02/17/2026
It's Tea Time Tuesday!โ๏ธ
Did you know that 37 million Americans have chronic kidney disease, and most people don't even know they have it? Your diet may be the missing piece of the puzzle as 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.
On today's episode of the Essence of Health Tea Time Podcast, Dr. Shayla sits down with guest physician Dr. Robin Rose, and they will be discussing a new CNN article titled โEating more ultraprocessed food ups the risk of premature death, study finds.โ They are spilling "๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐
๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฒ๐ฌโ where theyโll break down how the ultraprocessed foods filling our grocery carts and our plates are silently damaging one of your body's most vital organs. From phosphate additives to chronic inflammation, they're spilling everything your kidneys wish you knew.
Listen to todayโs episode to get the tea onโฆ
โ๏ธGroundbreaking findings from the CNN-reported meta-analysis of over 240,000 people linking ultraprocessed food consumption to premature death
โ๏ธ What makes a food "ultraprocessed" and why the body may treat these products as harmful
โ๏ธ How sodium, phosphate additives, and synthetic chemicals in ultraprocessed foods silently burden and damage the kidneys over time
โ๏ธ The connection between chronic inflammation driven by ultraprocessed foods and its link to the progressive decline of kidney function
โ๏ธ What early warning signs your kidneys may be sending that conventional medicine often misses, and the functional medicine markers to ask your doctor about
โ๏ธ The "renal tea" on whether kidney function can recover when transitioning away from ultraprocessed foods and what timeline to expect
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