by Dr Fredric Coe | Aug 1, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
We love it. As a people Americans eat 66 pounds of added sugar a year per person. Each one of us eat that much added sugar. Yes, that much table sugar, sucrose, the bad stuff. It may be bad but I love it, passionately, and with the fondness only time can add to a...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jul 21, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
My book chapter makes the prime point that low urine pH causes uric acid to crystallize in urine and produce kidney stones. But it does not detail what lowers urine pH to such an extreme. In part, bowel diseases lower urine pH. That is another subject altogether,...
by Dr Fredric Coe | May 9, 2017 | Book, For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
In my very long and complicated article I detailed primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) like a good scientist should. With all my heart I tried to make it plain enough for people in general to get a sense of how things work, but looking back on it, I doubt many will....
by Dr Fredric Coe | May 7, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a systemic disease caused by an excess of parathyroid hormone secretion. It causes calcium kidney stones but also multiple other abnormalities, especially of bone. Here, I am concerned with that subset of PHPT patients with kidney...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Mar 20, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
This is a story about how well the supersaturations we measure in 24 hour urines reflect the average supersaturation in the kidneys of patients, whether supersaturations match kidney stones – match the crystals stone contain. If they do match well, we can trust...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Feb 6, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Our newest venture – the Kidney Stone Prevention Course. It arose from this idea: Kidney stone prevention depends a lot on proper diet and fluids, which patients control. This site tells people what that diet and what those fluids should be, but not how to eat...
