Welcome to Season 4 of the Essence of Health Tea Time podcast!

It is estimated that up to 70% of the US food supply is ultraprocessed, and nearly 55% of the average American's diet consists of these foods, the highest rate in the entire world. A landmark new study found that for every 10% increase in ultraprocessed food calories, your risk of dying prematurely rises by nearly 3%.

But beyond chronic metabolic disease, there is a silent organ taking the hit; your kidneys. Chronic kidney disease affects approximately 37 million Americans, many don't even know they have it. The connection between what we eat and how well our kidneys function is often under-discussed.

On today's episode of the Essence of Health Tea Time Podcast, Dr. Shayla Toombs-Withers is joined by guest physician Dr. Robin Rose, together they will be spilling "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚 𝐎𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐬," stemming from an article from CNN titled “Eating more ultraprocessed food ups the risk of premature death, study finds.”

Dr. Robin Rose is a family physician with decades of experience in prevention and regenerative holistic practice. Her work has blossomed into working with kidney decline. She coined the term “Renology”, the art and clinical science of kidney success and is the author of “Renology Peptides: Kidney Success with Bioregulator Peptides.”

Synopsis

• Discover groundbreaking findings from the meta-analysis of over 240,000 people linking ultraprocessed foods to premature death and what it means for your kidneys
• Understand what makes a food "ultraprocessed" using the NOVA classification system and why the body may treat these products as harmful
• Learn how sodium, phosphate additives, and synthetic chemicals in ultraprocessed foods silently burden and damage the kidneys
• Explore the connection between chronic inflammation driven by ultraprocessed foods and the progressive kidney function decline
• Discover what early warning signs your kidneys may be sending that conventional medicine often misses, and the functional medicine markers to ask your doctor about
• Get the "renal tea" on whether kidney function can recover when transitioning away from ultraprocessed foods

Today’s Article:

“Eating more ultraprocessed food ups the risk of premature death, study finds”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/health/ultraprocessed-food-death-wellness

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