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Beyond “Drink More Water”: A Functional Medicine Approach to Preventing Recurrent Kidney Stones cardiometabolic chronic kidney disease Jul 10, 2026

Kidney stones are often treated as isolated events: manage the pain, remove or pass the stone, and encourage the patient to drink more water.

Hydration is important, but it does not explain why the ...

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How to Stop Missing Chronic Kidney Disease: A Root-Cause Approach to Early Detection chronic kidney disease Jun 06, 2025

When I first began practicing internal medicine, and later functional medicine, I was taught to focus heavily on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Kidney health, however, was often treated as an ...

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