Health & Wellness
Keeping Your Kidneys Healthy
The Key to Good Health
by Dr. Dorette Lewis-Senior , ND. MSAc. BS-RN. LCM
Your kidneys are important because Where in the body are your kidthey:
neys?
• Regulate blood pressure by producing the
enzyme rennin.
• Control the body’s mineral and acidity
levels.
• Keep bones strong and healthy by producing calcitriol, an active form of vitamin D.
• Stimulate the production of red blood cells
by producing the hormone erythropoietin.
What do the kidneys do?
If your organs had professions, your
kidneys would be chemists. Kidneys clean
and balance your entire body’s blood supply.
Approximately 200 quarts of blood are processed thro ՝