Diet

Cooking with whole fresh foods with diet for diabetic kidney disease
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Diabetic Kidney Disease – Where Lifestyle and Medical Management are Essential for Optimizing Care

If diabetes is the storm, the kidneys are often its silent shoreline—weathered over time until the signs of damage become hard to ignore. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) worldwide, affecting nearly 1 in 3 adults with diabetes. But for many, the diagnosis arrives without thunder—just a note…

Medical illustration of the parathyroid glands and their role in high PTH in kidney disease.
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Complications of High PTH in Kidney Disease – 3 Types of Parathyroid Disorders, Treatment Considerations, and Risks.

What Does the Parathyroid Gland Do? You’ve probably heard of your thyroid—but did you know there’s something called the parathyroid too? There are usually four parathyroid glands located in the thyroid bed. Even though these tissues are neighbors, they have very little dependance on each other. In fact, it is the kidneys which primarily regulate…