All Videos for Kidney Disease

How Not to Die from Kidney Disease

What are the three significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function?



HOW NOT TO DIE: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, & Reversing Our Top 15 Killers

In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.



Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet?

How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional surgical approaches? Is there a safer alternative?



The Great Protein Fiasco

The field of nutrition got human protein requirements spectacularly wrong, leading to a massive recalculation.



Which Has More Caramel Coloring Carcinogens: Coke or Pepsi?

How many cola cancer cases are estimated to be caused by Coke and Pepsi in New York versus California, where a carcinogen labeling law (Prop 65) exists?



Lead Contamination in Bone Broth

Organic chicken broth is popular with paleo diet advocates, but do tests indicate the presence of the toxic heavy metal lead?



Fighting Lupus with Turmeric: Good as Gold

A quarter teaspoon of the spice turmeric was put to the test for the treatment of uncontrollable lupus (SLE) nephritis in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.



Treating Chronic Kidney Disease with Food

Plant-based diets have been shown to slow or stop the progression of kidney failure, but what about all the phosphorus and potassium in plant foods?



Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Garlic and Onions

Why should we wait ten minutes after chopping or crushing garlic before we cook it unless we’re going in for elective surgery within the next week?



Diabetes Reversal: Is It the Calories or the Food?

Even when study subjects were required to eat so much that they didn’t lose any weight, a plant-based diet could still reverse type 2 diabetes in a matter of weeks.



Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?



When Drugs and Diets Don’t Lower Diabetes Deaths

Why do some drug-based strategies shorten the lives of diabetics and some diet-based strategies fail to decrease diabetes deaths?



Protein Source: An Acid Test for Kidney Function

Dietary Acid Load is determined by the balance of acid-inducing food, such as meats, eggs, and cheeses, offset by base-inducing (“alkaline”) foods, such as fruits and vegetables.



Fennel Seeds for Menstrual Cramps and PMS

Fennel seeds can work as effectively as drugs like ibuprofen for painful periods, and an eighth of a teaspoon of ginger powder three times a day can cut menstrual bleeding in half.



Which Type of Protein Is Better for Our Kidneys?

Anti-inflammatory drugs abolish the hyperfiltration and protein leakage response to meat ingestion, suggesting that animal protein causes kidney stress through an inflammatory mechanism.



The Downside of Green Smoothies

Concerns about smoothies and oxalic acid, nitrate availability, dental erosion, and weight gain are addressed.



Fatty Meals May Impair Artery Function

We finally discovered why a single high-fat meal can cause angina chest pain.



Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed?

The reversal of blindness due to hypertension and diabetes with Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit diet demonstrates the power of diet to exceed the benefits of the best modern medicine and surgery have to offer.



How to Treat Kidney Stones with Diet

Decreasing animal protein and sodium intake appears more effective in treating calcium oxalate and uric acid kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) than restricting calcium or oxalates.



How Many Glasses of Water Should We Drink a Day?

Based on the potential benefits of proper hydration such as reduced bladder cancer risk, how many cups of water should we strive to drink every day?



Drugs & the Demise of the Rice Diet

What is the contemporary relevance of Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit protocol for the reversal of chronic disease?



How to Prevent Kidney Stones with Diet

Interventional studies support the population data that animal protein consumption appears to markedly increase the risk of kidney stones.



Nutritional Yeast to Prevent the Common Cold

Beta glucan fiber in nutritional yeast may improve immune function, but there is a concern about lead contamination in some brands.



Can Diet Protect Against Kidney Cancer?

Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.



How to Prevent Prediabetes in Children

Prediabetes is a disease in and of itself, associated with early damage to the eyes, kidneys, and heart. The explosion of diabetes in children is a result of our epidemic of childhood obesity. A plant-based diet may help, given that vegetarian kids grow up not only taller, but thinner.



How to Prevent Prediabetes from Turning into Diabetes

Approximately 1 in 3 Americans have prediabetes, but only about 1 in 10 knows it. What works better at preventing it from turning into full-blown diabetes—drugs or diet and exercise?



Alpha-Gal and the Lone Star Tick

Our immune response against a foreign molecule present in animal products may play a role in some allergic, autoimmune, and inflammatory disorders. This reaction is thought to underlie tick bite-triggered meat allergies.



Treating Asthma and Eczema with Plant-Based Diets

Pilot studies on treating allergic eczema and severe asthma with dietary interventions have shown remarkable results.



Phytates for the Treatment of Cancer

Do the anticancer effects of phytates in a petri dish translate out into clinical studies on cancer prevention and treatment?



Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells

Unlike most other anticancer agents, the phytates naturally found in whole plant foods may trigger cancer cell differentiation, causing them to revert back to behaving more like normal cells.



Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine

An editorial by the Director of Yale’s Prevention Research Center on putting a face on the tragedy of millions suffering and dying from chronic diseases that could be prevented, treated, and reversed if doctors inspired lifestyle changes in their patients.



Who Shouldn’t Consume Curcumin or Turmeric?

Just because something is natural and plant-based doesn’t mean it’s necessarily safe. Those who are pregnant, have gallstones, or are susceptible to kidney stones may want to moderate their turmeric consumption.



Vitamin B12 Necessary for Arterial Health

The cardiovascular benefits of plant-based diets may be severely undermined by vitamin B12 deficiency.



Eggs and Diabetes

Even just a single egg a week may increase the risk of diabetes—the leading cause of lower-limb amputations, kidney failure, and new cases of blindness.



Phosphate Additives in Meat Purge and Cola

The consumption of phosphorus preservatives in junk food, and injected into meat, may damage blood vessels, accelerate the aging process, and contribute to osteoporosis.



Testing Your Diet with Pee and Purple Cabbage

Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones. The pH of one’s urine can be estimated with natural pigments, using kitchen chemistry.



Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, and Calcium Loss

The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has been called into question.



Reducing Cancer Risk in Meat-Eaters

Those who eat meat risk food poisoning from undercooked meat, but also exposure to cooked meat carcinogens in well-cooked meat. By boiling meat, non-vegetarians can mediate their risk of both.



Flesh and Fructose

Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.



Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony

The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc may not only contribute to the progression of cancer and heart disease by supplying inflammation, but may also set children up for life-threatening reactions to E. coli toxins originating in the same animal products.