Find Your Model Health!

In this powerful follow-up conversation, I sit down again with Stephen McConnell Msc to unpack the real causes of kidney disease, why the thyroid is deeply involved, and how lifestyle factors like alcohol and uric acid quietly drive damage long before symptoms appear. This is the perfect continuation to help fill in any gaps from our first conversation (go listen if you haven't already). This episode is essential listening if you or someone you love has kidney issues, gout, thyroid dysfunction, or unexplained metabolic symptoms. In this episode, we discuss: • How kidney disease should really be diagnosed • The different stages of kidney disease and what they mean • Why African-Americans experience kidney disease at much higher rates • Foamy or bubbly urine as a sign of protein loss and kidney stress • The critical thyroid–kidney connection that is very much overlooked • Why up to 90% of stage 4 kidney disease patients are hypothyroid • How niacin supports deiodinase activity and T4 → T3 conversion • How mod