#kidney recipient

[drforambhuta]

Influential factors affecting kidney transplant success in diabetic patients are:

1. Patient Selection: The key to achieving successful kidney transplantation in diabetic patients lies in meticulous recipient selection. This involves a thorough assessment of the individual's overall health, age, diabetes duration, presence of concurrent medical conditions, and psychological factors. Patients with well-managed diabetes and no severe cardiovascular issues generally have the best prospects for positive outcomes.

2. Source of Donor Organ: Exploring the origin of the donor kidney has a profound impact on success rates. Kidneys from living donors typically yield better results compared to organs from deceased donors, thanks to their inherent healthiness and shorter cold ischemia times.

3. Immunosuppression: The use of immunosuppressive medications post-transplantation is crucial to prevent organ rejection, but it requires a delicate balance. Achieving this equilibrium between adequately suppressing the immune system and avoiding complications like infections and cancer is particularly important for diabetic patients, who already face an elevated risk of these issues.

4. Surgical Techniques: Advancements in surgical methods, including minimally invasive procedures, play a crucial role in enhancing the overall success of a kidney transplant procedure. These techniques help reduce surgical complications and expedite recovery, which is especially vital for diabetic patients.

5. Diabetes Management: Diligent and effective diabetes management is of utmost importance for kidney transplant recipients. Vigilant control of blood sugar levels after the transplant is essential to prevent complications such as delayed wound healing and graft failure. Seamless coordination between transplant and endocrinology teams is pivotal in this aspect.

6. Psychosocial Factors: Beyond the medical aspects, psychosocial factors, encompassing the patient's mental and emotional well-being, family support, and access to education, can significantly impact transplant success. Thorough psychosocial assessments and support are integral components of the transplant process.

You can contact some of the best nephrologists at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, to increase your chances of a successful kidney transplant procedure. The cost of kidney transplant in Delhi will vary depending on the health of the patient, the type of kidney transplant surgery being performed, and the doctor and hospital chosen for treatment.

#kidney transplant #kidney transplantation #kidney transplant surgery #kidney transplant procedure #kidney transplant donor #kidney transplant recipient #cost of kidney transplant

[asrarblog]

Kidney Transplant – Need & Frauds – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #815

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#Asrar Qureshi #Blogpost815 #Dialysis #Donors #Illegal transplants #Immunosuppressive drugs #Kidney Disease #Kidney Transplant #Organ Transplant #Pharma Veterans #Recipients

[lexingtonrenalcare]

Nephrology is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the kidney. Lexington Renal Care Physicians Services in Kentucky We provide services that help you with the prevention and treatment of kidney disease.

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[strangebiology]

John Oliver just did an episode on body donation, which was very well-reported as usual.

It cites some older news including this amazing series on body brokers by Reuters. Some thoughts on anonymity being an issue:

It is shocking that there is no regulation on what it means to donate your body to "science," although, I'm not sure exactly who can say what that definition is or should be. Also, plenty of people would be happy to have their bodies used in a museum, but you CAN'T, because body donations are shuffled around and anonymized. We wouldn't have any issue with consent if we let people who WANT to be on display be on display.

When I read The Red Market, an amazing book about the trade in human body parts, it really highlighted the issues with mandated anonymity. WHY does a deceased heart, kidney, or blood donor need to be anonymous? That policy has led to horrific abuse of donors all over the world (egregious examples are given in China and India), living and dead, and the recipients have no idea because of that mandate. Mandated anonymity is a shield against regulation, public understanding, and accountability.

I wonder if people believe in anonymizing things because they think that makes the death not real. I've noticed people selling all sorts of human and animal remains with no description as to where they came from, and no one asks, and no one complains. I understand; sometimes some information is lost to time, or a business owner maybe can't take the time to verify the exact origins of things. Fine.

But take for example all these human fetuses for sale on Facebook. I'm not here to argue about that, although it's odd, and I understand both sides of the controversy regarding selling them. When I saw those posts, no one bats an eye.

