How Not to Die from Kidney Disease

"How Not to Die from Kidney Disease" Kidney failure may be both prevented
and treated with a plant-based diet, and no wonder; kidneys are
highly vascular organs. Harvard researchers found three
significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function: animal
protein, animal fat, and cholesterol. Animal fat can alter the actual structure
of our kidneys, based on studies like this, showing plugs of fat literally clogging up
the works in autopsied human kidneys. And the animal protein can
have a profound effect on normal kidney function,
inducing what's called hyperfiltration, increasing the workload of
the kidney; but not plant protein.

Eat a meal of tuna fish and you can see
the increased pressure on the kidneys go up within 1, 2, 3 hours after the meal,
in both nondiabetics and diabetics. So we're not talking adverse
effects decades down the road, but literally within hours
of it going into our mouth. Now, if instead of having a tuna
salad sandwich, though, you had a tofu salad sandwich, with the exact same amount
of protein, what happens? No effect. Dealing with plant protein
is no problem. Why does animal protein cause the
overload reaction, but not plant protein? It appears to be due to
the inflammation triggered by the consumption
of animal products. How do we know that? Because, if you give a powerful,
anti-inflammatory drug along with that tuna fish, you
can abolish the hyperfiltration, protein leakage response
to meat ingestion.

Then, there's the acid load. Animal foods—meat, eggs, and dairy—
induce the formation of acid within the kidneys, which
may lead to tubular toxicity, damage to the tiny, delicate,
urine-making tubes in the kidney. Animal foods tend to be acid forming—
especially fish, which is the worst— then pork and poultry, whereas plant foods tend
to be relatively neutral, or actually alkaline, base-forming
to counteract the acid. So the key to halting the progression
of chronic kidney disease might be in the produce market,
rather than the pharmacy.

No wonder plant-based diets have been
used to treat kidney disease for decades. Here's protein leakage on the
conventional low sodium diet, which is what physicians
would typically put someone with declining
kidney function on. Switched to a supplemented vegan
diet, then back to conventional, plant-based, conventional,
plant-based; turning on and off kidney dysfunction
like a light switch, based on what was
going into their mouths..

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