Kidney Support Network Podcast
Kidney Support Network podcast aims at delivering simplified information about Kidney Health & Kidney diseases, which you can use to improve your kidney health and overall health in general. Here we talk about Kidney Failure - CKD, ESRD, Treatment Options for ESRD/Kidney Failure patients, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Kidney Transplant and many more. From time to time you will listen to our kidney failure patient guests, who will share their stories, learnings and difficulties & how they deal with them on a day-today-basis. Kidney Support Network Podcast is an initiative from Kidney Support Network Trust (https://www.kidneysupportnetwork.com/), where I and my wife together with a group of passionate healthcare professionals work together in the field of Nephrology and are committed to helping Kidney Failure patients discover ways to lead a better life. This podcast has something unique for ESRD patients on Dialysis, their families, Dialysis Technicians and Nurses. You will get to know how the Dialysis space in Indian healthcare is shaping up. How government schemes like Ayushman Bharat Yojana or PMJAY, National Dialysis Program with the vision of One Nation One Dialysis Program are helping patients. We will try to decode Various Private and Public Insurance schemes for CKD patients will talk about how one can leverage these schemes to finance their dialysis and healthcare needs. We also bring vital information from leading Nephrologists in most simple words, which can be readily leveraged by CKD patients and others for their benefit. This Podcast is hosted by Mayank Sharma, the Founder of Kidney Support Network.
Kidney Support Network Podcast
Functions of a Kidney - Simplified
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Mayank Sharma
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Episode 2
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Kidneys are Bean shaped organs located on both sides of the backbone in the lower part of our back. Kidneys filter blood on a 24x7 basis and in a day may process approx. 200 litres of blood.
Key functions of Kidneys are :-
- Remove extra fluid and waste materials like Urea & Creatinine from the blood stream.
- Excess fluid is removed from the body in form of urine.
- Manage the optimum level of various compounds in the body.
- Release compounds/hormones like
- Erythropoietin - To control the production of red blood cells
- Renin - to help in controlling blood pressure levels
- Calcitriol - to help the absorption of calcium in the body
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