7 Warning Signs That Your Kidneys Are Toxic

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

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 25 2021