you mean creatinine? if so 1.19 Im 36 btw
Thank you
There is your answer right there!!!! BOOM like a big sign in the sky. Up that water intake and that will drop off. It is much easier to filter a fluid than a gel... when dehydrated your blood is thick and viscous and it is very hard to filter out. So you tend to run into these things.
Sounds like you answered your own question. Go with .8g / lb of lbm so somewhere between 135-155 for you probably. Then since a hardgainer pound down about 2g per lb of bodyweight on carbs and fill the rest with fats. Squared away!
Really appreciate you sharing. Yes, I don't drink enough water. period.. i have a apt with a nephrologist this week.. Just to be on the safe side...
Best of luck. Let us know if being fully hydrated improved your eGFR.
Okay, but I will stress to you that the nephrologist is going to try to limit you down to like .4-.5g protein more than likely... I think my nephrologist told me I shouldn't have more than 80g of protein a day or something silly. When I really pushed back and said I understood about hydration and also people with higher than average muscle having higher levels, and that my BUN ratio is always good. At that point she conceded that there isn't any actual proof that higher protein will hurt the kidneys especially if hydration is kept up to par. At that point she told me she was okay with me going up to 1.25g of bodyweight for a few months but that she would prefer I be in the .8 range. More importantly she said is that I go in and get my kidney labs done every 6 months to make sure my creatinine is not climbing out of what had become my normal range. Now the ONLY time my creatinine goes over 1.4 is if I am not drinking enough water.
If you make your goal drinking a gallon of water or other fluid that does not dehydrate you then most of those issues are probably going to fall away unless you truly have bad kidneys. Also making yourself drink a gallon of water a day is a lot better than knowingly making it harder for your kidneys to do their job which is what is happening here.
So he told you there was actually something wrong with your kidneys and diagnosed you? Which stage of kidney disease are you in? All kidney damage is labeled as disease for some reason... Like mine is not a degenerating disease it is just scarring from a strep strain that got into my kidneys when I was 12. So 1.3-1.7 is MY normal. It sticks around 1.4 most of the time and my nephrologist sas numbers have improved while me eating up to 1.25g per lb body weight.
Appreciate your information ..
Cool and I hope you hear the best possible outcome brother! I do think that you may have an issue getting your Creatinine into range with your amount of muscle regardless of optimal function but if you Bun ratio is a good range that is the true marker of your kidney efficiency. For example my recent bloodwork had me at Creatinine 1.45, and BUN Ratio of 17 with normal range being 6-22 and my doctors were happy with that.
what are the "in range" levels?
1.2 has been my # for years. Only been lifting for a year..
Varies by race, sex and age. Then the number is plugged into a formula to estimate filtration rate. Here are links to the two most commonly used equations:
Hydration is a beautiful thing!!!!! What is your BUN ratio now?
14.6. Yes water is the sustainer of life!
Nice, back in range!
Jay Cutler only ate 180 grams of protein a day when bulking. However his carbs were extremely high! Carbs are extremely protein sparing.
.. what do you mean protein sparing?
When carbohydrates are there and plentiful then the body will not resort to the less efficient breakdown of muscle tissue for energy. This leaves the amino acid pool available for protein synthesis when it is time, as well as stopping the catabolism of muscle for energy. So it spares the proteins. Now Cutler ate something like 1500g or more of carbs a day if I remember correctly. I don't recommend that but definitely drive your carbohydrate intake as high as you can without tipping to heavily to fat gains and you will be squared away to bulk and grow. I would start by replacing any protein you remove with carbs, then replacing some of your fats if you tend to run them high. So long as blood sugar is not an issue then you should be good to go. If so then keep fats elevated more to help, but keep saturated fats @ 30% of fats or below. That's a high insulin environment so you don't want tons of fat that doesn't need converted to be stored like saturated fats available.
Thanks for that.... yes I'm eating a **** ton of carbs right now mainly from the bulking shakes..... I'm more of a hardgainer body type so I can get away with eating a lot....
When it comes to carbs, I prefer oatmeal to maltodextrin. I use a Nutri Bullet and powder 3cups of dry oatmeal, that 900 cals, add 3c of water, and it’s easy to drink down.
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