hi Alex as far as the answer to your specific question, I would think one would need the help of a geneticist to determine odds and statistics like that or maybe a medical board for that type of kidney failure.
However, if you don't mind, I would like to add a few thoughts.
Sometimes unless separated twin studies are done, it may be hard to tell if the reason family members share common illnesses is, in fact, genetics or sharing a similar lifestyle (diet, exercise, habits, stress,environmental toxins, emotions, etc)
I do know Dr
Richard Schulze who cured the incurables said that one can overcome genetics with an excellent lifestyle/diet.
He himself did this..at about age 13 his father died of a massive heart attack in Richard's arms screaming, crying, vomiting etc. fear etched on his face. Richard said he looked his son in the eye with panic and said "I'm dead" or something to that affect and then breathed his last..it really impacted him. His father was about age 55 when he died.
A few years later his mother died also of a massive heart attack. She, too, was age 55. They sold his house to pay medical bills and he apparently ran away as he didn't want to go to foster care taking to living in the streets a while.
When Dr Schulze was about 17, he was diagnosed as having congenital heart valve deformities. He was having all kinds of heart arrhythmias, would lose his peripheral vision and pass out several times a day during that time. He knew he was very ill.
He began going to a hospital clinic. He was told without open heart surgery he would be dead by the time he was 20.
He was taking the drugs they recommended and then admitted to thew hospital awaiting his surgery. Nothing else they assured him though he asked would help..nothing but the surgery.
He had befriended a young man in the clinic and they became good friends. The friend had the exact same diagnosis. He had been admitted just a day or so before Richard. Richard said he was awaiting his surgery when the staff came in and told him that his young friend had died on the operating table. Schulze said a wave of fear came over him so strong. He had now lost his mother, father and best friend. He wanted so much to be well but he didn't think "cracking his ribs and putting a knife in his heart" was the way to go, so he quickly dressed and walked out of the hospital undetected.
Richard said that very day he ran into a zen buddhist monk who asked him why he looked so depressed (this was many years ago). Richard explained and the monk told him to eat less red meat..it is not good for your heart. Then later someone told him there is a lot of cholesterol etc in chicken and fish has problems too so he became a lacto-ova vegetarian.
He explains that this was very hard to do as he had come from a German family and they "ate blood for breakfast, lunch and dinner." but he did it, then someone told him the problems of eggs and dairy and he became a vegan and has been on ever since.
He was also advised by others to exercise, to cleanse the elimination organs and said his bowel patterns mimicked his father's unhealthy ones and to work on his emotions as his family was somewhat dysfunctional and angry --all these lifestyle changes he did and more in his quest to heal himself and not die. You see, he not only shared genetics with his ill family but habits, diets and lifestyle.
He started feeling and looking so well that family members and friends and then strangers started coming to him for help with their diseases and they also were healed of all kinds of illnesses. Three years later, he went back to the clinic doctor and asked to be rechecked. The doctor said nothing would be changed but Richard insisted. Finally the doctor came back shocked saying Richard had had some miracle as he had regrown new heart valves and no longer was ill. They might have said he was misdiagnosed but they had tons of xrays, lab test etc that confirmed he was not misdiagnosed and that he now no longer had the problem they said was impossible to fix without open heart surgery which he never got. We just don't know the future.
Richard then went on to heal other things in himself some bad injuries that doctors said could not be helped without drastic surgeries etc. Richard healed himself of these as well showing himself his own laboratory test on himself had worked.
He went on to get a PhD and become a naturopathic doctor eventually working only with the dying given no hope or serious incurables illnesses like ms etc. He cured in the few decades he ran this clinic many thousands who doctors had given no hope to apprenticing with another great healer Dr John Christopher who originated the incurables program which Schulze intensified..both healed the incurables ..completely amazing case histories. Now that his clinic is closed he reaches far more people.
The reason I shared this story with you is to show his genetic heritage. Both parents died at 55 and he himself was told he would die before 20 without massive medical intervention.
Without fear, he set out to heal himself and defy his heritage/odds and he won. He is probably in his 50s now..the picture of health outliving his death prognosis by decades. Had he done nothing, his fate would have followed his parents and his heritage; however, he showed that environment --what we do, think, don't do and change-- can heal us and overcome our genetic predisposition to some disease. If he did it, anyone can do it.
