Use Apple Cider Vinegar to Dissolve Kidney Stones
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Today we're going to talk about a simple way to prevent kidney stones, and it has to do with apple cider vinegar.
The most common type of kidney stone is a calcium oxalate stone. In this situation, you have high oxalates and calcium and low citrate.
You may have high oxalates from consuming too many high-oxalate foods. Oxalates are in a lot of foods, including keto-friendly foods. High calcium in the urine can be due to a genetic mutation.
Your body makes citrates, which bind with calcium to lessen the amount of free calcium in the body. Free calcium is what can bind to oxalates.
Drinking more fluids during the day is one of the best ways to prevent kidney stones. I suggest drinking at least two and a half liters of fluids per day if you're prone to getting kidney stones. Another great way to prevent kidney stones is to add electrolyte powder containing potassium citrate or magnesium citrate to your water.
The best natural remedy for kidney stones:
• To help dissolve kidney stones, add four to six ounces of lemon juice and two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to a large glass of water, and drink up! For kidney stone prevention, add the juice of one lemon or just one tablespoon of lemon juice and two tablespoons of ACV to your water.
DATA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25542071/
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| 0:00.0 | Kidney stones can be devastating. I mean, severe pain. So for those of you that had a kidney stone |
| 0:08.0 | or are interested in preventing a kidney stone, this video is for you. I've talked a lot about kidney |
| 0:13.2 | stones, but I have not emphasized this one really important factor based on a recent study that I |
| 0:20.7 | just read, which is actually very fascinating. |
| 0:23.7 | And it's including a very simple thing to your water, and that is called Alpacidivin. |
| 0:30.4 | Mostly upside of vinegar is acetic acid. And so the question is, how does acetic acid influence or help you dissolve a stone? |
| 0:39.3 | Okay? |
| 0:40.3 | Now, when we're dealing with kidney stones, we're dealing with mainly what's called calcium oxalate stones. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay, but there's other stones too. You can have a uric acid stone. |
| 0:50.3 | You can have stones made from other things, but mostly it's calcium oxlets. |
| 0:55.4 | So I've done videos in oxlets. Oxlets are in a lot of different foods, especially in the |
| 1:00.8 | ketogenic diet. They're high in almonds, they're high in spinach and chocolate and |
| 1:05.6 | Kiwis. And then you have another factor of calcium in the urine, which can be a genetic weakness, |
| 1:13.6 | genetic mutation, or quite a few people who have kidney stones and or a tendency to get |
| 1:20.6 | osteoporosis. They may have a genetic problem with their gene that they just are releasing |
| 1:27.4 | a lot of calcium in the urine. |
| 1:29.3 | So typically the scenario of Gittie Stone, you have high oxlets, you have a high calcium, |
| 1:37.3 | and you also have low citrates, okay, citrus. Now you might think citrus, like lemons and limes, things like that, and you're correct, |
| 1:47.1 | but your body also makes citrates, okay? And the great majority of the time, if you have a kitty stone, |
| 1:53.1 | low citrates are part of the problem, because one of the things that citrates do is they can act as a key later with this calcium and bind to the calcium, |
| 2:05.6 | lessening the amount of free calcium to bind with oxlets. |
| 2:09.6 | So that's one of the things that citrates do. |
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