7 Ways to Detox and Cleanse Your Kidneys Naturally
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it goes without saying that the kidneys are one of the most essential organs in the human body because they help remove waste maintain fluid balance and filter minerals and toxic substances in the blood so in order to take care of your overall health you must focus on taking care of your kidneys and urinary system in this topic we're going to break down seven easy methods that you can use to detox and cleanse your kidneys in a natural way be sure to stick around until the end to learn about one method that far too many people overlook so if you're ready let's get into it just a quick reminder this video is for informational purposes only but the first and most important way to detox your kidneys is to stay hydrated staying hydrated makes it easier for the kidneys to perform their duties by removing toxins and waste in the form of urine which means that your urine is the best indicator of dehydration to check you can simply observe the amount and the color of urine that is produced the average person typically expels around 6 cups of urine each day so if you're not urinating enough this most likely means that you aren't drinking enough water and you probably need to increase your healthy fluid intake also your urine should be clear or close to clear in color it's okay to have a slightly yellow tone but if it has a dark yellow color it likely means that you are dehydrated the good news is as you increase your fluid intake the color should begin to lighten and become more clear some other signs of dehydration include headache dry mouth dizziness and fatigue if you notice any of these signs regularly simply drinking more water can give your kidneys a boost and likely help you start to feeling better but many people often ask how much water should you drink per day while eight glasses of water a day is the general recommendation each person is different and your body may require more or less than that amount instead of counting your glasses of water you should look for the warning signs that we just discussed and test the amount that is most optimal for you the next way to detox and cleanse your kidneys is to limit your sodium intake if you eat a sodium-rich diet you are most definitely not alone on average americans consume around 3 400 milligrams of sodium per day which exceeds the recommended intake by more than 1000 milligrams consuming too much sodium is not good at all for your kidneys because first a high sodium diet increases the amount of calcium in your urine which increases your risk of forming kidney stones also sodium can cause high blood pressure which has negative effects on the kidneys as well by damaging the arteries that carry blood to the kidneys which over time can ultimately result in kidney failure if you want to reduce sodium intake one easy way to do so is to limit the amount of processed foods that you eat in your diet which leads us to the next method and that is to eat foods that support the kidneys we've already established that eating processed foods that are high in sodium is not good for your kidneys instead you can opt for fresh foods that are loaded with nutrients and antioxidants in order to give your kidneys a nice little boost you've most likely heard the saying that an apple a day can keep the doctor away right well this includes the kidney doctor as well apples and other fruits are loaded with antioxidants vitamin c and fiber that have anti-inflammatory properties which provide some great benefits for your kidneys some other fresh vegetables that you can consider include kale spinach and sweet potatoes each of these superfoods contains vitamins and minerals that studies have found to be effective in providing your kidneys with a detoxifying boost you can also consider adding more fish to your diet as well because fish is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids and this is important because studies found that they can significantly reduce the risk of end-stage renal disease or delay its progression sure these foods are good for your waistline but now you know just how good they can be for your kidneys as well shifting gears just a bit another great way to cleanse your kidneys is to try herbal teas herbal teas have been used medicinally for thousands of years for everything from weight loss to a full body detox as i'm sure you're probably aware they can be used for detoxing the kidneys as well in order to keep them functioning optimally herbal teas are often loaded with antioxidants which provide anti-inflammatory effects among other cleansing benefits studies found that they can even reduce the risk of developing kidney stones as well some examples that you can consider testing out include nettle leaf tea turmeric tea and dandelion tea the next way to detox your kidneys is to take the right vitamins and supplements just as the lungs need oxygen your kidneys require proper vitamins and nutrients as well in order to keep them functioning properly one example that we should mention is vitamin b6 studies found that this vitamin reduces calcium oxalate which ultimately reduces the risk of developing kidney stones and another one that you should know about is angiographis studies suggest that this herb contains properties that can be beneficial in reducing the toxic effects that occur from alcohol consumption more research is needed in