Dale Moss wrote:
studies on cats or any other animals.
With respect - why do you say this?
In fact, it's actually quite usual for research on kidneys (and a lot of
other things) to be done in dogs or cats, and extrapolated to humans.
They just do not like to do it on humans directly - gee why I wonder:-)
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I disagree, based on good research:-))
What wears them out is our poor quality protein eaten, such as soy
protein, and the other factor is unrelated to [protein and related to
inflamamtory food effects - especially from starches and sugars as in
grains and dairy.
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Kidneys indeed have almost 75% reserve capacity by some estimates - but
why not keep them healthy anyway:-)
burden on the kidneys
Sorry but I see no way to show this.
Lowering meat increases the burden on the kidneys.
Milk I'll agree with - it's inflamamtory - but beef is anti-inflammtory
and most beneficial:-)
This is proved again - directly - in more modern studies on what's
anti-inflamamtory.
inflammation. (I don't recall eggs being a problem.)
You can't have it both ways:-))
Eggs and meat BOTH have arachidonic acid as the major source of fatty
acid. It IS somewhat inflammatory - but it is also necessary for several
functions.
It's necessary to ALSO get anti-inflammatory fatty acids from fish
and extra virgin olive oil in the diet, to balance the arachidonic acid.
Fish oil has eicosapentaenoic acid and docosaheaenoic acid - both
activated and strongly anti-inflammtory../. and EV oliveol has omega-9
fatty acid, also very strongly anti-inflammatory.'
Inflammation-wise - the net total is what counts. If one eats all
inflamamtory foods, the body will suffer (not just the kidneys) and if
one eats more anti-inflamamtory foods than infalammatory ones, the body
will be a LOT healthier.
years ago when I was researching IgA Nephropathy. Please don't ask for
a citation, because it's on a very old computer that doesn't talk to
this one.>>
Sorry but it is necessary to have a real research paper behind anything
that supposedly contradicts (from 50 yrs ago) what so many modern
research papers have shown convincingly, with superior equipment,
background knowledge and study design.
For example, just this month, there is new research showing the
involvement of transcription factor C-Jun, such that activation of c-Jun
is now thought to be involved in the regulation of inflammation and/or
fibrosis in human renal disease in diabetic nephropathy, focal
glomerulosclerosis, hypertension, IgA nephropathy, membranous
glomerulopathy, minimal change disease, membranoproliferative
glomerulonephritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, acute rejection, and
Wegener's granulomatosis.
Also see:
Nippon Jinzo Gakkai Shi. 2006;48(7):675-9. [An IgA nephropathy case with
highly reduced urinary protein concomitant with reduced obesity]
[Article in Japanese]
Nakamura T, Fujikura Y, Suga N, Hatazoe K, Hinoshita F.
Division of Nephrology, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
This is about a 38-yr old woman with massive proteinuria and severe
obesity...and urinary protein more than 3.5 g/day, BMI 38.7 at admission
with IgA nephropathy.
Instead of the usual steroid approach - they used a diet to reduce
obesity - and exercise - to reduce the urinary protein to 0.18g/day.
Also see:
J Nutr. 2004 Jun;134(6):1353-61.
Jia Q, Shi Y, Bennink MB, Pestka JJ.
Docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid (from Fish) but not
alpha-linolenic acid (from flax seed), suppress deoxynivalenol-induced
experimental IgA nephropathy in mice.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
and:
Clin Nephrol. 1986 Aug;26(2):72-82.
Mediterranean diet and primary IgA nephropathy.
Coppo R, Basolo B, Rollino C, Roccatello D, Martina G, Amore A,
Bongiorno G, Piccoli G.
Whatever way you look at it - the kidney issues improve on good animal
protein and anti-inflamamtory amino acids, and get worse on grain/plant
protein and inflammatory flax type amino acids.
I did try to find your 50 year old research in the National Library of
Medicine - but the on-line refs only go back to 1983, and the 1986 one
on the subject that I found was showing the benefits of good animal
protein for kidney health, and the detriment of plant protein with high
carbs, even in IgA nephropathy - a tricky disease being immune mediated,
with poor liver clearance of "toxins" after meals.
Namaste,
Irene
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