How Donald Trump Saved My Life

It everlastingly amazes me how most people I meet have a relative or friend suffering in agony from kidney failure, yet it is not considered a serious societal problem. Few can connect the dots.

And the main dots are these: Diabetes is by far the most prevalent cause of kidney failure. No. 2 is long-term, high blood pressure. But here’s the kicker … high blood pressure is one of the main symptoms of diabetes. So, diabetes is doubly urgent to avoid.

The very strict renal diet I was put on upon diagnosis allowed me to lose 70 pounds in four months.

The central and super important first steps were the immediate stoppage of fast-food and dark-colored drinks, with or without sugar (sweet tea as they drink so voraciously in the South is a hard no). Potassium (bananas, avocados, tomatoes, potatoes and more); Sodium in processed foods and canned foods (Stouffer’s meat lasagna=780mg, Campbell’s chicken noodle soup=2225mg of sodium per can); and Phosphorus (in virtually all dark-colored sodas & drinks, all dairy, milk and most heartbreakingly, cheese). I didn’t have a pizza for four years.

Please make sure you’re aware of and protect your body and those of your loved ones through these kinds of dietary modifications. It’s too important.

The human suffering from this blight is incalculable. The families worry, and rightfully so, while their loved ones courageously sit in a chair, three days a week, for six hours per day, with their blood leaving their bodies and being cleaned by a machine that can only clean enough to keep them alive till the next treatment.

Hemodialysis is no picnic. It’s an uber-slippery slope because while it keeps you alive (just barely), toxicity

It VERY DIFFICULT to avoid all of fast-food and dark-colored drinks, with or without sugar (sweet tea as they drink so voraciously in the South is a hard no). Potassium (bananas, avocados, tomatoes, potatoes and more); Sodium in processed foods and canned foods (Stouffer’s meat lasagna=780mg, Campbell’s chicken noodle soup=2225mg of sodium per can); and Phosphorus (in virtually all dark-colored sodas & drinks, all dairy, milk and most heartbreakingly, cheese).

We simply do not have the energy or enthusiasm to cook everything from scratch at home. SO we buy lots of ready made foods, loaded with sodium.

My solution to this situation is regular exercise 4 or 5 times every week. It has saved me from any serious problems, even though I was diagnosed borderline diabetic in my mid-50’s. My blood pressure is trending higher as I get older, which is a natural phenomenon due to normal loss of elasticity in veins and arteries.

The regular 30 minutes exercise 4 times a week has kept me going strong at nearing age 83. Still need no medications except minimum dose 10mg Lisinolril pill daily.

As a side Bar, last night on Newsmax the Greg Kelly show at 10pm, he announced that Direct TV is threatening to take them off the air if they don’t renew their contract, probably at hirer price, just like they did to OAN.

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