Renal failure occurs when your kidneys are suddenly unable to filter waste matter from your blood.  Dangerous toxins build up quickly in your system and result in acute kidney failure in as little as a few days.  There have been cases that have advanced to the critical point within hours!

Once your kidneys reach end-stage renal failure, you will be unable to survive without a transplant or long-term dialysis (mechanical device that filters your blood for you).  

There may be no symptoms that something is wrong until lab work is done for another condition.  If you do experience symptoms, it is crucial that you immediately seek medical attention. When your kidneys fail – truly fail – your options are severely limited.  The need for kidneys far outweighs the available supply.  

Common Symptoms of Kidney Failure

• Lower output of urine
• Pain or pressure in the chest
• Retention of fluids that results in swelling of the limbs
• Seizure
• Fatigue or perpetual drowsiness
• Nausea or loss of appetite
• Difficulty breathing
• Mental confusion

Acute kidney failure is typically your body’s response to another medical event or condition.  If you have a history of kidney, liver, or heart disease, diabetes, are of advanced age, or have been hospitalized for a serious condition (especially for surgical or intensive care), your risk of is higher than you might imagine.  

Risk Factors Include

• Poor lifestyle choices such as obesity, lack of nutrition, and smoking
• Slow or impaired blood flow to your kidneys
• Blood loss (even in surgical conditions)
• Blockages to your kidney drainage tubes (such as kidney stones)
• Long-term use of aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, or similar over-the-counter drugs
• Repeated or prolonged dehydration
• Blood clots in or around the kidneys or urinary tract
• Chronic infection and inflammation
• Impact injuries to the kidneys
• Autoimmune disorders such as lupus
• Chemotherapy drugs, imaging test dyes, antibiotics, and osteoporosis drugs
• High-level toxic substances such as illegal drugs or heavy metal exposure
• Excessive alcohol consumption
• Reproductive or endocrine system cancers

Dr. Alex Chang, M.D. with Johns Hopkins University stated, “Unlike family history of kidney disease, diet, smoking, and obesity are modifiable lifestyle factors that we can all control.  By eating well, quitting smoking, and maintaining a normal weight, people can protect their kidneys and prevent future damage.”  

The results of his kidney disease research were published in the American Journal of Kidney Disease.  Dr. Chang and his team determined that people who are obese have double the risk of developing kidney disease and those who smoke are 60% more likely to lose the use of their kidneys.

Before your kidneys go past the point of no return, you need to read my book!  Inside the pages of The Waters of Life, you’ll learn how to prevent and even reverse kidney disease right now!  Without trying to buy someone’s black market organ!

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Kidney disease statistics
• Hidden kidney disease
• Causes of kidney failure
• Nephrotic syndrome (the inflamed, leaky kidney)
• Understanding end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
• Dialysis (and why you don’t want it!)
• Facts about kidney cancer
• Kidney tests explained
• Treatment for kidney disease
• What you should do to look after your kidneys
• How and why to detox safely to avoid damaging your kidneys
• Kidney stones (the myths get busted)
• The “bump and jump” method to dislodge stuck stones
• Preventing recurrence of stones
• Herbs for kidney health
• Homeopathic kidney formulas
• Drink only quality waters (a review of water filters)

Your liver and kidneys are two of the most important organs in your body. They help you digest food, flush out toxins, regulate blood pressure and maintain a healthy heart.

But sometimes they need a little extra help to do their jobs properly. To keep them in tip-top health. You need to KNOW what to do and a good chunk of WHY you should do it.

I have one final comment and I hope you take it seriously.  Do not wait until you are told you have extensive kidney damage or even kidney failure.  Remember, you won’t know until it’s almost too late!  Kidneys are the “silent” killer.

Start today on protecting your body’s filtration system.  Pick up your copy of The Waters of Life right now!

US Department of Health and Human Services: Kidney Disease Statistics for the United States https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease

National Kidney Foundation: The Right Diet May Help Prevent Kidney Disease, New Study Finds https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/nr/Right-Diet-May-Help-Prevent-KD

In the USA alone, there are 17,000 cases waiting for a liver transplant.

Western Diet Strikes Again!

The Western Diet creates a myriad of problems and fatty liver disease is yet another epidemic that is preventable and reversible!

Roughly 20% of U.S. citizens have this problem.  Many more might not even realize it because unless inflammation is present (which results in long-term damage to the second largest organ in your body) you might not exhibit any symptoms of fatty liver disease!

