Can you reverse kidney disease?
In this video, I will answer the 4 most important questions about reversing chronic kidney disease:
these questions will tell you if YOU can actually reverse kidney disease and how.
Hello, this is Tony Benneth, welcome to 00kidney.
Now, if you have chronic kidney disease, CKD in short, knowing the answers to the 4 questions
of today's video may be... decisive I learned this lesson the hard way: I'm a
kidney disease patient, just like you.
I work in a hospital, I'm not a doctor, I'm part of the assistive personnel.
For years I was so scared by doctors that I avoided basically any contact with them,
including doing blood analysis and tests.
Even when I wasn't feeling so well.
Until something went awfully wrong with my kidney health and... well, my kidneys almost
failed.
I say almost because I was in stage 4 of CKD at the time.
My kidney function was decreasing very fast and my doctor told me to start thinking about
starting dialysis or finding a donor for a transplant.
CKD only goes in one direction, my doctor said, from bad to worse.
He actually gave me very few information.
he never talked to me about following a specific diet for kidney disease,
about herbal treatments or about how to correctly read and understand
my analysis.
What he basically told me is that there are only 3 options for a patient in the advanced
stage of chronic kidney disease: dialysis, a transplant or death.
That was one of the scariest conversations in my life.
I kept thinking I'm too young for this... there must be an error... maybe they got the
wrong numbers in the analysis.
But they didn't and I knew that...
I was just in denial.
But if I'm still here, and I'm not on dialysis, it's because what my doctor told me about
the 3 options was actually... not true.
There's a 4rt option and it is something I wish I knew sooner.
But I was able to find hope in the possibility of a better outcome after I found out about
the 4 questions to reverse kidney disease.
The 4 questions I'm talking about today.
Yes, I found something really amazing that ... changed my life, when I started asking
the right questions.
And the first question I asked was
Question Number 1 - What types of kidney disease can be reversed?
Now kidney disease is a very broad term used to describe a lot of different problems and
illnesses.
If you have kidney stones... that's a type of kidney disease.
If you have acute kidney failure, you have kidney disease too.
If you got a UTI that caused a kidney infection... well, that could be another type of kidney
disease.
But that's not what we're talking about today.
Also, there are for sure some types of chronic kidney disease that cannot be improved.
And I'm talking about genetic conditions, like Polycystic Kidney Disease and Alport
Syndrome.
If you are suffering from one of these, unfortunately, your options are actually pretty limited.
You can alleviate the symptoms and you can find a treatment to help, but reversing these
genetic conditions is not possible, with today's medicine.
There may be working cures in the near future, who knows.
On the other hand, the largest percentage of people suffering from CKD got it from high
blood pressure, like myself, or from diabetes.
This is what I will be focusing on today.
Now, if you know anyone suffering from chronic kidney disease, please share this video with
them, so this could help them too.
Ok, when these conditions, diabetes and high blood pressure, go untreated for too many
years, the damage they cause to the kidneys actually causes chronic kidney disease.
Now, if your CKD is caused by diabetes or high blood pressure, and not from a genetic
conditions, the chances of reversing it are a lot higher.
So, we have already identified a big difference between what types of kidney disease can be
reversed and what type cannot.
But there's another question, even more important we need to answer now:
Question n2 what do you need to know to reverse kidney disease?
Now, I know that for a lot of the people watching me right now the terms I've used are totally
familiar.
You may know exactly well what I'm talking about if talk about diabetic kidney disease
or polycystic kidney disease.
Other people may not know this well what I am talking about.
If you are in the first group, good for you, you are already way ahead in your battle with
CKD.
But don't stop watching this video, things are going to get more interesting now.
If you are in the second group, don't worry.
You already did the right thing starting to search for information and watching this video
here on 00kidney, because you're trying to learn.
So ask in comment section about the things and words you don't understand about this
video, I know that Katherine always answers all the comments.
She's putting a lot of effort in this channel, so don't forget to subscribe.
And watch the other videos here, there's a lot to learn.
But let's move on,
Question Number 3 Who can reverse their chronic kidney disease
the WHO is a really important question today.
There are people who can reverse their kidney disease and people who can't.
I'm telling you this because about one in ten Americans have chronic kidney disease.
That's a frighteningly high number of people.
Now, the even scarier part is that only 10% of them know they have CKD.
Yes, only 10% of the people suffering from CKD know they have CKD.
So if you have been diagnosed, in a way you are already lucky to know you have it.
You could have it without knowing, without being able to do anything about it.
so all those unlucky people that don't know they have kidney disease... for sure they
can't reverse it and they can't improve their kidney function.
Chronic kidney disease is called the silent killer because a lot of the people suffering
from this terrifying disease don't know they have it.
It's basically what happened to me.
The symptoms of kidney disease are so few that people very often do not notice they
have a very serious illness until the advanced stages of the disease.
This happened to me too.
When I was finally diagnosed with CKD I was already in stage 4!
So if you have been diagnosed, if you know you have it, consider yourself somewhat lucky.
Things could have been even worse if you didn't know you have it.
Another very important thing to understand, is that only people who actually want to fight
the disease by reading about it, and getting informed can actually beat it.
You cannot beat kidney disease if you don't understand it.
This is something that almost killed me, so forgive me if I'm too direct on this one.
If you are too scared to start reading a book about kidney disease or to ask questions or
you know, to do a research on the internet and maybe watch videos about it... there's
no way you are going to beat kidney disease.
So, to answer the question Who can reverse their chronic kidney disease
Only people willing to learn and to actually fight this terrible illness have a chance
to reverse it.
Knowledge is power and it will be your greatest strength in fighting kidney disease.
Question n4 are there people who actually reversed chronic kidney disease?
Yes, there are people who did it.
I'm one of them.
I followed a special program made for people like us suffering from CKD.
Now, I'm not the first one to get this kind of results from this program.
Actually, there are people here on 00kidney that did the same.
So, if you want to know if there are people who actually reversed chronic kidney disease...
I will read you a couple of comments here on 00kidney... because I feel like that's
the only good answer to this question.
This is a comment a user called Christian Larinski posted in my first video here, were
I talked about the program I followed to reverse my kidney disease and lower creatinine levels.
He says: I'm using the same program you showed in the end of the video.
I've been following it for three months and my GFR went from 20 to 29!
I'm recommending it to everyone.
Seems like he found out about this program before me.
Another comment talking about the same thing I actually use the program she talks about
in the end of the video.
It helped me a lot with my kidney disease.
I've used it for 6 months now and my GFR went from 25 to 33!
I'm in stage 3 now!
And another The program she talks about in the end of
the video actually works!
My father is using it and he is really happy about it!
He says his creatinine has never been so low in the last ten years!
Now, I could go on for an hour reading comment, there are a lot of people that actually used
the same program I've used to reverse my kidney disease.
People like you, people that maybe are watching me right now.
People that after starting using this program were able to get their lives back like I did.
This is the program, trying it won't cost you anything because if it doesn't work you
can have your money back.
You can find it clicking here.