How could one have a healthier kidney function?
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cranberry juice...drink at least one glass a day..also dandelion root tea,also known as pee in the bed.and do drink plenty of water through out the day to flush your system.plus green tea..good luck!
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Vitamins and certain minerals in energy drinks can make your urine green.Drink more water flush your kidneys.I take a high potency vitamin daily my urine looks that way sometimes doc told me its chemicals flushing through my system.
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I am not an expert on this topic so here is a quotation:\n"Your body's cells use chemical reactions to carry out tasks such as turning food into energy and repairing tissue. These chemical reactions generate acids. But too much acid in the blood—acidosis—can disturb many bodily functions. Healthy kidneys help maintain acid-base balance by excreting acids into the urine and returning bicarbonate—an alkaline, or base, substance—to the blood. This "reclaimed" bicarbonate neutralizes much of the acid that is created when food is broken down in the body. \n\nRenal tubular acidosis (RTA) is a disease that occurs when the kidneys fail to excrete acids into the urine, which causes a person's blood to remain too acidic. Without proper treatment, chronic acidity of the blood leads to growth retardation, kidney stones, bone disease, and progressive renal failure"
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Yes and plenty.\nYour body is mostly made up of water.\nAnd you use it for the transport of nutrients and stuff.\nAlso the water helps keep your kidneys busy and healthy.\nAnd your kidneys are a crucial filter in your body.\nAny engineer will be able to explain the importance of clean filters.\nYou own 2, your kidneys and your liver.\nThey both use water to transport excess pollution out of your .\nbody.\nDrinking plenty of water has multiple health benefits when you drink clean water.\nhttp://www.mercola.com/article/water.htm
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1.- cleanses your system, your kidneys, that's why\nyou urinate.\n\nYou take things in, through the nose by breathing, the mouth by eating, etcetera. Your body needs water and other fluids to process this through your kidneys and clean your body out.\n\n2.- moisturizes the tissues within your body, makes them function adequately. For example the immunological system. The cells and antibodies require to synapse, and this requires energy, one of which the carriers for is water.
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You may find this hard to believe, but you have to drink water..... and lots of it . In order to de-toxify your body, the kidneys have to be flushed, and water is the natural way to get your kidneys to produce. Good luck !
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Diabetic Kidney Disease\n\n    Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure. However, it's also true that most people with diabetes don't go on to have end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). There are many things you can do to control your diabetes and minimize your risk of kidney failure including stopping smoking and keeping blood pressure under control. A federal study called the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial proved in 1993 that intensive management of diabetes can reduce the risk of kidney disease by 50 percent.\n    Intensive management (called tight control) means frequent testing of blood sugar, calculating insulin intake on the basis of diet and exercise, following a diet and exercise plan, and talking often with a health care team whose members are skilled at treating diabetes.\n\nWhat happens?\n    Early in diabetes, the blood-filtering units of the kidneys are damaged. This means important proteins are lost in the urine. A urine test that measures protein can show beginning diseases. Later in the disease, the kidneys can't remove waste products from the blood.\n\nWhat are the stages?\n    There are five stages of diabetic kidney disease with the last stage being kidney failure. On average it takes a person with diabetes over 20 years to progress to the end stage. Both types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2, can lead to kidney disease. Type 1 is more likely to lead to end-stage kidney failure.\n\n    About 40 percent of people with Type 1 diabetes develop severe kidney disease and end-stage kidney failure by the age of 50. Type 2 causes 80 percent of the end-stage kidney failure in African Americans and Native Americans. The key to preventing kidney disease in people with both types of diabetes is not smoking, getting regular blood pressure and urine protein tests, and preventing high blood sugar. \n\n    Often there are no symptoms of the disease until it progresses to the late stages. When symptoms do appear they include:\n\n\nFatigue \nInsomnia \nWeakness \nVomiting \nSwelling\n\nStage I - The flow of blood through the kidneys increases and the kidneys get bigger. People can stay in this stage indefinitely or advance to Stage II after many years. \n\nStage II - Small amounts of blood protein known as albumin leak into the urine. This is called microalbuminuria. \n\nStage III - The loss of albumin and other proteins speeds up. Some patients develop high blood pressure. The kidneys continue to lose the ability to filter waste. Many people are first diagnosed with kidney disease at this stage. \n\nStage IV - In this stage large amounts of urine are passed through the kidneys and high blood pressure almost always occurs. \n\nStage V - The ability of the kidneys to filter waste almost stops. Kidney dialysis or transplants are treatment options. \n\nWays to prevent diabetes kidney problems\nYou can prevent diabetes kidney problems through the following means: \n\nKeep your blood glucose levels under control. Talk to your doctor about your HbA1c test and what your goal should be. \nKeep your blood pressure under control (130/85 mmHg or lower). \nHave your kidneys checked at least once a year by having your urine tested for small amounts of protein. \nTalk to your doctor about being placed on an ACE inhibitor to protect your kidneys. \nHave any other kidney tests that your doctor recommends. \nSee your doctor right away if you think you have a bladder or kidney infection.\n\nRelated articles\n\n\nTreatment with ACE inhibitors can delay kidney damage \nSelf-monitored BP predicts progression of diabetic kidney damage better than clinic BP \nNew Blood Pressure Drug Reduces Kidney Disease \nAngiotensin-II Receptor Antagonist Slows Progress of Diabetic Kidney Disease \nWatch Out for Kidney Disease \nEating To Help Your Kidneys \nNew Thinking about Eating Protein \nADA Issues New Guidelines on Diabetic Nephropathy
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I drink 16 ounces an hour, until I don't need it. Anymore than that can cause kidney damage. But that's the Military Standard in the U.S. The key is, you want to drink water until your urine is clear. Once it starts turning yellow again, start drinking. Make a habit out of it, and you won't have to pay attention. Remember, the more toxins you take in, the more water you will need, and the more often you will need to urinate. Try to eliminate caffeine, alcohol, etc. If you sweat more, drink more.
