There’s a brand new threat to the health and mortality of human beings all over the world, and it even has some rather serious side effects for our economy and healthcare system too. This threat is being called the “silent pandemic,” as it is now the third-fastest growing cause of death around the world. We’re talking about kidney disease. That’s probably not at all what you expected, is it?
According to an article written and published by Nature, by the time 2040 rolls around, kidney disease is expected to be the fifth-highest cause of death among people. As this piece is now being written, there are a total of 850 million individuals who are suffering from some kind of kidney-related health issue, which is placing a rather hefty burden on tax-payer funded healthcare programs like Medicare.
Here’s more from The Daily Caller:
Despite this enormous physical and financial burden to the tax-payers, kidney disease has all but been ignored in the priorities of so-called public health authorities, Nature argued. Kidney disease isn’t even in the World Health Organization (WHO) list of priority non-communicable diseases that result in early deaths, despite data proving it really is a major concern.
Instead WHO and other unelected, non-representative organizations of We The Taxpayers who fund them focus on stroke, heart disease, diabetes (stop eating so much crap, people), lung diseases and cancer. As a result, public awareness of kidney disease is low, likely contributing to the growth in related deaths.
Time to sound the alarm about the hidden epidemic of kidney disease @Nature https://t.co/2ma0oSYEUn
— Katalin Susztak (@KSusztak) April 4, 2024
The International Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology and the European Renal Association are currently lobbying WHO to include kidney disease in their priority list.
A study that was paid for by the organizations noted that while kidney disease is often one of the comorbidities of the WHO priority illnesses, “tackling diabetes and heart disease alone will not target the core drivers of a large proportion of kidney diseases.”
So what causes kidney disease in the first place? Well, there are a number of different things that can lead to this sort of dysfunction, but the main one is being exposed to toxic substances, which the obviously left-leaning Nature says will come about as a result of climate change. Notice how there was no mention of how much toxic sludge we pump into our kids in the form of processed food. And we all could stand drink a lot more water.
Nature argues that kidney disease is more prevalent “in low-income and lower-middle-income” nations. Treatments for kidney disease are extremely expensive because the people who run Big Pharma and the medical industry can’t be bothered to figure out how to reduce these costs. But no one wants to address the fact that these costs have real people behind them demanding cash in exchange for health.
Though I’m sure once Big Pharma figures out how to make loads and loads of money off the treatment of kidney disease in a large group of people — likely by reducing costs and creating treatments that don’t cure, but make kidney disease chronic in such a way that patients are dependent on medication for the rest of their lives — we’ll start seeing plenty of advertisements from our doctors to come and get a kidney check-up.
It’s imperative that we all take responsibility for our own health and seek to take care of our bodies to the best of our abilities. After all, our lives aren’t really our own, are they? We have family and friends who rely on us on a daily basis. Not only that, but we contribute to our communities too. And, of course, it eases the burden on taxpayers and that’s always a plus.
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