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5 Ways You May Delay the Need for Dialysis

While chronic kidney disease may have no cure, it can often be treated.

As CKD patients approach stage 5, dialysis becomes a more likely possibility and treatments become more advanced. But, for patients in the early stages – stage 1 to stage 3 kidney disease – treatments often focus on lifestyle changes and managing related conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, in order to prevent, or at least slow, the progression toward later stages.1

Promoting Healthy Kidney Function and Delaying Dialysis

CKD patients experience a range of uncomfortable symptoms like feeling tired or nauseated, struggling to concentrate, and having achy muscles. Lifestyle changes that boost overall health can go a long way to relieving the discomfort of CKD – helping you feel better overall – and helping your kidneys.

Whether you have normally-functioning kidneys, are at risk of CKD, are a newly diagnosed patient in the early stages of CKD, or are a patient who has been maintaining your kidney function for years – it’s never too early or too late to start taking better care of your kidneys, take control of your kidney health, and make a decisive effort to delay the need for dialysis.

  • Along with positive changes to lifestyle, kidney disease patients should be in regular contact with their nephrologist or other healthcare professional to get regular check-ups and monitor their condition.
  • If you are experiencing symptoms of chronic kidney disease or think you might be at risk of CKD, consult your doctor.

Efforts to improve your general kidney health can make you more comfortable and improve your overall quality of life. Here are 5 steps to take to better manage your kidney health and delay the need for dialysis.

5 Ways to Take Control of Your Kidney Health:

Delay the need for dialysis by improving your overall health and kidney function.

1 Eat a Healthy Diet2

  • Eat a diet that is healthy for your heart and your entire body: fresh fruits, fresh or frozen vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat or fat-free dairy products. Eating less red meat can also be very beneficial.
  • Cut back on salt and added sugars (cooking at home will help reduce your salt intake). This doesn’t mean eating bland food; get creative with spices, herbs, mustard, and flavored vinegars to give your meals plenty of flavor.

2 Get Physically Active3

  • Getting more exercise can boost your energy, help you achieve or maintain a healthy weight, help you sleep, strengthen your bones, help prevent depression, and may also reduce your risk of problems such as heart disease. Simple, fun activities like walking, playing a sport, aerobic exercise, or even doing chores around the house can help you stay active and healthier.
  • And get more rest to keep your body healthy – try to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night.

3 Manage Related Conditions4

  • High blood pressure can damage your kidneys, so cutting back on salt and alcohol, losing weight, and exercising can help keep your blood pressure in check.
  • High blood sugar levels can harm the kidneys over time, especially if you have diabetes, so protect your kidneys by managing your blood sugar levels as best you can, whether through diet, exercise, and/or blood sugar medication.

4 Stop Smoking and Limit Alcohol and NSAIDs5

  • Smoking can make kidney disease worse and interfere with medicine that lowers blood pressure. Alcohol can increase your risk of high blood pressure.
  • Avoid long-term use of NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen), especially at high doses. These products reduce the blood flow to the kidney and can cause harm to kidney tissue.

5 Add Renadyl to Your Kidney Care Routine

  • Nitrogenous wastes such as urea, uric acid, and creatinine have been documented to adversely impact the quality of life – especially for people with CKD. Renadyl’s patented probiotics are able to metabolize and remove these wastes from the body.
  • By reducing these toxins in your body, you will also be reducing the strain on your weakened kidneys.

The Benefits of Renadyl

Renadyl is the #1 nephrologist-recommended, all-natural probiotic health supplement clinically proven to maintain kidney function and help support quality of life by:

  • Lowering levels of nitrogenous wastes in the blood by delivering 45 billion CFUs (colony forming units) of our three proprietary strains of beneficial probiotic bacteria with each capsule, and
  • Reducing the burden on the kidneys through probiotics that consume and lower the concentration of waste compounds in the colon.
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How Renadyl Can Help

The proprietary probiotic strains in Renadyl have an affinity for uremic and nitrogenous compounds. As kidneys fail, these compounds can build up in the bloodstream, but Renadyl’s probiotics help filter them through the gut in a process we call enteric toxin reduction.

During this process, the probiotics in Renadyl consume the nitrogenous compounds, reducing the burden on the kidneys by converting the compounds into beneficial short-chain fatty acids, or removing them through normal bowel movements.

