@drtanchiuwoan: eGFR 19 → 31. No new medication. 💙 Abu was 54. Stage 4 CKD. Exhausted all the time — cold hands, cold feet, brain fog that would not lift. His nephrologist had managed everything perfectly: blood pressure controlled, medications optimised. And still his eGFR kept slowly falling. So we looked deeper. A functional medicine panel found what standard blood tests never check for: 🦠 A gut severely depleted in Bifidobacterium — the good bacteria that help block uremic toxin production 🚨 An overgrowth of Desulfovibrio — a sulfur-reducing bacteria driving gut inflammation and leaky gut ☠️ His gut had become a toxin factory, poisoning his mitochondria and accelerating kidney scarring We targeted the bad bacteria with specific botanicals, repopulated with a high-dose probiotic, and repaired his gut lining. Six months later: energy fully restored, oxidative stress down 55%, eGFR 19 → 31. Not a drug. A root cause — found and removed. 🩺 This is what a whole-body approach to CKD looks like. #CKD #KidneyHealth #eGFR #ChronicKidneyDisease #GutHealth #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseHealing #KidneyDisease #DrTanCKD #SOLMalaysia

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