The Kidney Stone website has resources for all audiences seeking to understand the truly complex nature of stone disease and its prevention. We include detailed materials, including videos, the kidney stone guide book, case examples, and more. If you have personal experience with the disease or want to ask questions or our team, you can also pose questions through the contact feature.
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Video Collection
A growing number of articles have videos that take you through the difficulties of the medicine and science. People seem to like them a lot, and I think they make it easier to understand the trulv complex nature of stone disease and its prevention. The collected videos range widelv from article based to long form presentations about major problems in stone disease. It is the fastest growing part of the site.
Kidney Stone Guide Book
The kidney stone guidebook has links to everything on the site. It contains personalized prevention, specific types of stones, meal plans, and more. Broken down into articles by chapter and articles by topic, you can explore or search depending on your familiarity and needs.
NEW BOOK! I have written a brief book about how kidneys transform our fluid and diet habits into stone forming urine in the course of their normal life preserving functioning. It is a free PDF. Help yourselves.
News
Plant-Based vs. Whole Milk: Which Reigns Supreme for Calcium?
Is plant based milk as good a calcium source as whole milk? Is reduced fat milk as good as whole milk? What do we mean by 'good'? Why not a couple of calcium pills and forget about drinking any kind of milk? Simple question, complicated answers. Why complicated?...
THE ENERGETICS OF SCIENCE – The Case of Medicine
Perhaps because we are at the threshold of medicine itself, and therefore at the junction between science and medicine, it might be worthwhile to view science in society from a broader perspective. I confess at the outset a lack of expertise. The societal forces that...
THEORY
As difficult as it is to imagine a novel and useful set of facts, or some new way of doing things, the difficulty is much greater when what may prove useful is how nature does something. For unlike facts, or a made thing whose function we can easily test, we cannot...