I am sorry about your family members as I had a mother die from kidney disease (or rather the heart attacks it caused) and go all the way down to zero percent functioning with much suffering. Kidney disease is an awful disease. (she was not interested in alternative health)
I have a genetic predisposition to diabetes and was told I had it for sure ten months ago. I had very high blood
Sugar readings. I ignored doctor's advice to take drugs and their diet that I considered unhealthy. I devised my own health building program and I tried to trust and the answers pretty much feel in my lap. I chose to follow my instincts and opportunities and answers to prayers and my last 2 readings showed normal blood fasting levels and normal a1c test. In fact, I just got the results yesterday..my a1c dropped from 7.0 (diabetes) to 5.5 (normal)
As long as I continue my lifestyle changes or do them even more, I can hope that I will be able to continue to keep it under control. I, by changing my environment (became a vegan, upped raw food to 50%, exercised often and so forth), was able to override my genetic predisposition.
So lifestyle means everything...an infant is perfect as they are a blank slate and one can train them from an early age to like things like green smoothies, and healthy vegan foods. When someone is coached from childhood in the right way and fun healthy tasty foods are consumed along with education of good and bad things and by example, your child could be on the way to a healthier life than even an average child with no predisposition by eating the standard American diet). One cannot predict what these changes etc can do but one has great hope as some many people reversed serious diseases and death sentences.
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Also consider, we never know what a life will do or mean. Years ago, a professor allowed me to rebuttal his position on abortion and at the time there was a baby on the front page of the papers for days. The baby was born without a brain stem. And yet, the parents had tremendous faith and the babies had to go to the hospital a lot and when others saw the visible strength of the parents and asked after then they then saw and heard their strong faith, then they wanted to talk to them and the article said many nurses and doctors had developed as a result a very strong faith themselves and a motivation to use their lives better as it inspired so many etc.
God allowed that child to be born as He had a mission for it for if not for the baby, the parents never would have been there to inspire, bring love in the open for their child and others that moved people's hearts to, and nudged people to deeper thought and faith. By the time the baby died, dozens and dozens of people had felt the situation and their own involvement in the lives of this family had dramatically changed their outlook/beliefs and so forth.
One never know what one life might do however brief, perhaps find a cure for cancer, teach the young, save lives, and a myriad of other things some so simple as be a wonderful child or parent or friend to someone. Our lives and deaths are not only for us but others. When we do not let the person live (despite our good intentions), we might be taking from the world someone who might bring much good from their lives be they long or be they short. People grow in adversity even though we do not like it as well. I am sure your relatives with the illness touched many in the course of the three decades or so of life. Had they not been born, how many other lives might have been altered in some way often unbeknown to us.
Also even though there is a chance the child might die young or suffer, not having them in your lives might deprive you and them of years of wonderful experiences and love.
Also I am sure if your sister or brothers or mother were asked if you knew you would one day have this disease would you have wished to have never lived or do they feel their life affected no one, they would say no and probably with passion. Every day we have even if they are fewer than someone else's can be precious, can be fruitful, can help someone else, c an bring some joy. Who knows what the technology of the future will bring as far as medical advances of that illness by then. Medical
Science is advancing so quickly.
None of us are promised tomorrow..plenty of people with excellent health that one expects to live to be very old have accidents etc and die far before their time. Any of us could die tomorrow. Life and its years are promised to no one nor are wee promised the will never be rain in life but you also get some sun.
While I know it is only with the kindest of intentions you wish to spare a child a lifetime of ills but who can say but the person living the life if the quality is sufficient or worthwhile anyway.
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Just have your families read my 35 steps to healing kidney disease, maybe go on a 100% whole food raw food diet and do all the steps they can. To prevent it, do as many of the things in the steps as you can taking often the kidney teas, cleanses, foods, herbs, etc I would also recommended becoming a vegan whether gradually or all at once, eating a very high raw food %age. Live a healthy lifestyle.
My mom passed away 2 years ago as well and my aunt actually died today. It is a hard thing. When I got diagnosed with diabetes which most people on dialysis are diabetics, seeing what she went through that really motivated me to change lest I walk in the awful path she struggled down.
But fear and anxiety and worry are not what one needs, one needs research and trust and action. It is not easy but please think about what I said.
For blood pressure start taking cayenne pepper preferably in tincture or tea form and as hot as you can take with raw garlic and organic ginger tincture. This combination is supposed to reverse plague on the arteries (the cayenne and garlic for the veins/arteries and the ginger is for the capillaries. Once plague is removed, the arteries widen to their normal width and in turn the blood pressure reduces. Also see the suggestions doctor Christopher gives at herballegacy.com
Put high blood pressure in the search at that link.
Also go to hacres.com also to the testimony section and put high blood pressure and read what the hallelujah diet did for others. To know what it is, click the link that says what is the hallelujah diet is.
Best of luck with your search, decision and hope you can pass the info on to those with the kidney disease to help and prevent it
Here are the steps to try to cure kidney disease. If trying to cure, it is important when trying to cure or reverse an illness that one does all parts of the incurables program and as many of the 30 plus steps as possible
here is the link to helping kidney diseases
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