Then when someone offered to sell her own aborted fetus (context: this person went in for an abortion but was told the fetus was dead anyway) people freaked out. In the same group where they're buying the fetuses of strangers. So...it's only ok to sell body parts when the person whose body it came from did not consent? That's our standard?

The same goes for animal body parts. "Hey, buy these dead rats!" Fine and dandy. "Buy these dead rats! Here is some context about their lives and/or deaths--" Disgusting! How dare you! Those were living things!

Death is disgusting and horrifying and I'm NOT saying that everyone has to think about it all the time or look at dead bodies or even understand it. What I am saying is that when we complain about transparency and enact policies that make it impossible to actually understand who these body parts are coming from, or to track them, that breeds an industry where abuse of consent is hard to avoid.

Lastly, the end of the Last Week Tonight show showed what happens when you let donors be known. It's beautiful.

#human remains law #human remains #dead people #death #human skeletons #Youtube

[reasonsforhope]

"For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in addressing the critical crisis worldwide of kidney donor organ shortage.

The University of Alabama’s pre-clinical human study at Birmingham also advances the science and promise of xenotransplantation as a therapy to potentially cure end-stage kidney disease—just as a human-to-human transplants can.

“It has been truly extraordinary to see the first-ever preclinical demonstration that appropriately modified pig kidneys can provide normal, life-sustaining kidney function in a human safely and be achieved using a standard immunosuppression regimen,” said UAB transplant surgeon scientist Jayme Locke, M.D., director of UAB’s Comprehensive Transplant Institute and lead author of the paper...

The peer-reviewed findings published last month in JAMA Surgery describes the pioneering pre-clinical human research performed on a recipient experiencing brain death...

The pre-clinical human brain death model developed at UAB can evaluate the safety and feasibility of pig-to-human kidney xenografts, or transplants, without risk to a living human. It is named for transplant pioneer Jim Parsons, an organ donor whose family generously donated his body to advance xenotransplant kidney research, like the latest patient did.

A Critical Need

Kidney disease kills more people each year than breast or prostate cancer, while more than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list. More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure and 240 Americans on dialysis die every day. The wait for a deceased donor kidney can be as long as five to 10 years, and almost 5,000 people per year die waiting for a kidney transplant.

Groundbreaking Study Details

The 52-year-old study subject for this research lived with hypertension and stage 2 chronic kidney disease, which affects more than one in seven U.S. adults, or an estimated 37 million Americans. As part of this study, the subject had both of his native kidneys removed and dialysis stopped, followed by a crossmatch-compatible xenotransplant with two 10 gene-edited pig kidneys, or UKidney.

The transplanted pig kidneys made urine within four minutes of re-perfusion and produced more than 37 liters of urine in the first 24 hours. The pig kidneys continued to function as they would in a living human for the entirety of the seven-day study. Also, the kidneys were still viable at the time the study was concluded.

“In the first 24 hours these kidneys made over 37 liters of urine,” said Dr. Locke. “It was really a remarkable thing to see.” ...

Gene editing in pigs to reduce immune rejection has made organ transplants from pigs to humans possible. The natural lifespan of a pig is 30 years, they are easily bred, and they have organs of similar size to humans. Genetically modified pig kidneys have been extensively tested in non-human primates, and the addition of UAB’s preclinical human research model—the Parsons Model—now provides important information about the safety and efficacy of kidneys in human transplant recipients."

-via Good News Network, September 17, 2023

#organ donation #organ donor #organ transplant #medical news #medical research #pigs #kidney transplant #kidney diseases #dialysis #good news #hope #hope posting #human biology

[macgyvermedical]

If someone got an organ transplant from an identical twin, would they need immunosuppressants like most transplant recipients?

Like, the reason people need immunosuppressants if they’ve had a transplant is because the transplanted organ has different dna cuz it’s from another person, so the immune system pings it as foreign and attacks it. Right?

But if the organ is from an identical twin, that’s the same dna, so….?

You're right- they would not need immunosuppresant drugs because the body would recognize the tissue as itself and not attack it.

