How to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy. A podcast with Joe Lavelle. Listen to the podcast here. Bullet Points What causes kidney disease? High sugar diets / Metabolic syndrome / Diabetes (cut back on sugar in food) Gout / High Uric …
Paper – The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity
It is finally out! For those of you who want to read the deep science behind the fructose story, the overall fructose survival hypothesis has now been published in the Royal Society of Medicine’s journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
Podcast – Understanding the Link Between Diet and Hypertension
A wonderful discussion on the role of diet in high blood pressure, and how salt and sugar work together. The evidence that good hydration can lower blood pressure. And a discussion of just how much salt is the right amount. …
Video – Kidney Week 2022: Fructose, Sugar and Blood Pressure – An Unexpected Relationship
Vumedi is a website for education of physicians and I recently posted a lecture on their site on sugar, salt and high blood pressure. High blood pressure is common, affects one-third the population, and is the most common cause of …
Video – At Loyola University, New Insights into the Epidemic of High Blood Pressure: Role of Salt, Sugar, and Uric acid
This is a video of my Medicine Grand Rounds Lecture to the Loyola School of Medicine in Chicago on the 4th of October, 2022. High blood pressure is the most common disease in humans, and affects over 30 percent of …
Video: H.V.M.N. – Fructose: The key culprit for obesity & metabolic syndrome?
Geoffrey Woo and Professor Richard Johnson discuss the nuances of fructose and explore its relationship in the metabolism of obesity and other chronic diseases. Dr. Johnson is a nephrologist who focused his research on a form of sugar called fructose. …