7 Foods to REVERSE Kidney Damage (Must Watch)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about kidney health. A big myth is that potassium is bad for the kidneys, but this isn't true! Our bodies require 4700 mg of potassium each day. The only time you’d want to avoid potassium is if you have advanced-stage kidney disease.

Potassium protects kidney health in several ways. It helps lower high blood pressure, which damages the kidneys and protects against kidney stones. Too much sodium can be hard on the kidneys, but the remedy is more potassium.

Many factors can contribute to kidney damage, including the following:

•High sugar consumption

•Alcohol

•NSAIDs

•Certain medications

•Pesticides

•Heavy metals

•Food dyes

•Phosphorus from soda

A proper diet with adequate vitamin D, potassium, and magnesium can significantly improve kidney health.

The following foods protect the kidneys from damage and support kidney health:

1. Vegetables: asparagus, celery, bell peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic

2. Magnesium-rich foods: pumpkin seeds, leafy greens, avocadoes, magnesium glycinate

3. Probiotic-foods: kefir, yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi

4. Moderate amounts of high-quality protein

5. High-antioxidant foods: strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, beets

6. Quercetin: onions

7. Extra virgin olive oil

Consuming tea is a great way to stay hydrated and support kidney health. Polyphenols found in tea are very beneficial for the kidney. Green, nettle, dandelion, turmeric, and decaffeinated black tea are all great options.

Frequent eating can overtax the kidneys' filtration system. A low-carb diet and intermittent fasting are very beneficial for kidney health. Intermittent fasting can decrease the stress on the kidneys and significantly reduce insulin. Too much insulin can be damaging to the kidneys.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the seven best foods to prevent and reverse kidney damage. The kidney is a filter.
0:06.6	This one on the left is a dirty kidney. This one on the right is a clean kidney. We're going to
0:11.2	show you how to go from this to this using foods. I think the biggest myth about the kidney is this
0:18.1	topic of potassium. I don't know how this started, but people tend to think
0:21.9	that potassium is really bad for the kidney. You have to avoid potassium foods if you want to protect the
0:27.4	kidney. That is absolutely not true. Potassium actually protects the kidney from damage.
0:33.7	The only time you wouldn't want to take potassium is when you started to get advanced stage kidney disease.
0:40.2	You need to consume a lot of potassium since our bodies require 4,700 milligrams a day.
0:45.7	A couple ways of the potassium helps the kidney other than directly protecting kidney damage
0:51.4	is this. Potassium lowers your blood pressure. And having high blood pressure
0:55.5	is one of the main things that destroys the kidney. If you have an imbalance with sodium and you don't
1:00.2	have enough potassium, that can also be hard on the kidney. The way to handle the sodium on the kidney
1:05.7	is simply to increase your potassium. potassium can help protect you against kidney stones
1:10.3	because it can
1:11.4	lower the incidence of oxalids binding with calcium. The real bad things that damage the kidney,
1:18.2	number one, and this is the biggest one, consuming a lot of sugar, starches, things like that,
1:23.0	because all that sugar in your blood ends up in the kidney and it creates a lot of oxidation.
1:28.5	And you can visualize that as something that's rusting out the kidney, damaging that little
1:32.6	filter. Other things that will destroy the kidney, alcohol, and sets like ibuprofen,
1:38.1	medications, a lot of medications are synthetic prednisone or even antibiotics.
1:43.5	Getting too many pesticides from the foods,
1:46.0	heavy metals, food dyes, and too much phosphorus from soda, really damaging to the kidney.
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