In fact, the first successful kidney transplant was between identical twins in 1954. At the time it was very well studied that homografts (transplants between the same species) were almost universally rejected, and there was no way to suppress immune function or prevent rejection in these cases unless the donor and recipient were identical twins.

The first methods for immunosuppression mostly involved radiation, and while these were occasionally successful, they were much more often not successful. The first successful immunosuppressive drug regimen came out in 1963, a combination of prednisone and azathioprine, increasing the survival rate to 70% at one year post surgery.

In 1976 the first single immunosuppressive drug was introduced- cyclosporine. Even better results occurred when mixed with prednisone. In 1989, tacrolimus became the new standard anti-rejection medication, since it was less toxic and more potent than cyclosporine.

#whump reference #writing reference #organ transplantation

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

*Donates a kidney*

Nurse: How are you doing, jlrrt?

Me: Now I know how Cato the Younger felt about dying.

Nurse: That bad?

Me: Nah, it just took him...a lot of guts.

*All the good karma I earned evaporates immediately*

(But seriously, it was super rewarding, and I'd highly recommend it. Check out my kidney donation sideblog if you want to learn what it was like. The recipient and I are both doing great!)

#i couldn't find any day by day stories of the process. so i decided to document mine as it happened #in case it could be useful for anyone else considering kidney donation #i won't say it was 'easy' but it was much less painful or risky than i expected. some parts were even fun! #kidney donation #jlrrt speaks

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients among the four countries studied that offer this practice.

The report is the first-ever review of the growing use of this new practice around the world. The review was conducted in 2021 and the results were formally published in December 2022.

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“We saw everyone is working in different directions. And then we said ‘OK, well, let's start an international (discussion) of all the countries involved,’” said Dr. Johannes Mulder, a physician and MAID provider in Zwolle, Netherlands, in an interview with CTV News.

Data collected for the paper shows that in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain, combined, 286 assisted-death recipients provide lifesaving organs for transplant to 837 patients in the years up to and including 2021.

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Doctors in Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAID) was decriminalized in 2016, performed almost half of the world’s organ transplants after MAID for that period (136), according to the publication.

Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirms this new source of transplant organs accounted accounts for six per cent of all transplants from deceased donors in Canada in 2021. Some transplants, like those for kidneys and livers, can be done with patients who are alive.

“I was rather proud that Canada has done so well in terms of organ donation by MAID patients,” said Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, in an interview with CTV News.

With more than 4,000 Canadians waiting for organ transplants, some of whom are dying, he says Canada’s numbers show a strong move to turn death into a win-win.

“So I say, 'Good on us.' It’s a wonderful opportunity for someone facing death to make something significant out of the end of their life,” said Schafer.

PATIENT-DRIVEN TREND

The international review on this new practice has been overwhelmingly driven by patients who are suffering from irreversible degenerative diseases, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s.

“If this body has deserted me, I could do something good,” is how Mulder says patients frame their decision.

Canadian ALS patient Sharron Demchuk donated her kidneys and lungs after her medically assisted death in September of 2021. Her family says she herself pushed her doctors to consider a way she could help people after she died, becoming the first in New Brunswick to do so.

“She kept doing follow-ups, kept pushing and even though she wasn’t able to speak, she would make notes for my dad. ‘Here’s what I want you to ask them. Here’s what I want you to say,’” her daughter, Darlene Demchuk, told CTV News last year.

One of the goals of the international report, says Mulder, was to share information openly on how countries are managing this controversial and evolving new practice, including the tricky ethical and logistical issues of consent from vulnerable patients.

“What should you do, or what should what shouldn't you do? And how to keep the whole project completely voluntary,” he said of some of the concerns, noting that patients should never be pressured to choose MAID to increase the availability of donor organs.

That is a worry shared by Trudo Lemmens, a professor in health law and policy at the University of Toronto.

He points to statistics showing more than 35 per cent of Canadians who died by MAID in 2021 felt they were "a burden on family, friends or caregivers” according to a Health Canada report.

“I am concerned that people who struggle with a lack of self-esteem and self-worth may be pushed to see this as an opportunity to mean something,” said Lemmens in an email comment to CTV News.

