<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="podbean/5.5" -->
<rss version="2.0"
     xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
     xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
     xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
     xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"
     xmlns:spotify="http://www.spotify.com/ns/rss"
     xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"
    xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">

<channel>
    <title>Cold Truth: Inside the Fight for Chronic Illness Survival</title>
    <atom:link href="https://feed.podbean.com/coldischemiafoundation/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
    <link>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Every week, 55 million Americans wake up and do the work the healthcare system depends on — managing medications, navigating denials, sitting in dialysis chairs, holding families together through diagnoses that never end. The system calls them patients and care partners. It counts on them completely. It protects them not at all.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Cold Truth is the podcast that goes where every other healthcare show cannot  -</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Hosted by Jeff Parke, a three-time kidney transplant recipient and Executive Director of the Cold Ischemia Foundation, Cold Truth investigates the structural failures, institutional betrayals, and buried federal violations that define the chronic illness experience in America. Each episode pulls from real regulatory records, documented federal cases, and the lived reality of patients and care partners who were told to be grateful — and instead chose to be informed.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This is not a wellness podcast. There are no tips for managing stress. What you will find here is the conversation the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital systems, and the dialysis corporations have spent billions of dollars ensuring you never hear — told by someone who has been on the receiving end of every failure he documents, and who built a platform to make sure you never face those failures alone.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Cold Truth. Because the system was counting on your silence.</p>]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:47:03 -0400</pubDate>
    <generator>https://podbean.com/?v=5.5</generator>
    <language>en</language>
        <copyright>Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.</copyright>
    <category>Health &amp; Fitness:Mental Health</category>
    <ttl>1440</ttl>
    <itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type>
          <itunes:summary></itunes:summary>
        <itunes:author>jeffparke72</itunes:author>
	<itunes:category text="Health &amp; Fitness">
		<itunes:category text="Mental Health" />
	</itunes:category>
	<itunes:category text="News">
		<itunes:category text="Politics" />
	</itunes:category>
    <itunes:owner>
        <itunes:name>jeffparke72</itunes:name>
            </itunes:owner>
    	<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:new-feed-url>https://feed.podbean.com/coldischemiafoundation/feed.xml</itunes:new-feed-url>
    <itunes:image href="https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22178254/podbeam_podcast_logo_1_6wkp0.png" />
    <image>
        <url>https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22178254/podbeam_podcast_logo_1_6wkp0.png</url>
        <title>Cold Truth: Inside the Fight for Chronic Illness Survival</title>
        <link>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com</link>
        <width>144</width>
        <height>144</height>
    </image>
    <item>
        <title>Digital Deserts - Bridging the Technological Divide in CKD Education</title>
        <itunes:title>Digital Deserts - Bridging the Technological Divide in CKD Education</itunes:title>
        <link>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/e/digital-deserts-bridging-the-technological-divide-in-ckd-education/</link>
                    <comments>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/e/digital-deserts-bridging-the-technological-divide-in-ckd-education/#comments</comments>        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:47:03 -0400</pubDate>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/f64e4b0f-5932-32d7-a9d3-90e331a9db5c</guid>
                                    <description><![CDATA[<p>In contemporary medical discourse, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) emerges as a pervasive public health quandary, characterized by its insidious onset and the profound implications it harbors for systemic healthcare structures and individual well-being. </p>
]]></description>
                                                            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In contemporary medical discourse, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) emerges as a pervasive public health quandary, characterized by its insidious onset and the profound implications it harbors for systemic healthcare structures and individual well-being. </p>
]]></content:encoded>
                                    
        <enclosure url="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dfksrp7zr8sv3s6q/Digital_Deserts_Bridging_the_Technological_Divide8j45f.mp3" length="7726944" type="audio/mpeg"/>
        <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In contemporary medical discourse, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) emerges as a pervasive public health quandary, characterized by its insidious onset and the profound implications it harbors for systemic healthcare structures and individual well-being. ]]></itunes:summary>
        <itunes:author>jeffparke72</itunes:author>
        <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
        <itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
        <itunes:duration>539</itunes:duration>
                <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
        <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
            </item>
    <item>
        <title>Survival Guide for Care Partners in High-Tension Home Dynamics</title>
        <itunes:title>Survival Guide for Care Partners in High-Tension Home Dynamics</itunes:title>
        <link>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/e/survival-guide-for-care-partners-in-high-tension-home-dynamics/</link>
                    <comments>https://coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/e/survival-guide-for-care-partners-in-high-tension-home-dynamics/#comments</comments>        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:30:16 -0400</pubDate>
        <guid isPermaLink="false">coldischemiafoundation.podbean.com/4e55f1ff-7b9c-3596-bd71-4f0942849efb</guid>
                                    <description><![CDATA[<p>Survival Guide for Care Partners in High-Tension Home Dynamics is a groundbreaking, evidence-informed work that confronts one of the most overlooked realities in caregiving: the hidden psychological toll on those providing care within emotionally volatile and destabilizing home environments.</p>
]]></description>
                                                            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Survival Guide for Care Partners in High-Tension Home Dynamics</em> is a groundbreaking, evidence-informed work that confronts one of the most overlooked realities in caregiving: the hidden psychological toll on those providing care within emotionally volatile and destabilizing home environments.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
                                    
        <enclosure url="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jrgpmr5rqhnpce9v/Survival_Guide_for_Care_Partners60d8u.mp3" length="26167680" type="audio/mpeg"/>
        <itunes:summary>evidence-informed work that confronts one of the most overlooked realities in caregiving: the hidden psychological toll on those providing care within emotionally volatile and destabilizing home environment</itunes:summary>
        <itunes:author>jeffparke72</itunes:author>
        <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
        <itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
        <itunes:duration>1090</itunes:duration>
                <itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode>
        <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
            </item>
</channel>
</rss>
