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4 Kidney Stone Prevention Techniques

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Wouldn’t it be nice to know if there were ways to significantly lower your chances of kidney stones?

You might just be getting older and you know that many people get kidney stones in mid-life. If you’re obese you chances double, or if you’re serious about gastric bypass weight loss surgery, you probably already know that one of the increased risks for post-ops is a significantly higher chance of kidney stones.

Now for those uninitiated, passing kidney stones are one of the most painful  maladies know to humans. Lets just say that if you have any choice at all, you don’t want to go there. Trying to pass a stone can often take weeks or sometimes months. The pain is usually completely debilitating. Thankfully the medical interventions we have today usually result in  positive outcomes, but even with today’s medical advancement, kidney stones can result in the atrophy (or death) of the kidney affected.

Prevention would be SO MUCH better, so we’re going to share 4 ways to reduce your chances of forming stones in your kidneys. Read the rest of this post

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Roux-N-Y Raises Risk Of Kidney Stones – Study Suggests

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Source – ScienceDaily (June 17, 2009)

The most popular type of gastric bypass surgery appears to nearly double the chance that a patient will develop kidney stones, despite earlier assumptions that it would not, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study. The overall risk, however, remains fairly small at about 8 percent. Read the rest of this post

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