Did you know that consuming 100 mg of magnesium and 10 mg pyridoxine would reduce our chance to get caught by kidney stones 90% lesser? This method actually had been tried to over 100 kidney stones patients with longstanding recurrent idiopathic calcium oxalate and mixed calcium oxalate/calcium phosphate renal kidney stones problem. This group of kidney stones sufferer received 100 mg of magnesium oxide 3 times a day and 10 mg of pyridoxine once a day and it running for 4 to 6 years.
The result its quite amazing since its just simple method and easy to implement to any kidney stones patient at home. The rate of developing kidney stones fell by 92%, from 1.3 kidney stones per patients to 0.10 kidney stones per patient every year, and the best thing is this method didn’t bring significant side effect to kidney stones patient which sometimes-haunted medicine treatment base on chemical.
This result also relevant with another study which conducted vitamin B6 as it focus. This study revealed that using modest doses of vitamin B6 and magnesium could significantly reduce the recurrence rate of calcium oxalate kidney stones. Using 300 mg/day of magnesium oxide is equivalent to 180 mg/day of elemental magnesium. This study also demonstrated that consuming 500 mg/day of magnesium alone without consuming vitamin B6 still work to reduced kidney stones development by more than 90%.
However, since there was no control group in this study, most doctors didn’t aware about it. More radically some of them might spoke against it as it commonly happen when new method or new invention arise and hit the major opinion that already establish earlier. But recently, the majority board of scientist and doctor started to admitted and adopt this method, since more and more research and study came with the same and relevant result supporting this method which actually proven to work and bring more hope to kidney stones sufferer to fight against it.
Compile and re-written based on release from Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Oct 2005 by Alan R Gaby, MD
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