AAS & Stage 2 Kidney Disease

[Sponx]

Good Morning Community,

I was curious your thoughts... I have a friend that has stage 2 kidney disease that wants to get back into Anabolics.
She used to compete professionally and took anabolics (oral and injectables) back about 20 years ago and she's looking to want to get back into the game.

The problem is, she has stage 2 kidney disease - would there be anything she could dabble back into, that wouldn't be destructive or wouldn't worsen her situation?

Any advice/recommendations would be great. I just don't want to help support her in this if it will cause any issues.

Thank you everyone!

 

[Vision]

Good Morning Community,

I was curious your thoughts... I have a friend that has stage 2 kidney disease that wants to get back into Anabolics.
She used to compete professionally and took anabolics (oral and injectables) back about 20 years ago and she's looking to want to get back into the game.

The problem is, she has stage 2 kidney disease - would there be anything she could dabble back into, that wouldn't be destructive or wouldn't worsen her situation?

Any advice/recommendations would be great. I just don't want to help support her in this if it will cause any issues.

Thank you everyone!

well here's my question, how did she find out for certain that she has stage 2 kidney disease? if she has other underlining lining dispositions and they discovered this along the way, I wouldn't suggest her going back on.. on the flip side a large majority of people actually have no idea that they even have any issues with their kidney functions, with that being said if she wasn't tested for other things she would probably have went on with using AAS again, but now that things are discovered she may want to second-guess things. is it really worth a returns??

 

[Glycomann]

If she's stage 2 she's probably still testing in normal range. GFR 60–89 mL/min. 60 and higher is considered normal. Normal to high functioning is >90 mL/min.

 

[Vision]

If she's stage 2 she's probably still testing in normal range. GFR 60–89 mL/min. 60 and higher is considered normal. Normal to high functioning is >90 mL/min.

that's just a thing, people can appear to be in normal ranges, it's often found by other methods of testing and the incidentally stumble across it..

 

[502Kev]

I had blood work come back from a lab a few years ago. A notation said that my egfr was indicative of Stage IV Chronic Kidney Disease. Scared the sht out of me. After I picked my heart up off the floor., I read an article on this in the American Kidney foundation online, with comments in the side bar from long time, and retired kidney specialists. egfr is not a good determining factor to indicate kidney disease. I then found more saying the same thing, and the specialists saying they were scaring half or more of the population. The counter argument was.... that if they could even catch and save a few actual cases, it'd be worth it. B.S.
One thing... Always stay hydrated. Drink A LOT of water, whether you are doing orals or injectables

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571145/

 

[Noek]

GFR is measured by the amount of creatinine in your blood. It's not really indicative of kidney function/failure since men who work out regularly and consume larger amounts of protein will show a lower GFR anyway. You can stop working out for 2 weeks and lower your protein intake, do your blood work, and your creatinine levels in your blood will drop, raising your GFR, which is what you want.

There are some natural supplements that help kidneys - P5P, Astragalus, Pycogenol, Grape seed....I take all of them.

An abnormal kidney can be seen by having an ultrasound done but I believe a Nephrologist is who you want to see about kidney disease for accurate info.

 

[GarlicChicken]

GFR is measured by the amount of creatinine in your blood. It's not really indicative of kidney function/failure since men who work out regularly and consume larger amounts of protein will show a lower GFR anyway. You can stop working out for 2 weeks and lower your protein intake, do your blood work, and your creatinine levels in your blood will drop, raising your GFR, which is what you want.

There are some natural supplements that help kidneys - P5P, Astragalus, Pycogenol, Grape seed....I take all of them.

An abnormal kidney can be seen by having an ultrasound done but I believe a Nephrologist is who you want to see about kidney disease for accurate info.

This right here. If she really does have that low of an eGFR, there's a thread I posted a long time ago about a supplementation protocol that brought my wife's stage 2 CKD to normal ranges and the highest it's been in years. Still is to this day. She was having bad symptoms of CKD too and none of the other signs except high protein in her urine, so the eGFR can actually be an indicator.

I suggest she gives it a shot. It has to be followed to a T or else it doesn't work.

 

[Sponx]

Appreciate everyone's responses here, sorry I have not had time to reply back. Will as soon as I can!