Not only does this process help improve quality of life for CKD patients – helping them feel better, have more energy, and be more active – it can also help patients see improved results in their creatinine, uric acid, and BUN levels, and their eGFR.

Before taking any dietary or nutritional supplement, including Renadyl, please consult your doctor.

How Renadyl Can Help

Lower Creatinine

Creatinine is a waste product that our bodies produce naturally when we use our muscles6 – but high levels of creatinine often indicate some kind of kidney problem, and lowering your creatinine can help reduce the burden placed on the kidneys.7,8

How to Lower Your Creatinine Level:

  • Eat less meat (especially red meat).7
  • Eat foods that are high in fiber.
  • Stay hydrated by increasing water consumption. (Dehydration can raise creatinine levels.)
  • Avoid using tobacco products, reduce salt intake, and limit the use of NSAIDs,9 as each can put a strain on the kidneys.

Adding a probiotic dietary supplement like Renadyl – which is specifically designed to consume creatinine and relieve the stress on your kidneys – can also help lower creatinine levels.

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Lower Uric Acid

Uric acid is a natural waste product that the body makes by breaking down purines,10 which are chemical compounds found in food11, especially meat. If blood tests reveal a high level of uric acid, it could be a sign of kidney dysfunction.

How to Lower Your Uric Acid Level:

The best way to help lower uric acid in the body is to avoid high-purine foods and drinks as often as possible.
  • That means you may need to limit how often you eat or drink red meat, fish (especially shellfish), organ meats (like liver and kidney), alcohol, sugary drinks (like soda), candy, and desserts.12,13
Talking to your healthcare provider can help you learn more about which specific foods or drinks you should avoid. They can also help develop a healthy, customized diet and exercise plan. A probiotic supplement like Renadyl can also help, as it consumes naturally occurring wastes – including uric acid – that can cause problems for the kidneys at high levels.

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Lower BUN

Urea nitrogen is a waste product naturally produced in your body when it breaks down proteins in the foods you eat. A small amount of urea nitrogen in your blood is normal, but if your levels are too high, it is one marker that lets healthcare providers know your kidneys aren’t functioning properly.14

How to Lower Your BUN Level:

The easiest way to lower your BUN is to make changes to your lifestyle – specifically to your diet – and avoid or limit high-protein foods, such as meats (especially red meat) and dairy products.

  • Instead, eat on a low-protein diet that incorporates vegetables (such as broccoli, greens, and peppers), fruits (such as bananas, apples, and berries), grains (such as pasta, rice, and oats), and healthy fats (such as nuts, avocados, and coconut oil).14

Generally beneficial lifestyle changes will also help, like being physically active for at least 30 minutes a day, keeping a healthy weight, and not smoking or using tobacco.15

Because Renadyl’s probiotics work in the gut to consume more and more waste compounds over time – including urea nitrogen – it helps reduce both the level of toxins in the body and the stress on the kidneys, which should result in a lower BUN.

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Raise Your GFR

Unlike other kidney-related tests, a higher number is better for your eGFR. For CKD patients, initial strategies for raising eGFR numbers closely resemble the lifestyle changes and treatments mentioned previously to improve overall kidney health.

How to Raise Your eGFR Number:

Along with trying to raise your eGFR number, Renadyl may help slow down the progression of CKD or slow your eGFR number from going down by taking steps to maximize your healthy habits and improve your kidney health.16

These steps include:

  • Eating a healthy, balanced diet
  • Engaging in physical activity
  • Maintaining a healthy weight
  • Not smoking
  • Staying hydrated
  • Managing blood pressure and blood sugar levels
  • Using NSAIDs cautiously
  • Adding Renadyl to your kidney health regimine

Remember, your eGFR number is calculated using your serum (blood) creatinine level, which means anything that causes your creatinine level to go up or down can change your eGFR number, even if it may not be specifically related to your kidney health.16

The probiotics in Renadyl have a natural affinity for waste compounds such as creatinine, uric acid, and urea, and by consuming them, these probiotics can reduce the burden placed on the kidneys. Adding Renadyl to your kidney health routine can help maintain healthy kidney function and improve your overall quality of life.

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  7. Creatinine. National Kidney Foundation. (2023, June 1). https://www.kidney.org/kidney-topics/creatinine
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  15. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) test for kidney disease. American Kidney Fund. (2024, June 6). https://www.kidneyfund.org/all-about-kidneys/tests/blood-urea-nitrogen-bun-test#what-does-my-bun-test-result-mean
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