Natural Method To Increase GFR Level

Kidney disease affects many people in the world. And Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) level is a common clinic index used to reflect kidney function. According to GFR level, kidney disease is divided into 5 stages. The lower the GFR is, the severer the illness conditions. Improving GFR means to improve kidney function and alleviate your kidney disease, so kidney disease patients are all eager to know the natural method to increase GFR level.

GFR refers that within limited time how much blood kidneys filter. If kidneys are healthy, the GFR level should be in the range of 90-120ml/min/1.73m2. In kidney, the glomerular filtration membrane has the function of filtering blood. In this light, if you have kidney disease, your membrane will be affected, blood passing through it decreases and GFR decreases. In addition, there is another factor which can affect GFR is blood flow in kidneys. Therefore, as for a kidney disease patient, he can increase GFR level from two aspects. One is to increase blood flow in kidneys and the other is to repair kidney damages which is used to enlarge filtration membrane area.

The first one is to enlarge filtration membrane area.

Glomerular filtration rate is composed of several kidney intrinsic cells and basilar membrance which has the ability of self-repair when it is damaged. Therefore, kidney disease patients can improve self-repairing ability of basilar membrane. If some of them recover, filtration membrane area will be enlarged. In this case, GFR level also increases.

The second one is to increase blood flow in kidneys.

The effective method for increasing blood flow may be Chinese medicines. Chinese medicines are applied to increase the immunity of these damaged renal intrinsic cells. For kidney disease patients, Chinese herbal medicines have the function of extending blood vessels, fighting against coagulation, preventing inflammation and degrading extracellular matrix. With these functions, extending blood vessels is helpful to increase blood flow in kidneys, which can also help kidney disease patients to increase their glomerular filtration rate.

Kidney disease can not be cured completely, and for kidney disease patients, their glomerular filtration rate can not also be improved to normal range. However, as long as their GFR level is increased effectively, their kidney function is also improved and they may have the opportunity of avoiding dialysis and kidney transplant. Therefore, kidney disease patients should seize the chance to improve GFR before the time that all their kidney tissues are necrotic completely.