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"According to Maia Appleby author of "Why Drinking Water Really Is the Key to Weight Loss": If the kidneys are water-deprived, the liver has to do their work along with its own, lowering its total productivity. It then can't metabolize fat as quickly or efficiently as it could when the kidneys were pulling their own weight. If you allow this to happen, not only are you being unfair to your liver, but you're also setting yourself up to store fat. BELLY-BLASTING DAILY FOOD LIST Here, for your easy reference, are the recommended foods in their optimum amounts." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"For example, the kidney is known to hold fear, so an acupuncturist, by checking pulses and skin temperature and other things can determine that the kidneys need to be "tonified," or rebalanced. Since the kidneys produce adrenaline, which in turn produces panic reaction, you can see that acupuncture can be very effective in regulating their biochemistries." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If you're pregnant, that pain could be from the fetus pressing up against your kidneys, causing stress and strain. Check with your doctor to ensure that you don't have a full-blown kidney infection. But as long as it's simply stress on your system, drink the juice of half a lemon in a cup of warm water several times a day to cleanse toxins from the kidneys. Or instead of lemon water, try a nettle tea tonic. Infuse one teaspoon of dried nettles in one cup of hot water for 10 minutes, and strain." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"It can also help determine whether your kidneys are able to retain health-sustaining elements such as magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium. Blood Separate analyses can be done to red blood cells, whole blood, and serum respectively to help determine a variety of element loads. For example, analysis of red blood cells provides the best diagnostic tool for assessing the status of elements that have important functions inside cells or on blood cell membranes." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"We see they were experiencing heart failure, and their kidneys weren't so good, and everything was slowly deteriorating. So aging seems to be about deteriorating cellular function and metabolism and so forth. And what I am saying is that with the Adventists it almost looks as if that general deterioration and cellular function may be impacted by lifestyle. If so, that would be very interesting." My last stop in Southern California was a pancake house. Tempting pictures of maple syrup slathered over sausage and pancakes adorned the menu. I was hungry, and the waitress had her pencil poised. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Cod flourish in waters between two and thirteen degrees Celsius, but their kidneys do not function in colder water. Even a minor shift in polar water causes the fish to follow warmth. The Norse had subsisted off cod during the heyday of their settlements in Greenland, but there were no stocks off Greenland during the little Ice Age. Cod disappeared completely from the Norwegian Sea during the seventeenth century as polar water spread southward. Iceland has exported fish since the fourteenth century, although the size of cargoes was limited until the introduction of decked ships in 1890." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The amount of iron in the body is controlled by: (a) The kidneys. (b) The bile. (c) Varying absorption rates. (d) Sweating. 83. Zinc is important for: (a) Synthesis of insulin. (b) Storage of insulin. (c) Release of insulin. (d) All of the above. 84. Zinc helps stabilize finger-like proteins by: (a) Helping the proteins fold. (b) Working as a cofactor to enzymes. (c) Interfering with copper absorption. (d) Binding to arginine and lysine. 85. Large amounts of zinc can reduce the availability of: (a) Calcium. (b) Phosphorus. (c) Copper. (d) Sodium. 86." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "The calcitriol made in tissues outside of the kidneys may play an anticancer role by slowing cell division. How Vitamin D Controls Calcium Blood calcium levels must be maintained within a narrow range for normal nervous system functioning and maintenance of bone density. Blood calcium levels are especially vital in childhood during bone growth. Vitamin D as cal-citriol is an essential part of the regulation of blood calcium and phosphorus levels, as seen in Figure 4-2." