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A Surprising Find: Discovering Unexpected Gems on a Sunday Morning

Andrew Kowalski, MD, FASN “A Disease on the rise and nobody seems to know they have it” This past Sunday I was reading through the News...

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Andrew Kowalski, MD, FASN Introduction The 2025 American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) hypertension...

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Taking care of your kidneys is essential for overall well-being. These small but vital organs filter waste and excess fluids from your...

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Andrew Kowalski, MD, FASN Not long after I saw the heading of my last blog post did another WSJ article come across my news feed. “My...

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Andrew Kowalski, MD, FASN An article by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ, Nov. 2023) titled Trouble With America’s Ultra-Processed Diet...

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Andrew Kowalski, MD, FASN The current trend in providing healthy food options has been "lion in sheeps clothing." The plant-based trend...

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Vitamin D (D3/D2; calcifediol/calcitriol separately) Potential benefit: corrects deficiency, improves PTH abnormalities in CKD-MBD; may...

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High-Phosphorus Processed Foods (Avoid/Limit) These usually contain phosphate additives (look for “phos-” on labels). Absorption is...

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