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“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”—Zig Ziglar While I normally write my health articles on this site, I have been considering submitting articles to Medium publications to hone my writing and grow my audience. To get started, I just needed to publish my first article … Read more
“You can’t just take a vitamin and call it a day. If only health were that easy!” There used to be a compelling movement to encourage people to take B-vitamin supplements to manage homocysteine levels. When I first got diagnosed with diabetes in 2003, I was a fan of the book The Heart Revolution: The Extraordinary … Read more
The stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are defined by ranges of eGFR, a calculated number based on serum (blood) creatinine test results. Of course, the progression of CKD is continuous, but certain healthcare protocols are set based on the discrete stages of CKD, particularly at stage 4 when eGFR drops below 30. In this … Read more