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Diet   Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet

Changing to PKD Polycystic Kidney Diet has helped many feel better PKD KIDNEY DIET Plant based diet - water 1200 mg sodium Himalayan pink salt 0.6 grams protein/kg 3 liters water/ day or twice the amount of your output PKD USEFUL FOODS Acorn squash Almonds Apple Apple juice (fresh) Apricot Arrowroot Artichokes globe Artichoke Jerusalem Artichokes sunchokes Avocado Bamboo shoots Banana Barley * Barley grass juice * Beans green wax Beef tea -distilled broth Beet tops Beet roots Bok choy Boysenberry Broccoli sprouts * Broccoli * Burdock root Cabbage Cabbage juice Carrots Cauliflower Chamomile Chard Cheese Cherries Chestnut Chia seeds Chia oil Chicory Chinese peas Cream Coconut Coconut water young* Collard greens Corn meal Corn on the cob Cruciform vegetables Daikon radish Dairy Dates Delicata squash DIMs (broccoli) * Drumstick plant * Edible flowers Endive Escarole Garlic Golden Delicious apple Grape juice Grapes Grapefruit Gravenstein apples Greens leafy * Guava Hemp oil Hempseed Himalayan salt Honeydew melon Ice Cream Jerusalem artichokes Kale Kiwi Kohlrabi Kumquats Lettuce exclude iceberg Lemon juice * Lemon thyme Limes Linden flower Loquat PKD USEFUL HERBS Artichoke DIMs broccoli sprouts Hibiscus Linden flower Nettle extract Oregano Parsley Rooibos * Rose hips Saffron Thyme Veronica * more on herbs PKD POSSIBLE USEFUL MEDICINES Lei Gong Teng Triptolide Octreotide Sirolimus Tolvaptan Water PKD USEFUL FOODS continued Mandarins Mango Melon Melon juice Millet Mother's milk Mulungai * Mushrooms Mustard greens Myer lemon * Nasturtiums Nectarines Nettle Nettle leaf Okra Onions Olive oil Orange Parsley Parsnip Passion fruit Paw paw Peach Pear Peas Persimmons Pineapple Pomelo Pumpkin Quince Quinoa Radish * Radish sprout* Raspberry Rhizomes Rice syrup Romaine lettuce Rutabagas Salsify Sesame Soba Sorrel Spelt Squash Summer squash Sunchokes Swedes Sweet potato Swiss Chard Tahini Tangerine Tupelo honey Turnips Turnip greens Ube Water Water chestnut Watercress Watermelon * Watermelon seed tea * Wheat grass juice Wild rice Winter squash Yams Yellow squash Zucchini BETTER CHOICES ANIMAL FOOD Lamb Fish flat white fish non oily Cheese soft white cheeses (goat) cottage cheese or quark Cultured dairy i.e. buttermilk, yogurt, plugra butter. Keep butter to less than a tablespoon per day. BETTER  CHOICE TO  REPLACE Lamb Beef Bean burger Hamburger Haddock Salmon OrangeRoughy Tuna Perch Sardines Cottage Cheese Parmesan Goat Cheese Cheddar Buttermilk Whole milk Plugra cultured Butter Yogurt Sour Cream * Foods in bold are especially useful. PKD AVOID FOODS Alfalfa sprouts Animal proteins Aluminum Ammonia Anabolic steroids Artificial sweetener Aspirin Beef Bacon Black tea Blood dishes Bluefish Bologna BPA Bratwurst Butter Caffeine Candy Celery Chaparral tea Charred meats Cheerios Cheese Chocolate Cod liver oil Coffee Cola Comet Corn syrup Cream Creatine Crisco Croissant Crustaceans Dairy DDT De-caf chocolate De-caf coffee De-caf cola De-caf tea Donuts Dry cleaning Duck Eel Eggplant Forskolin French fries Fructose GM foods Green tea Ground meats Hamburger Hard cheese Hot dogs PKD AVOID FOODS Iceberg lettuce Lard Licorice Liver Liverwurst Lobster Margarine Microwaved food Multiple vitamins Nightshade Nato Noni juice Paté foie gras Peanuts Pepperoni Peppers Pink meats Plums Potato Potato chips Powdered soaps Quail Rice wine Rindswurst Salami Salmon Salt pork Sausage Scallops Scrambled eggs Shell fish Shrimp Soy Soy milk Squab Starfruit Stevia Strawberry Sugar Tamari Tea Tomato Tuna Turkey Tylenol Vegemite Vinegar Wheat Wheat germ White rice Windex White tea Wine Yeasted bread Yeast AVOID for all humans: Peanuts Aluminum Candy Potato chips Lard Margarine French fries PKD AVOID MEDS Aspirin Creatine Caffeine Ephedra Glucosamine Chondroitin Lithium NSAIDs Paracetamol Tylenol NSAIDs Phenacetin Ibuprophen Naproxn Motrin Alleve     PKD HERBS Chaparral Forskolin Ginkgo biloba Certain Chinese herbs, see Herbs. Why is Glucosamine and Chondroitin to be avoided? It is made from shellfish and shark cartilage, these are high in copper and high in oxalates, which are detrimental to individuals with PKD. If one has an iodine allergy to imaging dyes, this may have a cross over allergy. Completed GAIT clinical trials, a multi-center trial of 1500 individuals