With other countries like Australia eyeing medical assistance in dying along with organ donations, Mulder says public trust in this new medical practice must be developed and maintained.

“That’s why guidelines are necessary and should also be strict,”’ the doctor said.

#submission #medical assistance in dying #organ donation #ableism

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Could Gallifreyans donate organs to humans, and, if so, would human's need immunosuppressants?

Can humans donate organs to Gallifreyans, and how would this affect regeneration since it is not tissue that is Gallifreyan?

Gallifreyan/Human Organ Transplants

Now we're getting into the really fun stuff :D Let's explore what organ donations might look like between humans and Gallifreyans.

🧬 Gallifreyan to Human Organ Donation

Gallifreyans can donate certain organs to humans due to their unique physiology, which isn't limited by the typical biological barriers faced in human-to-human transplants.

1️⃣Preparation

Gallifreyan organs must first be conditioned to process and 'understand' human blood, which can be achieved through:

Blood transfusions from the recipient for a few days;

Direct injections of the recipient's blood into the organ while the organ is still in the Gallifreyan;

A spacey-wacey magic machine that does this step.

This allows the organ to see and understand human blood cells before encountering them in situ. Also, the organ will be marked with a little genetic code from the recipient, resulting in much better chances the human body will accept it. This wouldn’t be a pleasant experience for the Gallifreyan by any means. For a nicer experience, the Gallifreyan can retreat to a trance or a healing coma state to allow their body to focus on processing.

If this isn't done:

The chances of rejection are dramatically increased;

If the organ is part of processing like a kidney, it could start trying to break down/eliminate red blood cells and white blood cells, leading to hypoxia and severe immunodeficiency for the human, inevitably resulting in death.

2️⃣Surgical Transfer

Transplant operations are similar to human procedures, with a few extra notes:

💉Anaesthesia: Anaesthesia needs to be adjusted very precisely for a Gallifreyan to adequately sedate them, else you could just end up paralysing them throughout the whole thing or killing them altogether.

🪨Durability: Gallifreyans need a little more gusto to get into due to their durable skin and muscle layers.

🩹More Heals: Their healing rate means the operation must be fast. Very fast.

3️⃣Post-Operative Adjustments

Human recipients might experience initial fluctuations in the organ's function as the Gallifreyan organ tries to adjust to a far less efficient environment. However, they'll benefit from an overall improvement in their biological functions in the long term.

❓Potential Organs

🫀🫀Hearts: Gallifreyans hearts are symbiotically linked and donating one is extremely complex and dangerous. The donor will lose significant biological advantages involving healing and energy, and if it really goes wrong mid-op, there could be a permanent death. Not to mention the heart has a slightly different structure to a human heart.

🫘Kidneys: This is one of the easier transplants to perform from Gallifreyan>Human, and the least complex.

🫁 Liver, Lungs, etc.: Theoretically possible, but each Gallifreyan organ will have its own unique challenges and side effects.

🩺 Human to Gallifreyan Organ Donation

Donating human organs to Gallifreyans is more problematic due to the advanced and different nature of Gallifreyan physiology, not to mention a little bit pointless.

🚫Inadequate Function: Human organs probably won't meet the physiological demands of a Gallifreyan body, so they're not much help.

🔁Regenerative Impact: Introducing human organs into a Gallifreyan could interfere with their regenerative abilities, potentially causing rejection or failure during a regeneration cycle, which isn't going to be pretty.

🌱Regrowth Through Healing: If the Gallifreyan has an elevated level (i.e., just after regeneration or some form of lindos therapy), it could be possible to regrow the organ using lindos, so chances are they won't need it anyway.

💊 Immunosuppression and Rejection

For Human Recipients:

Usually, in humans, the body will identify a donor organ as an infection and order the immune system to attack it—this is why donor recipients take immunosuppressants to inhibit the immune system’s function.

