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Vitamin C and Kidney Stones

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Myth on Vitamin C and Kidney Stone Formation


Kidney Stones and Vitamin C

One of the main objections and contradictions to taking mega-dose vitamin C is the possibility of developing kidney stones. This is from the elevated oxalic acid levels in the urine.

This is myth has never died in the minds of many people for over years now.

The results of experiments in some urine samples with higher levels of oxalic acid of people taking Vitamin C were misleading.

The particular testing method used turned out that it could not recognize between oxalic acid and vitamin C. That’s why the results were false positive reading for oxalic acid.

There are no elevations of oxalic acid increase with the Vitamin C users as per other more accurate testing method.

The urinary oxalate excretion generally does not severely increase for both normal subjects and the stone-formers with ascorbic acid supplementation unless doses exceed 6 gm daily.

Even at those high doses of Vitamin C, the oxalate excretion is still usually in the range attainable by dietary influences.

Thus the study proved and did not find a relations and connection in high daily intake of vitamin C or vitamin B6 towards the danger and the risk of stone formation even through the consumed in very large doses.



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