How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing young men

13 littlexsparkee 6 6/8/2025, 4:09:24 AM nature.com ↗

Comments (6)

genewitch · 1m ago
> So the workers swallowed ibuprofen and got back to their machetes.

"mysterious"

londons_explore · 58m ago
Sounds like some experiments could be done to narrow this down.

For example giving half of workers a water bottle and telling them to fill it with water and keep it on their person all day.

See if those workers have better kidney function at the end of the year. Simple dehydration could be an easy fix.

pingou · 35m ago
Shouldn't we see an elevated number of cases in countries with a sauna culture?
giardini · 3h ago
I find it curious that there is no mention of salts, either sodium or potassium, in the entire article!
Llamamoe · 2h ago
Reducing sodium intake in people susceptible to developing high blood pressure from it does wonders, but in everyone else it's pretty much okay, and if you're young it's better to eat too much than too little. I doubt it's a factor here.
littlexsparkee · 4h ago