Coping with Kidney Disease: A 12-Step Treatment Program to Help You Avoid Dialysis

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A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysis

If you’ve been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each year, the information in this book could substantially improve your quality of life.

In Coping with Kidney Disease, a leading expert tells you, in plain English, what you need to know to:

Understand kidney failure
Recognize early warning signs of kidney failure
Get a proper diagnosis
Talk with your doctors about it
Confidently evaluate treatment options
Take charge of your treatment
Delay dialysis or even avoid the need for it altogether

The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser’s revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective has this breakthrough strategy proven to be that in many patients it actually worked to slow or arrest the progression of kidney failure to the end stage.

Knowledge is power. Coping with Kidney Disease empowers you with what you need to take charge of kidney disease.

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I suffer from chronic high-blood pressure. The disease, despite my low-sodium diet and five medications, progressed to the point where my kidney began to fail. When I finally saw a kidney specialist, he told me to lose weight. The next one told me to control my blood-pressure. Well, it's tough to follow a low-sodium diet, and it progressed to Stage 3. Finally, reading this book, and following the program, I was actually able to bring my creatine levels back to normal. It's difficult to follow, but if you go off track, you get really sick. It's also expensive because you must buy amino acids (I used amino bites, which cost 0 a month) and/or Cambrooke "low protein" foods (if you need a break from fruits and vegetables). I now follow a low-sodium and low-protein diet, and I'm okay. But if I go astray, even a little bit, I get really sick. This book is invaluable because, even as austere as the diet is to follow, it's preferable to going on dialysis. I just wish HMO's and insurance companies would promote this alternative to dialysis. In this age of rising healthcare costs, you'd think they'd see the benefits of promoting this approach. In practice, my nephrologist, at a vegetarian university based program, was skeptical, and surprised when my test scores came in with improvement. You'd think these guys would be up on this research, as it's decades old.

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