Sodium Bicarbonate Kidney Disease

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Sodium Bicarbonate Kidney Disease

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Sodium bicarbonate is not only an excellent agent for natural

chemotherapy, bringing as it does higher O2 levels through increased alkalinity

to the

cells, it is also one of the most basic medicines we have for kidney

disease. New research by British scientists at the Royal London Hospital shows

that sodium bicarbonate can dramatically slow the progress of chronic kidney

disease.1 We don’t need a thousand years of tests to understand something

as simple as water and it is quite the same with bicarbonate, which is always

present in the best drinking waters.

 

 

Bicarbonate acts to stimulate the

ATPase by acting directly on it.2

 

 

The simple household product used for baking, cleaning, bee stings,

treating asthma, cancer and acid indigestion is so effective in treating kidney

disease that it prevents patients from having to be put on kidney machines.

The findings have been published in the Journal of the American Society of

Nephrology. Bicarbonate is a truly strong universal concentrated

nutritional medicine that works effectively in many clinical situations that we

would

not normally think of. It is a prime emergency room and intensive care

medicine that can save a person’s life in a heartbeat and it is also a

supermarket item that you can take right off the shelf and use for more things

than one can imagine – including diaper rash.

 

 

Dr. SK Hariachar, a nephrologist who oversees the Renal Hypertension Unit

in Tampa Florida stated, upon seeing the research on bicarbonate and kidney

disease, ** I am glad to see confirmation of what we have known for so

long. I have been treating my patients with bicarbonate for many years in

attempts to delay the need for dialysis, and now we finally have a legitimate

study to back us up. Not only that, we have the added information that some

people already on dialysis can reverse their condition with the use of

sodium bicarbonate**.

 

 

John, a dialysis technician at the same center as Dr. Hariachar, who used

to be on dialysis himself for 2 years as a result of kidney failure, had

his kidneys miraculously start functioning to the point where dialysis was no

longer needed. He states that he was prescribed oral doses of sodium

bicarbonate throughout his treatment, and still takes it daily to prevent

recurrences of kidney failure. Dr. Hariachar maintains though, that not everyone

will be helped by taking bicarbonate. He says that those patients who have

difficulty excreting acids, even with dialysis using a bicarbonate dialysate

bath, that, **oral bicarbonate makes all the difference.**

 

 

Kidneys Produce Bicarbonate

 

 

The exocrine section of the pancreas has been greatly ignored in the

treatment of diabetes even though its impairment is a well documented

condition.

The pancreas is primarily responsible for the production of enzymes and

bicarbonate necessary for normal digestion of food. Bicarbonate is so

important for protecting the kidneys that even the kidneys get into the act of

producing bicarbonate and now we know the common denominator between diabetes

and kidney disease. When the body is hit with reductions in bicarbonate

output by these two organs, acid conditions build and then entire body

physiology begins to go south. Likewise when acid buildup outstrips these organs

normal bicarbonate capacity cellular deterioration begins.

 

 

The kidneys alone produce about two hundred and fifty grams (about half a

pound) of bicarbonate per day in an attempt to neutralize acid in the body.

 

 

The kidneys monitor and control the acidity or " acid-base " (pH) balance of

the blood. If the blood is too acidic, the kidney makes bicarbonate to

restore the bloods pH balance. If the blood is too alkaline, then the kidney

excretes bicarbonate into the urine to restore the balance. Acid-base

balance is the net result of two processes, first, the removal of bicarbonate

subsequent to hydrogen ion production from the metabolism of dietary

constituents; second, the synthesis of " new " bicarbonate by the kidney.3

 

 

It is considered that normal adults eating ordinary Western diets have

chronic, low-grade acidosis which increases with age. This excess acid, or

acidosis, is considered to contribute to many diseases and to contribute to

the aging process. Acidosis occurs often when the body cannot produce enough

bicarbonate ions (or other alkaline compounds) to neutralize the acids in

the body formed from metabolism and drinking highly acid drinks like Coke,

Pepsi and we are even seeing reports on bottled mineral water being way too

acidic.

