Throw No Stones: How to Prevent Calcium Oxalate Renal Stones

Current Sports Medicine Reports, September/October 2010 - Volume 9 - Issue 5 - pp 260-261

doi: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181f19367 PMID: 20827088

There was no abstract, just a snippit of interest via Google Scholar

“the incidence of renal stones is increased 20-fold in Israeli life- guards”

Was that due to water loss, not drinking enough fluids, too much vitamin D, not using the restroom often enough, or ???

Risk factors listed at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/k/kidney_stones/riskfactors.htm

• Family history of kidney stones

• Sedentary occupations

• Lack of physical activity

• Hypercalcuria

• Acidic urine

• Alkaline urine

• Reduced urine

• Too little water

• Excessive sweating

• Gout

• Kidney infections

• Vitamin A deficiency

• Overactive parathyroid gland

Specific Lifestyle Factors from http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/yourhealth/healthgate/getcontent.asp?URLhealthgate=%2219718.html%22

• Diet rich in meat, sodium, oxalate, and tomatoes

• Low fluid intake

• Increased fluid loss in hot weather

• High intake of grapefruit juice

• Dehydration

• Long periods of inactivity

• Being overweight

• Fasting