this area but preliminary findings are promising some other vitamins and supplements that offer kidney benefits include alpha lipoic acid moringa in acetyl cysteine resveratrol probiotics and even vitamin d to be safe it's always best to check with your doctor before adding any new supplements to your regimen because they will know more about your individual condition moving right along another simple method to consider is to avoid artificial sweeteners you may have already adjusted your diet to swap out processed sugar for artificial sweeteners as a way to be healthy and consume fewer calories this makes sense right consuming less calories should equate to weight loss unfortunately studies found that the opposite seems to be true artificial sweeteners actually negatively affect our taste buds which stimulates an increased appetite and causes overeating to occur this contributes to weight gain which increases the risk of a stroke hypertension and cardiovascular disease and to top it all off unfortunately this also results in an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and kidney disease as well the most common culprits include sucralose which is found in splenda saccharin which is found in sweden low and aspartame which is found in equal instead you can opt for natural sweeteners such as honey maple syrup and agave nectar just be sure to do so in moderation and arguably one of the most effective methods for detoxing the kidneys is to try a two-day kidney cleanse this is a technique that can be implemented where you set aside a two-day time period where you only consume foods and liquids that are optimal for your kidneys as we mentioned earlier your kidneys act as the filtration system for the body by removing toxins and waste during this short time period by taking in only the most optimal nutrients your kidneys can truly flush out most of the excess toxins in the body to get your renal system in the best possible condition this diet can include any combination of juices teas herbs smoothies and foods that only work to improve the overall health of your kidneys you can look at some of the foods and supplements that were mentioned in this topic and do more research online to find what you think would work best for you keep in mind that the nccih states that there isn't any clinical evidence to suggest that these cleansing programs are effective however anecdotal experience from individuals seem to have good results but just to be safe as always it's best to check with your doctor first especially if you have an underlying condition most of us can probably keep our kidneys in optimal shape simply by eating a healthy diet and drinking plenty of water but now you know some alternative techniques that you can't consider real quick if you don't mind doing me a huge favor .
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What is Islam ?
what is this Islam ? who is Muhammad ? what do Muslims believe is the Quran the inspired Word of God our Christianity and Islam compatible can they agree can they coincide and coexist these are some of the questions that we will explore in this seminar but let's begin by talking for just a moment about the worldwide impact of Islam you realize that Islam is expanding and impacting the world and it might surprise you to learn that the largest Muslim populations on the planet are not in the Middle East in fact the most populated Muslim country is Indonesia that's Southeast Asia and that's followed by Pakistan which at one time was part of India if we were to look at a chart showing the religious complexion of the world we would find that Christianity continues to be the number one religion of the world with over two billion adherents keeping in mind that that term Christian applies to a wide range of those who profess belief in Christ in the Christian religion about half of those being Catholic notice that we have about a billion Hindus on the planet and that's followed by about a billion atheists unbeliever secularists humanists those who claim to be irreligious they have no religion whatsoever a little over another billion consisting of Buddhism and other oriental type religions that makes Islam the number two religion on the planet with about 1.3 billion adherents if you were to take a look at the ethnicity of Muslims in the United States you would find that only about 25% are Arab with the majority being of South Central Asian origin well some have suggested that this is one of the fastest if not the fastest growing religions in the United States indeed Islam is making extensive encroachments into American culture are you aware the fact that the u.s. post office over a decade ago designed and implemented a postage stamp that is designed to commemorate two different aspects of Islamic celebration are you aware the fact that mosques for several decades now have been springing up all over the United States from the east coast all the way to the west coast these mosques include of course the one that is planned and in the process in New York City at Ground Zero so well over a thousand mosques have been built in the United States just within the last shall we say thirty to forty years interesting concept why suddenly now and I believe the answer to that is because for the first hundred and fifty two hundred and seventy years of America's existence American values were in tact based upon the Bible and the Christian worldview but post-world