Research
Hormonal
Dietary protein restriction is an appropriate and effective treatment to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with existing renal impairment.
If you have been diagnosed with kidney disease, follow your doctor's advice to restrict protein intake. This can help slow the progression of your condition. This does not apply to healthy people.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
While protein restriction may be appropriate for treatment of existing kidney disease, we find no significant evidence for a detrimental effect of high protein intakes on kidney function in healthy persons
Why this rating
Supported by the MDRD study and meta-analyses cited in the paper.
Source
Dietary protein intake and renal function
William Martin et al. · Nutrition & Metabolism · 2005
DOI 10.1186/1743-7075-2-25
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Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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