 

 

Acid-buffering by means of base supplementation is one of the major roles

of dialysis. Bicarbonate concentration in the dialysate (solution

containing water and chemicals (electrolytes) that passes through the artificial

kidney to remove excess fluids and wastes from the blood, also called

“bath.â€)

should be personalized in order to reach a midweek pre-dialysis serum

bicarbonate concentration of 22 mmol/l.4 Use of sodium bicarbonate in

dialysate has been shown in studies to better control some metabolic aspects and

to improve both treatment tolerance and patients' life quality. Bicarbonate

dialysis, unlike acetate-free biofiltration, triggers mediators of

inflammation and apoptosis.5

 

 

One of the main reasons we become acid is from over-consumption of

protein. Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate

cancer,

research suggests.6 We would find the same for breast and other cancers as

well. Conversely mineral deficiencies are another reason and when you

combine high protein intake with decreasing intake of minerals you have a

disease in the making through lowering of pH into highly acidic conditions.

When

protein breaks down in our bodies they break into strong acids.

 

 

Unless a treatment actually removes acid toxins from the body and

increases oxygen, water, and nutrients most medical interventions come to

naught.

 

 

These acids must be excreted by the kidneys because they contain sulfur,

phosphorus or nitrogen which cannot break down into water and carbon dioxide

to be eliminated as the weak acids are. In their passage through the

kidneys these strong acids must take a basic mineral with them because in this

way they are converted into their neutral salts and don't burn the kidneys

on their way out. This would happen if these acids were excreted in their

free acid form.

 

 

Substituting a sodium bicarbonate solution for saline infusion prior to

administration of radiocontrast material seems to reduce the incidence of

nephropathy.7

Dr. Thomas P. Kennedy

American Medical Association

 

 

Bicarbonate ions neutralize the acid conditions required for chronic

inflammatory reactions. Hence, sodium bicarbonate is of benefit in the

treatment

of a range of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Sodium

bicarbonate is a well studied and used medicine with known effects. Sodium

bicarbonate is effective in treating poisonings or overdoses from many

chemicals

and pharmaceutical drugs by negating their cardiotoxic and neurotoxic

effects.8 It is the main reason it is used by orthodox oncology – to mitigate

the

highly toxic effects of chemotherapy.

 

 

Sodium bicarbonate possesses the property of absorbing heavy metals,

dioxins and furans. Comparison of cancer tissue with healthy tissue from the

same person shows that the cancer tissue has a much higher concentration of

toxic chemicals, pesticides, etc.

 

 

Sodium bicarbonate injection is indicated in the treatment of metabolic

acidosis, which may occur in severe renal disease, uncontrolled diabetes, and

circulatory insufficiency due to shock or severe dehydration,

extracorporeal circulation of blood, cardiac arrest and severe primary lactic

acidosis.

The acid/alkaline balance is one of the most overlooked aspects of

medicine. In general, the American public is heavily acid, excepting

vegetarians,

and even their bodies have to face increasing levels of toxic exposure,

which help turn the body to acidic pH conditions.

 

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD International Medical Veritas Association

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2 Origin of the Bicarbonate Stimulation of Torpedo Electric Organ Synaptic

Vesicle ATPase. Joan E. Rothlein 1 Stanley M. Parsons. Department of

Chemistry and the Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa

Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.

 

 

3 Levine DZ, Jacobson HR: The regulation of renal acid secretion: New

observations from studies of distal nephron segments. Kidney Int

29:1099–1109,

1986

 

 

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8 These include, Benzotropines (valium) cyclic antidepressants

(amytriptayine), organophosphates, methanol (Methyl alcohol is a cheap and

potent

adulterant of illicit liquors) Diphenhydramine (Benedryl), Beta blockers

(propanalol) Barbiturates, and Salicylates (Aspirin). Poisoning by drugs that

block voltage-gated sodium channels produces intraventricular conduction

defects, myocardial depression, bradycardia, and ventricular arrhythmias.

Human and animal reports suggest that hypertonic sodium bicarbonate may be

effective therapy for numerous agents possessing sodium channel blocking

properties, including cocaine, quinidine, procainamide, flecainide, mexiletine,

bupivacaine, and others.

 

 

 

 

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