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
Brushite: Key to Calcium Stone Prevention
The title is my story's conclusion. We know that calcium phosphate crystals in plaque, plugs, and the vast majority of stones are hydroxyapatite, yet when we measure supersaturation with respect to calcium phosphate we measure that for brushite, the pretty crystal in...
Video: Empirical Research
Empirical science is ancient beyond imagining, for it is nothing more than the modern version of exploring to find out what is there. Don't you do it after checking in to the hotel in a city new to you? Go out on the streets and see what is going on, where things are?...
Video: Overview of Science
This entire site concerns the science from which we have derived what we offer to patients for prevention of kidney stones. Every article rests on a base of established and peer reviewed science. We Have Always Had a Science Page For years I have posted articles about...