The plant-based diet is consuming fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, beans, nuts and seeds, herbs, and spices only. Excludes all animal products, including red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and dairy products. It also excludes any store-bought and pre-packaged foods.

Absolutely not. That’s a broken way of doing things. And it has never worked or only temporarily it will work just to go right back to what you were doing.

Your heritage food isn’t the enemy—modern industrial ingredient swaps
are!

In our sessions, we keep the flavors and traditional dishes you love,
but we masterfully upgrade the prep and sourcing. We are returning your
food to the generational wisdom of how it was originally prepared to fuel
your cells correctly.

Yes, Dr. Washington has been able to reverse Hypertension & Type 2 Diabetes in some of her patients. A few were even able to get off dialysis. Clients have allowed us to share their amazing, yet difficult journey on our various social media/website platforms.  But others didn’t want their personal information blasted on social media. 

I did not waste time participating in peer-reviewed studies. Why? I learned from other doctors like Tom Campbell , Neal Barnard, and Harvard lifestyle review courses, that many of these ‘studies’ were in existence before I was even  born.  SMH!

I will not create one for you. Why? Anyone can go online & look up recipes.  My clients took cooking classes, purchase plant- based food books , try various diet plans, pay people to cook meals for them on and on. About a year later they all have FAILED !!. They put the weight back on, if not more #’s; had to restart blood pressure medications ; had to start back on diabetic medications; or even restart dialysis. Sadly they just do not succeed. These statistics are close to the general population as well.

This is a lifestyle change and change is difficult.

Nephrology is the study of kidney diseases and its related complications. Glomerular diseases like Lupus Nephritis, Diabetic Nephropathy, Goodpasture’s syndrome. Protein and/or blood in the urine. Kidney stones and the type of stone; high blood pressure; electrolyte disorders like high potassium/ low sodium. We manage kidney failure with dialysis and their various treatment modalities. Transplantation. Dialysis in a center, at home, care while in the hospital and even critical care while in the Intensive Care units. The kidneys are part of the circulatory system and so many conditions can effect these vital yet critical organs to live.

The #1 cause of death in people with chronic kidney disease is a heart attack!! Most people walk around and don’t even know they have kidney disease nor heart disease. They don’t even know if they have one or 2 functional kidneys. Look just because you make urine does not mean that your kidneys are healthy. Why? The kidney has several functions and we make sure you know what they are.

Resistant hypertension when I was in practice usually involved my clients with 3-5 medicines or sometimes a nephrectomy just to get their blood pressure < 140/90.

And by definition this is still not ‘normal’. These definitions like pre-hypertension, hypertension, stage 1 or 2 have changed at least 5 times since I have graduated from medical school!

For more information see-->   Afnan place link to hypertension page in service drop down.