War two years have been turbulent morally spiritually culturally socially and consequently there's been an upheaval as many Americans are jettisoning their values what we're called traditional American values that were rooted in and based upon a Christian worldview and notice as you shove away from your society from your population Bible values then certainly there is a void created and there will be those who will rush in in order to fill that void and consequently Islam and other world religions that are non Christian and orientation have infiltrating American civilization think in the news how often you are hearing of these encroachments for example New York Public Schools made room for Ramadan celebration among many of their students Ramadan is being taught in public schools all over our country recognized and and actually incorporated into the curriculum there have been major universities across the country that have installed prayer rooms for Muslim students they wouldn't do anything like that for Christian students the Kansas City airports some time ago installed a foot baths for Muslim cabbies and there's even been a Muslim public school that has been funded by taxpayer money so this infiltration this alteration of the complexion of American civilization is taking place before our very eyes on September 25th 2009 several thousand Muslims gathered on the lawn of our Capitol in order to engage in Islamic prayers so massive expansion of Islam into American civilization what is this religion that has become essentially the second largest religion in the world well to answer that question you will have to go back to the 6th century AD when in the city of Mecca which is in Saudi Arabia if you were to look at a map of the Arabian Peninsula you would see along the coast of the Red Sea the town of Mecca Muhammad's birth City there Muhammad was born in 570 ad do you know that his father died actually before he was born and his mother died when he was but six years old he was turned over to the care of first his grandfather who later died and then passed from uncle - uncle he he grew up in Saudi Arabia like a typical Bedouin child Bedouin boy attending goats and sheep he learned the weapons of war he he traveled with kinsmen on trading expeditions which would have exposed him to a broader segment of society even beyond the borders of Arabian society when Mohammed was 25 years old he met a woman who invited him to take responsibility for one of her Caravan she was a wealthy widow woman which he agreed to do and he so conducted himself in such a a fine trustworthy fashion that ultimately she offered herself in marriage to Mohammed her name was Cod Josh he was 15 years his senior 40 years old at the time he was 25 and consequently this kind of opened up a new life for Mohammed he had more leisure time he was able to engage in in activities that enabled him to be more contemplative and to enjoy the respite of vacation time looking at a NASA satellite view of Mecca you can see that this is a very rugged a desert area of the earth and we are informed by historians that in the year ad 610 at the age of 40 years old Muhammad was out away from Mecca up in a mountain range kind of getting away from public life and he was actually at Mount Hira and while he was there he noticed a sort of an opening in the rock a cave that he decided to go into in order to escape the intense heat of the desert and he claims that while he was in that cave the angel Gabriel appeared to him and delivered to him a revelation from God the first of 114 revelations over the next 23 years which then were assembled together after his death to form al Quran which in Arabic means the reading or the recitation that which is recited orally and that is in fact the origin of the Quran according to Islamic history if you were to take the Koran and begin reading it and work your way through these separate and distinct revelations called in the Koran Saurus one of the first things you would notice especially in the early ones that the subject matter seems to be primarily focused upon denouncing Arab idolatry and condemning Arab polytheism you see you have to know something of Arab tribal life at this point in history most of the Arab tribal groups a very tribal oriented very blood kin oriented they were very polytheist he believed in many gods consequently the Quran stressed the concept of monotheism and condemned the belief in many gods well as soon as Mohammed began to express those views to his fellow Meccans I assure you hostilities commenced you see his hometown tribal group of which he was a member known as the Quraish were known Peninsula wide as the keepers of the Kaaba what is the Kaaba if you were to go to Mecca today you would see this amazing cube-like structure that Muslims claim though it existed at the very beginning of time built by Adam was later destroyed in the flood and then they believe that God commissioned Abraham and his son Ishmael to rebuild the Kaaba together and then God ordered pilgrimage to be made to Mecca and to that location a minimum of annually by those who believed in Islam but Muslims believe that since Abraham's day over the centuries the kebab became corrupted in its use and began to be used for idolatrous purposes in fact there were idols that were literally placed there and consequently Muhammad saw himself as having the responsibility to condemn this idolatry and to try to put a stop to