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Drink Kidney-Health Tea for World Kidney Day & National Kidney Month<\/strong>
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Today is a kidney two-fer: March is National Kidney Month<\/a>, and today is World Kidney Day<\/a>. As kidneys come in pairs we think it\u2019s an auspicious day for learning about your kidneys, and how to take care of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, let\u2019s explore these vital organs. What do do these bean-shaped organs located behind the abdomen do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giant filters<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Blood courses through our veins every day, and kidneys process about 200 quarts \u2014 that\u2019s 50 gallons! \u2014 across the day. The bad stuff that the kidneys catch through filtration get removed from the body through urine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping up the pressure<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For filters of any kind to work, they rely upon pressure; the force pushes substances through the filters. Kidney reliance upon pressure is key. As such, kidneys often control pressure throughout the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red blood cell factory<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A hormone called erythropoietin instructs bone marrow to make all-important red blood cells. The cells, true workhorses, constantly work hard delivering oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body, which relies on red blood cells for energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bone builders<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Vitamin D absorbs calcium and phosphorus, both of which are essential for bone strength. It\u2019s the kidneys that make and supply the Vitamin D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping fluids in balance<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, we all are combinations of acid and base, also known as pH. Acids are sharp, like orange juice. Base substances \u2014 baking soda is a classic \u2014 are the opposite, or alkaline. Keeping them balanced is vital. Kidneys offer the body a suite of chemicals that control the volume of acids and bases. Balance between these things does fluctuate every day; food, for one thing, affects pH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kidney health depends on myriad different things. Diet, for one, can help achieve healthy, or struggling, kidneys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While tea is not going to make a damaged kidney healthy again, some teas do, in fact, promote kidney health with every sip. Let\u2019s brew them and drink them for March, yes? Maybe we all will develop strong kidney-supporting habits during this month of the kidneys.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Choose from our wide variety of green teas now! <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Drink: Green Tea<\/strong><\/mark><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Superb news, tea lovers. Green tea<\/a> supports kidney health. A 2017 study<\/a>, for example, found the polyphenols in green tea helped ameliorate kidney damage in people. Polyphenols are a family of roughly 8,000 different micronutrients widely found in plants. The study is not alone; research into compounds found in green tea and kidney health proliferate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the majority of traditional Camellia sinensis<\/em> teas in China and Japan are green teas, we carry quite a range of them, everything from Xin Yang Mao Jian<\/a>, grown at high elevation China\u2019s Henan Province to Japanese Matcha<\/a> and an Earl Grey with green tea<\/a>, rather than traditional black tea, serving as its base.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Organic DetoxiTea Herbal Blend <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Drink: Organic DetoxiTea Herbal Blend<\/mark><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Among herbal ingredients, dandelion leaf and root stands as one of the most potent ingredients for kidney health. A key to dandelion\u2019s facility for kidney health rests with its ability to stimulate the kidneys, which strengthens the organ\u2019s ability to flush fluid and reduce fluid retention. Some diuretics \u2014 substances that encourage fluid expulsion \u2014 promote potassium loss, which is bad for cardiovascular health. But dandelion is one of the best sources of natural potassium in the world. As a result, sipping tea with dandelion simultaneously improves kidney health while adding potassium to the diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Organic DetoxiTea Herbal Blend<\/a> tea is based on South African honeybush, a shrub similar to rooibos. Both herbs offer a wealth of electrolytes, which also promote kidney health. In addition to honeybush, lemon peel, cinnamon and lapacho (tea made from the inner bark of the South American pau d\u2019arco tree, and widely used as herbal medicine across the continent), DetoxiTea includes dandelion root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sip up, friends! Your kidneys will thank you for it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beauty Tea Herbal Blend <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Drink: Organic Beauty Tea<\/mark><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As discussed above, dandelion serves as an excellent kidney balm. Our Organic Beauty Tea<\/a> includes dandelion as an ingredient, and for that alone we would recommend this tasty tea. But it also offers another kidney-boosting herb: nettle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as dandelion is a diuretic, so are nettles. As we discussed, diuretics often promote kidney health by encouraging the organs to flush with more regularity and oomph. But according to a 2014 study in Molecular Medicine Reports<\/a>, nettles also help reduce the accretion of calcium oxalate crystals, which contribute towards kidney stones. With both nettles and dandelion in Organic Beauty Tea, sippers gain multiple kidney benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nettle-seeking tea sippers can turn to another of our blends, the Organic Tired Bone blend<\/a>, for a dose of nettle. This delicious tea, which combines ginkgo, lemon balm, rose hip, lavender, chamomile and nettle, is designed to enhance circulation and reduce inflammation throughout the body. One of the beneficiaries? The kidneys.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ku Cha Bounce Back Tea <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Drink: Bounce Back Tea<\/mark><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our custom Bounce Back Tea<\/a> is rich in antioxidants and other compounds, which help bolster bones, reduce inflammation and ease digestion. One of the tea\u2019s ingredients, ginger, is especially packed with antioxidants. It\u2019s these compounds, which neutralize the unstable molecules known as free radicals, that contribute towards kidney health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free radicals induce inflammation throughout the body, which damages cells and tissues, including those found in kidneys. Anything that mitigates the potency of free radicals is good for the body. With its punch of ginger, Bounce Back helps fill the body with antioxidants, which spread out in search of free radicals to defeat. You need antioxidants on your side during your body\u2019s war with free radicals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies confirm ginger\u2019s kidney-healing properties. One of them concludes<\/a> that \u201cginger provides evidence for kidney protection and reduces severity of damage\u201d caused to kidneys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Bounce Back bonus? Nettles! This tea is a boon for kidney health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another strong option for a ginger-full tea? Our wonderful Balance Tea<\/a>, a delicious blend of cinnamon, cardamom, licorice root, coriander, fennel, rose and ginger root.<\/p>\n\n\n

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ImmuniTea <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Drink: <\/mark>ImmuniTea<\/mark><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Given this tea\u2019s name, it might not surprise that it helps improve kidney function. After all, kidney health is important for immune function. As with many of the other teas discussed in this deep dive into tea and kidney health, ImmuniTea\u2019s advantages rest with its diuretic powers \u2014 that is, its ability to encourage the kidneys to flush toxins from the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The herb behind the flushing? Marshmallow root. Marshmallow comes from the mallow plant, which grows wild in marshes across Europe, Asia and North America. The confection we know today as marshmallow (a conflation of the wetland ecosystem known as \u201cmarsh\u201d and the plant, \u201cmallow,\u201d that grows there) was originally made in Egypt, where confectioners used real mallow along with sugar and other ingredients to make marshmallow. Today, most marshmallow skips the mallow plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the mallow plant now is commonly referred to as marshmallow. Herbal medicine practitioners around the world routinely leverage marshmallow for different conditions, including kidney problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Organic ImmuniTea<\/a> doesn\u2019t taste like something that kids toast over flames and sandwich with chocolate between wafers of graham cracker. It\u2019s not a s\u2019mores tea. But it\u2019s awfully satisfying, with peach rooibos (an electrolyte-packed shrub from South Africa that aids with kidney health), marshmallow, echinacea, ginkgo leaf and chamomile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, World Kidney Day, is an excellent time to start incorporating tea into your daily diet as a way to empower important vital organs with more strength. It\u2019s a habit to keep-up throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s to healthy kidneys! <\/p>\n\n\n\n