AVOID Butter and cheese are high in estrogen like molecules. Now many dairy farmers have taken to giving cows in the United States bovine lactating hormone to keep the cows producing 10-100 times the amount of milk that these cows would naturally produce. The milk, cheese, butter, and meat from these cows not only has estrogen like molecules from their grazing on contaminated grass but it also has artificially added true estrogen that has been given to the cows. Dairy Delicious makes a low phosphorus cheese especially for kidney patients.
1. One way to avoid this is to eliminate dairy. If one has Polycystic Kidney Disease then diary is good thing to choose to eliminate. Dairy is high in sodium and it has many solutes that dehydrate the body and increase the workload of the kidneys by making it difficult to filter through cystic kidneys. Dehydration is one situations that will hasten kidney failure. A perfectly healthy person when deprived of water can lose their functioning kidneys. Milk is so high in sodium that it raises my blood pressure. For these reasons I have eliminated all dairy from my diet.
2. If one cannot eliminate diary then be sure the dairy taken in is organic, free of pesticides, produced without any bovine growth hormone, and the dairy is from skim milk. Estrogen is stored by the body is fatty tissue. Perhaps 2 ounces of skim milk drunk in the winter months might be considered beneficial in providing Vitamin D for people living in Northern countries with less sunshine. A better way to assure an adequate intake of Vitamin D is to take daily walks in the sunshine and a third way is to supplement with Vitamin D. Check all supplements with your nephrologist.
3. If one cannot eliminate all fat from dairy then the next possibility is to choose dairy which is cultured such as French butter called Plugra. This butter is produced from first producing crème fraiche; a cultured cream; then it is churned into butter. Yogurt is made from a cultured starter. Buttermilk also utilizes a culture.
4. If one must have cheese then choose a light white cheese with half the fat such as enmenthaler (called Swiss cheese in the USA), Try and find salt free cheeses. Dairy alone is high in sodium. Soft white goat and sheep cheeses may also be better choices. Avoid any yellow cheeses and any hard cheeses such as parmesan; also avoid mozzarella.
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