optimal kidney support

What are some remedies you all are using specifically for kidney support and detox? Please share!

-p

Well I am a foodie and I love getting nutrition from foods. For kidneys there are tons of things to eat, cranberries, cinnamon, kidney beans, asparagus, turmeric, ginger, parsley, lemon juice, blueberries, onions, garlic, olive oil and tart cherry juice. But I have read of many kidney patients that are given baking soda to keep them off dialysis. I believe baking soda to be the best for indigestion and heart burn so why not?

I get a glass of water and put in a teaspoon and chug it down. It isn't the best tasting thing but if you have a burp that you can't get to come up it will definitely do the trick.

Dr. Whitaker says take 12 g (2 rounded teaspoons) of baking soda mixed in 2 cups water, along with a low-cal sweetener of your choice. (It’s quite salty tasting.) Sip this mixture over the course of an hour or two and repeat for a total of three times a day.

I'm a chugger of things that don't taste real good.

Google baking soda for kidneys and you will find all kinds of references.

I was just debating about posting about my experience!

I noticed last summer that my urine smelled like burning plastic (I know!! Ewwww!) - but not one single doctor or nurse that I talked to seemed terribly concerned, so I thought I'd just keep digging on my own to find the answers, since no one was interested in doing any testing.

Well, now, almost 9 months later, I'm finding it's disappearing! So I started looking up some of the things that I do daily to see if any of it would detox my kidneys. I found out that my Pero (coffee substitute) is what's doing it! It's made with Barley, malted Barley, Rye and Chicory. I never got around to reading about the Rye, but both the Barley and the Chicory detox the kidneys!! Bingo! There's a lot more information on Barley, so I'll go with those links -

Barley & Kidneys:
www.kidney-cares.org/creatinine/1485.html

preventdisease.com/news/12/060312_Barley-Water-A-Boon-For-The-Kidneys-and-Your-Waistline.shtml

www.stylecraze.com/articles/amazing-benefits-of-barley-water-to-cure-kidney-stones/

And there's lots of claims for using Apple cider vinegar for kidneys too, which I now use daily.

1000Daisies
One thing you might try if you are still interested in the benefits of baking soda (alkaline) is a "carb-bicarb" cocktail:

1/8t borax
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t ascorbic powder
1/4 t MSM powder
lime juice
6 drops lugal's iodine
1 T ACV
8 oz water
mix - drink after fizzing stops
take after meals 3x/day
(I didn't always include all of these - particularly the legal's)

I LOVED drinking this and you could probably play around w/ adding some flavor tinctures that are used in baking.

-p

When i thought i got sulfa poisoning i took a nutramedix called sparga..it is made from asparagus. ..i think it helps against ammonia..my nursre today was saying that it is the ammonia that hurts the wall of the bladder and kidneys...

Pirouette said...
Holy cow - how can anyone in the medical profession ignore pee smelling like burning plastic?? Maybe they figured that you are such a unique puzzle that it "could be anything" :)

Thanks for the links - will definitely look into them. I do love the ACV - countless benefits, too.

-p

I was quite puzzled with their non-reaction as well!! I talked to 3 different doctors and not a one of them would even discuss it with me!! The only thing I found online was on those types of forums that you're not sure you should believe, so I wasn't sure what it was, other than disturbing.

I began to realize about 3 weeks ago that the intensity of the smell was going down, so I did a big push to detox my kidneys - cranberry juice & acv - and the smell continued to be less and less, until today, it's only there occasionally. Last week I had a thought to check on the ingredients in the Pero, since I drink it daily, and that's when I found those articles.

Whatever you end up trying, I hope it works for you!!

Pirouette said...

Traveler said...
...those types of forums that you're not sure you should believe, so I wasn't sure what it was, other than disturbing...

This had me LOL'ing. Yeah. I think we've all found ourselves in that universe once or twice.

I used to have a very distinct and indescribable odor to my pee when I ate too much cheese... I used to live next to a gourmet cheese place and they loved having me test different bizarre cheeses. Anyway, I obviously don't do that any more but also, once I stopped all the cheese the odor disappeared.

Doctors... in what other profession this day-and-age can you do your job half**, humiliate your customers, refuse to put for any effort in listening, acknowledging, or guiding them toward answers if you don't have them, urn them away having done harm despite your hippocratic oath, and them charge your clients so much that they file bankruptcy.

-p

Once in a while I still go to those forums, just to get an idea to start on a search with.

And I agree with you on your evaluation of Doctors - and why, yet again, I find myself treating without a doctor. This last one was more than happy to keep me sick! I just don't need that, and especially not when we are talking adrenal and thyroid health. Now that I'm doctor-less again though, I find myself healing once again!! That's no coincidence! It's happened too many times now. I've had no formal training, but I do use critical thinking skills - which obviously they don't.

Wow, would I ever love to read that letter!! LOL! There are many that I should have written, but figured they would just be thrown away and ignored. I too was "strung along" by many doctors because I didn't know enough about my own health, but I started waking up when I would walk into a doctors office and ask "what's located right here?" and pointed to where my spleen is located, and got the answer "there's organs in there". Really? Did they think I believed it was rainbows in my abdomen???? Of course there's organs in there!! - Yep, another doctors office I walked out of and refused to pay for. When I have better answers than the doctors, what makes them think I'm going to allow them to put hands on me or prescribe meds???? Grrrrr!

I so agree with your evaluation of the medical system - as you said, there are still some really good doctors out there, but the majority of them are in it for the money/prestige.