#chronic-kidney-disease

#chronic-kidney-disease

I am at my first of several doctors appointments intentionally scheduled during the winter holiday season. Not because I'm sick. Because it's the only week of the year when nothing work-related is fighting for my time. The office is closed. The investors aren't emailing. The product update notifications have stopped. For seven days I can put my body first. So I schedule the bloodwork.

The magic happens through a clever chemical reaction. When the tablet dissolves, it releases a special reagent that changes color if it detects urinary albumin, a protein that shouldn't normally be present in healthy urine. When your kidneys start having trouble, they begin leaking this protein, and Urify catches it red-handed, literally changing color to alert you. This isn't just a neat science experiment. We're talking about a condition that affects an estimated 800 million people worldwide.

Amrit Paul was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease at four and has been on peritoneal dialysis for nine hours each night. He seeks a living kidney donor.