Can a keto diet reduce kidney failure?

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Dr Dhankecha Dineshbhai

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Ketogenic lifestyle dictates a person to have high protein and fat with low or zero carbohydrate diet which may affect metabolic acidosis. High protein diet may hasten kidney failure.

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