Glucosamine/chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT), run for 24-weeks, concluded that Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate alone or in combination did not reduce pain effectively in the overall group of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Analyses suggest that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may be effective in the subgroup of patients with moderate-to-severe knee pain must be confirmed by another trial. Another clinical trial of Glucosamine supplementation showed that it does not affect blood sugar in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The American College of Radiologists concluded that there was a possible benefit in severe cases of knee osteoarthritis. Another comment from the NIH. Here are two sources vegetarian glucosamine Freeda vegetarian glucosamine Swanson vegetarian glucosamine. Why are multivitamins to be avoided? Unless prescribed for you by your physician, I would avoid multivitamin capsules or tablets. Multivitamins contain high amounts of copper. Researchers have noted that individuals who develop cancers have higher amounts of copper in their bodies. Additionally with multiple vitamins there are many of the fat soluble vitamins that can possibly cause an overdose of vitamins. It is best to supplement with individual vitamins such as B12,B6, folic acid, Vitamin C with rose hips and a few others if needed. Choose an all natural vitamin made from a food source so the micronutrients can be obtained. Juicing with nutrient dense calorie poor fruits and vegetables is especially good for the body. When some take supplements or vitamins, they take the vitamins specifically needed rather than daily to allow the body to continue to manufacture its own vitamins such as B12 from the food. Certain vitamins if taken after 2pm, interrupt a restful night's sleep i.e. B vitamins. Some alternate months of vitamins following one month on, one month off regime. A report has been released about caution with megavitamins: Unsafe Levels of Selenium Found in Dietary Supplements ROCKVILLE, Md., April 9 -- The FDA has identified hazardous levels of selenium as the cause of 43 adverse events stemming from use of certain flavors of the dietary supplements Total Body Formula and Total Body Mega Formula. The distributor of the products, Total Body Essential Nutrition, of Atlanta, has recalled the Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar flavors of Total Body Formula in eight- and 32-ounce bottles and the Orange/Tangerine flavor of Total Body Mega Formula in 32-ounce containers. PKD Diet Kidney contains some suggestions to try. These are gathered from our collective experiences - anecdotal knowledge. Each of us is unique with our own set of symptoms from various foods. Check which helps you. And check with your doctor to be sure that everything here might be beneficial. If something makes you feel better than utilize it. If something worsens, then lay it aside. Some of the foods are high in potassium. Others are high in phosphorus. Grapefruit interacts with many medications. What is a diet that might keep kidney cysts from enlarging? Plant based diet Low salt - 1200 mg sodium diet Neutral protein - 0.6 grams protein/kilogram of body weight Water Exercise and rest to increase kidney blood flow Eliminate kidney toxic foods, especially cystic kidney • Plant based - diet that is alkaline producing within your own body. Some have reported an alkaline diet diminishes protein spillage in the urine; lowers blood pressure; corrects anemia, diminishes kidney cyst growth, and for some has resulted in an improved kidney functioning. • Low salt - eliminate all canned goods, prepared foods, frozen dinners, fast food, salty snacks and take time to read sodium levels of purchased foods. Do not add salt to your own cooked foods. Low salt - Daily place 1/8 of a teaspoon of Himalayan salt in a shaker. This amount of salt can be consumed daily. It can be used for seasoning, for baking, for any purpose. At the end of the day, the 1/8 teaspoon needs to be tossed and replenished with a new 1/8 teaspoon of Himalayan salt placed again into the salt shaker. Some have experienced by using Himalayan salt there is no change in blood pressure. A few adventurous have tried one drop of solé each morning in a glass of mineral water. To read about solé, click here. Low salt - in a study patients were given