3 Drinks to Keep Your Kidneys Clean

3 Drinks to Keep Your Kidneys Clean

Your kidneys are the body’s star toxin-filtering team and need your support to do their job well. Because detoxing is their prime directive, you don’t need to feed them any trendy detox aid or supplement. You just need to make sure you stay properly hydrated. However, keep in mind that not all drinks are created equal in terms of kidney health.

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Following are the three best drinks to keep your kidneys clean and happy. Start pounding more of them now because kidneys do more than just filter waste. They also help maintain a healthy blood pressure, keep your bones strong by producing vitamin D, make red blood cells, and balance the body’s pH level. We told you this is an all-star team!

1) Cranberry Juice

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You may have heard that cranberry juice is good for preventing and treating urinary tract infections. This is because cranberries have compounds that are able to stop e. coli from hanging around in the urinary tract. E. coli is the type of bacteria that causes between 80-90% of all diagnosed UTIs.

Cranberry juice is also good for your kidneys because they are part of the urinary tract. Untreated UTIs can move from the bladder to the kidneys and cause a seriously painful infection called pyelonephritis. If that isn’t treated, it can spread on to the bloodstream and cause a life-threatening illness.

Avoid this by getting a daily dose of cranberry – you don’t even have to drink it. Dried or whole cranberries work, too.

2) Ginger tea

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Ginger has long been used in holistic medicine for all sorts of applications. It’s super healthy because ginger contains a compound called gingerol that can inhibit the spread of bacteria. This relieves strain on your overworked kidneys and liver.

Some studies have shown that ginger can also help to control chronic high blood sugar, which is very damaging to your kidneys. In healthy people, drinking ginger tea may reduce the risk of developing diabetes. In people with a diabetes diagnosis, it can protect against kidney-related complications.

Gingerol is also often used to promote healthy digestion and it even reduces inflammation and pain all over your body. That’s a lot of great reasons to enjoy some ginger tea every day. You can also cook with ginger – it works whether fresh or dried.

3) Lemon and lime citrus juices

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Citrus is high in something called citrate, which is known to help prevent kidney stones. This painful condition generally occurs when calcium binds with other minerals and forms crystals. These crystals eventually clump together, forming stones that must then be passed through the urinary tract in an agonizing progression.

Getting more citrate in your diet via lemon and lime juices can stop calcium from binding to these other minerals as well as keep any crystals that are already present in your kidneys from sticking together to form stones