Immunosuppressant medication is not actually required here. A small, regular dose of artron in the form of an IV infusion (every month) will hugely reduce the risk of acute or chronic rejection. If this artron IV is unavailable, a blood transfusion from any Gallifreyan will be a good replacement—from the original donor, it's even better. If that isn’t available, immunosuppressants can be used, although it isn't ideal. If that's a no-go, then the kidney will be rejected.

For Gallifreyan Recipients:

While theoretically transplantable, human organs would likely be inadequate without significant modification and support, possibly involving Gallifreyan technology to enhance function and compatibility.

The risk of rejection is heightened, with severe consequences for the Gallifreyan’s health and regeneration capabilities.

🏫 So ...

Organ donation between Gallifreyans and humans, while theoretically possible, involves a bit of thought. For Gallifreyan to human transplants, it's very much a yes, but human to Gallifreyan organ donations are just a bit non - it's possible, but there are much easier ways to go about healing the Gallifreyan than giving them your lung.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[bean-bracket]

Welcome to the BEAN BRACKET

Hello!

Inspired by other irl-thing brackets, like @mosticonicbirdcallbracket, @ultimateinstrumentpoll, @best-appliance-tournament, @bestvegetablepoll, @jewishfoodshowdown and @object-tournament, I've decided to launch a bracket for an all time worldwide favourite- the bean! She does so much for us- without her here, we wouldn't have coffee, hummus, enfrijoladas, or miso soup! Can you imagine such an awful world?

RULES:

cullinary and coloqial beans are both allowed! So kidney beans are allowed, but so are jumping beans (not actually beans)

Fictional beans are allowed, but real beans will take priority unless they're super iconic. Ditto bean-themed toys and confections.

No characters, human or otherwise, UNLESS they are literally a bean. Like an actual legume.

Complex foods/dishes prepared with beans won't be included. If you love tofu, submit the soybean, and use the preparation as propaganda instead!

Foods that are simply new states of bean (hah) like refried beans or Heinz baked beans may be considered.

Propaganda allowed and encouraged, please tag this blog in propaganda/bean recipie posts!

Askbox submissions won't be counted, please use the google form.

Bracket:

Matchups under the cut:

Coffee beans vs black beans

chickpeas/garbanzo beans vs Edamame shiba (Mameshiba)

Jellybeans vs the bean from VeggieTales : Lord of the Beans

Human Beans (us) vs Orca beans

toebeans vs soybeans

Scarlet Runner Beans vs Flickin' the bean

kidney beans vs Adzuki/red beans

Cocoa beans vs Vanilla beans

#cooking #tumblr brackets #tournamnet #tournament poll #tumblr polls #recipes #beans

[hestiasroom]

India: 80% Organ Donors Women; 80% Organ Recipients Men | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Transcript:

Now let's talk about something that's seldom discussed: organ donation in India. One person is added to the organ donation waitlist every 10 minutes - one person every 10 minutes. It tells you how grave the situation is.

Turns out it also has a gender problem and this is according to the latest data that has come out. Four out of five organ donors in India are women. What about those who receive organs? Four out of five recipients in India are men; in other words 80% of the donors are women but 80% of the recipients are men. So why are these numbers so skewed? Our next report tells you.

Last December Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav underwent a kidney transplant. Sounds like a normal procedure a simple transplant surgery but it made headlines everywhere. Why? Because the donor was his daughter Rohini Achara. It was shown as a story of sacrifice; a daughter doing what she could to save her father.

The optics were great but data suggests this is the reality of India's organ donation. It's all about sacrifice and usually it's about sacrifice by women. A recent study analyzed organ donations from 1995 to 2021. 36,640 transplantations were carried out in India; 29,000 of them were for men only. 6,945 were for women. If you put those numbers into perspective basically men were 80% of the total recipients for organ donations but when it comes to donations it's a completely opposite scenario.

Women make up for 80% of the organ donors and who are these women? They are usually wives or mothers when their son or husband needs an organ they are the first to volunteer which makes them living organ donors. You see, organ donation is easier between family members this means they are genetically easier this lessens the risks of rejections but what explains this disparity?

