#1 Absolute First Sign Of KIDNEY DISEASE Is...

Hello Health Champions today I'm going to talk  about the number one absolute first sign of kidney  

disease and it's probably not what you think  because every time I hear someone talk about  

the first sign or the early signs then they're  usually talking about signs and symptoms related  

to severe kidney disease or even end-stage kidney  disease the kidney is so much more than just a  

filter it eliminates waste product in the body it  gets rid of excess fluids but it also regulates a  

lot of important things like pH which has to do  with acid-base balance it's super important that  

the blood is a very very specific pH it regulates  our electrolytes like sodium potassium magnesium  

calcium and so forth it regulates the production  of red blood cells so if there's not enough oxygen  

in the blood the kidneys tell the bone marrow to  make more red blood cells and carry more or oxygen  

and by regulating electrolytes and getting  rid of excess fluid the kidneys also is the  

primary regulator of blood pressure so the heart  pumps about five liters of blood every minute at  

rest and out of that five liters about 20 to 25  percent is flowing through the kidney so all in  

all we have about 1400 to 1800 liters per day  of blood flowing through the kidneys and then  

that blood is pushing fluid through the kidney  so we're filtering out 180 liters of water even  

if you just drink two three four liters of fluid a  day the kidney filters out many many times that so  

that's equivalent of about 760 cups or glasses of  water every day and it does that so it can clean  

the blood and get rid of all the waste products  but that all also means that it has to reabsorb  

things so it reabsorbs more than 99 percent of  all that water that is pushed out it reabsorbs  

99 plus percent of sodium and absorbs most of the  electrolytes back in and that's really hard work  

it absorbs reabsorbs 100 of the glucose so when  all this fluid is pushed through the kidney out  

through these filters it also takes with it  anything that's dissolved that's small enough  

to be filtered out along with it so proteins are  too big they stay behind in the bloodstream but  

everything else dissolved basically is pushed out  through these filters and then because there are  

precious resources the kidney has to reabsorb it  and get it back into the body so water sodium and  

glucose are very precious 100 of glucose gets  reabsorbed absorbed unless we're diabetic and  

the glucose is so high that we exceed the kidneys  capacity to reabsorb it and then that's where we  

have the diabetes which means sugar in the urine  in chronic kidney disease is so much more common  

than people realize because about 15 percent  of adults have chronic kidney disease that's  

35 to 40 million adults in the U.S alone but  the problem is at 90 percent of those people  

don't know they have it because they don't  know how to read the blood work and there are  

basically no signs and symptoms associated with  this and as we age 38 percent of people over 65  

have chronic kidney disease but the worst part is  that there's so few symptoms with kidney disease  

until they ultimately fail that even the people  who have severe kidney disease don't know about  

it 40 percent of people with severe disease don't  know they have it so even though there are signs  

and symptoms associated with it you don't want to  wait for those because they usually indicate very  

severe Disease by the time that you notice the  symptoms so most of the things in the list here  

are usually called early signs but they're  actually very very late signs so let's talk  

about these early versus late signs so the first  three on this list here are fatigue poor sleep  

and poor appetite and all of those can happen if  there is such a degree of toxic buildup that your  

body doesn't function optimally and in order for  toxins to build up to that level you would have  

to have severe kidney disease number four is  increased urination and there was a channel a  

very large Channel with a name similar to my own  that made a video and said this was the the very  

first sign and it is not because by the time that  you have increased urination especially at night  

called nocturnia then you have to spill glucose  into the kidney if the kidneys are at fault for  

it it's because glucose is spilling out into the  kidneys to the degree that they pull water with  

them and that is a severely mismanaged diabetes  on some degree of kidney failure but chances are  

if you're watching this you're going hey I'm in  trouble I have that but almost all the time that  

you have nocturnia meaning you pee at night it's  because you drank too much water before going to  

bed or too close to going to bed so don't freak  out about that learn what the real kidney signs  

are and evaluate that number five is blood in the  urine and in order for red blood cells to leak out  

into the urine in from a kidney problem you have  to have severe leakage because red blood cells are  

even larger than proteins they're not supposed to  be in the urine at all number six is foamy urine  

and that could be a sign if protein leaks out into  the urine but again the vast majority of protein  

in the urine unless it's chronic it's going to be  because you have an infection of some sort it's  

going to be temporary and that also can produce  some degree of foamy or even smelly urine if you  

have a bacterial infection or something so again  don't freak out about that it's very common unless  

it's chronic now it's a problem number seven is  puffy eyes or edema and this is also severe kidney  

damage because you have to be leaking protein  to the degree that you're deficient in protein  

you have to lose a lot of proteins through the  urine especially albumin which is a very large  

protein it's designed to be a sponge and keep the  fluid the water inside the bloodstream so if you  

lose a lot of this albumin now you're gonna have  water leakage and it's going to be things like  

puffy eyes and puffy hands and puffy feet and  legs number eight is itching and number nine  

