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today we’re going to discuss the first

sign of kidney disease and actually this

will surprise you you know the kidney is

a filter and it converts blood into

urine and it’s a fascinating piece of

your body because it’s not just a little

passive filter it does a lot it recycles

all your fluids let’s say you drink I

don’t know eight glasses of water a day

now for those people in Europe

especially Dennis from Germany uh eight

glasses of water per day is roughly

about two liters and so if you drink

eight cups or two liters of fluid a day

you’re going to pee out that amount

right throughout the day but think about

this

the amount of fluid that travels through

your kidney in a given day is a 180

liters that’s 760 cups of fluid so

there’s a lot of recycling going on in

the kidney it’s a a magical recycler

because it recycles protein

nutrients hormones it recycles like 99

of all the water that you drink and so

we have this magical little filter that

has all these sensors that coordinate

the amount of fluid in your body that

help you convert vitamin D into the

active form of vitamin D to help

regulate your blood pressure and the

hydration of your body and the

elimination of toxins and drugs if you

really appreciate what that nephron the

filter of your kidney does for you

you probably are going to think twice

about eating junk food or or consuming

things that might harm the kidney

because it’s an amazing amazing organ an

average person has between one million

to 1.5 million of these little filters

they’re called nephrons and so when you

start developing kidney disease

the amount of nephrons starts to

decrease to the point where you might

end up with half of your nephrons and

also as you age you lose your nephrons

so we have a decreased ability to do all

this magic and filter out things there

is this one underlying most common cause

of kidney disease as well as end stage

renal failure and that relates to

diabetes it’s called diabetic

nephropathy nephro meaning kidney apathy

meaning disease so it’s this high blood

glucose situation that is the most

common reason why the kidney gets

destroyed and the mechanism of how this

filter gets destroyed is this when you

have high levels of sugar interacting

with these protein enzymes and other

protein structures

you start to get this reaction called

glycation and that’s the morphing when

you have sugar and proteins okay it

starts to damage these proteins to the

point where they become unavailable and

the medical term for this is called

Advanced glycation end products so when

you have a lot of those you have a

combination of

um nephrons or these little filters that

don’t work anymore or they’re all gunked

up with protein that is stuck in there

and they can’t filter and so the key

thing that they diagnose kidney disease

with is the amount of protein in your

urine because if we get less recycling

of the protein it ends up in your urines

not actually pulled into the body so

protein in the urine means there’s a

kidney damage with that little filter

and also because it’s ending up in the

urine there’s going to be less protein

in your blood and that main symptom is

edema okay and it could be all over your

body is just filled with fluid so you’ll

be puffing the face fluid in your hands

and your legs all over and the

interesting thing about kidney disease

is when the disease starts okay it takes

10 years sometimes before you even

notice the first symptom okay and so now

I’m going to tell you the first symptom

that a person will experience with

kidney disease it is nocturia now what

is nocturia

that is a situation where you’re

urinating at night okay usually multiple

times and it’s very difficult for you to

hold your urine throughout the night

that is one of the first signs that

means there’s something going on with

your kidney and it makes a lot of sense

because the majority of diabetics also

have that same symptom and it also makes

sense because diabetes usually takes 10

years before you start noticing problems

so kidney problems go hand in hand with

diabetes and one thing about diabetes is

that it affects four tissues one is the

kidney okay which we’re talking about

now next one is the eye next one is the

nervous system okay and then the

arteries and so with kidney problems

you’re going to see protein in the urine

and you’re going to see a decreased

filtration rate we no longer have the

filtering mechanism going on so we have

a lot of backup with toxins we have a

loss of a lot of nutrients including

amino acids then we get a lot lot of

Edema but because there’s a huge delay

of 10 years it’s difficult to identify

the cause and effect relationship but I

have found the most successful way to

get rid of this nocturium is just to

Simply handle the blood sugar situation

so let’s talk about that for a second so

in medicine they will tell you that

diabetes is basically a situation where

you have poorly controlled blood sugar

levels so the key word with that is

controlled or they use this other term

called managed they manage the

complications of diabetes they manage

the symptoms of diabetes okay that’s

kind of interesting you’re going to

manage these complications and symptoms

but what about

correcting yeah you know they don’t

really get into that why not manage or

control what the patient is actually

putting in their mouth and I’m talking

about sugar the amount of sugar or

carbohydrate that an average person

consumes in America

is astronomical if you especially if you

take all the hidden

carbohydrates like the breads the pasta

the cereal crackers you’re talking a

massive amount of sugar right and it’s

just so obvious why we have diabetics in

the world because they’re consuming too

many carbohydrates yet the American

Diabetes Association uh still to this

day does not tell you how much carbs you

need to control they know there’s a link

they know you need to reduce your carbs

which is great but they don’t tell you

how much you should lower your carbs

instead there’s all sorts of ways of

managing your blood sugar and the

complications what are the complications

well fluid retention so we can manage

that with a diuretic we also have high

cholesterol we can manage that with

statins we also have high blood pressure

we can manage that with high blood

pressure medication and of course the

blood sugars could be managed by

metformin and insulin and other

medications for diabetes but my question

is this

when you manage the blood sugars remove

the sugar out of the blood where does it

go is it just magically evaporate does

