fitness

It is a fact of life that people age. Our once young and strong bodies break down and we become frail and weak, only to find ourselves living in a nursing home, unable to care for our most basic needs. The frail and weak nursing home stage is one option for your future, but it does not have to be your end result. You do not have to take the aging process in stride and just accept it. There is something that you can do so that you won’t wind up like the majority of the elderly in our country.

When protein is used by the body it creates a number of wasted products which are usually filtered and removed in the kidneys by an intricate system of nephrons. In the presence of any type of kidney disease, usually chronic kidney disease, these waste products are not filtered out and will back up and increase in numbers, eventually ending up back in the blood system. Chronic kidney disease is based on five stages of progression, typically judged by the glomerular filtration rate, which is a rating of how much blood the kidney can filter.