E 2: How do you lower creatinine and protein in the urine? Plant Based Kidney Health 

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When I went vegan, my eGFR went up from 52 to 67. I was almost jumping up and down with joy in the doctor's office! My LDL cholesterol had dropped from 134 to 102. I was so happy that I wasn't listening to my doctor who was trying to tell me they had found blood in my stool and wanted me to get a colonoscopy. Well, I had that procedure and everything was okay. Back to the eGFR. I read at some health webpage that eGFR always jumps when someone goes vegan or vegetarian because blood creatinine drops. But, after having watched my eGFR drift lower and lower for such a long time, it still was a thrill to see it jump. Yes, I don't drink alcohol, don't smoke, get plenty of sleep, and exercise. The only disappointment is that my high blood pressure, for which I am taking daily 5 mg of amlodipine, isn't showing any improvement. It's staying at about 140/82. I was hoping going completely plant-based would get me off the amlodipine.

I just discovered your website and am hugely impressed. I'm a 78 yo woman who recently came through a journey where they cured my lymphoma but destroyed my body with the chemicals. I'm desperately trying to discover how to heal myself. I'm convinced my first line to approach is diet, but it took awhile to realize that my drs. are hindering. I've turned to online reading of current research and reviews but find so many opinions there too. I Keep switching things to do but it's driving me crazy. Looking for someone to trust and I think I just found the path. Thank you sooo much for sharing your expertise and common sense and support. Subscribed!

I was diagnosed with Stage 3 CKD last year and I have been trying to figure out the dietary changes. I really didn't know much about how to adjust my diet and kept coming across contradictory information. Finding your videos has been extremely helpful!!

Thank you, I have mild kidney Dz from childhood secondary to renal reflex, corrected by surgery. My nephrologist does not give me ways to improve my renal function, and decrease protein dumping. He sees me as healthy in comparison to his other patients. So glad you are doing this, I like prevention!

Thank you soo much for all this information! Knowledge is power and I do feel empowered after I hear your words, they give me hope !

Love you 2!!!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏I’m ophthalmologist in Brazil… don’t drink water enough… kidney stone (cirurgic)walk frequently and run dehydrated 😢chronic….LEARNING A LOT WITH YOU BOTH…..🙏

I wanted to thank you for giving me hope for improving or stopping the progression of my kidney disease through plant based diet

Thank you for sharing this information. I started out at stage 4 CKD and have dialysis 3 times a week. By researching I have gone to stage 2. I am determined to get off dialysis. I see so many who just accept their diagnosis and don't realize they can change their future. It may be hard but life is all about change.

Great video! Thank you so much for sharing. There were so many things I didn't know about chronic kidney disease😊💖 hope this video reaches and helps more people

My best friend /partner has been in hospital for several days now with stage 4 Kidney disease oh and type one diabetes ,something he has had since he was teN,now he is 34. I took him in because he was having a hard time breathing especially at night,at first everyone thought it was heart failure but heart output was fine.His bp had been up and hard to get down. He is still there and I hope he makes it.

You are so elaborative in your explanation of kidney related diseases. Thank u so much sir.

Thanks, I've learned more in these few minutes than I have from any of my doctors. Thank you both.

Excellent Explanation by Doc. Thank you Doc. Everyday I follow you

Do you know what the tsunami of conflicting information that affects one’s health and life are doing to almost everyone… especially that it comes from doctors who consider themselves as the stars of the internet… We do thank you dr. Hashmi for your honesty and genuine care.

Lots of gems in this video! Thank you very much for your content. Especially Aroung the 13th min mark... How's your weightx exercise, sleep, stress, relationships etc. Handle that and don't focus on just the numbers... 💯❤️

I love they way Dr Hasmi explained and taking the approach of diet base fixing the kidney. You two and very good job and well informed

I just discovered your channel and it is FANTASTIC. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! You are both gifts from GOD.🙏🙏

Thank you for great questions and answers. Excellent discussion❤

With doctors, they do not spend over 30 minutes with each patient, but most likely ten or fifteen minutes and depend on testing etc. to make up for the difference. Can not figure if AI will help in the future. This is a great video. Today you must be your own doctor and channels like these are most helpful to supplement the lack of time doctors spend with you. The diet aspect of the show is great and do not dismiss supplements. Coffee is my bacon in this argument. It seems many of us have our likes we just do not want to give up.