Until actual damage occurs, you might have no clue and that means your liver could be irreparably destroyed before you know you have a problem.

Mild discomfort around the abdomen and fatigue are the most common complaints for the average case.  Inflammation can result in loss of appetite, rapid drop in weight, nausea, and fatigue.  If the fat content of your liver is higher than 10% then you have a fatty liver.

What Causes a Fatty Liver?

There are two primary types of fatty liver disease.

Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) is caused by alcohol abuse.  Even a short period of “binge” drinking can lead to acute alcoholic liver disease.

If you have poor nutrition, suffer from obesity, or have hepatitis C – your risks of developing a fatty liver from alcohol consumption are much higher.

Fatty liver is a problem for more than 90% of those who regularly consume alcohol.

Then there is Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), which is essentially too much fat in the liver.  In the United States, this is the most common form of liver disease. 

Though the specific cause for NAFLD is unknown, researchers have been able to pinpoint certain risk factors.

• Family history of liver disease
• Autoimmune disorders
• High cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Persons older than age 50
• Obesity
• Hepatitis
• Poor nutrition
• Acetaminophen use (also known as Tylenol)

How to Prevent This Silent Killer?

Taking care of your liver is essential to your life.  As with most total body wellness, it comes down to choosing the lifestyle that makes every component of you stronger every year.

• Treatment of alcohol abuse or limiting alcohol consumption.
• Maintaining a healthy body weight – focused more on body fat percentage than pounds.
• Controlling blood sugars with a greater emphasis on vegetables, lean proteins, and fiber.

The majority of NAFLD cases don’t lead to liver failure if caught in time and the patients actively work to relieve their fatty liver symptoms by changes in diet and exercise.

If you’d like to know more about the detox centers of your body – the liver and kidneys – and how to keep them in tip-top shape, check out my book “Love Your Liver!” right now! Get your copy today!

Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll find inside:

• Learn to understand the function and workings of these two critical organs (liver and kidneys), how to keep them in tip-top health – what to do and why!
• Eliminate two major causes of early death global wide.
• The #1 threat to your liver (it’s not what you think) accounts for over 50% of cirrhosis cases, alcohol is just 5%!
• Discover 19 super liver feeding nutrients and why they are important.
• Get the top 5 herbal liver supports (and how to make your own in your kitchen).
• Find out where the real toxic sources are coming from in your life and how to eliminate them for a longer life with a healthy liver!

Put another way, your kidneys can bury you in more ways than one: not just kidney failure (which is horrible) but by a large increase in the possibility of a fatal heart attack.

My thoughts quickly came around to my own writings on kidney health. It’s my mission to make the information I have about preserving your kidneys from damage more widely known.

I wrote a killer report called, “The Waters Of Life”, laying it all out for you. What’s more I coupled it with another great advisory about liver health, “Love Your Liver”.

You see, your liver and kidneys are the most important detox and excretion organs: essential to your health but even more important if you are facing severe toxic overload… such as battling cancer. Between the two of them, they remove over 99% of damaging substances in your body.

Yet it is hard to think of two more unloved and uncared for organs than these two. That’s why they need all the help you can give them.

The trouble is that few doctors or health advisors ever trouble to give good advice about looking after these two essential organs and as a results there are long lists for transplants.

The sitution is so dire, and missing knowledge is so critcal on this topic that I urge you to get these critcal reports I have put together.

Don’t let the modern world shorten your life by damaging your vital organs…

Nah! It means eat moderately. Think of yourself as a caveman or cavewoman wandering through he forest, gathering and nibbling berries and roots. Eat at about that rate.

What’s wrong with our modern living is that we can go to a supermarket and buy a whole week’s food and then eat the entire packet in hours. That’s not natural.

Eating some grapes, crunching an apple, followed by a few nuts, a couple of dried apricots an hour or two later… that’s hunter-gatherer style eating.

What’s really unnatural, of course, is eating concentrated fruit sugars; meaning high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Fructose is a simple sugar found in fruits and vegetables. It also is combined with glucose to manufacture high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener in many packaged foods such as cereal and soda. That’s very bad and we know it damages the liver. I doubt it does the rest of the body much good either.

Now a new test has been suggested, to monitor levels of uric acid and a reduction in liver energy stores. High uric acid, or hyperuricemia (like gout), is linked to lower levels of liver adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a compound involved in transferring energy between cells.

