Thirteen percent of Americans -- more than one in eight -- now have chronic kidney disease. A decade ago, the rate was only 10 percent, and the likely cause of the increase is higher rates of diabetes and high blood pressure.
Kidney disease, although it gets little press, is a major killer. Many patients with chronic kidney disease die either of kidney failure or heart disease.
Thirteen percent may even be a low estimate -- a recent CDC report suggested that 17 percent of Americans have chronic kidney disease. That’s more than one in six!
Early treatment for kidney disease can protect against permanent kidney damage and heart disease.
One major culprit is taking OTC pain pills such as aspirin, Motrin, Advil or Tylenol, which can cause kidney damage. About 15 percent of the people on dialysis (an artificial blood-filtering process used to clean the blood of malfunctioning kidneys) are getting this treatment as a result of the damage that Tylenol and/or aspirin did to their kidneys. So, avoiding Tylenol and aspirin will be very important to preventing kidney disease.
Simply put, virtually NO ONE needs to take statin drugs. When you treat the symptoms with a drug, you are in no way, shape or form treating the cause. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that artificial drugs cause serious side effects.
Another danger to your kidneys is mercury.