Your kidneys work around the clock filtering about 200 quarts of blood daily, removing waste products, balancing electrolytes, and producing hormones that regulate blood pressure. These bean-shaped ...

You might take your kidneys for granted, but they are a crucial part of your body systems that are silently doing a lot of ...

Eating the right foods may help you age healthfully, slow brain aging, impact gut health, and more. Now, new research names a specific diet that may lower the risk of kidney disease. Specifically, the ...

Water is essential for life, yet millions of people are unknowingly damaging their kidneys through improper hydration habits. Your kidneys filter approximately 50 gallons of blood daily, removing ...

Your kidneys work 24/7, filtering about 200 quarts of blood daily to remove waste and excess water. These fist-sized organs play a crucial role in maintaining overall health, yet most people rarely ...

In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

Hydration is a surprisingly important diabetes health factor, and it’s even more important if you also have chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD develops in 10 to 40 percent of people with type 2 ...

An important finding from the study concerns a gene called APOL1. Two variants of the APOL1 gene, known as G1 and G2, ...