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AVOID Caffeine contributes to
• Cyst growth of PKD kidneys and PLD liver
• Decreased bone density
• Raises cholesterol, especially triglycerides, LDL.

• Cafestol, found in caffeine is a known elevater of cholesterol
• Excretion of the body's minerals
• Kidney stone formation
• Stimulate C-amp leading to cyst expansion kidney decline
• Increased PKD cyst formation
• Raises PKD blood pressure
• Altering signaling to the heart, especially with PKD
• Heart problems LVH
• Alters PKD smooth muscle calcium stores
• Hypertension
• Elevates liver enzymes

• Increases liver cyst growth. Kidney cysts have cAMP.

• Liver cysts contain 8x amount of cAMP. Really important avoid caffeine.

• Caffeine increases estradiol levels by 70%

 

 

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The above are myocystes, heart cells, adversely affected by caffeine.

 

 

Many of us with PKD or PLD have observed that by eliminating caffeine we have a lessening of pain from our surrounding our cystic kidneys and cystic liver. Caffeine stimulates cyclic AMP. Cyclic AMP increases cyst growth and expansion. Tolvaptan an experimental drug to reduce kidney cyst growth. One mechanism of tolvaptan's action is to blocks the binding at receptor sites of cyclic AMP. Even small amounts of caffeine contained in de-caf chocolate or de-caf organic green tea have increased pain within our cystic kidneys, as well as increased abdominal girth from liver cyst expansion and growth.

 

Click on the caffeine coffee chocolate green arrow or the blue links to read several caffeine articles.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Looking at coffee oils & gallstones researchers found a source of gallstones to be tamarind.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Cafestol Coffee oils raise cholesterol esp triglycerides LDL HDL. Reproducible 2005
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee bean extracts kahweol elevate liver enzymes in healthy individuals. 2004
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee - Association Parkinson's and coffee
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine - Abstract - Chronic consumption exacerbates hypertension in PKD rats
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine - Full article - Chronic consumption exacerbates hypertension in PKD model
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee - Caffeine increases kidney stones formation. (Massey 2004)
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine's effect on PKD stimulates cyst growth by stimulating C-amp.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee PKD stimulates cyst growth in PKD kidneys by stimulating C-amp.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee stimulates bad cholesterol NY times article BP
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine- Habitual caffeine intake and risk of hypertension in women
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee caffeine alters signaling LVH to the heart ADPKD cardiomyocytes altered signaling.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Coffee caffeine alters smooth muscle calcium stores vascular phenotype in PKD Torres
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine increases excretion of minerals for 3 hours contributes to lessening bone density.
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Decaffeinated' Coffee May Be Anything But
caffeine coffee chocolate cyclic amp c-amp tea pkdiet.com alkalinediet.com polycysticliverdisease.com Caffeine and kidney stones
caffeine PKD PLD Caffeine's effect on PKD cyst growth by stimulating Cyclic amp
caffeine PKD PLD The effects of caffeine and coffee on health, a few papers from Teeccino an herbal coffee.
caffeine PKD PLD Quitting caffeine painlessly by Teeccino an herbal coffee.

 

Caffeine raises PKD blood pressure. Elevations in blood pressure contributes to the many vascular and cardiac manifestations of PKD - such as left ventricular hypertrophy LVH or an increase in the mass of the left heart ventricle. Many PKD'rs are maintaining blood pressure near 100/70 - 110/70 - 120/80. This lower consistent blood pressure is thought to be key in delaying dialysis by 15 years or more. Whereas uncontrolled PKD blood pressure correlates with much more rapid decline in kidney failure.

The number one cause of death from Polycystic Kidneys is left ventricular hypertrophy— LVH or heart disease. Surprisingly it is not kidney failure. Cystic kidneys do fail but generally this is not what causes death, it is the heart and the blood vessels. This is why there is such an interest in cardiomyocytes, caffeine and polycystin 2. There is an ongoing 5 year HALT PKD blood pressure trial underway. Check out the HALT website or send an Email if you are willing to volunteer. More on research and other clinical trials is available here. Caffeinated beverages should be discouraged because caffeine inhibits phosphodiesterase; enhances cAMP accumulation; and potentiates the effects of vasopressin on chloride secretion, cell proliferation, and cyst growth, at least in vitro (27).

27. Belibi FA, Wallace DP, Yamaguchi T, Christensen M, Reif G, Grantham JJ: The effect of caffeine on renal epithelial cells from patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 13: 2723–2729, 2002

 

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