“It had taken ten years for Gail’s GFR score to go from 90 to 31. A few months after she quit gluten she had another kidney test. Your score is slightly better, said her doctor. He implied that such a recovery wasn’t unusual. Six months after that her score was 62 (Ginna made her ask for a number). That was a huge recovery, no longer close to needing dialysis. (The National Kidney Disease Education Program says a score above 60 is “in normal range.”) Gail told her doctor she thought the improvement was because she’d given up gluten. “That’s very trendy right now,” said her doctor. They did not discuss it further.”
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