Protien intake for Kidney Donors or impaired kidney function individuals
My wife and I are both altruistic Kidney donors. I realize kidney donors is a small population but there are a lot of people with impaired kidney function. Do you think we should lower our protein intake from your current recommendations. We are fit and healthy and have a protein centered diet. I want to maintain muscle mass but am concerned with kidney function over time. Thanks
Artificial sweeteners and glucose intolerance
Just listened to AMA#18 on artificial sweeteners and thought back to a Nature paper I read that showed pretty considerable effects of 3 tested artificial sweeteners (saccharin, sucralose, aspartame) on glucose tolerance. I know that the human sample size is very small in this paper, but the effect size as well as the animal data and the mechanism involving the microbiome make it more compelling. Any updated thoughts on artificial sweeteners? Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13793