The Dangers of Urinary Retention on Your Kidneys

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urinary retention what is it well it’s a situation where your bladder is not releasing all the urine so any urine that is retained sometimes can back up in the system it can create congestion within the kidney and lead to a lot of complications i’m going to cover the causes of urinary retention and also a really good solution one third of the adult population and 80 percent of females have some form of bladder issue it could be the sensation of having to urinate but not a lot of urine comes out so how does this affect someone well the kidney is a filter and it’s supposed to filter the blood it works very closely with the liver which by the way also filters out the blood to some extent it helps to break down caffeine alcohol medications toxins and so the liver and the kidney work together if you’re not able to fully eliminate all your urine that can lead to edema in your feet or in your lower legs it can lead to a loss of protein in the urine which you might identify as albumin and so when you lose too much protein then the protein in the blood goes down and then the tissues start backing up with fluid now when you urinate and you smell a very strong odor in your urine like this super pungent ammonia smell that has to do with the incomplete breakdown of proteins there’s something called the urea cycle where your liver is breaking down protein and as it breaks down to ammonia it’s supposed to then break down to urea and it should be eliminated through the urine but what happens if this whole biochemical pathway doesn’t work you’re going to get a buildup of ammonia in your urine and it can even back up into the blood it can go to the brain and it can lead to all sorts of additional symptoms like brain fog even very extreme to the point where you lose consciousness so smelling too much ammonia in the urine is not good now if you’re a diabetic you may have sugar in the urine and by the way the number one cause of kidney damage is too much sugar or a diabetes situation that’s called diabetic nephropathy not neuropathy but nephropathy nephropathy means there’s a problem with the kidney now if you have a problem with the metabolism of protein guess what you’re going to lose a muscle the term for that is called sarcopenia and it happens that someone gets older because you’re just not able to get the protein into your muscles and your tissues other complications of this would be fatigue you can experience itchiness and like i said brain fog so before i get into what to do about this uh let’s just briefly talk about what causes it okay uh diabetes does because the high levels of sugar damage the capillaries of your kidneys so the nephron which is the little filter in your kidneys basically it’s a little bowl of capillaries small blood vessels that help filter the blood and high levels of sugar flowing through your blood damage those arteries that create scar tissue and they can create permanent damage and on top of it when someone is a diabetic they’re usually doing a lot of high carb meals and that alone will cause a tremendous amount of retention of fluid an average person on a high carb diet is carrying around i would say anywhere between 11 and 13 pounds of extra fluid see the goal is to get rid of this fluid not to retain it so we need to understand why the kidney would retain fluid it could be your diabetic you’re doing high carbs it could be simply you’re just getting older and you’re naturally going to have a loss of these little nephrons or filters in the kidney now it also could be in a large prostate pushing up into the bladder that can cause you to retain urine as well or if you’re female you have a fibroid which is pushing up into the bladder now another common situation is the huge amount of sodium people consume with very very low amounts of potassium an average or standard american diet is heavy on the sodium uh including monosodium glutamate and very low in potassium as in high potassium foods like vegetables and the reason i know that is because the average person only consumes one and a half cups of vegetables every single day that’s pretty pretty low and the definition of vegetables is very very wide it could be a potato it could be corn it could be that tomato v8 juice all right another common cause of bladder retention is a problem with the autonomic nervous system that’s the system that controls the contraction and relaxation of the urinary bladder as well as a lot of the valves in your private part and so if you have a problem let’s say you have your sympathetic dominant and you don’t have a strong parasympathetic that alone can create a loss of capacity to hold urine eliminate urine control the valve which also controls the release of urine and on top of that the more pregnancies a female has the more things get stretched out of the normal form then you also have kidney stones and bladder stones that can back up the urine in the kidneys and and then the rest of the body as well and lastly medications antidepressants other medications have a side effect of causing urinary retention okay well that’s all very interesting what do you do about it well number one probably a very important thing to do is to start cutting out your carbohydrates and sugar because that is usually the thing that is destroying the kidney so we want to stop the bleeding and stop the oxidation and damage to these little capillaries not to mention you’re going to find that you’re going to dump a lot of water you’re probably gonna dump between 11 and 13 pounds within the first week or two so that’ll take a lot of stress off the kidney all right number two you do want to increase your fluids to help build up more volume to add more pressure to start cleaning out the kidneys and the associated pipes or tubules that are connected so i would recommend drinking about three liters of fluid that’s 12 cups per day it’s not that hard and i would highly recommend that you drink this in the first part of the day not the second part of the day especially right before bed now the other thing that you can do is uh instead of taking a synthetic drug as a diuretic and i’m not telling you to come off your medication check with your doctor i’m saying there are alternatives there are natural herbs that act as a diuretic okay one of them is dandelion greens you can go to the grocery store and you can just buy those and put those into your salad okay it’s a very potent diuretic the other powerful diuretic that i recommend would be watercress at the grocery store or health store they sell watercress it’s a type of leafy green that’s actually a cruciferous vegetable and it’s probably one of the first vegetables ever consumed by humans it’s a potent diuretic now next point is potassium you want to increase your potassium why because potassium is a natural diuretic it pushes fluid out and so the way you do that is you consume more vegetables and i’m talking about at least seven cups per day now it might seem like a lot but you can just break it up through the meals and it doesn’t have to be just salad it could be like celery it could be asparagus other leafy greens now you can also enhance this with a good high quality electrolyte powder that has a lot of potassium and yes i do recommend my brand because it’s high quality i will put a link down in the description now the phytonutrients in these salads also will protect you against whatever condition you have like if you have some type of chronic i don’t know diabetes or arthritis or existing chronic kidney damage or inflammation these phytonutrients are very very powerful to lessen the complications from that issue so they will greatly lessen the symptoms that you have even if you never get rid of this condition and lastly if you have this strong ammonius type urine this odor it wouldn’t make sense to start overloading the liver an