Your cat's kidneys are made of hundreds of thousands of tiny filters called nephrons. They pull waste out of her blood.
When nephrons are damaged, the kidney cannot replace them. So the healthy ones left have to work harder to cover for the ones that are gone, and over time that extra strain damages them too.
When that happens, the kidney responds with inflammation and starts laying down repair material around the damage.
Normally that is temporary. The injury settles, the inflammation comes down, and the extra repair material is cleared away.
But with kidney disease the damage never stops. So the inflammation never stops either, and because inflammation is what tells the kidney to keep repairing, more and more material keeps getting laid down.
Eventually it builds into scar tissue. That scar tissue is called renal fibrosis.
As it builds around the nephrons she has left, it gets harder for them to do their job. Function falls further, the survivors strain more, and that makes more damage, more inflammation and more fibrosis.
So fibrosis is not just something kidney disease leaves behind. It becomes part of what keeps it getting worse.
Which means the real problem is not only the function she has lost. It is that fibrosis is holding back the nephrons that are still alive and still capable of working.
That is where Catopia comes in. The inflammation is what keeps the repair process running, so as long as that signal stays on, the kidney keeps building fibrosis.
Our marine algae oil helps switch that signal off. Once it is off, the body can stop building fibrosis and start clearing what is already there.
And as it clears, the surviving nephrons can work better again. The nephrons are what make the kidney work, so better nephrons means a better working kidney.