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HOW SUGAR CAUSES KIDNEY STONES
We have already shown you that drinking just some sugar water will raise your urine calcium and at the same time lower your urine volume. The net effect will raise kidney stone risk by saturating stone forming salts. We obviously did not do a good enough job. It isn't...
BRUSHITE STONE DISEASE
The magnificent painting (oil on oak panel) by Hieronymus Bosch ("The Extraction of the Stone of Madness"), created between 1501-1505), dwells in the Museo del Prado since 1839, and has a provenance unbroken from its first owner, Philip of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht....
THE NEW THIAZIDE TRIAL
I picture a younger me on this article because the long line of thiazide trials stretches back decades in time to when I looked just like the photograph. The large picture that heads this article depicts my spreadsheet of all of the trials I have reviewed, and this...
PHOSPHATE FOR CALCIUM KIDNEY STONE PREVENTION
Long ago, physicians gave calcium kidney stone formers oral phosphate supplements to reduce urine calcium and kidney stone production. But trials were small and informal, so when a single and excellent trial showed lack of benefit our generation left phosphate by the...
Do Vitamin D Supplements Raise Kidney Stone Risk?
Not rarely patients and readers on this site ask about vitamin D supplements and whether they raise the risk for kidney stones or reduce risk for bone fractures. This article is about the first question. In pursuit of the answer, I would like to share with you how one...
How to Read About Science: P Harmala to Prevent Kidney Stones
I notice a lot of interest in OTC supplements and remedies for stone prevention. P harmala is a good example and has a very recent publication. In addition, I am committed to the idea that informed patients do best for themselves, thence this site. Nothing can can...
Chapter 13: Infection Stones
The term 'infection stones' means stones caused by the action of bacteria. At the present time only struvite stones belong in this category. Struvite is a composite of magnesium, ammonium ion, and phosphate ion. Certain bacteria can decompose urea in urine to ammonia...
Meal Plans for the Kidney Stone Diet
It is not enough to tell people they need to change this or that in their diets for stone prevention. We did that already, here, in a lot of articles. What people need is a meal plan that has in it all the things for stone prevention and tastes good, is easy enough to...
BOOK DOWNLOAD: Physiology of Kidney Stone Formation
A Free New Book About Kidney Stones Here is a download link for the book Here is a brief video that walks you through the book Why Another Book? It has long been my impression that discussion of kidney stone formation arises less out of the rich detail of kidney...
How Science Works
A new video about how science works What is it About? All we know about kidney stones arose at one time or another from scientific research. The same for everything on this site. Beyond the borders of stone disease, one might say this for all of physical modernity. No...