The TOP Best Foods to Improve Kidney Function (END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE)

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what are the best foods for kidney disease well they’re somewhat different than the foods that you would eat to prevent a kidney problem if you were trying to prevent kidney disease you would consume the Foods on my program which is the healthy version of the ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting because that provides not just low carb but high quality foods since the cause of most kidney problems stem from diabetes insulin resistance high sugar high carb diets but that being said we want to talk about what do you eat if you have a kidney problem there are various stages of kidney problems you have stage one two three four and five five being end stage which means you’re usually on the list for dialysis and it’s irreversible so I’m going to kind of split this up into kind of the make break point of when you would start eating what I’m going to suggest okay and that would be stage 3A through stage five so if you’re between a three and five then we’re going to talk about what foods you should eat and the kidney has a bunch of tiny little filters called nephrons and they’re basically there to filter the blood so when they can’t filter anymore because they’re damaged you start getting waste that backs up into the blood and you also have problems with these very specific nutrients phosphorus becomes too high potassium becomes too high sodium becomes too high and then protein in general so that’s one way to diagnose uh kidney problems is having protein in the urine so let’s first take a look at protein okay you need to lower your protein a little bit okay but of course keep the quality there as well which I’ll talk about so how much protein would you really need a normal amount of protein let’s say for myself I weigh about 185 pounds I would need to apply this one formula and this is kind of really a rough estimate like 0. 8 grams of protein per kilogram and what that really comes out to is about 65 grams of protein per day that’s kind of what I need right now but if the kidney becomes a problem you can’t handle that much protein so you have to lower it to about 45 grams of protein per day I would go from like nine ounces of beef per day to about six ounces of beef per day if it was eggs okay it’s a little bit different protein ratio shown there I would go from nine eggs a day to six eggs a day if it was seafood or fish I would go from nine ounces of fish or seafood to six ounces of seafood or fish now less per day okay so you just reduce your protein you don’t want to reduce it too low you just want to have it just right and you want to make sure the quality is there the best protein as far as quality goes is the egg then the fish or seafood and then beef but you have to make sure it’s grass-fed grass finished and the eggs pasture-raised organic and then the fish well caught now as far as sodium goes you don’t want to bring your sodium down too far because you need sodium for various reasons but you want to bring it down to roughly about 23 100 milligrams of sodium per day so in other words don’t use a lot of salt on your foods and of course you’re not going to be eating processed foods or junk food so you’re not going to get that hidden sodium but you want to have just a little bit but not excessive amounts and then with potassium okay let’s talk about potassium what foods are high in potassium that you would have to avoid beet greens avoid those avoid spinach kale avocados are very high in potassium but you would want to have foods low in potassium if we take a look at the vegetable family we would be consuming like cabbage cauliflower rad radish cucumber onion regular lettuce bell pepper and of course protein in general doesn’t have a lot of potassium so you could do like tuna and cod and eggs especially turkey and even some organic chicken now let’s talk about phosphorus okay how do you lower the phosphorus well you definitely want to avoid anything with a lot of phosphorus like phosphoric acid as in sodas sodas are the worse for kidney disease because you’re going to really jack up your phosphoric acid not to mention the sugar but also meat in general is higher in phosphorus and so is milk in dark chocolate but most vegetables are low in phosphorus berries are low in phosphorus poultry is lower in phosphorus if you look at the meats and certain seafood and even eggs are low on phosphorus even though they have phosphorus there’s some conflicting data on potassium in other words there’s an equal risk of dying from too much potassium or too little potassium and again always work with your doctor to make sure that they monitor these key nutrients to make sure they’re not out of range that being said a lot of the recommendations as far as food for end-stage kidney problems include grains which I totally disagree with there’s no benefit of having grains when you have a kidney problem instead focus on the foods that I recommend as well as adding a natural source of the B vitamins natural vitamin C vitamin D3 as well as omega-3 fatty acids probably from cod liver oil that would be the best so these recommendations are for those people that have kidney damage already like I said before if you want to prevent kidney problems you can have more of these nutrients and for that I recommend this video right here check it out