Cut your risk of kidney stones down to (almost) nothing—no prescription required

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Cut your risk of kidney stones down to (almost) nothing—

no prescription required

http://www.wrightnewsletter.com/articles/nah_20058awed/nah_200512gky.html

by Dr Wright

 

I’m no longer amazed by the advice given today by “mainstream†medical

doctors on preventing the most common type of kidney stones (the calcium oxalate

variety)––but I am still disappointed. Some doctors say to cut back on

dietary

and supplemental calcium, even more counsel their patients to reduce calcium

and salt and to drink lots more water. A few even give prescriptions for

diuretics. None of this is necessary (or helpful for that matter). Yet the

mainstream seems to be turning a blind eye to methods clearly proven to help.

 

In 1974, two Harvard researchers found that magnesium oxide (300 milligrams

daily) and vitamin B6 (10 milligrams daily) could reduce the risk of recurrent

calcium oxalate stones by 92.3 percent.1 Their research was published in the

Journal of Urology.

 

Harvard? Journal of Urology? What more could a urologist ask for when it

comes to research? I gave copies of the article to individuals I worked with to

give to their urologists, but nothing changed. The recommendations for low

calcium diets just kept on coming.

 

In 1991, the British Journal of Urology published another prevention study.

During a five-year investigation, researchers determined that the use of 10

grams (less than 1 tablespoon) of rice bran twice daily after meals reduced new

calcium oxalate kidney stone formation by 83.4 percent.2 To this day, not one

person I’ve asked has been told by his or her urologist about this harmless

treatment.

 

As I said earlier, this just doesn’t surprise me anymore. After all, it took

the physicians at the British Admiralty over 150 years to implement one of the

earliest successful scientific experiments concerning the beneficial effects

of nutrition on illness—the prevention of scurvy with citrus fruit. And it

took 19th century medicine more than 50 years to eliminate “childbirth

fever†by

simply having physicians wash their hands. Modern medicine still hasn’t

learned that good nutrition can prevent nearly 100 percent of toxemia of

pregnancy.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

 

But back to kidney stones: The same amounts of magnesium and vitamin B6 found

effective in preventing calcium oxalate kidney stones back in 1974 can be

found in many high-quality multiple vitamin-mineral formulations today. To get

enough magnesium and vitamin B6 from a “muliple,†be sure to take the four

to

six capsules daily that are usually called for by the labels of these products.

Add 2 or 3 teaspoons of rice bran twice daily, and your chances of a calcium

oxalate kidney stone recurrence are close to zero.