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I'm going to talk about the first early sign of toxic kidneys.

All right.

So what do the kidneys actually do?

Well, they filter blood.

They are the main blood filtering organs of the body.

And you have two of them.

And they filter roughly about 1,700 liters of blood every single day. And that's a lot of blood

rushing through these filters. The kidneys remove waste. And the big part of this waste is the protein

waste. Your body doesn't store protein. And so if you're consuming excess protein that your body doesn't

need, it's going to be released with the kidneys as waste.

Your kidneys actually get rid of excess minerals and chemicals, and it recycles a lot of nutrients

as well.

Your kidneys control blood pressure, they control your bone growth, the production of your red blood

cells.

So the kidney function goes way beyond just filtering blood. Now, before I get into the early signs, I want to touch on one very important

point. The most common reason for chronic kidney disease, and that is called diabetic

nephropathy. Now, what do I mean nephropathy.

Now, what do I mean nephropathy?

Nephropathy is a disease of your nephrons.

And so the kidney is basically made up of tiny little filters.

And those are nephrons.

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