Are the painkillers sitting in your cabinet quietly sabotaging your kidneys without you feeling a single twinge?

Many listeners are surprised to learn that ordinary drugs, NSAIDS, antibiotics, acid blockers, laxatives, and even imaging dyes,

now rank among the most common yet least recognized causes of kidney injury. Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom.

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Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom.

I'm Ethan Foster, and in the next few minutes,

you'll discover which medications strain your kidneys, why damage surface is late, and the exact

steps you can take to stay protected. You rely on your kidneys to filter about 45 gallons of

blood each day, regulate fluid balance, control blood pressure, and support red blood

cell production. The problem is that every pill you swallow passes through those same filters,

adding work that accumulates year after year, especially if you're older, dehydrated, or juggling

several prescriptions. The pain reliever category is the first trouble spot.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, ibuprofen, neproxin, and similar options.

Block an enzyme that normally keeps kidney blood vessels open.

When those vessels constrict, filtration declines.

Using NSAids for more than 10 days for pain or more than three

for fever, sharply raises the risk and the danger multiplies if you combine an NSAID with an ACE

inhibitor and a diuretic, the well-named triple whammy. Basic lab tests for filtration rate and

protein leakage can catch the slide early.

Even brief courses of antibiotics can do harm.

Drugs such as Tobromycin accumulate inside kidney cells and physically damage their structure,

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