Kidney Diet

Kidney Diet

*March - National Kidney Health Awareness Month*

*Functions of Kidneys-*

- Kidneys are filters of body that remove waste, toxins & extra water through urine.

- regulate blood pressure

- converts vit D into its active form & control production of RBCs.

*What Impairs Kidney Functions- (CKD, Renal Stones, Gout)*

- High Blood Sugar

- Hight blood Pressure

- Obesity

- Acidic Blood pH 

&

Lifestyle factors like

- Overusing painkillers

- Inadequate water intake

- Alcohol & Smoking Binge

- Sedentary Lifestyle

- Over Eating of Processed Meat & Food.

*Preventive Nutrition Therapy for Renal Care Helps to*

- Maintain alkaline blood pH 

- Regulate blood pressure and blood glucose levels.

- Incorporate Healthy Lifestyle

- Achieve Healthy Body weight

- Initiate Healthy cellular cycle 

All these over a period of time improves renal function & reduces metabolic waste burden on it.

*Short note by Prachi A. Managute*

Dietitian & Health Coach

http://www.amtopmfitness.com/nutrition

Nutrition Care for Liver Health

 

              

Know it's Importance

          - Liver is like water filter / purifier of Fats, Hormones & Medicines.

        - It is one of the organ to metabolize Fats, Carbohydrates and Proteins.

Unique Feature

👉Good news is Liver repairs & regenerates it's tissue. Therefore unlike kidney, liver disease of earlier stage can be reversible if we address its care in a holistic way.

👉But with age as well as with increasing pollution and unhealthy lifestyle, it's regeneration efficiency deteriorates.

👉Few metabolic issues when we forget to look into Liver Care. But if we focus on liver tissue repair & regeneration, we can reverse these problems :

E.g.

 1. High Cholesterol

As liver loses its efficiency to metabolize fats, cholesterol remains unfiltered showing high level in blood lipid profile.

We try to manage cholesterol with medicines and by reducing cholesterol food. But it remains either temporary or unresolving solution.

 2. Vit.D Deficiency

Liver plays important role in vitamin D synthesis into its active form. Therefore only vit. D dosage is not useful unless liver is able convert it into its functionally active form. 

 3. Indigestion Issues like Bloating, Constipation

 Liver takes care of all Macronutrients & most of Micronutrients metabolism, activates digestive enzymes. Functional inefficiency of liver may leads to digestive tract imbalances.

 Key Lifestyle Care for Liver is therefore important when we experience these metabolic problems or rather Prevent them to occur

# Take Liver detox or nourishing herbs like turmeric, milk thistle. They are tonic to liver cells. They can reset it's functions.

# Correct Sleep timetable accelerates cell repair. 

# Reducing processed / packed food that have some or other artificial chemical.

# Avoid Alcohol.

# Avoid OTC Drugs usage without physician's prescription.

# Maintain Healthy Body Weight.

# Practice Yogasan like backward bending, twisting.

- Short Write-up By Prachi A. Managute

  Dietitian and Health Coach

Making Mind our Friend and not Foe for Health

               Spirituality guides that our outer world is mirror of our inner world.

               The WHO constitution states:"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

            Ayurveda talks about Aachar (Behaviour), Vichar (Thoughts) before Ahaaar (Food) & Vihaar (Exercise, Sleep) as pillars of Holistic Health.

 
                 Yama (moral discipline),

Niyama (observances) are first two limbs from the Eight Limbs of Yog. 

So by putting all principles together here is a writeup that tries to explain how the state of mind and state of body are reasons and results of each other. 

Every Thought has Emotions and Emotions vibrate Energy. Reflection of thinking thereby our Emotions towards Money (we earn & spend), towards People (inner circle as well as outer circle), towards Work (As a student, as a homemaker as well as a professional) and towards self is seen on Our Physical Health. 

Unhealthy Emotions like....Having Jealousy, Insecurity, Fear, Pain, Comparison, Competition, Anger, Possesiveness, Untruthful, Ego with people around. 

Being Stingy, Geedy, Mindless towards Money. 

Having lack of confidence, Greed, Doubt, Unhappiness, Indesciplined towards Work we do. And unhealthy relationships with self like low self-esteem, guilt, painful past memories... 

These emotions create an unhealthy energy flow inside (prana through nadis) and outside our body (aura) . These energy blockages, blocks Energy Chakra (seven chakras where nadis meet). 

In modern medicine they are our endocrine system, which controls all our body systems like Digestive, Excretory, Reproductive, Cardiovascular, Musculoskeletal, Nervous and Immunity. 

Energy blocks at chakras therefore also responsible for dysfunctioning one or more of these system functions. 

In yogic philosophy from texts like PatanjaliPatanjali Yogsutra, Psychosomatic Disorders concept is explained on the same note where Mind Body Yog given prominence.  

My Blog on same-  https://www.amtopmfitness.com/stress-and-its-impact-on-body

                    When we see disturbances at any of Somatic (Body) level ranging from even a smallest signs like acne to major signs like Hypothyroid, type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, PCOD, Arthritis....Also when we are unable to sleep on time, tend to wake up late, unable to control food cravings, having hunger pangs, feeling laziness that skips exercise...fear / inhibitions to adopt new healthy habits, having addictions like smoking, alcohol intake...Then, Only Diet & Exercise don't help. 

We feel it's hereditary or nowadays it's common to have these ailments and think that they are the reason for getting other related dysfunctions as well as emotional imbalances. 

E.g. Because of PCOD I have mood swings, because of hypothyroidism I'm short tempered, because of Diabetes I get anxious, etc. 

And unaware to see them as results of emotional distress and then get caught into its vicious cycle of Psychosomatic Disorder / Syndrome. 

Spiritual guidance through spiritual coaches, practicing meditation & pranayam, life coach counseling will be helpful to recognize hidden emotional baggage. And then releasing them through supreme knowledge guidance &  counseling will start improving our emotional wellbeing and we feel healthy inside out. 

There are different practices like Neuro Linguistic Program Techniques, Psychological Counseling, Spiritual Practices like Rajyog meditation, Inner engineering, Sudarshan kriya, etc. developed through spiritual coaches, reading their books, videos have shown remarkable changes towards Resourceful Emotion, Behavioral Modifications, Healthy Thinking and even Reversing Metabolic Disturbances by mass population including us. 

This shift then helpful to follow lifestyle modifications like correct sleeping cycle, healthy eating and exercise discipline in an easier, sustainable way. 

This writeup is summary from our recent learning through courses like NLP, Mind Body Partnership with Disease, Yogic Philosophy and readings books of spiritual coaches like BK Shivani, Gaur Gopal Das & Sadguriji.