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someone brought up this question will

drinking mineral water cause kidney

stones let’s talk about it now the most

common type of kidney stone is the

calcium oxalate type so when you consume

calcium whether from water from food or

as a supplement that calcium goes into

the stomach into the small intestine and

actually it will bind with oxalates from

the food that you’re consuming so when

calcium binds with oxalates in your

digestive system it will not get

absorbed and transfer over into your

blood and then up in a kidney as a stone

so in reality when you’re taking calcium

or consuming calcium from the food or

getting it from your water you’re

actually decreasing the risk of getting

a kidney stone because you’re gonna bind

up the oxalates in the digestive system

and prevent it from ending up in the

kidney so to answer this question it’s a

big fat no now foods that are high in

oxalates are the almonds spinach rhubarb

Kiwi franquito you’re not gonna be

eating Kiwis beets chocolate and there’s

quite a few other ones so you can do a

couple things you can avoid some of the

foods that are high in oxalates if

you’re a stone former and if you do eat

some of these foods you can take calcium

with it because the calcium in the meal

will bind with the oxalates and actually

not end up as a stone so if you are

gonna do that I would avoid taking

calcium carbonate okay because it’s very

hard for your body to break that down it

takes like 12 different steps a better

source of calcium would be calcium

citrate some type of calcium magnesium

calcium orotate calcium lactate I’ve

done a lot of videos on kidney stones I

put some links down below but the most

important thing is to realize that these

kidney stones occur when you have the

perfect storm of concentrated calcium in

the kidney with oxalates and when it’s

supersaturated or concentrated so this

is why you need to consume more fluids

if you’re a stone former

minimally at least 2.5 liters of fluid

so even though you have calcium in the

kidney even though you might have

oxalates it’s not concentrated enough to

form the stone all right so that’s a

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