7 Foods That Destroy the Kidneys

let's talk about the seven foods that destroy your kidneys your kidneys are simply amazing each kidney has about a million little tiny filters they're called nephrons and they have the ability to selectively get rid of certain bad stuff and retain certain good things and with the 2 million nephrons you have you filter out 50 gallons of blood every single day and so these kidneys recycle 99% of all of your blood so only a little bit is released and one of the big problems with your kidney is high blood pressure because if you have chronic high

blood pressure that can really destroy those little tiny filters another thing that's even more destructive than blood pressure to your kidneys is high levels of sugar as in diabetes so all the sugar that's in your blood has to go through these little tiny filters and then what happens when it interacts with the filters is it makes those little filters smaller so now it can't filter so now you're going to be losing sugar and losing protein in the urine a couple simple ways to determine if there is a damage to the kidney is number one do

you have sugar in the urine and number two do you have protein in the urine because if you do that can mean kidney damage and also the color of your urine is important too because when the kidneys stop filtering the color of the urine is no longer kind of an Amber yellow it can get darker and it can turn actually a lot of different colors but one of the most important things the kidney does is activate vitamin D and if there's damage with the kidney you're not going to be able to activate vitamin D and

that could be one reason why people are very very deficient so we need strong healthy kidneys to get rid of waste and to even retain nutrients all right let's start with food number one instant noodles like Ramen noodles so it is true that these noodles are loaded with sodium but there's something more damaging about these noodles it's actually a preservative it's called tbhq this preservative is very toxic to the kidney it can actually cause the kidneys to work harder where you actually enlarge your kidney and it also has the ability in some cases to produce

cancer in your kidneys now I just want to bring up sodium for a second because sodium definitely is a problem with blood pressure when you go to the doctor they might say that you're salt sensitive so you have to reduce your sodium but the question is do we really need to reduce sodium or do we need to increase pottassium which is more protective because there's just as many problems with too much sodium as there is with a deficiency of sodium there's a condition where a person is drinking a lot of water but not consuming enough

salt and that's called hyponatremia with that condition you can even create fluid retention in your body which puts a lot of strain on the kidney and also just drinking more water puts a big strain on the kidney getting rid of all this extra fluid so when people think oh yeah what's good for the kidney oh drink a lot of water not necessarily you want to drink when you're thirsty but forc yourself to drink tons of water without the electrolytes could create problems in the kidneys and anytime you consume salt always consume sea salt all right

number two Skittles or things like this and I'm talking about things that contain a lot of food dyes these artificial dyes are very hard on the kidney the kidney has to get rid of them now also realize at first the kidney is going to recycle a all that dye and it's going to kind of go through your bloodstream over and over and over again you don't want artificial dyes going through your body like that all right next thing is fried chicken I'm talking about the fried chicken that you would get at a fast food restaurant

you put in seed oils at very high Heats so anytime you heat a protein with a carbohydrate as in all that flour breading you get something called glycation let me explain what glycation is here's some protein here's a carbohydrate and they get connected and they bind under high Heats so now this sugar molecule is stuck to the protein now this protein in your body can't work anymore that's what glycation is so let's say for example you took a test for diabetes called A1C what they're measuring is the amount of glucose that's stuck to the protein

your hemoglobin your protein your blood and it's making that no longer available to do its job so if you have higher amounts of A1C you have higher amounts of sugar that's connected to your protein to the point where you start getting all sorts of complications from diabetes okay where things don't work because when the glucose gets stuck to the hemoglobin or the protein or any protein in your body it clogs everything up especially in the kidneys and so when you consume something that's fried what you're going to get is this junk that just clogs everything

up the next one is commercial bread now the expiration on this was mid July right now it's September and look it it's it's not even going bad it's still soft how can that be because it has preservatives and it also has something called potassium bromate pottassium bromate is really harmful on the kidneys in fact it's banned in a lot of countries except the US and I think Japan and apparently it's carcinogenic in our bodies especially with kidney cancer the next one is soda okay what's in the soda that's harmful for the kidneys phosphoric acid okay

phosphoric acid is destructive on the kidneys not just from the phosphoric acid but from the added sugar as well and by the way the number one cause of kidney damage is diabetes Now what's diabetes diabetes means the person has too much sugar in the blood well isn't there some sugar in here yes there is and then also why do they put the phosphoric acid in there well number one it's cheaper than other types of acid like citric acid it can act as a preservative it helps retain the carbonation and it's an overall flavor enhancer all

right number six is aave syrup agave syrup has been known to be even keto friendly which it's totally bogus because 80% of agave syrup is fructose even high fructose corn syrup is like 55% fructose Agave is 80 even in some reports 90% fructose and yes fructose is low in the glycemic index but all the fructose is metabolized different in the body body it goes to the liver and it overloads the liver with a lot of stress so why is that so damaging because the metabolism of fructose is similar to alcohol and it also creates a

lot of problems with insulin resistance which is the precursor to pre-diabetes and then diabetes and since diabetes is the number one cause of chronic kidney disease then agava Nector is right up there at the very top level of irritating the kidney all right last one cereals even instant cereals why not just because of the the seed oils and the refined sugars and the refined starches but glyphosate it's not going to be listed as one of the ingredients because legally they don't have to put it on the label but they can volunteer using a different name

bioengineered ingredients okay you might see that that means glyphosate now in certain parts of the world where they use a lot of glyphosate in agriculture the workers who work the fields have a much higher risk of chronic kidney disease because of the heavy exposure to this glyphosate the other thing to know is that anything gml like soy corn cotton seed is going to have glyphosate on it but also things that are not gml like oats and wheat because they use glyphosate to dry out these grains during the processing of them and so even though it's

not GMO they're still using them so we talked about all the foods to avoid okay but now the question is what to eat to improve kidney function and for that information you should watch this video right here