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[Guest guest]

I am in end stage renal failure (kidney failure) I do dialysis 4 days a

week. Does anyone know opf anything natural that can bring back kidney

function.

Ron

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" Frank " <califpacific

<alternative_medicine_forum >

Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:09 PM

Fwd: U.S. drug

boycott threat called 'ridiculous'; " fear-mongering, nothing more, "

 

 

Even better is to get off these poisons in the first place.

 

Live longer, be healthier, have a better quality of life, use something

natural to heal and live.

 

Frank

 

luckypig <luckypig wrote:

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" luckypig "

Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:32:45 -0400

U.S. drug boycott threat called 'ridiculous';

" fear-mongering, nothing more, "

 

U.S. drug boycott threat called 'ridiculous'

>

> By LEONARD ZEHR

> BIOTECHNOLOGY REPORTER

>

> UPDATED AT 1:45 PM EDT

> It's inconceivable that multinational drug companies will stop shipping

> pharmaceuticals to Canada as part of a political battle to break the back

> of Canadian Internet pharmacies that supply American consumers with drugs,

> industry sources say.

>

[Guest guest]

I have IGAn and I looked this up on www.doctoryourself.com you may find i

interstering.

 

-----Kidney diseases kill 60,000 Americans a year and afflict at least 8

million more. Dialysis and transplants are expensive, costing taxpayers

over 2 billion dollars annually. To that, add the emotional and physical

costs in pain.

How Do Your Kidneys Work?

The answer is, constantly! 24 hours a day, your two kidneys filter your

blood somewhat like an aquarium filter filters the water in a fish tank. The

functional unit of the kidney is the NEPHRON, a tissue unit that not only

filters, but also recycles and excretes. The nephron filters blood (except

red blood cells and protein); maintains the body's acid-base ion balance;

recycles needed substances (water, minerals); and excretes wastes in a

concentrated urine. In a manner of speaking, urine is filtered blood, or

more exactly, blood is filtered urine.

 

Kidney Diseases and Problems:

Inflammation and Infection

The role of massive doses of vitamin C is profound in this case, providing

prevention and treatment at saturation levels. Since vitamin C is filtered

and " wasted " through the kidneys, its is a virtually custom-made therapy.

 

Degeneration (resulting from inflammation, etc.)

A chronic excess of dietary protein almost certainly taxes the kidneys and

leads to gradual degeneration. (Williams, SR Nutrition and Diet Therapy,

page 856, " The Aging Western Kidney " ). Vegetarianism is a virtually

automatic solution to our nation-wide pattern of protein abuse. Protein

restriction is generally considered to be an important treatment for

progressed glomerulonephritis. Reducing protein intake is obviously an

ideal way to PREVENT a protein-breakdown induced nitrogenous overload in the

first place.

 

Increasing carbohydrates is recommended. " Carbohydrates should be given

liberally. This will also reduce the catabolism of proteins and prevent ...

ketosis. " (Williams) Again, a regular vegetarian diet, which is high in

complex carbohydrates, will assure just this.

 

Nephrotic Syndrome (swelling and protein in the urine)

This condition results from tissue damage and impaired nephron function. Its

association with collagen diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, etc.) is

hardly accidental, for chronic deficiencies of vitamin C (and vitamin C's

helpers, the bioflavinoids) cause the very event described by Williams on

page 851: " The primary degenerative lesion is in the capillary basement

membrane of the glomerulus which permits the escape of large amounts of

protein into the filtrate. " This is because capillaries, those tiniest and

most numerous of all the blood vessels, get leaky in the absence of ample

vitamin C. Easily-bleeding gums are a visible example of this, but

easily-leaking glomeruli (part of the nephron) are a greater, hidden, but

similar problem.

 

Acute Renal (Kidney) Failure

Early successful management of infectious disease greatly reduces the

likelihood of renal failure. Saturation with vitamin C is very effective,

broad-spectrum treatment for infectious diseases (Klenner, Stone, Pauling.

Cathcart). Vitamin C does not cause kidney problems; it prevents them. For

example, vitamin C stops the formation or oxalate stones, and actually

dissolves phosphate and struvite kidney stones (see below). If kidney

failure is suspected, see your doctor early in the game, and insist that

vitamin C therapy is employed. Even conventional food-groups nutrition

texts (correctly) mention the need for supplemental vitamin C and the

B-complex for kidney tissue healing. Just up the doses if you want best

results.

 

In early renal failure, no protein should be given. Vegetable juice fasting

may work well here. If liquids are restricted, put the vegetables through a

blender and eat as a salad puree. It tastes better than it sounds.

 

HOW TO MAKE A BLENDED SALAD according to Dr. Christopher Gian-Cursio, who

was a New York City-based, circut-riding naturopath for over 50 years. I met

Dr. Gian-Cursio some twenty years ago. Here's his recipe:

 

1 each small tomato, red or green pepper

1/2 small cucumber

juice of 1/2 lemon or lime

5-6 leaves romaine lettuce

3-4 stalks fresh fennel or celery

Place cut up pieces of tomato, pepper and cucumber along with lemon juice

into blender. Blend until smooth and liquid. Add romaine leaves one at a

time. Add celery or fennel; blend additional 2-3 minutes. (The consistency

depends upon personal taste; some like it smooth and watery, others thick

and crunchy.)

