I've been posting about my own health issued with one wonky kidney, and trying to lose weight with nutritional ketosis.
I am learning as fast as I can, and because I read that there are 20+ M undiagnosed with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) in USA, AND 66M pre diabetics also, in addition to several million diabetics, and 350K+ on dialysis or with ESRD, 60,000 new a year, and/or waiting a transplant that may not happen.
I have seen obesity, diabetes circle each other, add a high carb, too much high protein diet and we are straining our kidneys, and this is a silent disease. Over in Myfitnesspal.com willing LC dieters are chowing down ad libitum on ONLY fatty meats as a monthly challenge..all ages, all medical conditions.. this is NOT smart…we are all very different. too much of a good thing is still bad, especially for the obese, on meds, pre & diabetic, with other unknown issues.
Fear not- MOST CKD stage 3 will not progress to ESRD, but thin and fat are equally able to get there. We all drop kidney function as we age, -1 pt from age 40 on, so filtering slows until death. {learn about Creatinine- a waste dumped from the kidneys, and eGFR- your filtration rate that declines with age & disease.
This is about more than "me"….from the wisdom of almost 66 years I see youth throwing away their health with aggressive, crazy diets, and misunderstood nutrition; plus bodybuilders, and the overweight millions anxious to improve, and willing to take risks.
There is a GLOBAL plan to help prevent CKD, but the average Joe & Joline and MD never heard of it. Even KDGIO conventional ideas on higher carb, etc will help millions who are NOT sick, or failing.[KDIGO -Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes]
http://kdigo.org/home/
Please download all their materials if you are interested in knowing more.
The NKF-https://www.kidney.org has a hotline- free call to ask questions, but they are also tied to USDA higher carbs.
http://www.kidneyfund.org
https://www.aakp.org American Kidney patient
March was K.E.E.P.- CKD AWARENESS MONTH
APRIL IS DONTATE LIFE MONTH
WWW.DAVITA.COM a diet site, mostly USDA higher carb
but its of great resources
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Since getting help from the USDA medical mindset of "accept drugs, you can't help yourself" I am deciding to study diet, and see if I can at least stall the kidney drop. What the traditional docs don't teach lacking nutrition training, is that EVERYTHING you can do to slow the progress adds up.
We are more aware of saving Energy in our home by 5%, 10% -caulk the windows, solar panels, light bulbs, etc..but know nothing of the benefit of changes WE CAN DO daily to maintain our kidneys.
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news...-dialysis_N.htm
MANY SKIP PREVENTIVE CARE
The End Stage Renal Disease Program doesn't address prevention, a major focus of the health care debate.
Barry Straube, chief medical officer at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medcaid Services, says 25 million Americans have kidney disease, but Medicare benefits don't kick in until patients are at the most advanced stage. Many patients with earlier-stage kidney disease aren't treated for high blood pressure or diabetes, which cause two-thirds of kidney failures.
"It's kind of immoral the way it works now," says Bill Peckham, 45, a dialysis patient and blogger in Seattle. Though about one in five dialysis patients die every year, Peckham says, "you keep the chairs filled with new people, because Medicare doesn't show up until you're in the dialysis unit."
J. Michael Lazarus, Fresenius' chief medical officer, says: "Every nephrologist would love to see patients earlier. But nobody sends them. … I've seen them in the emergency room at the end." That's because many rarely have seen any kind of doctor, let alone a kidney specialist, he says. End-stage renal disease "is a disease of the indigent," he says. "They show up because nobody treated their hypertension, nobody treated their diabetes."
— By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
LCHF Diet & ChronicKidneyDisease--a study of one
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