Hi Mike, I'm not sure what article you may have read a while back. I know that researchers are working hard to find alternatives for kidney disease from prevention to slowing progression to an artificial kidney and regeneration. It's important to keep in mind that the media often reports on promising medical breakthroughs when the research is still in the early stages. It is likely that the study you read about in still being investigated.

Has your doctor or nephrologist talked to you about diet and lifestyle approaches to slowly the progression of kidney disease?

I read where unless you feel like crap, try to stay off dialysis and cotrol the symptoms with medication until you are 10 and under. Your body knows.