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Increased blood levels of calcitriol cause increased absorption of calcium from food in the intestines. The kidneys also reduce losses of calcium in the urine in Parathyroid Gland \ Parathyroid Hormone Parathyroid Hormone Bones Increased Blood Calcium Intestines Increased kidney retention of calcium J Figure 4-2 Vitamin D as calcitriol and blood calcium. response to increased levels of calcitriol. In addition, calcium can be mobilized from bones if dietary levels of calcium are insufficient." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "The increasing levels of parathyroid hormone cause calcium to be released from the bones and retained in the kidneys. When there is a severe deficiency of vitamin D in childhood, the bones fail to mineralize properly. Bones are most susceptible to low vitamin D levels when the bones are growing rapidly. With severe deficiency, the arms and legs become bowed—this is called rickets. Rickets can also result in delayed closure of the soft spots (fontanels) of the skull in infants. In very severe cases, low levels of blood calcium affect the nerves and seizures may result." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Transplantation of kidneys and corneas allows people to live normal lives. Hip and knee replacements have restored comfort and function to millions of Americans. There has been great progress with new drugs, too. Tagamet first became available when I was just starting my two years in the National Health Service Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, in 1977.1 remember the first patient I treated with Tagamet: a state policeman who had already had one stomach operation because of an ulcer and was developing the same symptoms again." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"She might have been spellbound for the rest of her life, if the drug hadn't caused her kidneys to fail. Coming from a difficult childhood and an ongoing conflicted relationship with her mother, Dotty had tough times but surmounted them. She graduated college at a precociously young age and later returned to graduate school to get a master's degree. Before Dotty could finish her last class in the master's program, her father was diagnosed with cancer. Dotty had always felt closer to him than to her mother and didn't want him to go through his last weeks or months without her." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Two essential forms of detoxification we are continually aware of are the urine and feces we expel daily thanks to our kidneys and colon. But the body uses several other methods to eliminate waste that could be toxic to our organs. These include breathing (respiration), which facilitates the exchange of vital oxygen for toxic carbon dioxide. Even the small hairs in our noses (cilia) catch dust particles, and sneezing expels potential germs. The lymphatic system transports toxins and excess fluid, and our sweat glands release toxins through the skin." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Lithium is toxic not only to the brain but to many other organs in the body including the skin, thyroid, and kidneys. Patients on lithium need periodic thyroid and kidney function tests. The HMO doctors ordered kidney tests periodically over more than five years but failed to check on them or to compare them to each other—or they would have noticed that the results were gradually moving from the normal to the abnormal range, indicating that her kidney function was gradually deteriorating." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"When destroyed, these cells release toxins into different parts of the body, which can cause serious health issues if not removed properly by the body Flor-Essence facilitates the removal of toxins from the blood, lymphatic system, kidneys, liver, and bowel. It provides a "clean sweep" of the critical systems and organs of the body affected by the breakdown of cells. The faster these toxins are removed, the quicker the body can fight disease and repair the damage done by these "treatments." Why Use Flor-Essence Preventively?" - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"In a young person, the kidneys do an exquisite job of this. The kidneys know to produce only a small amount of urine when a young person is dehydrated, in order to conserve internal water stores, and to produce a large amount of urine when the body is awash in fluid. The young kidneys do something else that's extremely vital: Since passing waste material in urine is a key function, the kidneys include the same amount of waste in a small amount of urine as a large amount. This is what we mean by "the ability to concentrate urine." - William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson, Biomarkers (Get the book.)

