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Chapter Eleven, part 1: Regulation of Acid-Base Balance

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Calcium Phosphate Stones

It's so important to avoid a sort of neutral or alkaline urine for somebody who makes calcium phosphate stones because when the urine is maximally acid then there's very little phosphates that's divalent. When your urine is less acid there's more phosphate that's divalent that can bind to calcium. And so then that makes you more prone to calcium phosphate precipitation. Melanie, I want to understand the thing you just said that about the calcium phosphate stones a little better because it sounds really cool.

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