Benefits of Alkaline to Chronic Kidney Failure

Alkalinity is an important concept to understand and implement when dealing with chronic kidney failure. Alkalinity is a must for your body’s tissues to survive and thrive. In fact, your body will do anything it can to keep your blood pH in the narrow window of 7.35 to 7.45pH – your body will literally break down its bones for the calcium contained within them to keep your body alkaline!

Normally however, keeping the body acid/alkaline balance within your body is the job of the kidneys. When your kidneys begin to diminish in function so too does their ability to excrete the acid and maintain the alkalinity in your blood. Therefore eating an alkaline diet is the best way to protect and improve the health of your kidneys.

To add further strain on already strained kidneys, many of today’s lifestyle choices are acid forming as well as changes to our environment:

Diet: e.g. alcohol, sugar, coffee, red meat, grains

Chemicals: e.g. industrial chemicals, cleaning products, paint, makeup and cosmetics

Pesticides

Heavy metals

Excess exercise

Sedentary lifestyle

Smoking

Can Protein and Phosphorus Help Treat Chronic Kidney Failure

Protein: important nutrient one must monitor its consumption of, is Protein. Protein is a misunderstood nutrient when it comes to chronic renal failure, as in some situation one needs to reduce protein, and in others it needs to be increased. What to do? Well, first up you need to speak to your naturopath, nutritionist or doctor for the best requirements for your condition. They will be able to tell you exactly your protein needs based on your stage of chronic renal failure.

Phosphorus: The kidneys regulate the mineral phosphorus in the blood stream, and for that reason when one has chronic renal failure this ability can become impaired, causing phosphorus levels to rise. Phosphorus at “healthy” levels helps build strong teeth and bones , but when levels become high, phosphorus can the opposite effect, by leaching out calcium from the teeth and bones. This “leeched” calcium also makes its way to the blood stream causing abnormal calcium deposits, and too much phosphorus can cause itchy skin, bone pain, heart issues, or even death.

The important thing to note is that not all sufferers of chronic renal failure will develop high phosphate levels, and therefore you need to always confirm your levels with a blood test.

Can Meditation Help Treat Chronic Kidney Failure

Meditating is any technique which enables us to relax our body and our mind, and to free our mind of unnecessary thoughts. Eastern civilizations have been practicing this for thousands of years; just “knowing” that it improves the health of the mind, body and soul. They often practiced to achieve certain outcomes e.g. rejuvenation of the mind and nervous system, to let go of disease-causing thought patterns, muscular relaxation and self-development.

Chronic renal failure responds dramatically to the practice of meditation, and for this reason it is recommended to become part of your daily or weekly routine.

Today studies now prove what the ancients already knew, showing the following physiological changes:

Slower heart rate

Slower breathing rate

Lowered cortisol levels in the blood

Increased alpha brain waves, a brain wave associated with relaxation

Among many other physiological changes

High Quality Protein Diet for Chronic Kidney Failure

Diet plays an important role in the treatment of chronic renal failure. Therefore, chronic renal failure patients should pay much attention to their diet in daily life. Especially, the patients should pay attention to low protein diet.

The patients should injest high quality protein with high nutritional value; that is to say, the protein intake should be fewer and better. Controlling the protein intake can block or slow down the process of chronic renal failure. High quality protein contains a large amount of essential amino acids, which will produce less nitrogenous substances after decomposition in the body. These proteins are represented by animal protein, such as chicken, fish, milk, lean, etc. Vegetable protein generally contains more non-essential chloride acid, which has low biological titer and after eaten, it can produce more nitrogenous substances; therefore, the patients should limit its intake. Especially some stable foods with high vegetable protein, such as corn, wheat flour, and dry beans, soy products, nuts, etc. , the patients with worsening renal function should more strictly control intake.

What are the Causes of Chronic Renal Failure

There are a variety of diseases and pathological conditions that can cause chronic renal failure. The following are the main causes.

glomerular diseases including IgA nephropathy, FSGS, diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy, lupus nephritis, etc.

chronic pyelonephritis, uric acid nephropathy, obstructive nephropathy as well as kidney damages due to long term intake of certain drugs such as aristolochic acid nephropathy.

renal vascular diseases such as aneurysm, renal artery embolization, renal thrombus and renal arteriovenous fistula, etc.

hereditary kidney diseases such as polycystic kidney disease(PKD) and hereditary nephritis, etc.

Diabetic nephropathy and hypertensive arteriolosclerosis and in developing countries these two causes still follow primary glomerulonephritis. Ischemic nephropathy due to bilateral renal artery stenosis or occlusion is one important cause of chronic renal failure especially in elderly patients.