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so we’re going to create a comprehensive

video on kidney stones so I have a lot

of videos out there right now on kidney

stones but they’re just focused on one

aspect of kidney stones so this video is

the more the comprehensive version one

of the ten people will get kidney stones

and out of all the people that get

kidney stones

50% of them will get reoccurrence of

kidney stones so it is a big deal and if

you’re a stone former you need to know

about this video right here okay the

first thing you need to know is

something called super saturation when

the concentration of fluid in your

kidney becomes too concentrated that’s

when the stones form and this video is

mainly on the most common stones that

form called the calcium oxalate stones

okay so one way to prevent the super

saturation is to drink enough fluid okay

so 2 to 2.5 up to 3 liters of fluid each

day a fluid that will prevent any stones

reforming right there and of course if

you’re going to do that much fluid I

recommend also adding electrolytes in

there especially potassium citrate more

fluid will prevent even the formation of

these stones excellence okay what are

oxides

well ox let’s are a byproduct of your

metabolism your body makes oxalates

oxalates are also in your foods they’re

mainly in plant foods and then when they

combine with calcium they form a crystal

and they start developing in kidney

stone there are some people that are

sensitive to oxalates and they can

experience a lot of pain and

inflammation if they consume foods high

in toxins and you also only absorb a

certain amount of oxalates from the food

like 10% if you’re a stone former you’re

gonna absorb a little bit more than that

now what can you do to reduce oxalates

okay there’s there’s a couple things one

would be to start cutting down the foods

that are high in oxalic okay and it just

so happens these foods are usually eaten

in larger amounts when you’re on the

ketogenic diet almonds and almond flour

spinach and chocolate now I put a link

down below to give you a little more

data on oxalates so you can actually see

the list of foods from high to low

for example almonds are at the top of

the list at the bottom of the list are

pistachios alright so now you can reduce

the foods of the Box ’lets but what are

some other ways to reduce the oxalates

okay number 3 calcium now you would

think if you consume more calcium you’re

gonna get more kidney stones but that’s

not how it works

because when you consume foods high in

calcium as in dairy they’re talking

about cheese and I recommend like goat’s

cheese or sheep cheese which is a lot

better than cow’s milk cheese that

calcium will bind with the ox le’ts and

the other foods that you’re eating at

the same time okay they’ll bind in the

digestive system so there’s less

oxalates to be absorbed in through the

blood and filtered through the kidney so

if you’re consuming foods that have

oxalates which a lot of people do if you

add a little cheese that will protect

yourself probably why certain cultures

will add cheese when they cook spinach

so the calcium will bind with the

oxalate sand will be less auklets that

end up in the kidney if you have what’s

called fat malabsorption let’s say for

example you have irritable bowel

syndrome or you don’t have a gall

bladder or you’re deficient in bile or

you have damage in your pancreas or some

type of damage in your colon where you

can’t absorb fats that well okay and the

fats go through you that excess fat can

also bind with the calcium which can

leave more oxalates to get absorbed into

your blood into the kidney so people

that have this condition should actually

consume a little more calcium because

the fat can actually increase more

oxalates in the kidney for this reason

but mainly if you have a malabsorption

problem not in general it’s just a

little side note okay

another way to decrease the Oxford’s

Adsit rates when someone is a stone

former they’re usually deficient in

citrates so you can add lemon or lime

juice okay citrate combined

with the oxalates and inhibits and binds

up the oxalates so it becomes less of a

problem for you you can also do minerals

like in potassium citrate magnesium

citrate or even calcium citrate okay

that will also help number 5 uric acid

now I’m mainly focusing on the oxalate

stones but there is also a situation

when you can have uric acid stones and

this is dependent on your pH if your pH

is too acidic and I’m talking like five

instead of six the optimum pH would be

six okay it becomes too acidic that’s

when the uric acid stones can form and

this is another reason to consume enough

vegetables to keep your pH in the

correct place so it’s not too acidic

when you’re on the ketogenic diet okay

you’re having all these ketones going

through your body they’re acidic and

you’re not consuming enough vegetables

and you’re a stone former you can end up

with a bit too much uric acid you can

even get some gout symptoms because when

you do keto a lot of times people will

do in a minute fasting and Emin fasting

will spike your acid because one of the

purposes of uric acid is to act like an

antioxidant so your body is trying to

clean up microbes related to Toth adji

and if you don’t know what that is I put

a video down below watch that it’s very

fascinating but the way to counter this

uric acid is just to raise the pH a

little bit acidify it wait and you can

do it with potassium citrate okay and of

course with vegetables so potassium

citrate will kill two birds with one

stone it’ll actually help lock up the

oxalates if there is any there and also

reduce the uric acid all right next one

floor up there’s a microbe called

oxalobacter for merchants okay and this

microbe uses oxalates

as its food okay it lives on oxalates it

will degrade in break

up to 95% of the oxalates and so if you

had a history of taking antibiotics or

you have some colon damage or you had

some surgery to your colon where you had

part of it removed that can increase

your susceptibility to getting stones so

it’s not a bad idea to take a probiotic

something like lactobacillus or bifida

bacteria and some other microbes right

now they’re doing experiments on this

microbe but you can’t get it unless

you’re enrolled in the trial that

they’re doing maybe eventually they’ll

come out with this microbe but I think

what happens in a lot of cases is that

when people get antibiotics destroys

this microbe and they just have higher

levels of oxalates so having the right

amount of bacteria is very very

important in fact having other microbes

as well like the lactobacillus can

reduce your oxalates by between 40 and

60% okay

magnesium also can help reduce the

calcium buildup in the kidney as well so

that’s another mineral you get magnesium

from leafy greens right there vitamin D

now one complication for vitamin D is

hypercalcemia okay that’s too much

calcium in the blood which potentially

in it but this is rare could lead to a

kidney stone and that’s really the only

danger about having high levels of

vitamin D if you’re a kidney stone

former you just have to be aware of this

potential situation if you’re taking

high levels about amedy and I’m talking

about like fifty thousand or eighty

thousand I use you probably would want

to drink a lot of water and just make

sure you’re not consuming too much

calcium okay so that’s just one little

side note it would be rare to have this

happen but I just I’m bringing up is one

one point

okay so salt now here’s the thing with

salt especially sodium if you have

excessive excessive amounts of sodium

that can actually cause more calcium to

leave the body to go through the kidney

in this situation if your

former I would recommend to stick with

something like 2300 milligrams which is

one teaspoon and not go crazy with maybe

like two or three or four teaspoons

because potentially that could be an

issue

and lastly vitamin k2 which counters

calcification in the body it counters

calcium being in the wrong place in the

soft tissues not just in the kidney but

in the joints and the arteries so about

I mean k2 is also a valid thing to take

in this approach

so in summary okay there’s a lot of

things going on more fluids avoid the

foods high in oxalates add a little

cheese when you’re eating I recommend

sheep cheese or goat cheese calcium

citrate as a good electrolyte that will

actually help both of these conditions

ox let’s and uric acid lemon juice with

your water would be a good thing to do

make sure you have a good probiotic

magnesium but if you’re consuming you

know vegetables you get the potassium

and the magnesium just try not to go too

crazy with the vitamin D if you want to

if you have a stone or you’re trying to

prevent a stone and your stone former

the regular amount of salt that you need

and k2 alright thanks for watching so if

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