Picture a kitchen sieve. Healthy kidneys, wide open. Blood flows through, waste gets caught, clean blood goes back.
Now picture half of it blocked. Same blood pouring in.
Your kidneys are working twice as hard through half the holes.
That is why I was exhausted. Not lazy. Not aging badly.
My body was spending everything it had keeping a clogged filter running.
But the sieve is only half the problem.
Your body has a recovery mode. A state where it rests, repairs, recharges.
When your kidneys are overworking, your nervous system stays stuck in go mode.
You sit on the couch drained but your body is not actually recovering.
The sieve is clogged and the battery is not plugging in.