 

I will add that you should eat your blended immediately. Fresh, wholesome

food does not " keep, " and crushed raw food does not keep at all.

 

Chronic Renal Failure

Continued deterioration means loss of vital kidney participation in the

activation of vitamin D-1. The result can be osteodystrophy (loss of calcium

from bone or poor bone formation in childhood). Supplementation with vitamin

D and calcium are therefore required.

 

Amino acid supplements have shown promise in treating chronic renal failure,

when coupled with a greatly curtailed amount of dietary protein of only 20

to 25g/day. As an advocate of vegetable juice fasting, I personally think

the protein restriction may have done as much as the amino acid

supplementation. Why? Because typical hospital " protein restricted diets "

provide 40g/day of protein!

 

Consider this: the typical American eats over 100g, and frequently exceeds

120g of protein daily, which is WAY too much. So a so-called " restriction "

to 40 g/day is simply a correction. Most of the world's peoples would be

pleased as punch to be able to eat 40g/day of protein. But we happily chow

down three times that , call it normal. and then line up for dialysis.

 

Dialysis

The cost of too much meat may ultimately be over $10,000 per year for

dialysis at home... or more than $35,000 per year at a dialysis center. And

these are 1990 prices.

 

During dialysis, the water soluble vitamins (B-complex and C) are lost from

the blood. Supplementation is ESSENTIAL and must be both high-potency and

FREQUENT.

 

Obstruction: Renal Calculi (stones)

There are five types of kidney stones:

 

1. Calcium phosphate stones are common and easily dissolve in urine

acidified by Vitamin C.

 

2. Calcium oxalate stones are also common but they do not dissolve in acid

urine.

 

3. Magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite stones) are much less common,

often appearing after an infection. They dissolve in vitamin C acidified

urine.

 

4. Uric acid stones result from a problem metabolizing purines (the

chemical base of adenine, xanthine, theobromine [in chocolate] and uric

acid). They may form in a condition such as gout.

 

5. Cystine stones result from a hereditary inability to reabsorb cystine.

Most children's stones are this type, and these are rare.

 

The Role of Vitamin C in Preventing and Dissolving Kidney Stones:

The very common calcium phosphate stone can only exist in a urinary tract

that is not acidic. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C's most common form) acidifies

the urine, thereby dissolving phosphate stones and preventing their

formation.

 

Acidic urine will also dissolve magnesium ammonium phosphate stones, which

would otherwise require surgical removal. These are the same struvite

stones associated with urinary tract infections. Both the infection and the

stone are easily cured with vitamin C in large doses. BOTH are virtually

100% preventable with daily consumption of much-greater-than-RDA amounts of

ascorbic acid. Think grams, not milligrams! A gorilla gets about 4,000 mg

of vitamin C a day in its natural diet. The US RDA for humans is only 60

mg. Someone is wrong, and I don't think it's the gorillas.

 

The common calcium oxalate stone can form in an acidic urine whether one

takes vitamin C or not. However, if a person gets adequate quantities of

B-complex vitamins and magnesium, this type of stone does not form. Any

common B-complex supplement twice daily, plus about 400 milligrams of

magnesium, is usually adequate.

 

Ascorbate (the active ion in vitamin C) does increase the body's production

of oxalate. Yet, in practice, vitamin C does not increase oxalate stone

formation. Drs. Emanuel Cheraskin, Marshall Ringsdorf, Jr. and Emily Sisley

explain in The Vitamin C Connection (1983) that acidic urine or slightly

acidic urine reduces the UNION of calcium and oxalate, reducing the

possibility of stones. " Vitamin C in the urine tends to bind calcium and

decrease its free form. This means less chance of calcium's separating out

as calcium oxalate (stones). " (page 213) Also, the diuretic effect of

vitamin C reduces the static conditions necessary for stone formation in

general. Fast moving rivers deposit little silt.

 

Furthermore, you can avoid excessive oxalates by not eating (much) rhubarb,

spinach, or chocolate. If a doctor thinks that a person is especially prone

to forming oxalate stones, they may take their vitamin C in a buffered form.

Instead of ascorbic acid, they might use vitamin C as non-acidic

" ascorbate. " Magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium ascorbates are all

non-acidic. Other " buffered " vitamin C preparations are usually made from

ascorbic acid mixed with powdered limestone (Dolomite). Linus Pauling says

you can take a little sodium bicarbonate with ascorbic acid to neutralize

it.

 

Ways for ANYONE to reduce the risk of kidney stones:

1. Maximize fluid intake. Especially drink fruit and vegetable juices.

Orange, grape and carrot juices are high in citrates which inhibit both a

build up of uric acid and also stop calcium salts from forming. (Carper, J.

