The kidneys are a pair of kidney-shaped organs located on either side of your spine with a function to filter out the wastes from the blood before passing the wastes through urinary secretion.
More than a detoxed organ, the kidneys also maintain the body fluid balance and regulate the production of red blood cells and high blood pressure.
Kidney damage can be acute such as an overdose of toxin or chronic. Acute kidney diseases can be cured if the underlying cause is found.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a slow and progressive disease that can lead to kidney failure over time.
The advance of CKD can cause dangerous levels of fluid, electrolytes, and waste build-up in the body.
According to statistics, approximately 14 percent of the US general population suffers from CKD. Believe it or not, more than 661,000 Americans have kidney failure. Of these, 468,000 individuals are on dialysis, and roughly 193,000 live with a functioning kidney transplant.
Out of many risk factors associated with CKD, some researchers suggest high blood pressure is one most prevalent risk factors found in most patients.
The Natural Kidney Foundation wrote, "More than half the people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have high blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the chance that kidney disease will get worse"
And "Following your treatment plan carefully and keeping your blood pressure under control can help to prevent these complications".
Turmeric is a perennial plant in the genus Curcuma, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to tropical South Asia.
The herb has been used in traditional medicine as an anti-oxidant, hypoglycemic, colorant, antiseptic, wound healing agent, and to treat flatulence, bloating, appetite loss, ulcers, eczema, inflammations, etc.
In finding a potential compound with kidney protective properties, researchers investigated curcumin, a major phenolic compound the rhizome of the Curcuma species kidney toxicity.
In glucose, tartrazine-induced toxicity, curcumin protected the kidney against DNA damage in leucocytes.
In a streptozotocin-induced diabetes rat model, curcumin protected the kidney against overexpression of free radicals to cause kidney cell damage through its antioxidant activity.
In the long-term heavy metal model, curcumin inhibited the toxic effect caused by the accumulation of the metal in the induction of kidney cell damage.
In an animal model induced cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury by injection of cisplatin, curcumin enhanced the function of cisplatin-resistant cancer cells and decreased its unwanted side effects.
More interestingly, curcumin inhibited the nicotine receptors on kidney cells that link nicotine to accelerated kidney damage in cigarette smokers
In other words. if the kidneys are less able to excrete nicotine, in the long term, accumulated extracellular fluid and blood volumes increase, which can lead to severe kidney damage.
In other studies, kidney damage caused by maleate, malathion, nicotine, cisplatin, gentamicin, and methotrexate was also reversed by the injection of curcumin, similar to those of the aforementioned substances.
Taken altogether, turmeric and its bioactive compound curcumin may be considered remedies for the prevention and treatment of kidney damage, pending the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.
Intake of turmeric in the form of a supplement should be taken with extreme care to prevent overdose acute liver toxicity.
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Sources
(1) Protective effects of ginger-turmeric rhizomes mixture on joint inflammation, atherogenesis, kidney dysfunction and other complications in a rat model of human rheumatoid arthritis by Ramadan G1, El-Menshawy O. (PubMed)
(2) Protective effects of curcumin against toxic agents-induced renal failure: a review by Farkhondeh T1, Samarghandian S2, Azimi-Nezhad M2, Shahri AMP. (PubMed)
(3) High Blood Pressure and Chronic Kidney Disease by The Natural Kidney Foundation
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