Kidney Disease‌Can Plant-Based Diet Help? GWilkerson10/28/2014 Disease
Kidney Disease Kidney disease has not been on my radar until I just learned that a neighbor has had a transplant and is doing well; using a cane now instead of the walker. Then, a chef just told me his nephew wears two hearing aids and has sight issues because of kidney disease. This was enough to pique my interest. He said they are putting him on basically a vegetarian diet. I will certainly suggest going farther to enhance his health on many more levels as well as kidney health. Whole Food
Plant-Based is my suggestion. One of the important functions of our kidneys is to filter out excess phosphorus from our bloodstream, and so when our kidney function declines, phosphorus can build up in our bodies causing something called metastatic calcification, where your heart valves and muscles and other parts of your body can buildup calcium deposits and eventually result in skin necrosis, gangrene, and amputations. Dr. Michael Gerger wrote a great article on this in Preventing and Treating Kidney Failure With Diet. Too much protein is detrimental to our kidneys.. although plant protein does not have this effect on them. Animal protein is bad on many levels for us. Plant protein is beneficial on at least as many levels. Dr. John McDougall covers much in Diet and Kidney Health. This from a guest author on T Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies blog: Can a whole food, plant-based diet help to preserve kidney health? ABSOLUTELY!! UNEQUIVOCALLY! NO DOUBT! Conclusion
I am concluding that a Whole Food, Plant-Based diet can and will prevent kidney disease, as well as go very far in curing it‌ based on current Nutritional science. Whole Food, Plant-Based
diet will keep your kidneys operating in top condition. This will prevent phosphorus from building up too high in our blood stream along with preventing other undesirable events from happening.