The researchers, who published their new report in the September issue of the journal Hepatology, noted that energy depletion in the liver could result in liver damage for those with the metabolic condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and in those at risk for the condition. They stressed that the public should be aware of these risks associated with a diet high in fructose.

Lead author Dr. Manal Abdelmalek said in the journal news release. “Given the concurrent rise in fructose consumption and metabolic diseases, we need to fully understand the impact of a high-fructose diet on liver function and liver disease.”

Researchers measured the difference in liver ATP content between patients with low fructose consumption (less than 15 grams per day) and those with high fructose consumption (greater than 15 grams per day).

The study revealed that participants with high dietary fructose consumption had lower liver ATP levels (less cellular energy) than controls. The researchers also noted that those with high uric acid levels had lower ATP stores following high fructose intake.

Based on their findings, the researchers suggested uric acid, which is produced by the breakdown of natural food substances known as purines, may serve as a marker for increased fructose consumption and low levels of liver ATP.

Of course they are quick to protect the food industry and say that high levels of HFCS associated with liver damage doesn’t mean a cause and effect relationship.

Well I’m saying it.

Look after you liver: LOVE YOUR LIVER. That’s the title of one of my cutting edge books. If you don’t have a copy yet, it’s time you did.

Click here to learn what this book does

[SOURCE: Hepatology, news release, Sept. 13, 2012]

I’ve just been reading an interesting study published in the British medical journal The Lancet (June 2012).

It has emerged that people with chronic kidney disease may have the same level of risk for coronary heart disease as people who have previously had a heart attack and is similar to or higher than the rate of death among people with diabetes—which is pretty bad!

Put another way, your kidneys can bury you in more ways than one: not just kidney failure (which is horrible) but by a large increase in the possibility of a fatal heart attack.

My thoughts quickly came around to my own writings on kidney health. I wish the information I have about preserving your kidneys from damage was more widely known. There are very good reasons why you MUST avoid a transplant.

I wrote a killer report called, “The Waters Of Life”, laying it all out for you.

What’s more I coupled it with another great advisory about liver health, “Love Your Liver”.

See, these two vital organs are our detox filters. Just as, if you don’t want your car engine ruined, you have to have a filter to protect the air intake, so with us we have to constantly filter toxins from our blood.

The liver transforms and detoxes chemicals and the kidneys vigorously filter the fluids circulating in our bodies.

Well, I need hardly tell you that both are under siege today. There is SO MUCH toxicity in the environment, we need to take extra case of these two vital organs.

Yet most people, I find, know next to nothing about kidney and liver health. They have heard about sugars, trans fats, important supplements, inflammatory foods even, but remain dangerously ignorant about two of our most vital organs.

You can’t afford to be that ignorant. You need help! You’ll get it, starting from this link (2 short videos to see).

http://www.informed-wellness.com/liver-kidneys/

Get serious. You could pick up 5 – 10 years of extra health years by what you learn here today…

Just follow the link!

In a rather sensational news story, it was revealed that U.S. doctors were involved in a case where a kidney transplanted into one patient had to be removed but was then successfully transplanted into another patient.

Well, “Waste not, want not,” is a well-known saying. But I think it’s far better to look after your kidneys in the first place.

There is a chronic shortage of kidneys for transplanting. Dialysis, the other option for failed kidneys, is not so good. Dialysis patients rarely last more than about 5 years.

The unlucky patient in this groundbreaking case suffered with a disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). The disease causes kidney scar tissue. But just days after the transplant the new kidney showed signs of the same disease.

In what I think was a somewhat outrageous move, doctors took the transplant kidney out again and gave it to somebody else. I’m all for being economical with resources but the surgeons could not possibly have known that the disease would stop and not affect the second recipient.

In fact, all was well. The FSGS reversed in the second recipient. But it was taking a big chance.

What this tells us, of course, is that kidney damage due to FSGS in the first patient was really a systemic process. ANY kidney in that body was at risk. So it wasn’t really “kidney disease”, was it?

This is the hard lesson to get over to orthodox doctors: end-organ failure is just that… the organ that fails first. But disease is nearly always systemic. Or put another way: the patient’s diet and lifestyle was the disease; the kidney was just collateral damage!

