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I want to share with you the number one best food for toxic kidneys.

In order to understand that, I have to give you a little background information, but the big problem when you're diagnosed with kidney disease, especially if it's end-stage kidney disease, is that they don't really have any good solutions that give you a good prognosis, you know, they might say, well, you have to get kidney dialysis, you know, and that's just terrible, terrible to go through that. And the prognosis from that is it's not good. They're not giving you any some natural solutions. The thing with the kidney is that it's a filter.

So any drug that they give you is going to be more toxicity to the kidney. So when we're dealing with a damaged filter, we need to use something natural that has virtually no side effects.

So this kidney filters out chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, heavy metals, plastics, excess minerals. It recycles a lot of things too. It's very, very efficient.

It gets rid of excess sugar. And of course, if you're eating a lot of sugar, it destroys the filter because diabetes is the number one cause of kidney disease.

It also gets rid of excess protein byproducts. So when we eat protein and that breaks down, it goes to a chain reaction of things that end up with ammonia, which is very, very toxic to several parts of the body, especially the neurons in your brain.

And this is why if someone has too much ammonia that goes up into the brain because it's too much in the blood, they can end up with dementia, all sorts of really terrible things normally what happens is the body has this urea cycle where there's protein that turns into ammonia then turns into a lesser toxic thing called urea.

And that's supposed to be, you know, excreted through the urine. And so the liver is also involved in this process as well. And if you have a really toxic kidney, chances are you also have a toxic liver because they work closely together.

Unfortunately, you are swimming in a sea of toxicity, our environment. I mean, there's over a thousand new chemical compounds created every single hour. Okay. So we're just getting hit from every different angle.

So we need healthy kidneys. We need healthy liver to deal with all this toxicity. Also, the kidney is the main organ that helps activate vitamin D.

The liver is involved too, but the kidney is even more important in the conversion of the inactive D to the active form of vitamin D. And you know how important D is.

And like I said before, diabetes is one of the main big causes of kidney disease. So what are the symptoms of toxic kidneys. Okay.

Well, you can have gout, which is uric acid building up, usually in your joint of your big toe. And that mainly occurs because the kidney is not able to get rid of this uric acid effectively.

Kidney stones where you have this super concentrated calcium oxalate stone that develops in the kidney, you can prevent stones by consuming enough liquid. So we don't have this super concentrated solution.

Puffy eyes, you can look at someone's face and just look around their eyes. And you can see kidney problems. So if it's puffy, especially underneath and on top.

Usually they have kidney issues because the fluids backing up. They also have a demon in their lower ankles. When you press on the lower ankle, it leaves an indentation.

They might have itchy skin. They might have glucose in the urine or protein in the urine.

Their urine might smell very, very strong of ammonia. And like I said before, if the kid who was doing his job, you would just have urea.

But if there's too much ammonia, this whole breakdown process is not occurring because the kidney is damaged and ammonia, like I said before, is very, very toxic to the brain.

Your urine might look very, very dark and foamy. That usually means that this filter is not filtering. Just like if you were to change the oil filter in your car, if you haven't changed it for a couple of years, it's going to be really, really dark and filled with all sorts of things.

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