Kidney Disease Diet: How To Eat Right With CKD!

Today we will be discussing the kidney disease diet, how to eat right when you have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with kidney disease? Do you want to do your best to keep that kidney disease from worsening, or progressing to dialysis? Are you a dialysis patient who is struggling with what you should and should not eat? Or are you a totally healthy person with healthy kidneys, and you intend to keep it that way? Well today, I'm going to give you five tips on the kidney diet, how to eat properly when you have kidney disease, and how to prevent it.

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This video is intended to be informational only. It is not a medical consultation, nor is it personalized medical advice. For medical advice, please consult your physician.




The best diet for kidney function varies depending on your percent of kidney function, or your eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate. Be sure to consult your physician, and ask what your EGFR is. If your EGFR is less than 60 milliliters per minute, then you will benefit from a kidney diet. Remember, today I'm going to give you some guidelines for the kidney diet, but you need to consult your physician, and your nutritionist, to find out the specifics of the kidney diet that are best for you. Okay, let's get started. Five tips for the kidney diet, how to eat properly when you have kidney disease.

5 Kidney Disease Diet Tips

1. Protein Intake
2. Practice Low Salt Intake
3. Proper Potassium Intake
4. Phosphorous Intake
5. Water Intake


These are some general guidelines on a proper kidney disease diet, how to eat properly with kidney disease. And I threw in some tips on how to try to prolong your good kidney function if you have no kidney problems. I just want you to live your healthiest, happiest life.

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[esterherschkovich]

Never can understand why people put thumbs down, its a Doctor giving sensible advice..Thank you Doctor😇Take care all.

[cynthiap]

I have CKD and was at 17 GFR a year ago even with restricted amount of meats & fish diet as recommended. Since then I decided to change to vegetarian diet after talking to my nephrologist. I wanted to prolong and stabilize my kidneys function as long as I can. Since then it went from 17 GFR to 20 GFR within 3 months. I am now at 21 GFR. I cook my own food and stick with healthy diet with lower sodium, whole foods, tofu, beans, garbanzo, lots of vegetables. I do have cheat days here and there but I am very limited to what I want to eat in small portion. I hope this helps.

[laschell]

I had 47 and I am on a water fast. I lost 25lbs and now my egfr is up to 57 💪👍The pain in my back is gone!!!

[YESTOYOURWILL]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share these life changing tips. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to fight for their life but with diabetes high blood pressure and now ckd stage 3 I’m in the fight but I know God is in control. I really appreciate you. God bless you and your family in Jesus name. Amen

[alesiagilda]

When your life is in the balance you tend to listen and pray for the best.

[ThelmaHayes-qh]

Dr Frita you are a God sent Doctor. My Daughter who has Kidneys Disease you no it really is sad when any one who has this Disease and your Doctor really don't tell you how to help keep you from going on dialysis by the food you eat or anything to help you to help yourself. Thank you for being a light at the end of the Tunnel. You are a God sent🙏

[donnarieders]

This channel is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I have a GFR of 33. I’ve been trying to find out what amounts of protein, sodium, potassium, phosphorus I should be ingesting. Also, what amount of water I should be drinking. I definitely want to do what it takes to avoid dialysis. You are an excellent teacher and speaker. I’m a retired trauma nurse so I understood what you were saying. But, your explanations are very clear and concise for lay people? I’ll definitely watch your posts. Thanks, so much!

[kencody]

Hi Dr.FRITA.
Great info, I have had ckd for over 10 years, and I would like to tell people never give up, remain strong, and
discipline one's self.
My GFR - 30-35 remained stable for 10 years + .
When diagnosed with ckd i knew then i needed to change my lifestyle, my diet mainly consists of vegetables, red onions, salads, fish,olive oil, nuts, green tea and water.
Excluded alcohol, salt, sugar, red meat, coke etc.
My nephroligist is amazed, stable over 10 yrs .
Love to all, never give up.
PS, I wonder if my meditation and sun gazing has helped?? Who knows.

[juneebennett]

You care about your fellow humans and that makes you a beautiful person on the inside as well as the outside. My husband and I thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[stevenhernandez]

Thank you for your time and information. My name is Steven and a diabetic. My Dr has just informed me that my kidney function has dropped suddenly to a 49; and mentioned that I’ve been at a 65 for a very long time and I want to do everything I can to avoid dialysis in the future.
From your video I now know what specifics to address with my Dr when I see him on June 15th.
Again thank you for caring enough to make a video
Steven Hernandez

[stellaeliboh]

You are a blessing Dr. Frita. All these teachings you provide to the public for free are life savers.
Thank you much.

[lisadodson-newton]

Thank you for taking the time to offer this information. I have Alport Syndrome and am currently stage 4 with a GFR of 28-32 the majority of the time. I have no swelling at all and usually stay pretty dry despite my fluid intake. I was told to intake up to 80 ounces a day, but not necessarily all water because it tends to wash down the sodium and make it low. Of course not everyone is the same, but we all end up at the same conclusion. All of these tips are helpful, and should be followed as closely as possible. I have stated off failure for about 7 years doing all of these things. Stay blessed friends!

[kurtisdavis]

The hardest thing at first was how bland everything was and how I felt trapped into such a restricted diet. As I began to adjust to the low sodium in my diet I started exploring different nuts, fruits and vegetables. This added some flavor and variety to my diet.

One great side effect is that I lost 60 lbs in the first year on this diet.

[IlsaTheLion]

I'm so glad I found you this morning.

[illicitivy]

I have noticed two things when it comes to any dieting, especially when it comes to struggling to keep up with it.
1. Instead of focusing on what you CAN'T eat, you MUST focus on what you CAN eat :) this one ties into the psychology side of it. It will automatically make changing your diet much easier, because it is an optimistic approach.
2. It is important to change one's view on processed, unhealthy foods. Rather than reminding yourself that it's simply not good for you, you have to change your perspective on it entirely. Processed food is NOT food. You can even go as far as viewing it as poison. But simply viewing processed items as NOT FOOD will eventually help you not even crave crappy food anymore. In fact, the idea of consuming processed food will almost make you feel queasy, which is natural. :)

I hope this helps anyone who struggles with diet changes. I promise these simple tricks will help tremendously! Good luck!

[raunij]

Dr. Frita you have been a God send to me I am so grateful for you sharing your knowledge here on YouTube thank you for helping me stay healthy. ❤️🌹🥰👍🏽🙌🏽👏🏽🤗🤗

[LisaSmith-dglu]

Thank you doctor for taking your time to give us the information we need to fight the battle and make ourselves healthier.

[nadinefoster]

My dad just recently got diagnosed with kidney failure, he has started dialysis in the hospital.i want to learn alot, my dad is 82 this year.

[lowsodiumrecipesforsickwif]

My wife also has problem with her kidney, so she is lowering salt intake and protein intake. Thank you for this good information. Wish everyone come here be healthy🙏

[jamesjones]

I have learned more on youtube than from any doctor. One thing to keep in mind is your phosphorus intake. I first started seeing a kidney doc several yrs ago, trying to improve my kidney function naturally...and not one doctor ever mentioned reducing how much phosphorus I take in. 2 different primary care physicians, 2 different nephrologists, and a 2 day and 5 day hospital stay....nobody has ever mentioned phosphorus. I learned that right here on youtube from people like the good Dr. Frita. Phosphorus is in a lot of foods...especially packaged foods. And even healthy things like nuts, seeds, and chickpeas. How come no doctor in several yrs has ever mentioned that! Its been drug after drug after drug after drug! Thank you for the work that you do Dr. Frita!!