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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  My doc told me to eat meat in order to lower the urea levels.    |
So now doctors are prescribing dead flesh as medicine? Oy vey. Are we back to using leeches again?
Animal flesh itself is high in urea -- the very toxin your body is trying to eliminate. Urea is also used in fertilizers, and it's added to cigarettes too. Why on earth would you want to consume more of it as the solution?
If your doctor is anywhere close to the U.S. average of doctors, it's a safe bet s/he knows far less about human nutrition than you do.
It sounds like your doctor is doing the classic medical cop-out. If you mention you made a dietary change and you're having problems, docs often make the no-brainer diagnosis that the dietary change was the culprit and that you should go back to doing what everyone else does. That isn't sound medicine though. It's laziness with a bill.
Your liver produces urea as a way to deal with excess ammonia in your body. Ammonia is toxic to your cells. Your kidneys eventually remove the urea, so you can excrete it in your urine. I definitely wouldn't recommend adding to the problem by consuming animal flesh, which is only going to produce more ammonia and likely make the problem worse.
Obviously I'm not an M.D., but a common sense solution would be to drink more water (especially with a little fresh lemon juice) to give your body a chance to dilute and eliminate more of these toxins. If you're dehydrated that could explain why your urea levels are rising. Assuming your kidneys are functioning normally, you need water to urinate these toxins out, and one of the best ways to ensure more urination is to drink more water.