Barry

And the thing is, regardless of the cause, there really isn't necessarily...

need to do restrictive diets until your kidneys get, if they're still functioning well and they're, you know, easy blood tests that can do.

But once you sort of get to that tipping point where having too much, the kidneys can't handle and process protein in particular.

So very often, and other things, like I say, I'm not a nutritionist to

Right.

Describing, you know, kidney diets.

But as kidneys are failing, diets do get quite restricted.

But as long as, you know, the tests are showing that the kidneys are functioning pretty well, there's not a need to necessarily do that.

I also have a thought, though, the blood pressure part.

But I'm thinking particularly about diabetes.

Because one of the things that I read about, this is interesting, is that people who have diabetes...

their pets are also more likely to develop diabetes.

And I'd have to think that, you know, that diabetes physiologically probably impacts kidneys in a negative way, the same way as humans.

I know numerous people, their dogs are on insulin and, you know, all kinds of things like that.

And some of that, you know, potentially gets back to some lifestyle things.

and diet and nutrition things.

Not that people give their dogs ice cream and candy and other things.

But again, it's not a causative thing, but they have, just like people who are healthier, their pets seem to be healthier.

And kind of that interaction gets people and pets hopefully in tandem living longer.

But people who have more chronic diseases, especially diabetes, it seems that their dogs develop it.