Look after your kidneys: get my book “The Waters Of Life”, which tells you how to look after your kidneys.

http://www.informed-wellness.com/kidneys/

Well, it’s not that dangerous, they want to assure us. People who donate a piece of their liver to someone in need of a transplant can still live a long and healthy life, according to a new study.

You may not know but live donors can give a piece of their liver. They don’t need to be dead first and, so they say, you won’t end up dead!

I’m being a bit flippant, as usual. But if someone’s life can be saved, by giving a chunk of your liver, I say: go for it!

If the Cosmos, evolution, God, or whatever, wants you out of the way, I suppose you might regret it. You’ll be erased. But cowardice when it comes to helping others should not be an issue.

Mind you, Americans are something else. A few years ago, a woman who was locked out and freezing cold in the snow was left to die by her neighbors; they wouldn’t let her in! Let’s hope that couple were not typical, otherwise a mean world is on the way.

Anyway, I know many good, hearty and courageous souls here. They must be embarrassed by their scaredy-cat fellow citizens.

Back to livers: due to a highly publicized liver donor death in 2002, live liver donation dropped from 500 transplants in the United States each year to just 200 to 300 surgeries.

The present study, hopefully, will do a lot to encourage potential donors to come forward and be counted. There is no arguing, live liver donation is a serious operation with serious risks. The problem is you can’t easily stitch up the liver; it’s very crumbly. So bleeding is a serious problem. Stop taking your omega-3s weeks beforehand, if you wish to become a donor.

What’s the actual risk? Just 1.7 per 1,000 donors, according to the study. I’ve said publicly I wouldn’t risk my life for a 100 to 1 odds, so I had better stick to that.

But better than 500 to 1? Yes, I’m OK with that.

[SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Medicine, news release, Jan. 26, 2012]

PS. A better idea is to get people to look after their livers properly in the first place. I wrote a book on liver health. You can get a copy here:

Order the liver health eBook “Love Your Liver”

The facts: There are no documented cases of kidneynapping, or for that matter any killing, abduction, or mutilation for purposes of organ theft in the United States. The National Kidney Foundation, which fears this persistent myth will scare off donors, has asked victims of organ theft to step forward. So far no takers.

While I suppose it’s possible to remove somebody’s kidneys with a paper plate and an X-acto knife, as a practical matter it can’t be done. The operation customarily takes a five-person surgical team working for three or four hours in a sterile operating room. Much of the equipment required (anesthesia machines, operating tables) is bulky and not the sort of thing you could readily sneak into an apartment, hotel room, etc. The tissue and blood types of the donor and donee must be precisely matched; you can’t just grab the first mope you see in a bar.

None of the checkable details in the story pans out. The Daily Texan says it never ran the kidney theft story, though it has run several denials. This is the third time the UT version of the legend has made the rounds. The original version, in which a guy meets a woman in a New York bar and later wakes up kidneyless, dates back at least to March 1991. (See folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand’s 1993 book, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends.)

It may have originated in a 1989 incident in England. A Turkish man told authorities he’d been lured to the UK by a job offer, only to have a kidney stolen. An investigation revealed that the man had advertised in a Turkish newspaper to sell his kidney, found a buyer, and evidently sought revenge after failing to collect full payment. (See the Urban Legends Reference Pages, www.snopes.com.)

Still, that brings up an important point: There’s a very real market for transplantable human organs, in which demand exceeds supply. (See David Rothman’s March 26, 1998, piece in the New York Review of Books.) In India the desperately poor can sell a kidney for $1,000 to $1,500. The People’s Republic of China doesn’t even bother to pay; they extract organs from executed prisoners. Two men were arrested in New York in early 1998 for offering to sell kidneys and other organs of executed Chinese. A related legend, common in some developing countries, has babies being kidnapped by rich Westerners so they can be stripped for parts. In 1993 in Guatemala, one American tourist was beaten to death and another was jailed after they were falsely accused of babynapping.

Crazy, eh? It gets crazier. While there are no known cases of kidney theft in the U.S., it’s been reliably reported elsewhere. A few weeks after my column expressing doubts about kidney theft appeared in April 1998, the Associated Press ran a story from New Delhi, India, telling of the arrest of 10 people, including three transplant surgeons and a hospital owner, after a patient claimed he’d been lured to the hospital and robbed of a kidney.

Supposedly the hospital had promised the man a job in Singapore and told him a medical exam was needed to obtain a visa. Similar allegations about the hospital apparently had been made earlier. In one case a mentally retarded boy disappeared only to show up three months later $750 richer and a kidney shy.