is muscle cramps and these could happen because  of loss of minerals or an imbalance of minerals  

where the kidney wasn't able to get rid of some or  it's losing too much of another but if the kidney  

is responsible for this directly the kidney would  have to be severely damaged most of the time it's  

the adrenals that produce the hormones to tell  the kidney how to balance the minerals so most of  

the time that you have some muscle cramps or you  have an imbalance and minerals it's not going to  

be super severe it's going to be more slight kind  of in a functional range and then it's going to be  

more adrenal than kidney so in fact everything on  this list is pretty late stage rather than early  

but if that's so then what is the early signs  so let's see what the experts have to say the  

physiologists so this is from the American Journal  of physiology and this is a paper on kidney or  

renal physiology so this paper is called insulin  resistance in chronic kidney disease and what they  

have to say about it is that insulin resistant  is an early metabolic alteration in those with  

chronic kidney disease and not only that but  the insulin resistant is apparent even while  

the kidney filtration is normal so in other  words the insulin resistance is there first  

but also that the insulin resistant is almost  Universal almost 100 percent in the people who  

reach end-stage kidney failure now that's not  very surprising because the causes for chronic  

kidney disease are very well established and the  number one cause bar none is diabetes especially  

type 2 diabetes with insulin resistance and  number two on the list is chronic high blood  

pressure and of course diabetes is the number one  cause for chronic high blood pressure so that's  

again basically a single cause number three is  chronic NSAIDs non-steroidal anti-inflammatory  

drugs so those are the pain medications sold over  the counter to a large extent and also there if  

you have diabetes you have a low-grade systemic  inflammation that's also going to cause a lot of  

pain and joint pain so you're going to be popping  pills to cover up that pain but also on this list  

are autoimmunity and chronic inflammatory systemic  conditions like lupus for example that very often  

attack tissues like kidneys now what I want you  to know is most of this live list is preventable  

and reversible so diabetes and chronic high  blood pressure they're in the high 90s 95 98  

percent reversible if we just know how it works  and do something about it chronic pain could have  

many causes but a lot of that would go away if  you handle your metabolic conditions autoimmune  

diseases are a little trickier but they also have  a lot to do with inflammation and GI health and  

food choices so even though you can't eliminate  all of that you can make tremendous progress by  

learning how it works and living better but what  if you already have some kidney damage what if  

you've run some blood tests and your numbers don't  look so great well it depends on how far gone it  

is but in many many cases there's still time to do  something about it and improve it and in my clinic  

there are some supplements from standard process  us that are very very powerful they're the best on  

the market that we have found and those are called  Rena food arginex and renatrophin PMG so we'll put  

some links down below where you can learn more  about those so if the signs and symptoms on that  

long list were all late stage then obviously we  want to catch it before it gets to that point and  

if insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are  the primary causes then we want to figure out  

how to catch that early and the best and simplest  test for that is the home IR there are other tests  

where you can spend a half a day and hundreds  or even thousands of dollars and you might get  

a little bit more precision and reliability but if  you just want a basic screening for 20 bucks as an  

add-on to a test then home IR is a fantastic  and simple way so all you do is you take the  

glucose times the insulin and most blood tests  are already going to include glucose so you just  

need to add on insulin and we can typically do  that for about 20 bucks then if you're measuring  

in milligrams per deciliter then your glucose is  going to be in the 180 to 100 or 100 plus range  

then you divide by a constant of 405 and that's  to get a very healthy very insulin sensitive  

person to a value around one so a good range  is anywhere from 0.5 to 1.5 then you are very  

insulin sensitive to quite insulin sensitive and  then if you measure in millimoles per liter then  

all you do is you take the same multiplication  but you take your glucose in millimoles and you  

divide by 22 and a half instead and the number  is still going to come out same the ratio is  

going to be the same and why is this so much more  powerful than measuring glucose alone I've done  

this illustration a few times but if you've seen  it then watch it again so that you can really get  

it well enough to explain it to other people so if  we start off with with a certain amount of glucose  

and we are insulin sensitive then it's just going  to take a small amount of insulin to handle that  

glucose but then if we eat a standard American  diet with some processed foods and high carbs then  

a few years later we might be looking like this  so what's happened here is that glucose stays the  

same glucose is a controlled variable it is very  very important for the body to keep the glucose  

the same that's the whole purpose of blood sugar  regulation the body has a built-in defense against  

high blood sugar and that defense is called  insulin so if insulin Rises to keep that glucose  

under control it means the cells are starting to  resist the glucose so it takes more or insulin to  

push the glucose in so now we are already starting  to become moderately or slightly insulin resistant  

but the glucose hasn't changed and then another  five years later we check it again and the glucose  

is still in a normal range plus minus a couple  of points but instead now the insulin has gotten  

even higher and we are now becoming severely or  significantly insulin resistant and we are just  

matter of time before we're in pre-diabetes or  diabetes and then finally when the body fails when  

