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now i’ve been getting quite a few questions  related to kidney stones so i wanted to give  

you some additional information that might be  helpful if you are a stone former now if you’ve  

never had a kidney stone or not concerned about  it you probably are not going to be interested  

in this video but for those people who have a  kidney stone right now or had a kidney stone  

this information is very valuable but there’s  some really great data which i’m going to put  

some links down below that shows that a vitamin  a deficiency can greatly increase your risk of  

getting a bladder stone and a kidney stone and in  the study that i reference taking vitamin a can  

decrease your risk of bladder stones and kidney  stones but i want to talk about why that might  

work now primarily i’m talking about the  calcium oxalate stone which is the most common  

kidney stone so here’s the data when you are  deficient in vitamin a several things can occur  

number one you can have a low amount of creatinine  and at this point the only thing you need to know  

about that is that it’s a protein in the urine  that could come from the breakdown of muscle but  

that’s a whole different topic number two lower  amounts of something called glycoaminoglycans now  

what the heck is that well glyco comes from  the word sugar amino amino acid or protein so  

it’s this compound between a sugar and a protein  and apparently that compound is one of the most  

potent inhibitors of calcium oxalate crystals  developing in your kidney which is interesting  

and this occurs when you’re deficient in vitamin a  

number three lower amounts of phosphates number  four higher amounts of calcium accumulating in the  

kidney number five higher amounts of oxalates in  the kidney number six higher amounts of uric acid  

in the kidney so now you can see there’s a huge  connection between not having enough vitamin a  

and developing all these factors that could lead  to a kidney stone now another point about this  

is that chondroitin sulfate is a type of a  glycoaminoglycan and there’s a good amount  

of research that demonstrates that chondroitin  sulfate can reduce your risk of kidney stones  

and now we know why so in summary if you  want to decrease the risk of kidney stones  

it might be a really good idea to start taking  vitamin a now i’m not talking about the vitamin  

a and vegetables that’s a precursor i’m talking  about taking the active form of vitamin a called  

retinol one of the best sources would be the cod  liver oil you can also get it from beef kidney  

and of course if you’re going to try to find a  beef kidney supplement make sure it’s grass-fed  

but i would also recommend in addition to  taking vitamin a take chondroitin sulfate since  

that might give you the edge that you need to  really prevent kidney stones thanks for watching  

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