What Do Kidneys Do?
What does that mysterious organ do besides make you pee?
While the liver and the gut receive much more attention, the other key organs are the two kidneys located on your back side on the bottom of the rib cage.
Basic Functions of the Kidneys:
Remove waste through the urine metabolic and environmental toxins like metals.
Balance minerals: sodium and potassium, calcium and phosphorus, etc.
Mineral balancing is an important therapeutic method, and would do well to focus on kidney health as well to get the body to do it when the inputs are corrected.
Produce Hormones
Vitamin D3 is actually hormone D produced on the skin or ingested in the diet, then processed in the liver and then finally in the kidneys in its active form calcitriol. 1,25-dihydroxyvitaminD3, to help absorb calcium and phosphorus from the intestines, maintaining bone health
Erythropoietin (EPO): Stimulates red blood cell production to carry oxygen.
Some athletes were taking this illegally and it is not available as a supplement.
Renin: Regulates blood pressure by activating the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
Prostaglandins: Involved in inflammation, pain, and blood clotting.
these are also produced by taking GLA oil, gamma linolenic acid.
Natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP): Regulate blood pressure and fluid balance.
Produce Vitamin Inositol for cell membranes to receive hormones and nutrients. Like insulin which explains why KD can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.
Inositol is also produced secondarily by ovaries and testes, which explains why PCOS is associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin dysfunction.
Since the kidney's have so many roles, a lot can go wrong when kidney health is compromised through accumulated toxins like aluminum or nutritional deficiencies affect every cell of the body.
While the liver and the gut receive much more attention, the other key organs are the two kidneys located on your back side on the bottom of the rib cage.
Basic Functions of the Kidneys:
Remove waste through the urine metabolic and environmental toxins like metals.
Balance minerals: sodium and potassium, calcium and phosphorus, etc.
Mineral balancing is an important therapeutic method, and would do well to focus on kidney health as well to get the body to do it when the inputs are corrected.
Produce Hormones
Vitamin D3 is actually hormone D produced on the skin or ingested in the diet, then processed in the liver and then finally in the kidneys in its active form calcitriol. 1,25-dihydroxyvitaminD3, to help absorb calcium and phosphorus from the intestines, maintaining bone health
Erythropoietin (EPO): Stimulates red blood cell production to carry oxygen.
Some athletes were taking this illegally and it is not available as a supplement.
Renin: Regulates blood pressure by activating the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
Prostaglandins: Involved in inflammation, pain, and blood clotting.
these are also produced by taking GLA oil, gamma linolenic acid.
Natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP): Regulate blood pressure and fluid balance.
Produce Vitamin Inositol for cell membranes to receive hormones and nutrients. Like insulin which explains why KD can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.
Inositol is also produced secondarily by ovaries and testes, which explains why PCOS is associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin dysfunction.
Since the kidney's have so many roles, a lot can go wrong when kidney health is compromised through accumulated toxins like aluminum or nutritional deficiencies affect every cell of the body.