the body cannot produce enough insulin when the  cells are so resistant that basically no matter  

how much insulin we put out there they don't want  the sugar now is the first time that that glucose  

starts going up and by now we typically  have an insulin level something like that  

so what I want you to notice here  is that the glucose Rises like this

that it might take 15 20 years for the glucose to  respond whereas if we instead measure the insulin  

we are getting a true measurement of the degree  of insulin resistant and when they have checked  

the home IR against these gold standard these  expensive lab tests there's a very good agreement  

in terms of insulin resistance between these gold  standards and the Homa IR so it is a very good  

test and you can catch things long before you  get into type 2 diabetes so here is your number  

one absolute first sign of kidney disease and it  is when the insulin starts going up that is true  

prevention that is how you catch it because if you  don't this will lead to kidney disease so let's  

take another look at the Journal of physiology and  here they're saying in a study where people had  

chronic kidney disease to some degree meaning that  their filtration rate had suffered and dropped  

below 60 milliliters per minute so we don't know  what degree but they had some degree of kidney  

compromise and these people were not diabetic  meaning they still had normal blood glucose  

meaning they were somewhere on this flat portion  of the glucose line however these people when  

they checked the home IR the insulin resistance  against the kidney filtration they found that as  

the home IR went up as the insulin went up even  with normal glucose the filtration rate suffered  

they were inversely related so very often we  hear that glucose is responsible for the damage  

and it is because glucose cause this micro vessel  disease that's where diabetes causes blindness and  

kidney failure but even before you're diabetic  while your glucose is still normal the rise in  

insulin is also damaging the kidney and causing  a reduction in the filtration rate so let's cover  

some must-know health information from the experts  at John Hopkins medicine and they're talking about  

how to preserve your kidney function when you  have diabetes they're saying that over time  

diabetes can harm the kidneys it can lead to  kidney failure but here's the good news many  

people with diabetes do not end up with kidney  problems okay so that's not quite the good news  

I was hoping for but I didn't get this far in  the reason I picked this article I only got to  

the headline before I kind of jerked and reacted  and here's a sentence when you have kidney disease  

what does that mean when you have it then it's  almost like it's your identity from that point  

on you can put it on your business card this  is who I am I have it but what if instead of  

saying that you have it what if we said when  you are currently in the state of adaptation we  

call diabetes that would change things right if we  understand that it's a current situation you could  

change it and if it's an adaptation then it's just  something that the body did because we exposed  

it to something now let's have a little fun with  this and let's say that you live in a world where  

kidney disease is not caused by diabetes but  instead it's caused by dirty floors and I just  

picked the dumbest thing I could think of just to  illustrate something for you so now kidney disease  

is caused by dirty floors and now this article  instead reads preserving kidney function when  

you have dirty floors and then they talk about  how dirty floors can harm the kidneys this can  

lead to kidney failure but here's the good news  many people with dirty floors do not end up with  

kidney problems and then the rest of the article  they go on to describe the solutions which they  

can give you medication where they dull the  pain from looking at the dirty floors and  

they can give you special glasses that filter out  everything below knee level so you don't see the  

dirty floors and you can do all these different  things you can have prisms or you can go into  

therapy where they talk to you about the dirty  floors so that they don't cause kidney disease  

and you're saying well why don't you just  clean the floors but for that to work you have  

to understand that you can clean the floors you  have to live in a world where that's part of the  

Paradigm and we unfortunately live in a paradigm  where diabetes causes kidney problems but nobody  

understands that diabetes is an adaptation and  hopefully you live on the same planet that I do  

and then I want to let you know that it is very  possible to reverse adaptations the vast majority  

of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes not 100  but well over 90 percent is an adaptation that we  

can undo by simply understanding how it works and  you can choose to do certain things you can choose  

to stop drinking soda you can choose to stop  eating Donuts you can choose to start eating  

real food and this does not mean sawdust and  cardboard word you can still eat eggs and meat  

and cheese and fish and butter and Rich sauces and  lots of salads and avocado very very satisfying  

Foods we just have to learn what they are and  how to cook them because we may not have done  

that before and you can also choose to learn how  your body works so that you can take control and  

get the results that you want and on my channel  alone there are over 500 videos that teach you how  

the body works and how to make smart changes and  if you want to dig a little bit deeper than the  

videos I've also created a blood work course and  last module we actually talked about the kidney in  

a lot more detail than this video and also about  the adrenal which makes the hormones that help the  

kidney regulate these minerals and next week we're  going to to go into the other side of it which is  

metabolic syndrome insulin resistance and so forth  and we're going to cover in more detail the things  

that we talked about the home IR the glucose when  it matters why it's not the best marker because  

it fluctuates so much you can talk about a better  marker called A1C we're going to talk about how  

it relates to insulin and to the triglycerides so  I'll put a link down below for those of you who  

want to take it to the next level if you enjoyed  this video you're going to love that one and if  

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