I have enjoyed this video so much , such good info. And I was bombarded with such a strict diet, I cried so much, because I love food. And it was the hardest thing for me , so many boring limits, and each day the same thing. It was so stressful, I got so hungry it drove me crazy..... I just could not bare it. And to much complicated , info that I don’t understand. And just both of you are like gem stones I found. Finally things are making sense to me ... Like don’t look at numbers, and you don’t die of kidney disease, but heart attack or something els. We need to take the whole body into existence. To protect you as whole.... love your channel . So glad I found it today.❤❤❤

Thank you both for a VERY informative video! Excellent and thorough information all in one ~42 minute video.

Dr Hashmi, since you talked about your pets, I wish to share my cat story! Four weeks ago my cat was treated by the vet for urinary tract infection. The vet found granular sediments in the urine, the ultrasound & x-ray showed no stones. The antibiotic had no effect after two weeks. When I took my kitty back there was blood in her urine. The vet gave IV fluids for dehydration.The cat would not eat the urinary canned food. I decided to use a syringe to give my cat diluted apple cider vinegar 3x a day. 4 days on this my kitty is well & happy, & I have a huge vet bill!

Absolutely love you guys..thanks for helping me get on the path.

This episode covers a lot of nutrition and kidney health issues. Thank you!

Both are doing a great job for kidney patients...JazakAllah for your excellent lecture 👏

I Love the teaching, I'm on dylasis but videos like this gives me hope for a better quality of Life, Thank you...

Hi I just watched your video and was very impressed! I learned a lot and so Many questions I had have been answered TY sooo much. God bless you both

Thanks a lot doc, your explanation is the most enlightening one to me of all that I hear from doctors, either online or personal...

It is forming healthy habits that we improve the quality of our health..we fortify our health by eating healthy and exercising and doing the best we can😊 Thank you for educating me also❤🤗🙏Godbless

Extremely informative channel. Learnt more in these few minutes than ever before. Keep up the good work.

brilliant comment on the food list being different . so far my head is spinning reading different sources what to eat and what not to eat.

Love your channel. Great logical way of explaining by both of you. Thanks. Tapan India.

I am so glad someone is doing some posts on chronic kidney disease, Thank you

Thank You Guys Sooooood very much, Thank, Thank, Thank .And Praise God for you both.🙏🌹🍓🍇🍎🫐♥

very good point. Too often people want to just pick on one thing (or one person), but in reality it is never that way

Nice series I am going to go through all these and binge over this weekend, Thankyou for sharing!

Thank you both drs Hashmi and Michelle for your detailed and to the point valuable information. I just want to know the approximative gfr for people aged 67. I would be grateful to hear your answer.

Thank you for these episodes. It's so informative. God Bless!!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart 😢

Thank you both so much ! these videos are so very helpful, and informative … thank for educating me!

Thanks for all the great info. I was surprised to hear Dr H refer to alcohol as "empty calories". In fact, ethanol gets metabolized almost exactly the same as fructose. Fructose has been referred to as "alcohol without the buzz" because it's not taken up by the brain where is alcohol is but otherwise almost identical. Fructose and alcohol both get metabolized down to uric acid. Uric acid raises blood pressure by inhibiting endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) which is the body's vasodilator. Uric acid also acts at the level of the kidneys by inhibiting excretion of salt causing sodium retention further increasing blood pressure. Fructose is the number one cause of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, even among people of normal weight. So not really "empty calories", much worse than that! Please keep up the great work,folks! Richard Norris MD, ACLM

Both of you are doing good for the all the people

Absolutely the most informative, educational channel for us kidney patients.