"Her other medicines needed to be monitored closely as well: digoxin to control her heart rate; supplemental potassium to replace the potassium that the diuretics caused her kidneys to excrete; and a blood thinner, Coumadin, to prevent small blood clots from forming in her irregularly beating heart that could cause a stroke. I saw Sister Marguerite every two to four weeks when things were going smoothly, and even more often when they were not." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Most of this extra estrogen is excreted by the kidneys into the urine. Horse estrogen is similar to human estrogen, a fact that led Wyeth-Ayerst to an inexpensive source for Premarin: pregnant mares. Wearing a urine collection bag and kept in a small stall, each mare produced enough estrogen to treat about 150 women. Only a minority of women have menopausal symptoms that are severe enough to require medical therapy. As Dr." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Fortunately, she responded quickly to intravenous medications that slowed down her heart and made her kidneys excrete much of the excess fluid in her body. Within 24 hours her breathing was almost back to normal. Blood tests showed that Sister Marguerite had suffered a small heart attack, which probably had set off the atrial fibrillation. After she was out of the hospital, Sister Marguerite required frequent office visits to monitor her fragile medical condition. Our visits would often start with her saying, "You must be so sick of seeing me." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Meticulous control of the blood sugar of patients with type 1 diabetes will delay the development of changes in the eyes, delay the tendency of the kidneys to leak more trace amounts of protein into the urine than normal, and protect the peripheral nerves from damage (neuropathy). These are changes that reflect damage to small vessels, called microcirculatory disease. These are the data suggesting that bathing tissues in fluids high in glucose causes microcirculatory damage." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Among transplant surgeries, kidneys are the only one for which good alternate therapy exists. Thus, our question is: Do kidney transplants work better than renal dialysis? The answer is an unqualified "yes." For those with transplants there is a 68% reduction in the long-term risk of death compared with those on the waiting list who never receive a transplant. This translates to an increased survival over dialysis of about eight years." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Your digestive system, immune system, blood stream, liver, kidneys, spleen, and pancreas, as well as your ability to see, think, feel, and breathe, (in fact, the very functioning of each and every cell in your body) all depend on enzymes. All of the minerals and vitamins you eat and all of the hormones your body produces need enzymes in order to work properly. In fact, every single metabolic function in your body is governed by enzymes. Your stamina, your energy level, your ability to utilize vitamins and minerals, your immune system—all governed by enzymes. But where do enzymes come from?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"In her forties, the woman had undergone surgery for gallstones a few days before and was recovering normally, when her kidneys suddenly began to fail. At that time, dialysis had only been around for a few years and it took a machine the size of a bathtub to accomplish what two little fist-sized organs do in the human body. The woman was lucky to be at Johns Hopkins, which had one of the few dialysis units in the country. She was on Wennberg's watch for only a short time—he can no longer recall exactly how long." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The surgeon is not focused on the patient's failing kidneys; she's calling in the infectious disease guy for a consult about the patient's infection. The nephrologist is too busy treating kidney failure to think about the patient's growing despondency over her worsening condition. Very sick patients may be seen by several dozen doctors, each of whom may order a separate set of the same blood tests and images—relating his or her findings and orders to the others through notes scribbled in the patient's chart." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "And the chemo left many women who survived with permanent, sometimes debilitating damage to the heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, or nerves. Going through high-dose chemo, suffering the side effects, and even risking death seemed like a chance worth taking to women like Ricki. As late as 1989, a woman with stage III breast cancer—cancer that was two inches across and had spread to the lymph nodes—had a co to 70 percent chance of relapsing after standard chemotherapy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Miller discovered that if he stimulated the pleasure center in the brain, his rats could be trained to decrease their heart rate at will, control the rate at which urine filled their kidneys, even create different dilations in the blood vessels of each ear.40 If relatively simple animals like rats could achieve this remarkable level of internal control, Miller figured, couldn't human beings, with their greater intelligence, regulate more bodily processes?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"People who have fillings with dental amalgam can build up body burdens of mercury because, over time, mercury from their teeth leaches into the body and accumulates in the kidneys. Although a recent 2006 Food and Drug Administration report concluded that mercury dental fillings are safe, an expert panel for the FDA rejected that agency report only a week later. Panel members complained that the report excluded some important studies, making it impossible to reach a clear answer as to whether fillings are safe, especially for pregnant women and children." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "After thirty-eight weeks of slow, continuous exposure, one group of female BXSB mice developed a level of mercury in their kidneys equivalent to that of a typical human exposure. This group of mice, and groups with higher levels of exposure, showed accelerated development of autoimmunity, while mice given a lower dose of mercury developed disease at a rate similar to the control mice, which were exposed merely to a saline solution." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"An elevated BUN level may be caused by kidney disease or by poor blood flow to the kidneys, as in congestive heart failure, dehydration, or hemorrhage into the gastrointestinal tract. A decreased level may be seen in liver failure, malnutrition, or anabolic steroid use. Creatinine: This protein waste product is generated by muscle metabolism and eliminated by the kidneys. Because creatinine is released at a constant rate (depending on muscle mass), its blood level is a good indicator of kidney function. It generally creeps up as you age." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

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