Welcome back to the Dietactor podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Scher.

Today we're going to talk about kidney disease. And this is the first part and sort of a two-part series of kidney disease.

We're going to hear from Dr. Thomas Weems, who's a researcher at UC Santa Barbara and his dietitian,

Gessiana Seville, and about their program and how they

approach chronic kidney disease with nutritional therapy and then in a later episode we're going to

talk to dr keith runyon who's a nephrologist and has type one diabetes himself and uses a ketogenic diet

to treat his type one diabetes and how he uses ketogenic diets for people with chronic renal

disease as well.

So it's an important topic because we hear very black and white comments that proteins,

you know, bad for kidneys or ketogenic diets may be good for kidneys or are they bad for

kidneys.

And you really can't make blanket statements like that

because what protein level are we talking about?

Are we talking about animal or plant protein?

What level of chronic kidney disease are we talking about

and what is the underlying etiology of the kidney disease?

All of these things come into play

when you're really trying to define the proper diet

for somebody who has concerns with their kidneys.

And then kidney stones are a whole other topic as well.

And again, what type of stone?

And that comes into play for the specific diet.

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