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let’s talk about the difference between a  gallstone and a kidney stone and how the heck  

are stones getting inside your body these are all  questions we’re going to answer let’s start with  

the kidney stones the most common type of kidney  stone is the calcium oxalate stone eighty percent  

of all kidney stones are this right here and  what’s happening is your urine is becoming super  

concentrated and the oxalates are forming with the  calcium you get high oxalates from certain foods  

keto friendly foods spinach almonds too  much black tea beets and especially the  

beet tops which have the most potassium of  any plant and chocolate and there’s many  

others as well but these are very very high  in oxalates one of the best ways to prevent  

a calcium oxalate kidney stone realizing  that it’s a super saturation phenomena  

is to consume enough fluid to keep it from  saturating and that would be at least two and  

a half liters of fluid every single day and  if you added some potassium citrate to this  

that would be good as well because in order  for a calcium oxalate stone to develop  

you would need to be also low in citrates okay  so if you consume more citrates you can actually  

prevent this from forming as well and you can get  citrates from lemon juice and so consuming a good  

amount of lemon juice in this fluid right here  would be a very smart thing there are other types  

of kidney stones that are not as common calcium  phosphate stones struvite stones which really  

relates to a urinary tract infection this is more  common in women and uric acid stones which is more  

common in men and this really has to do with a  weakened or damaged kidney that’s not able to  

get rid of the uric acid more than anything  else it’s not being caused just by consuming  

too much protein there are certain proteins  that can worsen the situation but really the  

kidney is not releasing the uric acid properly  it’s being retained and then you have a cystine  

stone and that’s more of a genetic issue now  i’ve done a lot of videos on kidney stones  

i put some links down below but this right here  is the most important thing right there if you’re  

prone to stones okay gallstones completely  different you have a low bile situation  

over 80 percent of gallstones are cholesterol  stones where the cholesterol is super saturated  

and develop a stone but usually the reason  why it’s super saturated is because there’s  

not enough bile to keep it thinned and a certain  amount of your fat cell is composed of cholesterol  

between 25 and 50 percent several things can  diminish the production of bile you can have  

damage to your liver whether your liver is fatty  or there’s cirrhosis or there’s an infection  

also a low-fat diet can increase the  risk of eating gallstones because  

fat triggers the release of bile so if you  don’t have enough fat in the diet you never  

trigger the bile production so you would  think that consuming too much fat will cause  

gallstones but that’s not the  reason it’s really not enough fat  

and a combination of these other things right  here and then we have other situations where you  

can increase the risk of getting stones having too  much insulin because you’re doing too many carbs  

or having too much cortisol or stress or  having too much estrogen so to decrease the  

risk of stones we want to keep this in check  keep our stress down and keep estrogen low  

and keep enough bile you can also take purified  bile salts if you’re at risk of getting gallstones  

or if you have uh liver damage taking purified  bile salts is a very very therapeutic thing  

now 20 of the time people develop what’s called  calcium stones in the gallbladder and those are  

primarily related to taking calcium supplements  okay specifically the ones that you would get and  

i’m not going to mention any brand names but  the one that has the first ingredient calcium  

carbonate that is basically a rock so of course  it’s going from that bottle to your mouth  

into the gallbladder so just make sure that  your supplements are not calcium carbonate  

that that’s like stones and also i don’t really  recommend people even take calcium supplements  

especially if you’re post-menopausal and you’re  taking this large amount because there’s some  

risk factors for your heart and it creates a  lot of complications i think you should focus on  

getting your calcium from the diet but i’ve done a  video on this topic i’ll put a link down below hey  

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