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#168 Kidney Stones and Diet with Dr Nish Bedi & Dr Matthew Bultitude

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Calcium Supplements Are Bad for Kidney Stones

Vitamin D on its own as a supplement doesn't particularly increase your risk of kidney stones. The risk is that some supplements have got calcium in them as well. So they buy calcium and vitamin D together. And so calcium supplements are definitely bad for kidney stones. There's no two ways about that. For the reasons we said earlier, you know, you want normal calcium but calcium supplements are going to put you up quite a long way.

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