| 1 | Blood can be cleaned by osmosis if the kidney has failed. | |
| 2 | Systemic lupus erythematosus. This chronic inflammatory disease can lead to serious kidney damage. | |
| 3 | Currently, transplants and dialysis are the only ways to treat kidney failure. | |
| 4 | And what they showed was the one predictorof continuing loss of kidney function was animal protein. | |
| 5 | One possible reason is that kidney function naturally starts to decline around age 50, says Weinberger. |