PLD Diet
Relief from Bloating
Plant Based Alkaline Diet
Neutral Protein 0.6 grams/kilogram
1200 mg sodium
3 Liters water or twice your daily output
Bloating and eating can become a constant pain trigger for someone with severe Polycystic Liver Disease. This can lead to early satiety (getting full quickly), emaciation, and malnourishment.
Liver cysts have receptors within their cell walls. The following compounds are similar. They ↑ liver cyst growth attaching to hormone receptors within liver cysts.
BPAbleach
endocrine disruptors
methylparabens
phytoestrogens
phthalates
plastic
xenoestrogens
The greatest thing each of us can do to protect our liver cysts is to maintain the integrity of our DNA. This does not have to be done with the PLD Diet. It can be accomplished by anything one can do to maintain ones own DNA integrity. The PLD Diet is something to try to see if it works for you. This can be accomplished by eating foods without pesticides or herbicides; by reducing exposure to xenoestrogens, endocrine disruptors, plastic, bleach, chemicals etc; by avoiding hormones and more. The two hit mechanism is prominent in both diseases: ADPLD and ADPKD.
How can I begin PLD Diet?
Some go all out from the very beginning and
switch readily to an all plant based low sodium low fat alkaline diet. Preparing all their own foods
leads to searching ingredient labels and becoming avid label readers.
Some follow this:
by drinking three (3) liters of water per day;
by testing urinary pH at night confirming it consistently runs 6.5, 7.0, 7.5;
by taking their own blood pressure keeping it between 100/60 - 120/80;
by checking for protein in their urine and assuring this is minimal.
In between doctors' visits this testing can give a relative indication of our health.
This first group gradually eliminates harmful vegetables especially soy, nightshade, and chocolate.
Many have found hot water with lemon to be a great reliever of dietary indescretions.
Others make gradual changes by eliminating some harmful things like alcohol, bleach, caffeine, chemicals, flaxseed, hormones, soy, sugars, wheat and yeast. Each day they drink hot water with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and try saffron tea if pain persists then slowly they begin eliminating harmful foods oftentimes starting by avoiding beef and dairy. As they feel better and become more comfortable with the PLD Liver Diet, they continue with the dietary suggestions, avoiding chicken, poultry, fish, especially oily fish and seafood. Once they see results in their own lab values and as they begin to feel better, they may give an all plant based diet a try while continuing to eliminate harmful vegetables and fruits. Or others may go about this differently. Many who have tried the PLD diet have had favorable results.
PLD Diet
The PLD liver diet is gathered from our collective Polycystic Liver Disease experiences. Certain foods seem to prevent a polycystic liver from expanding. Other foods create expansion. A few individuals have tested themselves by eating a food then withdrawing it to see if symptoms return or abate. PLD Diet is a whole foods plant based diet chosen from ripe locally grown and in season produce. It is low in sodium; neutral in protein, and by allowing for sufficient water intake, this shuts down vasopressin and flushes a polycystic body. All things considered, this seems to lessen PLD Polycystic Liver Disease symptoms.
Eating animal products or eating the equivalent of a 20% animal protein diet is detrimental to PLD health. Eating vast amounts of protein is likely to increase ammonia levels as well as certain liver enzymes. This increase in liver enzymes produces more circulating liver watery by-products, secondary compounds.
Part of the liver's job is to detoxify and metabolize body wastes converting the end products into watery compounds. These watery compounds can then be excreted by the kidneys. Water helps dilute these compounds. Adequately flushing the body with cool refreshing water seems to help increase liver functioning on a cellular level. Water dilutes any ammonia that may have been released. This diminishes a rising BUN. It is this watery by products compound that oftentimes is more toxic than the initial compound. However the end products of metabolism, the body's wastes, need to be changed so that these by products can be released through the kidneys. Before this secondary compound is released by the kidneys, this circulating secondary compound can harm a polycystic liver. Many of the things to be avoided are aimed at lessening these effects.
PLD Livers Rarely Fail
A cystic liver may enlarge greatly. It is rare for a PLD liver to fail. However with massive polycystic liver disease sometimes abnormalities appear in our blood work. For this reason it is good to get liver function tests done regularly, especially get bilirubin checked. ADPLD is only liver cysts with the absence of any kidney cysts. ADPKD has both kidney and liver cysts.
All of the ADPLD diagnosed individuals had:
↑ alkaline phosphatase
↑ total billirubin
↓ cholesterol
↓ triglycerides
Estrogen
The metabolism of estrogen can become greatly impaired. These estrogen by-products contribute to an expanding a polycystic liver. Starting the day with a freshly squeezed lemon juice added to a cup of warm water seems to help quiet many symptoms, especially those of pain, discomfort, and bloating. Ending the day with chamomile or saffron tea helps diminish pain. At night drinking 2 ounces of grape juice diluted in 1 ounce of mineral water can help provide restful sleep. All these listed below increase cystic liver size, pain and bloating. Choose from the pulldown menu for a more complete list.
Helpful for PLD
Artichoke
Artichoke recipe
DIMs Broccoli
Liver Friendly Foods
Lemon juice
Milk Thistle
Prebiotics & Gluten Free
Saffron
Saffron more
Saffron some more
Spelt
Sunchokes
Turmeric
Veronica
ale
alcohol
beer
chocolate
coffee
concentrated sugars
flaxseed
fructose
nightshade: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers
oily fish
sesame
soy
starfruit
sugar
tea
wheat
yeast
Avoid Chemicals:
alcohol
ammonia
bleach
dry clean chemicals
dry cleaned clothing
hair chemicals
nail chemicals
Avoid Hormones: endocrine disruptors
estrogen
estrogen disruptors
growth hormones
hormones
parabens
perfumes
phthalates
xenoestrogens
Avoid Certain Herbs
↑ BUST ENHANCEMENT
black cohosh
chaste-tree berry
dill
dong quai
fennel
fenugreek
hops
kava
saw palmetto
wild yam
↑ ANTI-COAGULATION
chrysanthemum
NIGHTSHADE
goji
tomato
potato
eggplant
peppers
belladonna
tobacco
↓ KIDNEY & LIVER FUNCTIONING
rhubarb
Diet-induced metabolic acidosis
Adeva MM, Souto G.
Source
Hospital General Juan Cardona, c/ Pardo Bazán s/n 15406 Ferrol, La Coruña, Spain. madevaa@yahoo.com
Abstract
"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 ADPKD Kidneys we are prone to: hypocitraturia, hypertension, elevated uric acid, stone formation, low urine pH, osteopenia, and chronic kidney failure.
| Useful | Alkaline Diet Trials | Avoid |
| Useful Chemicals | Low High K+ | Avoid Chemicals |
| Useful Grains | Menus | Avoid Grains |
| Useful Herbs | Better Proteins | Avoid Herbs |
| Useful Other | Recipes | Avoid Other |
| 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 | Phytoestrogens Avoid | Sunscreen App |
| City water | Phthalates | Restaurant nutrition App |
| Moringa | Saving Failing Kidneys | Fish: Seafood Watch App |
| Fish: guide | Fish: Mercury content | Fish: Mercury App |
| BOOKS PKD KIDNEY | BOOKS PLD LIVER | |
| PKD Diet Kidney iBookstore | Alkaline Diet Foods App | PLD Diet Liver iBookstore |
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