The kidney and bladder area, which also accumulates toxins, must also be cleansed.
Our kidneys are our blood and fluid filters. Kidney function is critical to good health and serve five functions2:
1. Regulation of body fluid volume
2. Regulation of electrolyte balance
3. Regulation of acid-base balance
4. Excretion of metabolic products and foreign substances
5. Production and secretion of hormones
More than 150 quarts of fluid, including blood, pass through the kidneys daily. Thankfully, God gave us two kidneys to do the job; one kidney alone could do the job if toxins aren’t stored there.
The kidney picks up where the liver leaves off. The liver, as you remember, changes harmful chemicals, toxins and drugs into harmless waste products to be excreted. Some of this nontoxic waste product enters the blood stream and is brought to the kidneys, where it is filtered out of the blood and excreted in the form of urine. Without proper kidney filtration, blood urea levels rise (metabolic byproduct), and toxin and chemical levels rise (foreign substances), eventually becoming lethal.
Think of the illustration of the air filter in the smoke-filled room. If you shut off the filter, smoke would continue pouring into the room—symbolizing regular cellular metabolism byproducts—eventually causing sickness, disease and even death. Another illustration is that of a fish tank. Regularly fed fish regularly excrete waste products, which pollute water with bacteria and chemicals; without a water filter, the fish would eventually die.
People who have kidney failure can still survive with kidney dialysis—a complex machine that filters blood. A person is usually hooked up to this machine three times a week, 6-8 hours at a time. These people are on very restricted diets and are not allowed to drink very much, because they cannot produce and excrete urine.
The biggest threats to your kidneys are:
1) Toxins or poisons (both endogenous and exogenous) circulating in the blood stream, eventually ending up in the kidney. They must be filtered out, or the kidney will eventually stop functioning.
2) Bacterial infections, like Group A Beta Hemolytic strep from sore throats, or skin infection and other general infection.
3) Stone formation, which causes inflammation, ischemia and even cell death. The primary cause of kidney stones is the high-protein diet of average Americans. When digested and metabolized, protein leaves an acid ash residue in the body. This acidic residue leaches calcium out of the bones to help normalize the pH of the body. The calcium circulates and eventually is deposited into the kidney, building up over years until the kidney excretory function is blocked. Then the uric acid level rises, the blood urea nitrogen goes up, and the body becomes very toxic, very quickly. A person in this condition experiences pain ranging from general lower back pain to extremely intense back pain with nausea and vomiting. By the time a person reaches this point, his kidney has probably been malfunctioning for many years.

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