Well the answer is socioeconomic pressure in our society. Men are seen as Breadwinners; women on the other hand are seen as caregivers. More often than not they feel pressurized to donate their organs. On the other hand men think twice in a situation like this; they hesitate to go into surgery which means most men donors in India are cadaver donors. That means they donate their organs only when they're dead.

These are stories that make for great headlines: a mother giving a kidney to her son, a wife giving her liver to her husband. They are shown as the Messiah of sacrifice and it's society that is to blame for this. Organ donation shouldn't happen under any sort of pressure it should be a choice that one should take freely.

That said the whole picture isn't too great also India's organ donation rate is quite bleak. It stands at 0.52 per million people. Every 10 minutes one person is added to the waitlist. In 2022 over 2 lakh patients needed a kidney transplant. Guess how many got it? It was only 7,500 people. That's just 3.4% so you get the gist the numbers are bad which is why more people need to step up not just women but more people should be open to donating organs. It's an act that saves lives.

#india #organ donation #sex based oppression #the way that i raged while listening to this #hearing that these women literally feel pressured to give up their ORGANS for these men #feminism #radical feminism #i hate the way that media glorifies female sacrifice as if it's this glorious thing when it really just reinforces gender inequality #notice how no one in this video is referring to uterus-havers or other genderist BS #they know exactly what women are and that this matter affects them specifically #terfsafe #terfs do interact #radblr #terfblr #TERF #Youtube

[lets-donate-a-kidney]

It's National Kidney Month! Did you know:

Over 80,000 people in the USA alone need kidney transplants.

The average wait time for a kidney transplant is five years on dialysis.

Kidney donors actually have a lower risk of kidney disease, and a higher life expectancy, than the general population.

Donating a kidney can extend the recipient's life by 20-40 years!

Kidney donation is actually one of the "easier" surgeries, with most people only spending one night at the hospital.

In most countries it costs no money to donate a kidney, and in the USA you can get compensation for lost wages while recovering from surgery.

You don't need to know someone who needs a kidney before you donate one. In fact, these "non-directed donors" often enable the transplant waitlist to create donation chains, in which multiple people receive kidneys!

Registering as an organ donor means you could even donate an organ after you die, without needing to do anything while you're alive.

If you want to learn more, check out the National Kidney Registry, or you can read about my personal experience on this blog. Or, if kidney donation isn't right for you, there are other ways you can help folks with kidney disease!

#national kidney month #kidney donation #kidney transplant

[unhonestlymirror]

Around 40 000 years ago, Homo Sapiens came to Europe and genocided Homo Neanderthalensis (Adams event?). Thus, all modern humans in Europe and Northern Africa have a bit of Neanderthals DNA.

Logically, the Neanderthals DNA should have disappeared completely in modern humans by now... but it didn't. Why? Most likely because of adaptive introgression: process by which adaptation occurs via genetic variants that were introgressed into the recipient population from the donor population (introgression - incorporation of DNA from one species to the gene pool of another). Sapiens really needed some Neanderthals genes for protection from European infections.

The problem, however, is that Neanderthals genes protect us from infections in a short run. In a long run, our Sapiens bodies start to consider Neanderthals DNI as the alien DNI, causing rejection, which leads to different autoimmune disorders and sometimes even cancer. The bloodline curse we have to bear is paying for sinners of our ancestors...

In particular, biologists and archaeologists established a connection between Neanderthals DNI and kidney membranous neuropathy: the more you have Neanderthals genes, the higher the chance to develop such unpleasant disorder. COVID-19 severity is also dependent on the Neanderthal genome.

Neanderthals had lived in quite cold places in those times, and thus, they had to eat more meat. "Alas, though fat is easier to digest, it’s scarce in cold conditions, as prey animals themselves burn up their fat stores and grow lean. So Neanderthals must have eaten a great deal of protein, which is tough to metabolize and puts heavy demands on the liver and kidneys to remove toxic byproducts. In fact, we humans have a “protein ceiling” of between 35 and 50 percent of our diet; eating too much more can be dangerous. Ben-Dor thinks that Neanderthals’ bodies found a way to utilize more protein, developing enlarged livers and kidneys, and chests and pelvises that widened over the millennia to accommodate these beefed-up organs. To cope with the fat famine, Neanderthals probably also specialized in hunting gigantic animals like mammoths, which retain fat longer in poor conditions and require greater strength but less energy and speed to kill."

