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Plant Based Alkaline Diet
Neutral Protein 0.6 grams/kilogram
1200 mg sodium
4 Liters water or twice your daily output
Low in Fat
Food Restriction

Does Diet Help?

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2014 Cohort Studies
Plant Food Diet Lessens Renal Cell Carcinoma Incidence
Plant based diet lessens depression, improves quality of life
Risk of death and end stage renal disease lessened by plant based diet
2013 study plant based diet protects against kidney toxicity

Urine Alkalization Facilitates Uric Acid Excretion 2010

In Japan researchers used two different types of diets: one of meats (acidify urines); the other fruit and vegetable rich, converts the urine to alkaline. This was a 5 day consecutive study. They collected all day urines from participants and found that after three days urine pH reached a steady state. Researchers conclude that alkalization of urine by eating nutritionally well-designed alkaline foods are effective for removing uric acid from the body. Uric acid is elevated in PKD.

Support for Less Salt, More Potassium 2013

The idea that reducing salt intake -- and increasing potassium intake -- can lower blood pressure and improve disease outcomes has received additional support from three systematic reviews.

--select Less Salt More Potassium article -- LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM BMJ ↓ BP LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM ↓ ASHD LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM ↑ Health LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM review of 3 studies LESS SALT MORE POTASSIUM more support

Diet vs Alkalizers in Chronic Kidney Disease 2013

Conclusion:
One year of fruits and vegetables or NaHCO in individuals with stage 4 CKD yielded eGFR that was not different, was associated with higher-than-baseline PTCO, and was associated with lower-than-baseline urine indices of kidney injury. The data indicates that eating fruits and vegetables improves metabolic acidosis and reduces kidney injury in stage 4 CKD without producing hyperkalemia.

Saving Failing Kidneys

This is a very interesting Malaysian newspaper article. From this article one can learn that for most of the citizens of Malaysia there are very few treatment alternatives to save their their failing kidneys and according to this article, dietary changes is good place for one to start. Those who can make the switch to all vegetarian proteins seem to have a much easier time with maintaining their health.

Diet-induced metabolic acidosis

"The modern Western-type diet is deficient in fruits and vegetables and contains excessive animal products, generating the accumulation of non-metabolizable anions and a lifespan state of overlooked metabolic acidosis, whose magnitude increases progressively with aging due to the physiological decline in kidney function. In response to this state of diet-derived metabolic acidosis, the kidney implements compensating mechanisms aimed to restore the acid-base balance, such as the removal of the non-metabolizable anions, the conservation of citrate, and the enhancement of kidney ammoniagenesis and urinary excretion of ammonium ions. These adaptive processes lower the urine pH and induce an extensive change in urine composition, including hypocitraturia, hypercalciuria, and nitrogen and phosphate wasting. Low urine pH predisposes to uric acid stone formation. Hypocitraturia and hypercalciuria are risk factors for calcium stone disease. Even a very mild degree of metabolic acidosis induces skeletal muscle resistance to the insulin action and dietary acid load may be an important variable in predicting the metabolic abnormalities and the cardiovascular risk of the general population, the overweight and obese persons, and other patient populations including diabetes and chronic kidney failure. High dietary acid load is more likely to result in diabetes and systemic hypertension and may increase the cardiovascular risk. Results of recent observational studies confirm an association between insulin resistance and metabolic acidosis markers, including low serum bicarbonate, high serum anion gap, hypocitraturia, and low urine pH."

With PKD we are prone to: hypocitraturia, hypertension, elevated uric acid, stone formation, low urine pH, osteopenia, and chronic kidney failure.

Mediterranean Diet

The transition to avoiding all animal products can be difficult. Some have tried the Mediterranean diet. Another possible benefit can be a ↓ in ASHD or heart disease. The Mediterranean diet consists of eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts. Limiting animal protein to less than 3 ounces once or twice a week, and using a splash of olive oil by replacing butter and other fats.

Fats

Omega 3's, omega 6's, and essential fatty acids are those which need to be consumed daily for health. One of the best amongst these are organic hempseed oil capsules from Manitoba and another is chia seed and a third is purslane, a vegetable often discarded as a weed. Fish oil and flax are to be avoided especially if one has liver cysts. Here is a study about fats in the USA.

For details as to why to avoid certain things try:

Foods
Herbs
Over The Counter
Or download Alkaline Diet Foods App. Or try an in the works AlkalineDiet

Avoid Ø Carrageenan

Carrageenan even in small quantities is to be avoided. Become an avid label reader.

