Kidney Disease

Your kidneys work in silence. Day and night they filter your blood, excrete what is no longer needed, and retain what your body requires. More than a litre and a half of urine per day — an uninterrupted cleansing that you never feel as long as it functions. Only when it falters do you notice that something was there: water stagnates, toxins remain in the system, blood pressure rises, fatigue becomes heavy as lead.

Medically, kidney diseases can mean many things — from inflammations to stones to a gradual loss of function. The question BodySignal poses lies on a different level: what is stagnating in your inner life? What are you no longer filtering? What are you holding on to when it should long since have flowed through you?

The kidney is the organ of inner clarification. When it falls ill, there is almost always something in you that is no longer allowed to flow.