No deal, NO DEAL!!!
Calcium oxalate in urine looks like Xboxes under a microscope.
Had a buddy pee rocks because all he ate was Dr. Pepper and soup for 3 months.
Very glad this can’t be me barring some medical issue. I drink almost exclusively water and coffee. My diet isn’t anything to write home about but I’m definitely flushing the kidneys regularly with plain old water.
Imagine getting drugged at some seedy nightclub and you wake up without a kidney… then a week later you get drugged again and wake up with the same defective kidney stuffed back inside. A full refund!
“We’re sorry we stole your shitty kidney. Not because it was the wrong thing to do, but because your kidney is a shitty kidney. You can have that shit back.”
I drink so much milk constantly throughout the days, almost never anything else, and haven’t had this issue. I think you’ve gotta be predisposed to it as well.
Dietary calcium is great for preventing stones, actually. Calcium is bound to a couple different things that cause stones, but the body actually makes those things specifically to bind with calcium. When it happens where it is supposed to, this is a good thing. If you are low on calcium, these things get flushed, and may get trapped in the kidney. Then any calcium that passes through may bind to it. Having higher calcium intake helps prevent them from building up in the kidneys to begin with. Though extremely high amounts of calcium from vitamin supplements etc can increase the risk of getting stones, but high calcium diet is one of the best defenses against them.
Holy crap this is both so seemingly counter-intuitive, and awesome at the same time.
That’s because milk is a great hydrator and you probably drink enough water on top, try doing straight calcium and not enough water
Imagine you replace half your milk with a TUMS or other antacid, that’s basically what they mean. Plenty of water in milk
It is actually not an excess of calcium that’s usually the problem, calcium deficiency is actually a greater risk for most. While yes, the most common types are both chemicals that are in part calcium, the body is meant to produce them, just in different parts of the body. Usually, a deficiency in calcium allows those other compounds that should be used up in other places to be flushed through the kidneys, possibly building up. Then incidental calcium that does move through the kidney binds to them there. Higher dietary calcium intake is associated with a sharp decline in stone risk, though extremely high intakes from vitamin supplements etc do increase risk. But in general, it is an excess of the things that bind to calcium that are the things to avoid, apparently almonds are pretty much the worse thing ever, with a fairly distant second being chocolate.