An isolated case? Evidently not. A Washington Post story on January 30, 2008 reported that police had raided a “kidney bazaar run by a group of men posing as doctors” in Gurgaon, India. Five were arrested and five other individuals, all laborers, were rescued, three of whom had lost kidneys.

What is definitely true is: there are not enough kidneys for transplant. More are needed than ever come up. It’s vital to look after your kidneys. Even if you are rich (about $150,000 per kidney), there is no gurantee of availability, in your blood and tissue type.

You might like to consider getting my kidney health book “The Waters Of Life”, along with the liver book just mentioned. They are available as a discounted pair: http://www.informed-wellness.com/liver-kidneys/

Injectable licorice root has also got some reasonable science, showing that it helps with hepatitis C (don’t eat the candy junk in American stores; it’s not licorice but flavored with anise). You want glycyrrhizin. But this compound may have unwanted side effects, such as raised blood pressure, lowered potassium levels, and salt and water retention when taken in large amounts. Ironically, it can be liver-toxic.

Get expert help.

I’m not talking about cancer metastases to the liver (spread from elsewhere). This is about primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer. In the later stages it has only a 10 percent to 12 percent five-year survival rate, according to figures in a Mayo news release.

The researchers examined several decades of medical information from the Rochester Epidemiology Project — a national database on inpatient and outpatient care. Although the U.S. National Cancer Institute estimates the rate of HCC is 5.1 cases per 100,000 people, the new study found a higher rate of 6.9 per 100,000. People are getting liver cancer as a result of scarring from hepatitis C after delays of 20 or even 30 years.

Patients in their 50s and 60s are being diagnosed, who didn’t even know they had had hepatitis C. If you’ve led the high risk life, you need to get checked. Don’t wait till you start to turn yellow!

A slightly higher risk factor for HCC liver cancer was found to be obesity, particularly fatty liver disease. If this is correct, we expect to see a dramatic rise in liver cancer in the coming years.

For more vital information of liver health, which everyone needs, get my book “Love Your Liver”. Read about it here:

http://www.informed-wellness.com/liver

[SOURCE: Mayo Clinic, news release, Jan. 3, 2012]

Fatty liver is a common liver condition that occurs in over one-third of adults in the U.S. and with similar alarming frequency elsewhere in Western societies with poor diets. In some cases, the condition is mild and causes no noticeable symptoms, but in other cases it can lead to permanent liver damage or liver failure.

Fatty liver is frequently associated with alcoholic liver disease, but it may also have non-alcoholic causes.

You do NOT want a fatty liver. You need to get me eBook on liver health: “Love Your Liver”. It’s coupled with a similar super eBook about kidney health (kidney disease is arguably the 4^th leading cause of death). More on that at this page: Liver and Kidney Health

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

Contrary to belief, alcohol is NOT the main cause of liver failure (only 6%); NAFLD is (over 50%)!

Moreover it has now emerged that fatty liver will likely trigger an even bigger killer: diabetes. Diabetes, I have often said, is really “speeded up aging”; that’s pretty much the effect is has on your body.

In a study to be published next month (Apr. 2011), researchers found people with fatty liver disease were significantly more likely to develop the disease within five years than those with healthy livers. Fatty liver, as diagnosed by ultrasound, strongly predicts the development of type 2 diabetes regardless of insulin concentration.

Researchers say fatty liver often occurs along with other risk factors for diabetes, such as obesity and insulin resistance, which has made it difficult to determine whether the condition itself is a marker for diabetes risk.

But in this study, the researchers found that even among those with similar insulin concentrations, those with fatty liver were still 200% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

This was a large study carried out in Korea and published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Over the space of five years (2003- 2008), researchers looked at the relationship between fatty liver and diabetes risk in 11,091 adults.

At the start of the study, 27% had fatty liver, as diagnosed by ultrasound. Nearly two-thirds of those with fatty liver were also overweight or obese compared with 19% of those without fatty liver.

In addition, almost half of those with fatty liver had seriously raised insulin levels, a marker of insulin resistance (pre-diabetes), compared with 17% of those without fatty liver.

During the follow-up period, less than 1% of those without fatty liver developed type 2 diabetes compared with 4% of those with fatty liver.

[SOURCE: Sung, K. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, April 2011. Pre-publication]