Mar 5, 2020
In this podcast, Dr. Holly Kramer, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine at Loyola University, Chicago, talks about her research in nephrology, and the links between obesity and kidney disease.
Podcast Points:
Dr. Kramer discusses the alarming escalation of obesity in America, and its association to kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, and other health problems. Dr. Kramer focuses her research on important areas that have an affect on public health. She talks about the interconnections between nutrition and obesity and kidney disease.
Dr. Kramer talks in detail about
her current research, and why she is so intensely interested in the
role obesity plays in so many diseases. Throughout her career she
has worked with many other nephrologists and focused her attention
on new ways to treat health ailments, such as kidney stones, kidney
failure, and hypertension.
Dr. Kramer explains how we lose
kidney function as we grow older. She provides a wealth of
information on muscle movement and creatine. As she details, when
creatine gets old it loses an important water group and thus
becomes creatinine, which is actually a waste product produced by
muscles from this breakdown. When creatinine leaks into the
bloodstream it is then filtered by the kidney.
Dr. Kramer states that by looking at levels of creatinine in the
blood, they can get a sense of how well the kidney is actually
functioning. Continuing, the research doctor provides extensive
information on diabetes, discussing insulin, medication, and how
ketones are created.