Since Neanderthals had such large kidneys, they needed a greater scale of kidney cleansing. And that's why they ate a lot of cranberries and lingonberries: even nowadays, cranberries extract is sold in pharmacies to people with kidney problems.

Cranberries properties: rich in antioxidant compounds, prevention of urinary tract infections, support anti-aging, skin health, heart health, reduce the risk of stomach ulcers, antibacterial properties, protect against certain cancers, support eye health and vision, promote a healthy immune system, etc.

Lingonberries are especially high in the antioxidant "anthocyanins," which is known to prevent oxidation of blood cholesterol and aid in keeping blood vessels healthy. Researchers believe these potent antioxidants may be able to help reduce the risk of heart disease and even some cancers.

Thus, people with kidney memranous neuropathy or with high risk of its development, people with severe post-COVID complications, people with high levels of Neanderthals DNI should come to Lithuania! :D We have a lot of cranberries and lingonberries sold not in pharmacies at wild prices but in average grocery stores! :D

#history #biology #medicine #archaeology #covid 19 #post covid #membranous neuropathy #kidney disease #neanderthals #genetics #Lithuania #health #healthy food

[poisonivy87]

The way Carm looks at Syd is like he's found the connection he lost with his brother again. Which started me down this rabbit hole.

Syd had a lot of meds in her medicine cabinet and she mentioned her mother dying of Lupus. People with Lupus frequently need kidney transplants and take bunch of meds post transplant. Some people say transplant recipients develop talents or traits of the donor after the transplant.

Michael was an addict and he did shoot himself but that doesn't mean that his kidney would necessarily be rejected as a donor. He could've been kept alive for organ donation.

I'm grasping at straws but it would be a poignant twist if Michael's death saved Sydney life by receiving his kidney. Then she ends up working at The Bear with Carmy.

It also explains why when Syd's Dad asked why this had the be " The thing" She got choked up and said she wasn't sure she could do another. Transplants save lives but they don't always last the rest of the recipients life.

Btw if Chris Storer reads tumblr fan theories and likes this I'm willing to quit my job and move back to Chicagoland to write lbvs

#carmy x syd #sydcarmy #the bear #let it rip #jeremy allen white #ayo edibiri #michael berzatto #the bear fx #sydney adamu #every second counts

[eyeslikewatercoolers]

I’ve had this s15 hc for so many months now, idk where it came from. But now I feel the need to share it with the internet

Anetra and Jax are (distant) cousins. Like 2nd or 3rd cousins.

They found out in a non-traditional way, like a family tree assignment in school. Now they joke that each other is their #1 kidney recipient.

#my hc’s #I know not many people would agree but let me live

[cornsilkcreations]

I have emotions around surgery. Under the readmore

I feel like some of it is obvious, given my transness and the presence of trans people in my life. For many of us (not all, but many), gender affirming procedures are life saving. They at least bring us joy and completion. At most they add to our personal life-expectancies, adding years to what feels dismal (in my experience of my dysphoria). The idea of having surgery even, gives me hope that I’ll reach an older age - complex feelings around that in particular with a history of unrelated sense of foreshortened future for me.

My mom is an organ transplant recipient. Prior to this, she was on dialysis and used an insulin pump to treat kidney disease and T1 Diabetes respectively. I remember two aspects of the process of her transplant the most.

1) That her transplant team said that T1 diabetics die on dialysis.

2) Her transplant surgeon showing her images of the organs waiting for her, and her saying how beautiful they were. I feel very sentimental about this statement, and it is a key part of the phrase I incorporated into the piece.

Her transplant turned back the clock on the kidney disease and completely eliminated the diabetes.

My mother and I share kinship in blood, surgery, and disability. This is a love letter to that.

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