either salt restriction or medication to control blood pressure. Individuals who restricted salt fared better. • Neutral protein - Researchers calculated the amount of protein intake needed daily to keep the body in a neutral protein balance. That amount is 0.6 grams/kilogram. The formula is body weight divided by 2.2 then multiplied by 0.6. For instance if one weighs 110 pounds divided by 2.2 = 50 kilograms multiplied by 0.6 = 30 grams of protein is the protein intake needed to keep this body in a neutral protein balance. If one is eating an alkaline diet that keeps the urinary pH at or near 7.0, it is likely this individual is also in a neutral protein balance. For more information on protein click here. • Water - Drinking sufficient water to shut down vasopressin is thought to be a possible cure for PKD. A clinical trial for this is upcoming in NYC. To read more about water click here. The amount of water to raise urine osmolality equal to that of serum might be twice the urine output. For instance if one has 1500 cc output in 24 hours, then drinking twice that amount in water or 3000 cc or 3 quarts might be sufficient. We will have to wait for clinical trials to prove or disprove this. • Exercise and rest to increase kidney blood flow - laying on the back or on the spine raises kidney blood flow. Certain blood medications also increases kidney blood flow. • Eliminate kidney toxic foods - Avoid caffeine, coffee, chocolate, tea, white tea, green tea, de-caf teas, de-caf coffee, de-caf chocolate, (all stimulate cyclic AMP which causes cysts to grow and enlarge), aspirin, phenacetin, NSAIDs, Lithium, Starfruit, chaparral tea, and more. To read about herbs and foods click here. AVOID ANIMAL PROTEINS or Limit the quantity of animal proteins to 3 ounces of meat or 1 ounce of dairy 2 times per week. . Keep portions small and have only occasionally - no more frequently than once a week. Medical articles have shown in normal individuals (those without cystic organs) there is a drop in kidney functioning when large portions of animal proteins are eaten. For a list of protein in some common foods, click here. ANIMAL PROTEINS Some have been able to facilitate an increase in kidney functioning by eliminating animal proteins, (and potatoes), even with a previous decline. Maintaining alkalinity is imperative for individuals wishing longevity, but for PKD'rs it is imperative for health. LAMB - ANIMAL PROTEINS Lamb has different molecular protein structure than beef. Beef or cows eat grasses that have the residual pesticides still present, long after these chemicals have been banned from farming. Beef cuts that are marbled are said to be the choicest. This marbling that makes the meat so tender is fat. Hormones are stored in the fat tissue and it is these hormones plus the chemicals from the grasses eaten from contaminated soil that is harmful. ANIMAL PROTEINS - BETTER CHOICES If it is not possible for you to eliminate all animal foods there are some better choices than others: non oily fish once or twice a month 2 ounces ; lamb 3 ounces (one lamb chop) ; cottage cheese (2 ounces) ; plain yogurt with added acidophilus (a half a cup; open an acidophilus capsule and add the powder to this half a cup); buttermilk cultured skim milk 2 ounces max; poached egg yolk once a month BETTER  CHOICE TO  REPLACE Lamb Beef Bean burger Hamburger Haddock Salmon OrangeRoughy Tuna Perch Sardines Cottage Cheese Parmesan Goat Cheese Cheddar Buttermilk Whole milk Plugra cultured Butter Yogurt Sour Cream Poultry Wild game Turkey Wild Turkey Chicken Pheasant FISH - ANIMAL PROTEINS Fish - Enjoy flat white fish- that is non oily and low in fat. such as haddock, cod, orange roughy, and perch, For more examples of flat white fish click here. Avoid fish oil supplements. These are high in mercury. Also eliminate cod liver oil products by checking the ingredients lists in cosmetics, vitamins, and supplements. Avoid the following fish. The fat content is too high. AVOID fatty fish greater than 1% fat content. Pollock 1.0 Grouper 1.0 Yellowfin Tuna 1.0 Snapper 1.3 Monkfish 1.5 Ocean Perch 1.6 Mackerel (King) 2.0 Halibut 2.3 Striped Bass 2.3 Smelt 2.4 Rainbow Trout 3.4 Swordfish 4.0 Bluefish 4.2 Catfish 4.3 Bluefin Tuna 4.9 Salmon 6.3 Albacore Tuna 7.2 Lake Trout 9.4 Chinook Salmon 10.4 Mackerel (Atlantic) 13.9 Chinook Salmon 18.0 DAIRY - ANIMAL PROTEINS to be avoided cheese, cream and ice cream