Showing posts with label Kidney Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kidney Disease. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Kidney Disease - The Hidden Cause of Chronic Resistant Hypertension (High Blood Pressure).

The kidneys are the most important organs that regulate systemic blood pressure. The kidneys are bean-shaped organs located in the rear of the abdominal cavity below the bottom of the chest and the upper limit of the pelvic cavity. The two kidneys regulate blood volume, divorce acid waste, metabolize drugs, produce balance, electrolytes and hormones. Yes, the kidneys are not much more than that urine. In Chinese medicine, it is even believed that the strength of the kidneys, bones, and control fertility. In this article I will focus on how kidney disease can concentrate cause or provoke persistent hypertension.

Hypertension accelerates renal failure. The opposite is also true. In physiology, it is always thought that diseased kidneys maintain high blood pressure, tissue perfusion are. This simply means that for the rest of the body to obtain tissue with nutrients and oxygen to keep through the blood, the kidneys, increase blood pressure. This is a natural survival mechanism that is incompatible with optimal health.

The renal vascular system is a low-bed. In other words, the kidneys are very sensitive to changes in blood pressure and tend to renal artery spasm (sclerosis) and the increase in blood pressure through the renin-angiotensin response aldolsterone mechanism. Let's take this, I will explain.

Renin is a hormone that is secreted by the juxtaglomerular cells in response to the reduced blood volume, low potassium, low adrenaline, or reducing renal perfusion pressure. Renin then sets a 10-amino acid protein (packed in the liver) angiotensinogen to 8-amino acid polypeptide called angiotensin I. Angiotensin I is still inactive, but is activated in the lungs by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) to active angiotensin II -. Angiotensin II is a potent vasoconstrictor. At the same time, renin stimulates the adrenal glands (the adrenals), a hormone, aldosterone, which in turn reabsorb the kidney nephron to secrete salt and water to increase blood volume. All in an attempt to increase blood pressure.

Now, apart from atherosclerosis and the viscosity of blood, the biggest cause of essential hypertension is glomerulo-sclerosis. The glomerulus is the filtration apparatus of the kidneys. Glomerulo-sclerosis is fancy way of saying that the glomerulus with debris hardened fibrin (fibrosis) and acidic wastes clog the filter. As such, the pressure is building. The inflow is now more than a drain. The tubes are hardened or nephrons also at the same time. We call this nephrosclerosis. Diabetes can also accelerate this process in diabetic nephropathy.

Please be aware that even before hypertension is diagnosed, have left half of the kidneys. If your blood pressure is accompanied by leg swelling, fatigue and swollen eyes in the absence of heart failure, kidney, you have to feel unwell. The sad thing is that renal function tests such as blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine may be normal even at this point.

To avoid end-stage renal disease and associated hypertension, prevention is always better than a pound of cure. Quit all the food that the kidneys such as junk, fragmented and wounded devitalized foods. All the stuff fried, processed foods, medications such as aspirin, too much refined sugar, heavy metals (lead and cadmium), heavy animal protein, coffee, and especially the antihypertensive diuretics.

To the kidneys back to normal before it's too late, you have to do some debridement with the enzyme mixture containing proteolytic enzymes such as Nattokinase and Serrapeptase. Kidney-friendly herbs such as milk thistle, uva ursi, parsley, corn silk, buchu. Raw fruits and vegetables also help to restore renal function without power and damaging drugs. To free from heavy metals, you have to chelation with EDTA, malic acid, vitamin C, N-acetyl-cysteine, magnesium, vitamin B6, coenzyme Q10 and zinc.