BEN AZADI: When your blood sugar is constantly high, it acts like sandpaper tearing through those delicate filters. Over time, they scar over, they shut down, and as long as the root cause driving your blood sugar is still there

The decline in your kidney function is not a mystery. Your kidneys are made of millions of microscopic filters, called nephrons.  When your blood sugar is constantly high, it acts like sandpaper tearing through those delicate filters.  Over time, they scar over, they shut down, and as long as the root cause driving your blood sugar is still there, the filters will continue to scar.  Drinking more water will not stop the scarring.  Taking more medication that doesn't fix the root cause won't stop the scarring.  To protect what function you have left, you have to stop the damage at the source.