2 of 2 Dr Terry Brown: Low-fat dieters get their gallbladder removed! And protein hard on kidneys

The whole interview:
http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/shownotes/1825/dr-terry-brown-says-cut-the...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY1OxpOdjE&feature=related#t=5m
If you're on kidney dialysis you're told not to eat a high protein diet.

Full lecture on energy metabolism is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_0cK5IUac&feature=PlayList&p=EB83EF5...
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Dr Eades experience:

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/metabolism-and-ketosis/
I heard that ketosis is very hard on the kidneys. I have a friend who was born with one kidney, and her doctors expressly forbade her from doing any ketogenic type diets.

What is your view on ketosis and kidney function.
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Hi Doug--

It's not ketosis that is supposedly "very hard on the kidneys," but a ketogenic diet. The part of the ketogenic diet that is supposedly damaging to the kidneys is the higher protein content of that diet. Much research has shown that dietary protein DOES NOT have an adverse effect on normally functioning kidneys, even if it just one normally functioning kidney. The idea that protein damages kidneys is what I call a vampire myth, one that keeps coming back to life no matter how many times it has been killed by the light of good research.

If you want to read a good summary paper on this issue, click here.

Hope this helps.

MRE
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http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cardiovascular-disease/four-patients-who-c...
02/06/10: I ate a high protein, low carb, low fat diet and got severe kidney problems from it. It took me 1 1/2 -- 2 years to get my kidneys back to normal. No kidding. I now eat a high fat, very low carb, adequate
protein (46 g) diet, and that has been working for me so far.
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If you truly developed kidney problems as a consequence of the protein in a low-carb diet, you're the first one I've heard of to do so.

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