poly the ISM well his insistence upon monotheism placed him in direct conflict with the very foundation of the local economy which depended heavily upon polytheism because the Quraish were the ones who were responsible for drawing arabs from all over the peninsula to Mecca in order to engage in these idolatrous observances so hostilities began to be directed against Muhammad and they began to intensify as he began to have some success for example he began to make converts initially primarily among young people and slaves and yet with that kind of growing influence he was perceived as a greater threat than he had been initially and this opposition to Mohammed continued to intensify and grow until he was eventually forced to flee for his life from his hometown of Mecca consequently he fled to the north where a group of individuals had embraced his thinking a little band of Muslims they had already embraced Islam and so they invited him to come and to live with him and so he took about a 12 day camel ride to the north to the city of Medina again looking at a NASA satellite photo you can see also a very desert II rugged part of the world but notice from the air how you can see this very visible very obvious object that appears in the very centre of Medina in fact at nighttime it stands out well this is in fact the mosque of the Prophet it is called it is the mosque that Muhammad began to have built during his lifetime in fact there is a portion there that has a green dome where he is actually buried this amazing mosque of course has been built in added to and developed over the centuries and it continues to be a very prominent site for Muslims to attend to because this is in fact the location where Mohammed fled from Mecca and became his adopted City let me give you just a little bit of information that'll kind of scope for you very briefly the life of Mohammed in AD 619 his wife Khadija died up to this point Muhammad had been purely monogamous he had only one wife and yet within about a year of this event the death of his of his wife he claims to have made a trip to heaven and we'll talk about that a little bit later and again within a year of the death of his wife he claims that he was ordered by God to marry the daughter of his best friend Abu Baqir at the time that daughter Ayesha Islamic sources say was six years old within another couple of years the his raw occurred that is his flight from Mecca to Medina because of the persecutions that were levied against him by his hometown tribe of the Quraish consequently the year a.d 622 is a very critical very prominent event in Islamic history in fact all of Islamic history and therefore to a Muslim all of world history is dated from the Hegira the flight from Mecca to Medina in fact as you read through the Quran there are clearly surahs that pertain to events preceding the hijra so these are sewers that pertain to events in Mecca and then you have other surahs that clearly indicate a post his raw circumstance or context and these are those that were given during the period that Muhammad was in Medina so the Quran has mekin surahs and medinan source for the most part now once Muhammad shifted from Mecca to Medina let me give you a very brief scoping of history at this point he engaged in armed with Jewish tribal groups that were living in Medina fascinating concept that is the Jews all the way back in Babylonian times Babylonian captivity were dispersed and right on down to the time of Christ centuries later there's indication in Acts chapter 2 for example the Jews that came for Pentecost in the year ad 30 came from nations all over the world and that included Arabia according to Acts chapter 2 so these Jewish tribal groups were living in various parts and there were a number of them living right there in Medina probably been there for four centuries four generations who therefore they were Arabic in the sense that they had enculturated but they were still a very Jewish very monotheistic well when Muhammad presented himself to these Jewish individuals in hopes that they would understand that he saw himself as the logical sequel or the logical continuation of Judaism and Christianity and kind of the the post occurrence of proper religion he hoped that the Jews would accept him as another prophet in this long line of prophets going all the way back to Adam however that was not to be and consequently conflict emerged and hostilities commenced between Muhammad and his followers and the Jewish tribal groups in the meantime there were other Arab groups that he had conflicts with because they were polytheistic he was wanting them to submit to the notion of monotheism and then you have the fact that his hometown tribe of Quraish we're not willing to allow him to leave unscathed that's true that he had fled from their grasp but they wanted to rid themselves of him they still had issues with him and consequently they would literally launch attempts to assassinate Muhammad also during this period Islam continued to expand more conversions were made Muhammad's military strength was likewise increasing and also I might point out that during this period Muhammad began to add wives add women to his harem and consequently he would have another living quarters constructed adjacent to the mosque that was being built in Medina and he claims during this period that he continued to receive revelations from allah the arabic word for god moving down to ad 630 