What I learned this Week: April 14, 2024

1% of the federal budget is spent on kidney dialysis. 6-7% of Medicare's overall budget. Two providers control >70% of the market. 75% of kidney failure is from diabetes and high blood pressure.

Lessons of the Week

I spent Tuesday at The Friedman School of Nutrition and learned a lot. Triggering a thought: It is in the pharmaceutical companies’ interest to disrupt their model towards functional medicine, with GLP-1 as one imperfect but example to shift lanes. Driving the healthcare cost of poor nutrition to zero instead of the current strategy t…