Fri, Feb-07-20, 19:08
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
Stats: 000/000/000
BF:
Progress: 50%
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Originally Posted by BawdyWench
First, cats are not people and people are not cats. However, when my 14-year-old cat was diagnosed with kidney disease (and not a minor case, either--her numbers were highly elevated) the vet told me to switch her to a low-protein diet, the standard recommendation.
This never made sense to me because cats are carnivores (more so than dogs) and if you take away what they need most, they will fail to thrive. So, I asked my friend who is a retired vet. He told me to feed her as much meat (raw and cooked) as she wanted and said that in his years of practice he's seen many more cats die from lack of protein than from the kidney disease. My cat is now a happy almost-17-year-old and still strong and vital.
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Wow, that's great!
Humans are not obligate carnivores like cats, but we sure do a lot of damage by eating too many carbs, so if I was told I had kidney damage, my first inclination would be to go against the traditional advice - cut the carbs to the bare minimum, and if I was feeling really brave, up the protein, just to see if it happened to help me, just like it helps a cat. If more protein truly ends up making things worse with kidney disease even in the absence of carbs, then fine, I'd cut back on it. To me, it's worth a shot to at least try before giving up and doing the standard low protein diet, because even on a low protein diet, kidney disease patients slowly continue to get worse.
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