Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. 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.

We 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? Nephropathy is a disease of

your nephrons. And so the kidney is basically made up of tiny little filters. And those are

nephrons. So a nephron is basically a little filter composed of tiny little capillaries.

And so you have all this blood running through these kidneys with little nephrons to the point where now we're converting blood into urine.

And so the common cause of this destruction is high sugar flowing through your blood. Sugar is very destructive to the capillaries,

the blood flow that supplies the nervous system to the brain and also your fingers and

your toes and pretty much all the nerves. So if we did a deep dive and look through a very

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