Posted on 09/17/2022 9:55:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Conventional wisdom holds that low protein intake is essential for kidney disease patients. However, scientists demonstrated that it might not always be the case with their recent study on the relationship between protein intake and skeletal muscle mass in kidney transplant recipients.
Chronic kidney disease patients are known to have induced sarcopenia due to chronic inflammation, hypercatabolism, decreased nutrient intake, and decreased physical activity associated with impaired kidney function. Recovery of renal function due to successful kidney transplantation is able to correct or improve many of those physiological and metabolic abnormalities. As a result, kidney transplant recipients increase skeletal muscle mass after kidney transplantation.
Since excessive protein intake worsens kidney function, it is commonly believed that patients with chronic kidney disease, including kidney transplant recipients, should limit protein intake to protect their kidneys. On the other hand, it has been suggested that severe protein restriction may worsen sarcopenia and adversely affect prognosis.
Since nutrition and exercise therapy are recommended to improve sarcopenia, protein intake is suspected to relate to recovery of skeletal muscle mass after kidney transplantation. However, few studies have examined the relationship between skeletal muscle mass and protein intake in kidney transplant recipients.
Responding to this gap, the research group led by Dr. Akihiro Kosoku, Dr. Tomoaki Iwai, and Professor Junji Uchida investigated the relationship between changes in skeletal muscle mass—measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis—and protein intake, which was estimated from the urine collected from 64 kidney transplant recipients 12 months after kidney transplantation. The results showed that changes in skeletal muscle mass during this period were positively correlated with protein intake, and that insufficient protein intake resulted in decreased muscle mass.
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It shouldn’t tax a working kidney so much that you can’t practically have it. Even the breakdown of existing protein needs to go out your kidneys, regardless of ever bringing in more, for what is not redistributed elsewhere in the body (and I think even redistributed protein/amino acids still flow into, and are routed out of, the kidneys, if deemed needed).
For me, it was an easy transition to plant and fish proteins. The trick is to not rely on carbs as a replacement. Lost 20 pounds since my CKD diagnosis but the payoff is feeling much younger.
You know, you may be in a better place than you realize, now.
You may be able to back off some internal damage you’ve accrued.
Have you been looking at the GlyNAC, Urolithin A, Taurine and other supplements I have previously posted? They can potentially help with aspects of your kidney issues, without any expected negatives.
If I can stay healthy at age 82, with no diabetes, no heart issues, no prostate issues, no kidney issues, no signs of dementia, and enough stamina to mow my lawn with push mower during Florida summers, I think I must be doing something right.
Very briefly, lots of fruits & vegetables, less refined grains, less red meat, more fish & chicken, 1 multi-vit pill daily, and moderate aerobic exercise 5 days every week.
My father, and 4 uncle’s died of heart failures before reaching 70. I had a ton of health issues in my late 50’s.
Then I discovered walking 30 miles every week on Orchard Hills golf course in Washougsl, WA.
That rejuvenated my body, and got rid of all health issues.
Even 4 jabs of clot-shots covid vaccine could not do any damage. It has to be the boring but enormously beneficial regular exercise. There is no other explanation.
Should all kidney patients limit all types of protein ?
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