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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. So today we're going to look at the seven early signs of kidney disease.

There's actually five stages that the kidney could potentially go through, very mild to

very severe. When you start to reach the level of

four or five, you have to avoid certain things in your diet big time, like you have to avoid potassium,

phosphorus, and there's quite a few other ones. But what's interesting is that potassium has a

protective effect on the kidney. But when there's a certain

point where it's gone too far, the body can't handle it and you want to avoid potassium.

All right, let's take a look at the seven early signs of kidney disease. The first one would be

a metallic taste in your mouth or your breath smells like ammonia.

And because the kidney is a filter, it's like an oil filter, things are backing up and it's coming out of the breath, it's coming out of the mouth, that you're tasting certain things that you shouldn't taste.

Number two, you have protein aversion.

You have a great dislike of protein especially meat number three

you're nauseous or you're vomiting number four difficulty with concentration and number five

you have itchiness number six six, a loss of appetite. Number seven, your face is swollen,

your feet are swollen, and even your hands have edema and they're swelling. Because the kidney

has millions of tiny little filters, okay, the blood goes through and then it actually recycles a lot of things and it gets rid of the

waste. One of the best indicators of kidney dysfunction, whether it's one, two, three, four, five

would be to check the GFR. It stands for glomerular filtration rate. This is a measurement of how well the kidney is acting as a filter.

And one of the ways they look at this value is they look at the creatine of the blood.

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