Welcome back to the Diet Dr. Dr. Brett Sher. Today we're having part two of our kidney

discussion, but it's much more than just a kidney discussion, as you're going to hear. So I'm

interviewing Dr. Keith Runyon, who's a nephrologist and obesity medicine specialist in Florida,

but he also has type 1 diabetes himself. So that's why I say

it's much more than a kidney discussion because he is a nephrologist. He's an expert in kidney

disease. He's very experienced in using ketogenic diets and knows all about ketogenic diets

in chronic kidney disease, the amount of protein that he recommends, when to be

concerned, when not to be concerned, both for kidney disease and for kidney stones.

And we go into a lot of detail about the specific type of stones and what specific nutritional

changes you may need to make if you have kidney stones.

But also, we spend about the first 20, 25 minutes of the interview talking about his

experience with type 1 diabetes and the role ketogenic diet has played for him and how that

can translate to treating others with a ketogenic diet, what some of the concerns are, why

isn't it standard of care, and what we need to see in the future, but where the benefits are now

for it as well.

So it's sort of a combined episode, type 1 diabetes and kidney disease.

So he's got a lot of really good points to bring up.

Now, you can find him at ketogenic diabetic athletes.

If you Google that, you'll find his blog.

And he also has two books, the ketogenic

diet for type 1 diabetes. And the second one is master type 1 diabetes, the simple, low-cost

method to normalize blood sugar. So without further ado, let's get into our interview with

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