" Orange Juice May Prevent Kidney Stones, " Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal,

Jan 5, 1994)

 

2. Control urine pH: acidic urine helps prevent urinary tract infections,

dissolves both phosphate and struvite stones, and will not cause oxalate

stones.

 

3. Eat your veggies: studies have shown that dietary oxalate is generally

not a significant factor in stone formation. I would go easy on rhubarb

and spinach, however.

 

4. Most kidney stones are compounds of calcium and most Americans are

calcium deficient. Instead of lowering calcium intake, reduce excess

dietary phosphorous by avoiding carbonated soft drinks, especially

colas. Soft drinks contain excessive quantities of phosphorous as phosphoric

acid. This is the same acid that has been used by dentists to etch tooth

enamel before applying sealant.

 

Remember that Americans get only about 500 mg of dietary calcium daily,

and the RDA is 800 to 1200 mg/day. Any nutritionist, doctor or text

suggesting calcium reduction is in serious error.

 

5. Take a magnesium supplement of AT LEAST the US RDA of 300-350 mg/day

(more may be desirable in order to maintain an ideal 1:2 balance of

magnesium to calcium)

 

6. Be certain to take a good B-complex vitamin supplement daily, which

contains pyridoxine (Vitamin B-6). B-6 deficiency produces kidney stones

in experimental animals. Remember:

 

* B-6 deficiency is very common in humans

 

* B-1 (thiamine) deficiency also is associated with stones (Hagler and

Herman, " Oxalate Metabolism, II " American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,

26:8, 882-889, August, 1973)

 

7. Additionally, low calcium may itself CAUSE calcium stones (L. H. Smith,

et al, " Medical Evaluation of Urolithiasis " Urological Clinics of North

America 1:2, 241-260, June 1974)

 

8. For uric acid/purine stones (gout), STOP EATING MEAT! Nutrition tables

and textbooks indicate meats as the major dietary purine source.

Naturopathic treatment adds juice fasts and eating sour cherries.

Increased Vitamin C consumption helps by improving the urinary excretion

of uric acid. (Cheraskin, et al, 1983). Use buffered ascorbate " C " .

 

9. Persons with cystine stones (only 1% of all kidney stones) should

follow a low methionine diet and use buffered C.

 

10. Kidney stones are associated with high sugar intake, so eat less (or

no) added sugar (J. A. Thom, et al " The Influence of Refined Carbohydrate

on Urinary Calcium Excretion, " British Journal of Urology, 50:7, 459-464,

December, 1978)

 

11. Infections can cause conditions that favor stone formation, such as

overly concentrated urine (from fever sweating, vomiting or diarrhea).

Practice good preventive health care, and it will pay you back with

interest.

 

REFERENCES:

Cheraskin, Ringsdorf Jr., and Sisley: The Vitamin C Connection, Harper and

Row, 1983

 

Pauling, Linus " Are Kidney Stones Associated with Vitamin C Intake? "

Today's Living, September, 1981

 

Pauling, Linus " Crystals in the Kidney, " Linus Pauling Institute

Newsletter, 1:11, Spring, 1981

 

Pauling, Linus How to Live Longer and Feel Better, Freeman, 1986

 

Williams, S. R. Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 6th ed. Chapter 28

 

(From the books FIRE YOUR DOCTOR and PAPERBACK CLINIC, copyright C 2001

and prior years Andrew W. Saul. Available from Dr. Andrew Saul, Number 8

Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470. (716) 638-5357)

 

 

 

Original Message -----

" Ronald Hunter " <rh7272

 

Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:12 PM

Re: Fwd: U.S.

drug boycott threat called 'ridiculous'; " fear-mongering, nothing more, "

 

 

> I am in end stage renal failure (kidney failure) I do dialysis 4 days a

> week. Does anyone know opf anything natural that can bring back kidney

> function.

> Ron

> -

> " Frank " <califpacific

> <alternative_medicine_forum >

> Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:09 PM

> Fwd: U.S. drug

> boycott threat called 'ridiculous'; " fear-mongering, nothing more, "

>

>

> Even better is to get off these poisons in the first place.

>

> Live longer, be healthier, have a better quality of life, use something

> natural to heal and live.

>

> Frank

>

> luckypig <luckypig wrote:

> " @ TheMultiD "

> " luckypig "

> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:32:45 -0400

> U.S. drug boycott threat called

'ridiculous';

> " fear-mongering, nothing more, "

>

> U.S. drug boycott threat called 'ridiculous'

> >

> > By LEONARD ZEHR

> > BIOTECHNOLOGY REPORTER

> >

> > UPDATED AT 1:45 PM EDT

> > It's inconceivable that multinational drug companies will stop shipping

> > pharmaceuticals to Canada as part of a political battle to break the

back

> > of Canadian Internet pharmacies that supply American consumers with

drugs,

> > industry sources say.

> >

>

>

>