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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about ketosis and kidney stones okay a  

lot of you are doing ketosis I’m going to show  you what to do to prevent kidney stones because  

here’s the problem when you are on a ketosis  diet you do get rid of calcium in the urine  

more than usual right now here’s the problem when  you’re consuming cruciferous vegetables which I’m  

always recommending or spinach or iced tea or  chocolate which maybe you shouldn’t be doing  

all that has high amounts of something called  oxalates okay the oxalates combined with the  

calcium to make stones so that’s a situation  blue they’re not kale is very low in oxalates  

compared to spinach spinach is off-the-charts  so if you’re doing spinach then all we have to  

do is not necessarily avoid calcium believe it or  not you want to take some some food based calcium  

you want to actually get your calcium from food  whether it’s cheese or something like that because  

if you consume dietary food calcium what happens  the I high levels of oxalates which are you’re  

consuming as well will bind in the digestive  system instead of going into the blood and  

out to the urine through the kidney so in other  words if you’re not consuming enough calcium I’m  

not talking about pills actually calcium in food  that’s why I do eat cheese on a regular basis if  

you’re allergic then you’re gonna have to find  some other source but the point is that that  

calcium in the digestion will then protect  the kidneys by taking more calcium so that  

way it never ends up in the kidney so that’s one  thing the other mechanism for stones is that your  

low end citrate now what does that mean there’s a  certain thing in the body called citrate and when  

you don’t have enough of that you can be more at  risk for kidney stones so that’s why I recommend  

the lemon juice and a regular basis so I even  take when I do a cow shake I will pour maybe 2  

or 3 ounces of lemon juice in that couch it makes  them nice little shake or just start putting the  

lemon in your water you can do it as just a  liquid or the actual lemon but at least one  

lemon a day that will also decrease the risk for  kidney stones the other thing is making sure you  

have enough magnesium well that’s going to come  from the vegetables but if you’re actually doing  

a ketosis with not enough vegetables then you  need to increase that to get the magnesium you  

can also take this as a supplement too but I would  not take a calcium magnesium I would take just a  

magnesium supplement unless you know you need  calcium and there’s and I have certain videos  

that explain when you need that but typically  people have a bit too much they’re taking too  

much calcium as supplements or not taking it  from the food alright so I hope this helped go  

ahead and apply it and leave your comments below  hey guys thank you so much for watching I really  

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