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WHAT I EAT AND DRINK

  Chronic Kidney Disease is a very serious disease and very hard to beat because there are many variables to observe and the medical community does not really know how to cure and sometimes the medication to treat it is worse than the disease itself. We are left to cure ourselves because the lack of proper dieting and treatment is a sure sentence of forever prison to a machine several hours a day several days of the week. But there’s no need for panic. Just adapt yourself to a new reality and diet. It's all a matter of common sense. Imagine a car filter. When the filter is new the engine works perfectly, but as the usage and heating up the motor, the oil has to work harder and, as times pass, the dirt from the heated oil - should say "burned  oil", if not changed it can prevent the car from providing the clean oil the car needs to perform it's duty. In fact it can "burn" the motor. The same principle applies to our kidneys but we can't simply change the ...

Nefros and Dialysis

  Nefros and Dialysis Should Your Kidney Doctor Have a Financial Stake in Dialysis? Joint ventures between nephrologists and dialysis centers have expanded treatment. Critics ask: At what cost?   When Jeffrey Berns first began practice as a nephrologist in the late 1980s, kidney disease in the U.S. was in the early stages of a stratospheric rise. In 1972, Congress had passed legislation that made anyone with end-stage renal disease, or ESRD — the current formal medical diagnosis for kidney failure — eligible for Medicare. Unlike private insurance, which rarely covered dialysis at the time, Medicare did, and the nation was at the dawn of a dialysis demand boom. The only question for the marketplace was: Who was going to step in to meet that demand. The answer wasn’t immediately obvious. People with ESRD present some of the most complex cases in all of medicine, says Berns. They often have a variety of co-occurring conditions, from anemia to diabetes to heart failure, and this...