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
2014年2月5日星期三
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.
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.
2014年1月25日星期六
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.
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.
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