Magnesium Citrate & Its use in Renal Disease
Creating an alkaline environment in your body is one of the key things you can do to protect your kidneys and improve your kidney function. …
Sour Cherries, Gout and Kidney Disease
Sour cherries are one of my favourite fruits to eat when they are in season! I have always liked the slight tart taste of sour …
The Role of Vitamin E in Kidney Disease
When discussing some of the important vitamins when it comes to people with CKD, you’re probably used to hearing about vitamin C, vitamin D, maybe …
Genetics, Methylation, Renal Disease & The Kidneys
Have you noticed how complex our lives have become over the last 20 years? Everything is go, go, go. We live fast, eat fast foods, …
What is TMAO? & what does it have to do with the Kidneys?
Today I wanted to discuss a lesser-known compound that has been linked to the development and progression of kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, among …
Everything You Need to Know About Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is one of the lesser-known causes of kidney disease and kidney damage. One of the problems with sarcoidosis is that it can be very …
The Importance of Sleep and Kidney Disease
Sleep. Most of us wish we had more of it. Yet it’s still. So. Elusive. And while yawning and feeling tired all the time can …
The Benefits of Exercise in Chronic Renal Disease
In this day and age, we are so used to reaching for a pill to solve all our health problems that we forget that there …
Blood Test – ALP & its Significance in CKD
ALP is one of those blood tests people don’t pay a huge amount of attention to and often don’t understand what it is measuring. It …
COVID-19 and Kidney Disease – What Do We Know Now?
We’re now a year and a half into the global pandemic that is COVID-19. A virus that has changed the way we live, work, connect …