Alkaline Diet and Metabolic Acidosis: Practical Approaches to the Nutritional Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

The kidneys play an extremely important role in maintaining the body acid –base balance by excreting nonvolatile acids and regenerating and reabsorbing bicarbonate in the kidney tubules. As the individual loses their kidney function, renal excretion of nonvolatile acid produced by metabolism of the diet is impaired, resulting in low-grade metabolic acidosis. With this i n mind, it is relevant to better understand the dietary aspects related to the acid–base balance in chronic kidney disease metabolic acidosis and try to provide possible strategies for the nutritional management of these cases.
Source: Journal of Renal Nutrition - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Practical Aspects Source Type: research