid of

this condition and lastly

if you have this strong ammonius type

urine this odor

it wouldn’t make sense to start

overloading the liver and kidney with

more protein i recommend doing a

moderate amount of protein with each

meal not a high protein meal so consume

between three to six ounces

of protein per meal but don’t go any

higher than that that way you won’t

overload your liver and your kidney and

you’ll utilize the protein that you’re

consuming now there’s one more important

video for you to watch on the kidney i

put it up right here check it out