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Protein, Creatine, and Your Kidneys: What's Actually Safe with Dr. Ritu Vyas
Is a high-protein diet hard on your kidneys? Should you stop taking creatine if your labs look off? In this episode, Dr. Raina Patel sits down with nephrologist and obesity medicine physician Dr. Ritu Vyas to answer the kidney questions so many people are asking right now.
They cover what chronic kidney disease (CKD) actually is and how it's diagnosed, why so many people don't know they have early kidney disease, how much protein is safe and helpful depending on your kidney function, and why protein targets matter even more for people losing weight on GLP-1 medications. They also clear up the…
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