Until recently, the only options for dealing with end stage kidney disease were dialysis or transplantation. Dialysis, in addition to being confining, results in a very high death rate (approximately 20-24% of patients on dialysis die each year). You need to play your part to maintain your health while on dialysis, or preparing for a transplant. Patients that follow some basic nutritional guidelines will normally feel better and will be more successful with their treatment.

    The physicians at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have shown that you can improve your health by taking an essential amino acid supplement with each meal. They measured the best predictor of sickness and death (your serum albumin level) and found that it could be improved by supplementing your diet with an essential amino acid supplement.

    It is important for you to know your serum albumin level and work with your physician and dietician to improve your serum albumin level. The new adult guidelines by the National Kidney Foundation's Disease Outcome Quality Initiative indicate that the goal for your serum albumin level should be 4.0 g/dL.

    Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. You need the amino acids to build and maintain muscle and your immune system. The essential amino acids are those amino acids that you must take in from outside sources (either other proteins or as the amino acids themselves). Essential amino acids should be taken in a balanced formula. The formula used in the John Hopkins trial is the same as that used in our product Nutramine T. The only difference is that we have included a masking agent to make the amino acids taste better so that you can continue to take them rather than giving up and jeopardizing your health. Nutramine T Amino Bites are small candy sticks which do not contain sugar but which are already prepared for you to eat. Nutrasentials does not contain the fiber found in Nutramine, Nutramine T or Nutramine T Amino Bites.

Arnold Sanderson says that he can mix Nutramine into his apple juice with a hand blender “very well”. However, when he travels, he uses raspberry Nutramine T Amino Bites.

Leigh Dell’s disease progressed to the point he had to go on dialysis. Shortly thereafter, his serum albumin started to slip and his wife put him on Nutramine T AminoBites. He raised his serum albumin to 4.2 while most of the patients at his dialysis unit were below the 4.0 DOQI guideline. He has now been transplanted and credits the 7 years of avoidance of dialysis to the low protein (he maintained a 40g protein intake per day) diet and supplements.

Norton Cox continues to take Nutramine and is doing well at age 83.

Ella Johnson takes Nutramine T AminoBites. It is especially helpful as she also requires iron and the fiber is especially helpful in dealing with the constipation that comes from taking iron. She has now delayed dialysis 11 years and her creatinine has slowly fallen from 5.0 to 1.6. She says she “travels, goes out to eat and lives a full and happy life”.

Lynn Bright was able to persuade her insurance company to pay for her Nutramine. With the help of Nutramine, she was able to get her serum albumin high enough to undergo a successful transplantation.