Use Vitamin A for Kidney Stones – Vitamin A Deficiency & Kidney Stones – Dr.Berg

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now i’ve been getting quite a few questions  related to kidney stones so i wanted to give you some additional information that might be  helpful if you are a stone former now if you’ve never had a kidney stone or not concerned about  it you probably are not going to be interested in this video but for those people who have a  kidney stone right now or had a kidney stone this information is very valuable but there’s  some really great data which i’m going to put some links down below that shows that a vitamin  a deficiency can greatly increase your risk of getting a bladder stone and a kidney stone and in  the study that i reference taking vitamin a can decrease your risk of bladder stones and kidney  stones but i want to talk about why that might work now primarily i’m talking about the  calcium oxalate stone which is the most common kidney stone so here’s the data when you are  deficient in vitamin a several things can occur number one you can have a low amount of creatinine  and at this point the only thing you need to know about that is that it’s a protein in the urine  that could come from the breakdown of muscle but that’s a whole different topic number two lower  amounts of something called glycoaminoglycans now what the heck is that well glyco comes from  the word sugar amino amino acid or protein so it’s this compound between a sugar and a protein  and apparently that compound is one of the most potent inhibitors of calcium oxalate crystals  developing in your kidney which is interesting and this occurs when you’re deficient in vitamin a number three lower amounts of phosphates number  four higher amounts of calcium accumulating in the kidney number five higher amounts of oxalates in  the kidney number six higher amounts of uric acid in the kidney so now you can see there’s a huge  connection between not having enough vitamin a and developing all these factors that could lead  to a kidney stone now another point about this is that chondroitin sulfate is a type of a  glycoaminoglycan and there’s a good amount of research that demonstrates that chondroitin  sulfate can reduce your risk of kidney stones and now we know why so in summary if you  want to decrease the risk of kidney stones it might be a really good idea to start taking  vitamin a now i’m not talking about the vitamin a and vegetables that’s a precursor i’m talking  about taking the active form of vitamin a called retinol one of the best sources would be the cod  liver oil you can also get it from beef kidney and of course if you’re going to try to find a  beef kidney supplement make sure it’s grass-fed but i would also recommend in addition to  taking vitamin a take chondroitin sulfate since that might give you the edge that you need to  really prevent kidney stones thanks for watching before you go if you have a question about a  product or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you  need a debug because it’s not going as smooth i have a keto consultant standing by to help you this is just for the people in the us hopefully in  the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below  so you can call and get some help