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Understanding How Inflammation
Impacts Vitamin
Deficiency and Why Supplements are Important
Dialysis is known to cause increased inflammation due to the stress it causes to
the entire body as a whole. Dr. Amit Sharma serves on the Scientific Advisory
Board of Nephrian and is President/Director of Clinical Research of Boise Kidney
and Hypertension Institute. He explains what inflammation is and what tests help
to detect it. He reviews various vitamins that patients need and describes why
it is important to have the proper amount due to dietary and vitamin
deficiencies caused by kidney failure.
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With your Hosts...
Stephen Furst
got his big break into movies in
"Animal House," in which he played Flounder. Stephen has also
starred as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in "St. Elsewhere" and as Vir Cotto in "Babylon5." He is
a successful television and movie producer/director and a kidney patient.
Lori
Hartwell is the author of Chronically Happy - Joyful Living in
Spite of Chronic Illness, and President/Founder of Renal Support Network.
A kidney patient since the age of two, she has consistently strived to
instill hope into the lives of people who live with chronic kidney disease.
Posted May 4th, 2010
