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Article: Stoney end: twenty easy ways to eliminate kidney stones.(healing: for men)
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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IF, UNLIKE 12 percent of American men, you've never passed a kidney stone--trust us, you don't want to go there.
They begin as concentrations of salts, minerals, and other substances in the urine, and range in size from a grain of sand to a golf ball. Calcium stones, generated by calcium and oxalate buildup in the kidneys, make up three-fourths of all cases. Other types include struvite stones (from urinary tract infections), uric acid stones (indicating too much acid in the urine, often the result of a diet high in animal protein), and the rare and usually hereditary cystine stones.
Small stones often pass on their own through the urine, albeit with ...