Constipation Drug May Slow Kidney Decline

Doctors found that a medicine used to treat constipation might also help people with kidney problems.

They tested this medicine, called lubiprostone, on people with a condition called chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The medicine seemed to slow down the worsening of kidney function.

This is important because there are currently no medicines that can fix kidney function in CKD patients.

The medicine works by helping good bacteria in the gut and improving tiny energy factories in our cells called mitochondria.

The doctors plan to do more tests to see if this medicine can help even more people.

This discovery could lead to new treatments not just for kidney problems, but also for other conditions where these energy factories don't work well.