Patient Education Videos

Watch patient education videos about kidney health, chronic kidney disease, kidney numbers, nutrition, dialysis, transplant, living donation, and kidney conditions. Videos include short animations, NKF Live conversations, recipe and cooking videos, exercise videos, and multilingual video series.

Learn about kidney health

Start here to learn what kidneys do, why kidney health matters, and how kidney disease may affect the body. These videos are a good starting point for people who are new to kidney health or want a simple overview.

Animated / short education videos

Know your risk

These videos explain how diabetes, heart disease, and other health conditions are connected to kidney disease. They can help people understand risk factors, prevention, and steps that may support kidney health.

Animated series

NKF Live recordings

Understand your kidney numbers and tests

These videos explain common kidney tests and numbers, including eGFR and uACR. They can help people better understand lab results and prepare for conversations with their doctor.

Short education videos

Animated series

Kidney conditions that may affect your care

These videos provide information about specific kidney conditions and related health concerns. Topics include symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, clinical trials, daily life, and ways to talk with a care team.

IgA nephropathy

C3G and rare kidney diseases

Lupus nephritis

ADPKD

Gout and kidney disease

Kidney stones

Itching and CKD

Nutrition and kidney disease

These videos explain nutrition topics that may be important for people living with kidney disease. Topics include potassium, plant-based eating, and how food choices may fit into a person’s care plan.

Short education videos

NKF Live recordings

Recipe and cooking videos

Find recipe and cooking videos that show kidney-friendly meal ideas and practical food preparation tips. This section can help people explore meals, ingredients, and cooking techniques that may fit their nutrition needs.

Recipe playlist

Recipe videos

Exercise and living well with kidney disease

Kidney failure, dialysis, and transplant

These videos explain kidney failure and treatment options, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplant. They can help people understand what may happen next and prepare for conversations about care choices.

Living Well with Kidney Failure series

Kidney failure questions

Kidney Transplant videos

Living kidney donation

These videos can help people learn about living kidney donation, including how to get started and what donation may mean for donors, recipients, and families.

Short education videos

Kidney cancer videos

These videos provide education and support for people learning about kidney cancer, including diagnosis, treatment options, clinical trials, mental health, physical activity, nutrition, and life after treatment.

Kidney cancer animated series

NKF Live kidney cancer videos

Videos in other languages

Find video series available in languages other than English. Select a language to view available kidney cancer videos.

Spanish

French

Hausa

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Mandarin

Polish

Swedish

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This content is provided for informational use only and is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for the medical advice of a healthcare professional.
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