Kidney disease usually progresses silently, often destroying most of the kidney function before causing any symptoms. Take care of your kidney health! The kidneys are complicated and amazing organs that do many essential tasks to keep us healthy. The main job of your kidneys is to remove toxins and excess water from your blood. Kidneys also help to control your blood pressure, produce red blood cells, and keep your bones…
Located in the small of the back, one on either side of the spine, our kidneys filter and remove waste products from our body as urine via the bladder, helping us keep our bones healthy and balancing our blood pressure. Some reasons why our kidneys may not work efficiently are aging, medical conditions such as diabetes or hypertension and medications. The kidneys are complicated to say the least and their…
I recall seeing an interesting poster at the hospital when I used to take my mother there for her check-up. It said,”you can be alive if your brain is dead. but if your kidneys stop functioning, you are really dead” or some such thing. Point was – with a temporarily non-functional brain, the body can still be “alive”. But kidneys fail, and that’s the true end. A word about the…
