Kidney Stones? Drink Your Orange Juice!

A new study indicates that a daily glass of orange juice can significantly reduce your chances of developing kidney stones.

Kidney stones? Have some orange juice!!!

“A daily glass of orange juice can help prevent the recurrence of kidney stones better than other citrus fruit juices such as lemonade, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered. The findings indicate that although many people assume that all citrus fruit juices help prevent the formation of kidney stones, not all have the same effect. The study is available online and is scheduled to be published in the Oct. 26 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Medically managing recurrent kidney stones requires dietary and lifestyle changes as well as treatment such as the addition of potassium citrate, which has been shown to lower the rate of new stone formation in patients with kidney stones. But some patients can’t tolerate potassium citrate because of gastrointestinal side effects, said Dr. Clarita Odvina, assistant professor of internal medicine at the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research and the study’s lead author. In those cases, dietary sources of citrate — such as orange juice — may be considered as an alternative to pharmacological drugs.” (Emphasis mine.)

Again, we see that natural sources of treatment can be more beneficial than harse drugs! Are we beginning to see a pattern here? Natural is the way to go! Note that the allopathic approach can lead to “gastrointestinal side effects,” while in the section I highlighted, it says, ” …dietary sources of citrate — such as orange juice — may be considered as an alternative to pharmacological drugs.” The “alternative” is considered to be “natural sources of citrate?” Doesn’t this seem backwards? Food is natural… drugs are not! The food source should be the FIRST choice, NOT the “alternative!”