As a nephroologist, a kidney doctor in Mayo Clinic, you know, you see primarily patients with

advanced kidney disease at that time. So these were patients who need a kidney transplant

or who need a dial transplant or who needed dialysis.

And again, the same thinking process started to happen by me, you know, why do we see these patients

laid on, you know, when the damage has been irreversibly done and they need an organ transplant

or dialysis, when the process started decades before.

This is episode number 99 with Dr Axel Pluga.

Welcome to pursuing health.

Welcome to pursuing health. I'm Julie Fushe, Family Medicine resident and former Cross-Vit Games athlete.

Here I bring to you information and inspiration from experts and everyday individuals for how to use lifestyle

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this week's episode. Hello there everyone and welcome back to pursuing health.

In this episode, I got to sit down with an incredibly accomplished physician and scientist,

Dr. Axel Plouga.

Axel is not only a medical doctor,

but he also has his PhD in pharmacology

and his completed residency training

in three specialties. So he first did residency training in

cardiac surgery in Germany. Then eventually his research brought him from Germany over to the

U.S. at the Mayo Clinic where he also completed residency

training in internal medicine and nephrology.

He eventually went on to found the diabetes and chronic kidney disease clinic at Mayo Clinic and

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