it just disappear it’s just moved from

one place in the body to another place

it’s moved from the blood into your

cells

into your liver around the organs

converted into fat I mean what about the

complications of all the medications

that you’re using to manage these

complications from diabetes I mean just

it’s just bizarre so whether you have

kidney problems or you want to prevent

kidney problems or you’re getting up at

night right now urinating

um there’s several things you can do to

turn this thing around the first thing

and the most obvious thing is to reduce

the amount of sugar in your bloodstream

okay that would mean going on a

ketogenic eating plan okay second thing

is doing intermittent fasting because

the less you eat the less you will raise

insulin the less insulin resistance

you’ll have and the less diabetes you’ll

have so those go hand in hand and the

type of intermittent fasting that I

would recommend is the type that I’m

doing right now which is one and a half

meals a day now what does that mean you

have your your big meal a little bit

afternoon or maybe right at noon okay so

you have your protein your fat

um and then later

I like to do it at three o’clock but

maybe you can do it later at six o’clock

you can you can call it your second meal

or your half a meal but you’re not

really doing a lot of protein you’re not

doing a lot of fat you’re doing all your

vegetable carbohydrates okay and so what

I do right around three maybe three

Thirty at the very latest I’ll have this

big salad with roughly about seven to

ten cups it’s usually about 10 cups but

maybe you could do seven cups and it’s a

big salad it’s easy to eat I’m not going

to eat anything else so I have my

protein and fat at 12. and that three of

my big salad that way it’s easier to eat

the salad because I could take my time I

do put various things in the salad I’ll

definitely put olive oil sometimes I’ll

use apple cider vinegar sometimes I use

balsamic vinaigrette I’ll put little

seeds on that little nuts but it’s

mainly greens and I might do different

types of greens I like to use arugula or

cabbage sometimes but if I’m doing

cabbage I’m not doing seven to ten cups

right so when you’re doing more dense

vegetables you can do a lot less when I

talk about seven to ten cups I’m talking

about the lettuce leaves okay so that

seems to work really good I like it

because it gives me a very long fasting

period okay and am I hungry for that

salad no because I just ate you know a

few hours before but roughly it gives me

like 21 hours of fasting now a couple of

very important things about that salad

that I want to mention in relationship

to what we’re talking about

you know people always talk about oh

yeah there’s vitamins and minerals and

salad

um well there’s also something very

important in relationship to the

complications of kidney disease and the

complications of diabetes and that is

phytonutrients okay phytonutrients have

all sorts of pretty cool properties but

the big one is nephro protection they

protect the kidney against oxidation and

complications of high blood sugar so if

you took two diabetics right and you

side to side and you gave one a diet

with low phytonutrients and you gave the

other one a diet high in phytonutrients

both of them would still be a diabetic

but the one with the phytonutrients

would have a lot less complications okay

so apparently these phytonutrients are

there they have antioxidant properties

they help reduce the oxidation they act

to neutralize a lot of the bad effects

of all this high glucose flowing through

your bloodstream so that’s why you

should be consuming this large salad

every single day yes it has magnesium

and vitamin C and potassium which by the

way is very important for the kidney to

protect it of course the only time I

would recommend not doing it is if you

have end-stage kidney disease then you

have to get with your doctor but I’m

talking about potassium from the food so

plant phytonutrients are definitely on

the list the next thing I want to

mention and this is a remedy that you

can get and it’s very powerful there’s a

lot of research behind it it’s called

benphotamine it’s a type of vitamin B1

that is fat soluble and it really helps

reduce the common applications in a

powerful way of diabetes like I said

reduce the glycation effect decrease

oxidative stress and protect the cells

this is why benphotamine is really good

for peripheral neuropathy as well that’s

the damage of the nerves in the bottom

of the feet as well as problems with

your eye called diabetic retinopathy but

it’s also really good to decrease the

complications from diabetic nephropathy

okay damage to the kidney you basically

take one pill which I think is uh

usually like 300 milligrams four times a

day another thing that you could add if

you really wanted to it’s not totally

necessary if you’re doing all these

other things I’m recommending but alpha

lipoic acid is another powerful way to

decrease the complications from this

condition another thing you can use is a

turmeric okay

turmeric has this phytonutrient called

curcumin which is extremely potent and

decreasing the symptoms the signs the

complications of diabetes we want to

reduce the amount of carbohydrates and

we want to actually correct the

underlying problem and that’s why keto

intermittent fasting are a necessity but

at the same time we can do some great

things by reducing all these other side

effects that are occurring because of

the high blood sugar as an experiment

okay if you’re unwilling to lower your

carbohydrates maybe you just want to

prove it to yourself and see how these

other things can work by adding some of

these remedies to see how it can

actually reduce maybe even the need for

medication or the amount of medication

you’re taking of course check with your

doctor but it can definitely help you so

anyway I just wanted to cover this topic

and give you some information that you

need to use if you have this problem and

I think if you are urinating at night

frequently this is exactly what I would

recommend now you might say well there’s

no way that I’m a diabetic you know I

don’t I have my blood pressure checked

well you should actually get a test

called Homa IR which measures the

insulin resistance which happens way

before diabetes but the point is there

is a connection between the

carbohydrates that you eat and nocturia

getting up in the middle of the night

and urinating now to have the right plan

in place to know what to eat and how to

do intermittent fasting I have my very

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