Living with Polycystic Kidney Disease - Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet

Living with Polycystic Kidney Disease




IT IS A DEVASTATING DISEASE
THAT HAS NO TREATMENT OR CURE
AND EFFECTS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
WORLDWIDE.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
POLYCYSTIC
TO THE DISEASE.
JOINING US NOW IS SOMEONE WHO'S
HERE TO SHARE HER SURVIVAL
STORY.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
GOOD MORNING.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR STORY AND
WHAT YOU WANT TO DO TO HELP
OTHER PEOPLE.
TODAY IS AN EXCITING DAY.
IT IS PKD AWARENESS DAY.
I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH THIS
DISEASE WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD.
I HAD A KIDNEY
TRANSPLANT 12
YEARS AGO AND TODAY IS A DAY
WHERE WE ARE USING VOICE IS TO
SPREAD AWARENESS.
NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS
DISEASE BUT IT HAS HAD A
DEVASTATING IMPACT
.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WARNING
SIGNS?
WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO TO LOOK OUT
FOR THIS?
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
COMMON LIFE-THREATENING GENETIC
DISEASES.
I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HIGH
PRESSURE WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD
AND WAS SENT FOR AN ULTRASOUND.
WHAT HAPPENS WITH THIS DISEASE
IS THIS ALLUDES THE KIDNEYS AND
DETERIORATES THE FUNCTION.
AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO CURE,
SO IT'S ONLY DIALYSIS OR
TRANSPLANT AS AN OPTION AND I
HAD DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANT.

I'VE BEEN USING MY FIRSTHAND
KNOWLEDGE TO HELP OTHERS.
WHEN YOU SAY PKD, PEOPLE DON'T
LOOK -- PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT
IT IS.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CAN BE
ASSIGNED AND ALSO SOMETIMES
PEOPLE GO TO THE DOCTORS TO HAVE
THIS RUPTURE.
THERE ARE COMPLICATIONS THAT
COME FROM THIS DISEASE.
IT AFFECTS EVERYONE ON MY MOMS
SIDE OF THE FAMILY.
IT'S GREAT YOU ARE SHARING
YOUR STORY AS WELL.
THERE IS THE PKD FOUNDATION.
IT'S THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN
THE UNITED STATES HELPING TO
FIND A CURE AND DO RESEARCH.
I ALSO WRITE A
WEEKLY
INSPIRATIONAL BLOG.

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Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet




&quot;Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet&quot;
Our kidneys are highly vascular organs. That’s why they look so red inside.
After all, our two little kidneys have to filter through
our entire blood supply and as such,
receive about 20% of our cardiac output every time our heart contracts.
And so if the standard American diet is so toxic to
the blood vessels in our heart, brain, and pelvis,
leading to heart attacks, strokes, and sexual dysfunction,
what might it be doing to our kidneys?
Researchers at Harvard recently put that question to the
test. Thousands of women and their diets
and their kidney function were followed for a decade.
What they’re looking for is the presence of
protein in the urine, known as microalbuminuria.
There’s not supposed to be any protein in our
urine. The whole point of our kidneys
is to keep the good stuff in our blood and get rid of the bad.
It’s supposed to hold onto protein and if it doesn’t,
that’s a sign our kidneys are starting to fail.
There were three significant risk factors for declining
kidney function in these women,
none of which come as a surprise given that
we’re talking about clogged and inflamed blood vessels:
specifically, diets higher in animal protein, animal fat,
and cholesterol may be associated with microalbuminuriaâ€"
failing kidneys. No such association was found for plant protein or plant fat.
And microalbuminuria is kind of a canary in a coal mine
telling you something is definitely wrong with your blood vessels.
Microalbuminuria and modest decrements in kidney function are powerfully associated
with subsequent overt kidney disease, cardiovascular risk, and
all-cause mortality, meaning a shortened life-span.
“In summary, diets lower in animal protein, animal fat, and
cholesterol may be protective&quot; against this kidney damage.

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