Fantastic info! Thank you! FINALLY clarity re Creatinine v GFR etc!!

Thank you both for your efforts in sharing valuable information about kidney care🙏🙏🙏

Sir and Madam I have PKD and this channel makes me understand many things it is very informative Thank you so much Godbless you and your work❤️❤️❤️🤗

Wonderful teachings from real professionals. Thank you ❤

Very clear the way you explain it. Thanks doc.

It is an outstanding program. Thank you for shaing this knowdge with us. Wonderful. Thank you.

Very helpful, I will keep in touch. Thanks

Great video. Thank you for sharing us👍❤️

Thank you guys for these informative videos. So helpful😋 My husband has been on peritoneal dialysis for6 years and Haemo dialysis since 2015 so we try hard to control diet. You are advocating whole grain diet but I have been told that whole grains are much more difficult for kidneys to digest than refined so kidney patients should limit them? I have always taken that with a pinch of salt because he had cancer but has been healed so refined foods are a no no! You just ended with my last comment! Thank you

Thanks for your advvice. I an a Greek Amarican living in rural Greece however and a lot of the foods you mention are found easily. Could you please take that into consideration?

Very informative & thank you very much.

I'm on Vegan-Keto and the diet has helped me a lot. I find it easy to stay on. Hidden ingredients in some vegan processed foods like potato starch was no good for me. I also found problems with some non-organic vegetables. I used to eat a lot of Brussel sprouts and I could not find organic Brussel sprouts, but found out through RU-vid that non-organic Brussel Sprouts can contain harmful pesticides that includes arsenic that is bad for kidneys. Thanks to RU-vid websites like yours, one can figure things out to help one's healing process.

I am going to recommend your excellent channel to my nephrologist and peritoneal dialysis team. Any recommendations for resistant hypertension? Non-diabetic, non-obese. Had acute kidney failure/sepsis 20 years ago due to one standard dose of physician-prescribed ibuprofen interaction with lisinopril. No drugs or combinations thereof have had any positive effect on my BP. I appreciate the plant-based approach, but I avoid soy because it is all GMO and mostly grown with pesticides. Love your explanation of hepatorenal syndrome. I am so glad I stopped drinking - wish I had never taken my first drink.

Thank you both for all the information.I learn a lot.

These videos are just superb and super informative. I have just one kidney and rheumatoid arthritis. It was controlled until I stopped all meds when a specialist suggested the biological may have caused my kidney issue. It’s so hard now to know which is worse…the inflammation or the medication

Wow sir your explanations are very clear and very real. I had been watching many doctors but you explain the best, unfoftunately the lady talk very fast and slung that i could not catch what she is saying. If you could explain sir in your other vlog please

BOTH of YOU SO ENCORAGING in my diagnosis of CKD!

Great inforrmation you both explained sowell

God bless , my prayers are with you.🙏❤️

Thank you, this is EPIC information!

Thank you for the videos. What about drinking apple cider vinegar and lemon juice as a daily drink? Thank you.

Thanks Dr , now I know what GFR really is and thats make me feel real good to know what to improve.

Thank you for sharing youre very informative video Godbless

Reverse kidney disease people !! Pay attention follow these two people get motivated !!

2 questions: 1. Is there an already created list of foods that are low phosphorous, low potassium and low acid? I don’t want to create my own list if someone has already done it. 2. Are ACE and ARBs still considered kidney protective? Or is that old school thought? And are those BP meds just beneficial for people who spill protein in their urine?

Ty this was very helpful

i am amzed with what you taught me today about kidneys,thanks a million quid

Thank you for this information Logical and relevant answers gaps in my search for truth.

This was the best information on problem with a kidney,Thank you for it.Michele is difficult to understand,maybe because there is little echo.Maybe if she would talk little bit slower.I notice many people couldn’t understand her.Waiting for next episode.Again thanks

Thank you both for this information! I was recently diagnosed with kidney disease and I had been considering starting a vegan lifestyle-you two have supported my decision-thank you!