Life-Span Extension Methionine Restriction.

-- select Life Span Extension article -- LIFE SPAN EXTENSION decreasing methionine cancer restriction LIFE SPAN EXTENSION in mice LIFE SPAN EXTENSION why low calorie? LIFE SPAN EXTENSION methionine highest foods

This is a caloric restricted diet low in methionine thought to extend life expectancy. Foods that are high in methionine are animal proteins. Restriction of methionine foods is also thought to help decrease cancers.

-- select PKD DIET article -- CKD Again Linked to High Consumption of Red Meat Plant Based Diets in CKD Summary Plant Basked Diets in CKD A Prospective Study of Meat Intake in CKD RED MEAT Consumption & Mortality RED MEAT TrimethylamineNoxide RED MEAT eat healthy RED MEAT damages heart ALKALINE DIET Clinical Trials DIET Veggie diet best for kidney disease DIET Vegetarian diet and diabetes DIET vegan diet better for diabetes than ADA diet DIET 5 Servings a Day ↓ CKD DIET Fruits and Vegetables or Oral NaHCO3 Preserve GFR DIET Protein Restriction in Treatment CKD DIET treating with fruits vegetables or alkalizers 2013 DIET Acid-Alkaline Role in CKD DIET Acid Retention DE Wesson MD DIET Key to Halting CKD might in ↑ Produce DIET treating with fruits vegetables or alkalizers 2013 DIET Non-citrus juices DIET keeping kidney volume low, keeps kidney functioning good DIET eating red meat may mean quicker death DIET salt intake blunts ACE inhibitors accelerates kidney disease DIET-induced metabolic acidosis DIET key to halting CKD in market DIET red meat consumption mortality DIET 18yr follow up Healthy Eating DIET Fatty Liver on Rise in Teens DIET progressive ↓ GFR ↑ by alkaline diet DIET PlanEat, a short movie trailer DIET Heart attack proof diet DIET ↑ fruits veg helps kidney injury DIET acid ↓ GFR ↑ plasma aldosterone DIET endothelins and kidney acidification DIET acid retention in humans DIET High and Low Potassium Symptoms DIET CITRATE melon juice and citrus juices for alkalinity DIET CITRATE Lemonade Based Dietary Manipulation DIET lo-cal aides longevity DIET Fat study 2013 USA DIET Red Meat Consumption & Mortality DIET Alternative Healthy Eating Index & Mortality DIET Dog Health Survey DIET Dirty Dozen Food Guide DIET Dietary Citrate ↓ PKD in Rats MEDITERREAN DIET ↓ ASHD MEDITERREAN DIET MEDITERREAN DIET refined MEDITERREAN DIET what is it? Nanobacteria Antimicrobial Drugs Nanobacteria Biomineralization Induced by Stress Nanobacteria in Polycystic Kidney Disease Nanobacteria: controversial pathogens in nephrolithiasis PKD

For Your Reference

These lists are gathered from individual experiences living in a body with cystic organs. This is based on empirical knowledge.

Useful	Alkaline Diet Trials	Avoid
Useful Chemicals	Low High K+	Avoid Chemicals
Useful Grains	Menus	Avoid Grains
Useful Herbs	Recipes	Avoid Herbs
Useful Other	Better Proteins	Avoid Other
Useful Fruits		Avoid Fruits
Xenoestrogens	Avoid Phytoestrogens	Xenoestrogens Avoid
ARTICLES		APPS
Meat Carbon Footprint	Xenoestrogens Avoid	What's On My Food? App
Meat Choose Well	Calculate neutral protein	Produce:Dirty Dozen App
Meat Methodology	Safe cosmetics	Produce:Harvest App
Sunscreen guide	EWG Endocrine Disruptors	Sunscreen App
City water	Phthalates	Restaurant nutrition App
Moringa	Saving Failing Kidneys	Fish: Seafood Watch App
Fish: guide	Fish: Mercury content	Fish: Mercury App
PKD PLD BOOKLETS	APPS OF LISTS RECIPES	PKD PLD BOOKLETS

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We are  sharing our experiences with PKD/PLD Diet, an adjunct diet envisioning it complementing a physician's prescribed medical therapy. Consider testing this with your doctor's prior knowledge, who can  adjust it according to your own uniqueness by adding it to your current  treatment.

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