about eight years after his having fled from his hometown of mecca we find that he had achieved sufficient military strength that he was able to gather his military forces and march on his hometown of mecca at this point he subjugated essentially the entire population he purged the Kaaba of all of its polytheism and engaged in some other actions but for all practical purposes brought in under submission which by the way is the meaning of the word Islam submission notice the form of the same word Islam Muslim Muslim one who submits so he brought under submission the population of Mecca but he did not move in and begin to live there he went back home to Medina back to his adopted City within two years of his bringing Mecca under control he returned for another pilgrimage that turned out to be the farewell the final pilgrimage trip to Mecca that was AD 632 and later that year June 8 at the age of 62 Muhammad died of what is essentially an unknown illness now that is a very brief recapping of the life of Muhammad to help us to be somewhat acquainted with this individual that has occupied so much attention over the last fourteen or fifteen hundred years now let me give you a very brief thumbnail sketch of Islam as it has manifested itself since the death of Muhammad remember now Muhammad claimed be a prophet of God and therefore he claims and Muslims claimed that he was the quintessential prophet of God he was the ultimate and final prophet of God and so when he died in AD 632 the Islamic community was momentarily shall we say disoriented it was quite a blow to them that the Prophet would die so unexpectedly and they were initially kind of uncertain as to what they were do I don't believe there was any concern or thought about appointing a new prophet they believed he was the last prophet but they did feel that there needed to be a community leader somebody who would lead or serve as a as a proper authority among the Muslims and so there immediately began to be discussion about well who should that be and there was immediately a disagreement of course about who should replace Muhammad but this disagreement was fairly quickly squelched and Abu Bakr was selected close friend of Muhammad Muhammad had married his daughter and consequently Abu Bakr became the first Khalifa the first Khalif sort of a deputy vice regent and he served in that capacity from the death of Muhammad to ad 634 at which time he was replaced by Umar who was another very close associate of Muhammad going back to the very beginning of Muhammad's teaching and and promotion of Islam he served in that capacity for about a decade and then at his demise he was replaced by Ruth ma now up to this point we have general consensus within the Islamic community on each of these individuals because they went right back to the time of Muhammad they were very prominent figures Earthmen served in that capacity for over a decade about 12 years but at this point in Islamic history 656 a.d the division the seeds of which occurred right after the death of muhammad now came to a head and the Islamic community essentially split apart into two primary factions the first of these factions believed that the successor to Muhammad should be a blood relative somebody directly linked back to Muhammad by blood these individuals became known as Shiites because of the Arabic word Shia that has to do with being party to or partisan - and so they selected Ali who could trace his lineage back to Muhammad and he became the first Shiite I mom that would be one of the terms that are that's used by Shiites to refer to their leaders his two sons successively succeeded him Hasan and Husayn all individuals that agreed with that perspective that the leader of the Islamic community should be connected directly to Muhammad they to this day are known as I moms or ayahs and you've heard of the Ayatollah for example now the other element in the Islamic community that disagreed with that view said no the community leader can be someone who is selected by community consent somebody that the community recognizes is a suitable and appropriate leader these individuals became known as Sunnis and in fact the majority of Muslims have gone this direction and consequently they selected their first leader and then over the centuries other caliphs Sultan's sheiks were selected to be the community leader of the Muslims and and they sort of set up what we might call dynasties caliphates the Arabs would call it and so there was the Umayyad caliphate and the opposite and and this ultimately culminated in what we would call the Ottoman Empire which had its center in Turkey so the Ottoman Turks were kind of a a climaxing of Islamic influence in art and architecture and other areas of development and for all practical purposes the Ottoman Empire came to a close about the time of World War one that is a very brief history of Islam in its political manifestations over the centuries now let me comment very quickly on this major split that occurred between the Shiites and the Sunnis I cannot overstate the significance of this division it is very prominent in the minds of Muslims worldwide there may be an attempt by the Muslim world to give the impression that overall we're all united we all agree unlike you Christians and other groups that are all fragmented but the facts of the matter are this is a split of really rather catastrophic 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