https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953...
~51st minute
In my experience what you put in your body matters 100%. I do miss the damaging foods i use to eat growing up but it's either contiune eating bad and meet your decline quicker or change your lifestyle to continue enjoying a 100% full life for years to come.
I read stuff on the Internet that day she diagnosed me and went to the store. Threw away all foods in my house that had preservatives and started to read labels at the store finding foods made with simple to a few natural ingredients. I increased my daily water intake to almost nothing to 3 liters a day, stopped eating all beef, pork and only eat grilled chicken, fruits, salads, rice, almond milk, breads (grains), avoid fried foods, cut down on dairy, do some type of exercise & or go to the gym daily (though ive always done that but stopped lifting heavy weights .. lots of cardio (running, swimming, lite weights) as kidney cant break down creatine as it use to when you lifted weights) and as mentioned i do my best to avoid taking all/any medications. It took 4 to 6 months for my function to rise from 55 to around 70 and in the coming years i got and maintained it from 75 to 85. I go for monthly to bi-monthly renal lab testing to ensure it's all good. I also strive to eat 1500 to 2000 calories a day (5'10 173 pounds). Unfortunately recently i decided to take a high dose of doxyclcyine (throughout past few years ive taken two smaller/longer doses of it without issue for flu) and it brought my function down :-( Working hard now to get it back.
This is my journey .. i am not a doctor but from my experience and doctor worth their salt they should be advocating revolutionizing your diet ... some will say that's how it goes get ready to go on dialysis in a few years or so. Those doctors need to be ignored and find one who believes in nutrition and see how revolutionizing your diet most likely will heal your kidney some or by a lot too.
**I eat out a lot throughout each week ... chic fil a (grilled nuggets, fruit cup, salad, water or unsweet tea & lemonade), Cava (chicken & rice bowls), Chipolte (chicken and rice bowls), Panera (Apple fuji salad or half of one of their chicken sandwiches.. sometimes do eat turkey) or at home cook spaghetti, air fried chicken tenders, pasta and still eat sweets but i calorie count daily and weigh myself daily too. Ha too most i sound obsessed but i am obsessed about my health and ive seen / see results from being such!
"No evidence to point toward hypersensitivity to food antigens ..." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538214/
However, I feel best when intermittent fasting or doing keto. (Don't do keto unless you can stay in ketosis.) I don't take anything for "inflammation reduction", and I tend to have fewer CRF-related responses when I'm not in an environment where I'm having any hypersensitivity responses to allergens. Getting a bad respiratory illness will 100% of the time trigger a flare up, as well as certain GI conditions.
Immunity is characterized by cascade responses, and stopping your internal police force from getting the wrong idea and starting a riot that turns into a police state is a lifelong challenge. I've tried amino acid restriction, been on Prednisone, and am otherwise "healthy" by my routine panels.
My previous diet was going to steakhouses a few times a week with mac n cheese and mashed potatoes with country gravy as side dishes. Shared dessert with my dining partner(s). My body to enjoy the same full life of hiking up mountains, skiing, biking, swimming, enjoying lots of intimacy for years to come without drugs can no longer take my previous diet. I'd be on dialysis most likely now or in the next few years if I chose a bad diet over continuing to live the same full life ive always enjoyed by revolutionizing my diet.
You mention you worked out a lot when younger, so did I and drank a lot of protein shakes, which I've read can be taxing for the kidneys. You too?
After recently taking and highly regretting taking a high one dose of doxycycline my function took a temporary (hopefully) hit falling 15 to 20 points(past three years I've maintained around 80/85 function out of 100). I can tell per itchy skin, minor joint pains (creatinine build up) or sitting too long feeling my leg has fallen asleep(before diagnosis when I was at 55 function I did a long drive got out of the car & my legs fell asleep so bad I could barely walk until they woke up per say). Ive changed my diet further as my most recent labs (get tested once to bi-monthly) showed my LDL cholesterol is Way too high..now eating meat (chicken..high in cholesterol)only once a day, no ice cream (high in cholesterol) , a reduction of cheese intake and no cheat days (once I got my function up to 80/85 I allowed myself a cheat day or two). If blood isn't flowing in a healthy manner to kidneys due to high LDL then I think that is another factor along with the one high dose of doxy I took that has currently has my function not where it was but I believe it's a temporary thing.
And high LDL isn't necessarily a problem by itself. The problem happens when cholesterol is formed into plaques as a reaction to arterial damage. Better to prevent that damage in the first place rather than worrying about cholesterol levels.
Here's an exert from one of the sites "American Heart Association's (AHA) "Life's Simple 7" steps for heart health were 10 times more likely to have low blood pressure and flexible arteries than those who didn't.
The AHA's steps include controlling cholesterol, keeping blood sugar low, being active, eating a healthy diet, keeping off extra weight, and not smoking. (The seventh step is maintaining normal blood pressure, which the researchers were already measuring.)"
My lifestyle (what i eat and many times a week exercise) is pretty close to following all those steps. I definitely could follow it better as well become a vegetarian.
All my posts here are just sharing what I did to increase my kidney function, lessen amount of gout attacks (5 to 6 in 8 years isnt a ton ... im not taking any meds for it) and try to keep my cholesterol in check.. all without getting on medications that my kidney doc says meds will damage your kidney. This is just what helped me and Im a huge believer in what you put in your body matters. Others can try to do the same thing if they want there is no harm in living a healthier lifestyle. Yet it may or may not work for them but they can try and stick to it and see. All what's important to them .. eating tasty unhealthy food and having their health decline further or better their health and in turn their quality of life hopefully over a longer period of time.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/02/25/ask-...
The other AHA recommendations are generally good, although phrases like "healthy diet" are rather meaningless.
Curious what is your interest in this subject? Do you have CKD, a researcher, a doctor or ?
It'll answer your question.
I see you've never met the UFO/UAP community.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hnlCHsVjiLH6aQoj4gU-j7n...
He's a poor debater in that video, and he's begging the question in many cases.
He actually agrees with Lustig that highly processed food is addictive (he gives different reasons), but he pretends to disagree (go virality!). He's inventing strawmen in order to have something to argue with. They are actually making the same prescription but for different reasons: eat less processed food and reduce caloric intake if you want to lose weight.
He agrees that fruit is harder to consume, and is therefore a better vehicle to consume fructose if one is trying to limit caloric intake.
There are lots of papers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...
The intestine is made of intestinal epithelial cells, bound together by proteins to form a barrier. That class of proteins is called tight-junction proteins (eg zonulin). Fructose nitrates those proteins, causing them to be transiently permeable, allowing some of the sewage in your intestine to enter your bloodstream, leading to leaky gut. Leaky gut leads to inflammation of the liver, which leads to systemic inflammation. A biomarker of that inflammatory immune response is creactive protein (CRP). Lustic says 93% of Americans have leaky gut.
Transcript for reference: https://www.happyscribe.com/public/huberman-lab/dr-82a32683-...