How to Improve GFR (Glomerular Filtration Rate) With Diet Plan
Blood is the essential life-giving fluid that your body needs for various important functions. The blood flows freely inside your body to transfer essential nutrients and oxygen in every corner of your body to keep you healthy, alive, and functioning throughout your life.
Your body produces around 400 to 2000 milliliters of blood in a day. It might seem impressive, but it's nothing without your kidneys that filter around 200 liters of blood every day.
Your fist-sized kidneys sitting on either side of your body purify your blood from waste products and chemical toxins that need to get flushed out from the body. If waste products remain inside for a longer period, they can trigger some serious health complications, such as heart disease, brain tumor, stroke, and high blood pressure that, if overlooked, can turn life-threatening.
Hence, it's important to keep in touch with your kidneys healthy by knowing your GFR that can help you take certain steps if there's any problem detected early.
What is GFR?
The term "GFR" stands for Glomerular filtration rate, a blood test done to determine how well your kidneys are functioning. In the broadest sense, it concludes that how much blood gets filtered by glomerulus each minute. The glomerulus is a tiny kidney filtering unit inside the kidneys primarily responsible for purifying blood inside your body.
How is it done?
The GFR of a body is calculated from the serum creatinine level of your body based on your age and gender. The GFR above 90 is a sign of healthy kidneys, and below 60 is a sign that your kidneys are not working properly.
At stage 5 of kidney disease, the GFR of the body goes less than 15, which shows that the person has lost almost 80 -85% of their kidney functions and needs to undergo dialysis or a kidney transplant to live.
What does your GFR score mean?
Kidney failure is a cumulative loss of kidneys' functioning. Chronic kidney failure is categorized into five different stages, which indicate the GFR level of your body.
In stage 1 of CKD, the GFR of the body is higher than 90, which indicates healthy kidneys with some mild symptoms of kidney damage.
In stage 2 of CKD, the GFR will mostly range between 89 to 60%, indicating mild loss of kidney function.
In stage 3 of CKD, the GFR of the body will range between 59 to 45%, indicating moderate loss of kidneys' functions.
In stage 4 of CKD, the GFR of the body will be between 29 to 15% that showing severe loss of kidney function.
In stage 5 of CKD, the GFR goes below 15, which shows that a person has lost almost 99% of their kidneys' functions and needs to undergo dialysis to live.
Yes, there are some key takeaways that you can practice to increase the GFR of your body-
Drink Adequate amounts of water
Your kidneys are largely dependent on water for their proper functioning. Your water intake determines your urine output. Drinking around 6 to 7 glasses of water in a day will make you pee more, which will help your body to flush out toxins from your system and reduce the chances of developing inflammation in glomeruli.
Avoid processed foods
Processed foods are high in salt and harmful artificial sweeteners & preservatives that can affect your kidney function by making your kidneys overly sensitive to the ingredients and chemicals you consume. To make a healthy balance between salt, fluids, and electrolytes, your kidneys have to overwork, which causes inflammation inside them, affecting your glomeruli functions.
Avoid salt
Consuming more than 2,300 mg of sodium in your diet can make you more susceptible to kidney-related problems, interfering with glomeruli functions and leading to a permanent loss of kidney functions.
You also need a consultation with a dietician and ayurvedic treatment to get rid of kidney problems, no matter what type of disease it is.
Kidney treatment in Ayurveda is a natural methodology that promises a healthy recovery of the kidney patient with herbal medicines and diet only.
To know how this treatment works, book your appointment now!
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