Clean Your Kidneys of Uric Acid and Oxalates
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to talk about how to protect your kidneys.
The kidneys can take a beating and can even regenerate. They are composed of roughly one million tiny filters, which filter your blood.
But as you age, you start losing these filters—so it becomes even more important to start eating better and decrease exposure to toxins.
The two worst things for your kidneys are sugar and oxalates. It’s crucial to stop consuming sugar and high-carb foods and to start limiting your exposure to high-oxalate foods.
However, consuming cheese or dairy with foods that are high in oxalates, but are otherwise healthy, can help counter kidney damage from oxalates.
Foods high in oxalates:
• Almonds
• Spinach
• Beet tops
• Peanuts
• Grains
• Beans
• Sweet potatoes
• Cassava
• Tapioca
• Kiwi
• Chocolate
• Swiss chard
• Turmeric
• Cinnamon
• Clove
The best ways to protect your kidneys:
1. Consume lemon water every morning
2. Consume apple cider vinegar mixed in water
3. Consume 2.5 liters of water a day
4. Avoid high-oxalate foods or add dairy to high-oxalate foods
5. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet and do intermittent fasting
6. Avoid fructose
7. Avoid consuming high levels of vitamin C
8. Consume potassium (not for end-stage kidney disease)
9. Consume plant foods and microgreens
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the kidney and how amazing it is and how to protect it and exactly what you should |
| 0:06.5 | be taking to minimize any type of toxicity or damage to the kidney, especially long term. |
| 0:12.8 | The kidney is actually very rugged. It's similar to the liver in that it can take a beating, |
| 0:18.7 | but it can regenerate. Each kidney is composed of roughly about a million tiny little filters. |
| 0:25.7 | And these kidneys have to filter all day and all night long, 24-7 constantly, and they filter |
| 0:31.6 | blood. And so where does the blood come from? Well, it comes from what you eat, right? So |
| 0:36.0 | all the food that you eat, all the junk food, all the alcohol that you drink, all the medications |
| 0:41.6 | and the drugs that you're exposed to, all the pollution, all the plastics end up in the blood, |
| 0:46.7 | and then they end up in the kidney. And your kidney just has to be able to differentiate |
| 0:51.6 | what it wants to recycle and what it needs to get rid of. So there's a high degree of complexity |
| 0:56.6 | going on in this little filter called the nephron. And as you age, you start losing these little |
| 1:01.9 | filters to the point where you can actually lose up to 20% of your kidney. They can shrink |
| 1:07.8 | as you age. And so it becomes even more important that as you age, you really start eating better |
| 1:15.0 | and are exposed to less toxins, drugs, and medications. Of course, that's just the opposite. |
| 1:20.0 | As we age, we take more medications, and unfortunately, older people, especially if they end up |
| 1:26.0 | in some type of home, are not eating the right foods. The kidneys also make certain hormones, |
| 1:33.2 | one being to make red blood cells. The other one is for blood pressure. But let's dive into some |
| 1:38.8 | things that really destroy the kidney. And there's even so-called healthy foods that are |
| 1:44.9 | destroying the kidney. And we'll talk about those as well. Let's first talk about what makes |
| 1:49.6 | that the kidney stone, right? Because having a kidney stone can create a lot of damage to your |
| 1:54.3 | kidney, especially because it has these little crystals that can damage and create a scar tissue |
| 2:00.1 | of the kidney itself, as well as a little tube that connects the kidney to the bladder. So kidney |
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