The Evidence Based Guide to Kidney and Renal Diets: For Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians (Stopping Kidney Disease™ Book 4)
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The first published reference guide to kidney/renal diets
Get educated before you start any kidney or renal diet, find out what works and what doesn’t
Understanding that kidney disease progression rates can be reduced by 40% to 50%( or more) just by dietary choices can be a breakthrough for patients. The lowest risk, least complicated , least expensive and the option that maintains a high quality life is for patients to keep their existing kidneys working as long as possible. Dialysis or transplant may be delayed for years or possibly eliminated in some cases.
A tremendous obstacle for patients is unregulated and out of date dietary advice, often lacking solid evidence. The goal of this book is to reduce confusion and ensure patients have up to date clinical data to make decisions.
The book’s comprehensive review spans over 100 studies involving over one million patients. Key findings include evaluations of the effectiveness of various kidney diets, such as:
- Low protein diets
- Very low protein diets
- Vegan, vegetarian, and plant-based diets
- Keto acid analogs (protein supplementation)
- Amino acids
- Plant-based vs. animal-based proteins
- Emerging diets and pilot study findings
- Recommended and non-recommended supplements
- Rapid validation methods for dietary approaches
- Normal kidney disease progression rates
- Albutrix S3, S4, S5, and Microtrix
- Kidneyhood.org’s own pilot study results documenting effectiveness
- Trusted sources of kidney related guidelines and best practices
Through this in-depth analysis, The Evidence-Based Guide to Kidney and Renal Diets empowers patients, clinicians, and caregivers to education needed to make life changing improvements in their outcome.
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J. Cranford –
I had researched the topic, and the author was very thorough. Easy to read, but best of all the information tracked what my nephrologist recommended already. The information did improve my lab results and will give you the confidence to make better dietary decisions. That goes a long way in staying on a strict kidney friendly diet. My eGFR was dramatically improved over a 6 month period. As always, check with your doctors before making any changes in your treatment plan.
nancy carrillo –
Very informative, I needed that.
bhiker –
One of the only true factual guides to chronic Kidney disease Information
Peter Rogers MD –
Lee Hull is smart and really trying to help people. He has been through the process of treating his own ckd as he describes in his books
Paul Sheldon Foote –
After reading Lee Hull’s longer book, Stopping Kidney Disease, I changed to a very low protein vegan diet and used Albutrix tablets for most of the last 3 years. The Evidence-Based Guide to Kidney and Renal Diets is a shorter book that added nothing new to what I knew. The new feature is a collection of selected case studies. Hull did not analyze the results of all his Albutrix users or take a random sample of his users. He excluded some users, including me, from his study. Readers should note that there is no known way of stopping the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Many nephrologists promote very dangerous drugs to slow the progression because they know that many patients will refuse to change their diets. These drugs have side effects such as death, gangrene, and serious yeast infections. After switching to a vegan diet, there were some early gains: (1) A1C fell from 6.1 to less than 5; no longer pre-diabetic (2) BUN dropped from 26 to as low as 8. BUN decreases because Albutrix tablets contain the lowest nitrogen content of any protein supplement. While some protein supplements disclose amino acid composition, I have not found any that will disclose nitrogen content. Albutrix discloses nitrogen content but does not disclose amino acid composition. A problem with a vegan diet is that my red blood cell numbers went from normal to bad. Having had a calcium oxalate kidney stone, I needed to switch also to a low oxalate diet. That makes it very difficult to consume enough calories daily. The result is protein energy wasting. If your body cannot find enough energy from your diet, your body will burn protein for energy. If I cannot solve the red blood cell problem, then I shall need to switch to a low protein diet and to stop using Albutrix. Instead of the Evidence book, read the Stopping book and research also newer findings.
Amazon Customer –
Finally an excellent book . I have been dealing with CKD for over 10 years and the book answered many questions and created a few more for my Doctor. Many thanks.
Troy Shoemaker –
There’s so much information in this book everyone with CKD should buy this book.
Vchip –
If you have CKD Lee Hull’s books will be a life changer IF you follow his advice. eFGR 52 May 2024. Big surprise to me I’d been 62-70 for the past 4 years my doc never mentioned a thing. I was already in stage 2. In the fall I started seeing a kidney dietician and went on a more plant based diet, she was nice but really not that much help. I saw a nephrologist in December who put me on Farizga (very expensive). I then found Lee’s books. Changed my eating plan completely and went from 59 in October to 64 in Feb to 71 in June 6 2025. Stopped the Farziga in Feb since I was getting side effects and did not need it. YES you do need dramatic changes and as someone who also has CKD said to me I don’t like vegetables and don’t care if I live longer. Well I’m 74 and i want to live till my 90”s and see my Grandkids grow up. If no meat and a very low protein diet keeps me off dialysis and healthy it’s worth it to me. Like most things it’s always up to the individual to make and follow his decisions.
Diahla –
This book is good for getting you to a point where you can make a sound decision to get and keep your diet clean and how to do it the right way.