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hey check this out;\n\nhttp://www.kidney.ca/page.asp?intNodeID=22139
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When one kidney has to do the work of two, you need to take care of that kidney. Without it you would be on dialysis. Believe\nme you don't want that.
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1.  Do you smoke\n2.  Family history\n3.  hormone supplements, including birth control meds (if a women)\n4.  Not a question, but the doctor may suggest an IVP or cat scan of the kidneys to see if they are abnormal\n5.  Are you a diabetic/\n6. You're how old???\nOkay....more than three, but...all are risks in HBP.
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Decrease your dietary salt, increase your fiber and H2O.  If you have congestive heart failure or advanced kidney disease avoid the extra water.
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Actually it is usefull for our body specially the kidney to drink lots of water, and also not to get dehydrated specially if you workout or stay in the sun for hours
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it helps keep the system clean. water is good for you, you cannot servive w/out water. if you drink it daily, you have to use the bathroom a lot, but this is good for the kidneys. it's good for the skin, & the more water in take, the less of bad breath you have(of coarse you still have to brush, but, water helps too)
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No atleast we need one\n\nThe kidney is a very important organ, and the most obvious function is that it excretes wastes that we produce from our diet and from our metabolism. What's less obvious is that it's the most important organ that controls the composition of the body fluids. In addition, it does produce a number of hormones that deal with body function. \n\n\nThe kidney is a filtering organ, so blood is delivered to a very unique apparatus in the kidney called the glomerulus, and there, because of pressure dynamics, a component of the blood is filtered across the membrane, and the first process of creating the urine develops. In this segment of the kidney, in the glomerulus, the composition of that fluid is very similar to blood. The fluid passes through a series of tubules in a structure called the nephron, and there it's modified, heavily modified. A variety of things are reabsorbed that we need, and a variety of toxins are concentrated until the end of the kidney, the end of that nephron segment, drains into something called a papilla, then into the ureter, and then the bladder, and we have what we term "urine," which is a fluid rich in toxic wastes that is excreted. \n\nsuppose you drink a bottle of orange juice. The body sees a sudden excess of an element called potassium, so the kidney has sensors which look at the body fluid going through the kidney as plasma, and it detects that the plasma's potassium has gone up, and it immediately increase the excretion of potassium so everything comes back to normal.
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While it is not horrible, it is also not great.  The amount of sodium and sugars is not great, plus the fact that they are fortified up to 100% of your RDA in things like Vitamin A and Vitamin C means that you will be drinking well over the recommended amount of these during the day.  Doing so regularly could create issues for your kidneys.
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The kidneys are the blood cleaners for your body and when they fail, you are unable to clean your blood. you get very sick and ultimately die from the toxins in your blood.  People wind up getting dialysis on a weekly or even daily basis. Dialysis means being hooked up to a machine with your blood diverted into that machine, for hours.  The only way to avoid dialysis once kidneys fail is to wait for someone to die and have a kidney transplant.\n\nhttp://www.kidney-failure-symptoms.com/\n\nIf you want to stay alive and active, you MUST lower your high blood pressure, immediately.  Diet change, daily exercise, eliminating stress, anger management, change jobs if the one you have is stressful... all are crucial. And take any drugs the doc prescribes to reduce blood pressure. Stop eating junk food and salty food. Your life is more important than your food cravings . Or not. It's your life, and your choice.\n\nKidney failure is not something you want to have happen. You will become very ill, very weak, and go broke from the dialysis expense. You will have to live very close to a hospital to get dialysis, and will become a burden to family.   Get the blood pressure down, wayyyy down.