As an older position, I am very enthusiastic about what the endadrenal disease program has done because

before 1973, most people who had developed endadadadaedal disease were just going to die because there was no treatment available.

Or if there were treatments available, nobody could afford them.

The dialysis costs more than $100,000 a year short of age.

That cost is now largely taken up by the federal government.

Facts do not have opinions.

Just don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.

Self-love is really about self-respect and acceptance.

Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can

find happiness and health inside and out through self-love by the positivity and discovering new ways to be

our best selves. Before we get started, a reminder this podcast is for general

educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose advise or treat any

physical or mental illness. And while Dr Kimmel is a nephroologist. He's not your doctor. We always recommend that you see

a license is professional accordingly. I have to say this is a topic we were just talking before we recorded that is not something that a lot of people think about but is something that is important and so I'm excited to have this discussion with Paul Kimmel who is an

MD and clinical professor of Medicine Emeritus at George Washington University in DC,

which I don't know if you know this, Dr Kimmel, but I'm actually in Reston,

Virginia, so we're pretty close.

We are, yes.

But you are also a master of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians in London. That sounds so fancy, fans. He has taught both nationally and internationally and cared for

patients with over 46 years of experience in the medical field. And Dr. Kimmel is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

That's incredible, by the way,

and an editor of monographs on HIV associated kidney diseases, nutrition and

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