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#66 - Nature Wants Us to Be Fat (Dr. Casey Means & Dr. Richard Johnson)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Path From Kidney Disease to Metapolic Disease and Obesity

i wanted to be an anthropologist, actuallyo like an archaeologist, but my father was in medicine and got me excited about academic medicine. i ended up going to medical school, getting my m d. And joining a faculty where i really enjoyed patient care, and i still do. But i found early on that it was great studying kidney disease. At some point i realized i wanted to shift to high blood pressure, which is related to the kidney. During that process, i started studying how various food items like sugar and salt could be involved in this process.

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