All put an extra workload on the kidneys. The solutes are too large for cystic kidneys to effectively filter. Dairy tends to dehydrate the body. Salt that is added to cheese and ice creams plus the extra large molecular solutes, plus the dehydration all can raise blood pressure and decrease kidney functioning. Some of us have experienced by taking a bite of ice cream or a sip of milk, this is followed by an episode of awakening in the middle of the night with a cotton mouth, an intense thirst that one feels as if their tongue is totally parched and their mouth is filled with many bits of cotton puffs. We have experienced this from all forms of dairy. Fish - Flat white fish- that is non oily and low in fat. Haddock, cod, orange roughy, perch, are examples of flat white fish. Avoid fish oil supplements. These are high in mercury. Avoid the following fish. The fat content is too high. Fatty portions from animal proteins are much more harmful than the leaner sections, i.e. skim milk is preferable to cream. Limit fats to a maximum of one ounce per day. If one continues to eat meats and animal foods than any type of cheese needs to replace the meat for that day. The amount of cheese allowed is one ounce whereas the amount of lean meat is approximately three ounces once or twice a week. Goat cheese is better than cow cheese, especially the type made in local farms and often sold at farmer's markets in the spring. Sometimes they make a salt free variety. Cultured dairy is preferable i.e. buttermilk, yogurt, plugra butter. Keep butter fat intake to less than a tablespoon per day. Less Harmful Cheese Cheeses best avoided Blue cheese Asiago cheese Blue veined cheeses Dry cheeses Cottage cheese Cheddar cheeses Enmenthaler Hard cheeses Feta salt free Mimolette cheese Goat cheese Mizithra Paneer Orange cheeses Quark cheese Kefalotyri Roquefort cheese Parmesan Swiss cheese Romano cheese Sheep cheese Reggiano Soft white cheese Yellow cheeses In addition to the proteins of dairy being particularly hard on cystic kidneys, the fats of animal proteins concentrate pesticides, DDT and other toxins. If you eat cheese try to find a type that preferably uses a vegetable rennet and is locally grown or organic, with grazing lands that are free of pesticides, hormones, chemicals.   Why is star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) to be avoided? I have enjoyed the wonderful Hilo Big Island Farmer's Market eating in season star fruit and mango, a traditional combination. Then I discovered that starfruit is a known kidney toxin. Star fruit originated in Southeast Asia and is readily available worldwide.. It causes an array of symptoms in patients with chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease. The symptoms vary and include insomnia, intractable hiccups, agitation, muscle weakness, confusion, consciousness disturbances of various degrees, seizures, and cardiorespiratory arrest. The various star fruit subspecies contain different toxins, including a powerful neurotoxin that is suspected to accumulate in blood, cross the blood-brain barrier in chronic renal failure patients, and eventually leading to irreversible damage. Star fruit intoxication is a serious fruit intoxication frequently observed in patients with chronic renal failure.To date 2 PKD'rs have written about relatives succumbing to star fruit toxins. Because no effective treatment is currently available, patients— especially those who are newly diagnosed with chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease—must be warned not to ingest star fruit, even in small amounts. Here is a study on a guinea pig heart, recommending that (star fruit) carambola extracts are to be avoided in individuals with normal or diseased hearts. Why is Noni juice (Morinda citrifolia) to be avoided? Hawaii is home to the growers of noni juice. Noni has had some cases of harm to kidneys according to the growers of noni juice. They suggested with my history of both kidney and liver  disease, I avoid noni. Noni is very high in potassium and has been a cause of very high potassium levels. Lemon juice is a great flush, low in potassium, cheaper to obtain, and makes one alkaline .There are several cases in the literature that  link noni to inflamed livers (hepatitis). Hepatitis induced by Noni juice from Morinda citrifolia Hepatotoxicity of Noni juice: report of two cases. Acute hepatitis caused by Noni