Great info. Thank you.

Phenomenal thanks for the great content

This is so informative, thank you. I discovered by accident my GFR was at 486 when clearing out some old medical documents three years after the bloods were done. I contacted my GP who said 'it's not a problem'. I insisted on checking if there had been further decline. The test came back at 488 a small improvement. I then looked into kidney health and found that a plant based diet was a positive change and as it happened I'd switched to a vegetarian diet two years prior to the second test. I'm now cooking mostly vegan fresh recipes and have very recently introduced regular cardio. I also noted that my sugar HBA1C is at the high end of normal. I find it shocking that a GP wouldn't point these things out, it won't take long to tip over that edge. I didn't realise the link between sugar and kidney health. I'll now set about reducing my carbs. My base line diet is pretty good, but I eat naughty extras that will probably make all the difference. I just checked and my biscuits have 3.5g of sugar in each one! And I don't stop at one! Thanks for this. We are all responsible for our own health but we don't always know how to fix things or the association between one thing and another. It seems diabetes is responsible for so many problems, best to never get there by the sounds of it. Thank you again.

Water consumption is a big problem for my husband because he feels excessively thirsty all day long and drinks far too much water. We live in India so we do get high temperatures which don’t help . Any tricks or tips you might have up your sleeve would be so welcome😄 Thank you again! I so happy I found you🙏

Thank you. So informative!!!!

Thank you for that video. I learned a lot and I am looking forward to more of those

Very informative! I work out a lot and have lowered my carbohydrate intake to vegetables and low sugar fruits like blueberries. I started to combine plant-based protein powder with my non flavored egg protein powder with essential amino acids because plant protein does not have all 9 essential amino acids. Great job guys! Michelle, you are not just intelligent and compassionate, you are very pretty.

I have chronic but stable kidney disease and have had GFRs in the mid fifties with high creatine levels. Recently these started to deteriorate. With a few tweaks I improved these. Although I still eat animal food, I put the emphasis more on plant protein and added baking soda in water !x per day. After three weeks of this I improved my GFR to 61 and lowered my creatinine to 125

Thank you very informative discusstion

I have 9 amalgam fillings which my Functional Medicine doctor has recommended that I have removed by a biological dentist. How much does the mercury in my mouth since my youth (I'm now 71) affect my kidneys? My gfr is 58. I'm concerned that the removal procedure itself may cause further kidney damage through acute exposure to the mercury. Thank you. Really like your content.

Thank you so much for sharing this insightful and valuable analysis covering various aspects of kidney health; objective, scientific and objective.

Thanks for sharing useful information 😊

We appreciate the video Michelle

Can you please give us names of the food that lower creatine and the ones that lower phosphorus thanks

I've watched many of these episodes and it makes great sense, however never has the issue of lectins causing inflammation been addressed which must be part of the discussion of plant based diets. How do we assess what is worst inflammtion source, meat, lectins others etc? I know individuals will have a unique response but surely all issues must be on the table for consideration when making life changing nutrition decisions. I think an episode on this would be very useful!

Very good advice and teaching

Excellent information.👍👍

Just the podcast I needed! Need to reverse my kidney problems

Dr Sean hope you could talk about water only fasting to lose weight amongst the ckd3 patients. Is it recommended?

New sub. Love the great info

I’m enjoying your informative CKD videos, thank you so much.

13:12 how do you determine what a good lipid level is? What do you think about those franctionalized lipid tests that distinguish between lipid participle sizes? What do they recommend for particle sizes of lipid particles and what can you do to influence it?

Doctor I went for a urine test recently. Protein in urine is negative. Does that mean protein is not leaking in urine or it is undetectable. Moreover, after 3 litres of water daily intake the foam in the urine is getting reduced but presence is more if my water intake is less. Do i have to worry about proteinurea?

It is very hellpful, thanks to both of ;you

Thank you grea minds!!! Man is the God we see!

Good evening doc . Can protein in the urine be cure ??if how