Kidney stones are no joke; they're painful, sometimes nauseating, and rarely dangerous. These hard mineral deposits form in the urinary tract and can be excruciating to pass. It's better to prevent them than to try and break them up or pass them, so if you know you have the genetic predisposition, or have had them once before, let's start with prevention tips before moving into recovery and pain management.
First, kidney stones can be a sign of dehydration and not enough liquids in the diet. Our bodies are 70-80% water, so we should be replenishing that day, especially in the summer when we are sweating more than urinating the water out. If you can start by drinking half your body weight in ounces per day, that can not only help the body replenish, but reduce inflammation, flush toxins of all kinds, and keep the body's immune system functioning at peak.
In addition, supplement that water intake with watery vegetables, tea, and other helpful liquids.
For vegetables, I like cucumbers and celery;
both offer nutrients and help the body flush, but also have the fibrous threads within to help pull additional toxins. If you don't like eating either vegetable, I recommend juicing the celery and especially so if the kidney stones are already in place, 8 to 16 oz per day. The health benefits of celery juice are exponential, and you can read more about them in Anthony William's amazing book Celery Juice. As for the cucumber, I like to peel and slice half of one cucumber and add to 1/2 gal jug of water and keep it in the fridge to super charge the water. The flavor is refreshing, but suggest you add lemon if you think it's bitter. See below for two more recommendations for herbs to add to water if the kidney stones are in your system.
For hydrating teas, we offer two that are helpful preventatively, Shambhala Tea and Everyday Health Tea, both sold on my website here, and more information on what they contain and why I formulated them are listed there as well.
Additionally, adding more liquid is always a good thing - nut milks to oat meal, brothy soups like miso and bone broth with vegetables, carrot juice, grapefruit juice (my morning staple!), oranges and grapefruits for snacks, etc.
Last for prevention, I always recommend checking your water, which you can do at the EWG website, and then once you know what toxins you're dealing with, either installing or purchasing Reverse Osmosis system water. This will remove all the toxins that are in our water systems today, and you'll need to add minerals back in, but it's better to remove the toxins and start with a clear, baseline water, that you know is clean. Here's what I use for mineral drops that I add to my water daily.
If you're already dealing with kidney stones within the body, here are the tips I recommend for recovery and pain reduction. Think "flush and break up."
1. FLUSH: hydration is even more important that with prevention, and I always recommend drinking as much as you possibly can - up to one gallon (or more if you're larger). I recommend adding lemon, turmeric, and ginger to your water or teas, and drinking copious amounts of nettle, burdock, and dandelion tea (one or all if you're invested in your success). If you can find Elymus repens and cornsilk, add those to your tea as well.
Start your day with 16 oz of lemon water, 30 min later followed by 16 oz of celery juice. Do this daily for at least 2 weeks, 4 if you can stick to it. This will not only flush the kidney stones, but reset your digestive tract as well as the urinary one.
2. BREAKUP: Apply castor oil to the belly twice daily, rubbing in circular motion. Drink Collinsonia tincture, 2 mls every 2 hours until passed. I also recommend homeopathy of lycopodium, sarsaparilla, and nux vomica. Homeopathy is a very safe way to administer herbs to yourself, children, and animals, and I've been swearing by its results for nearly 20 years. The remedies come in pellet form, you put them under your tongue and let them dissolve. It's recommended to not eat or drink anything prior or after for up to 10 minutes.
My family has been taking this product as a foundation for health since 2007, and I love the nearly 50 gold-standard studies that backs this product up with solid science on inflammation, gut, gum, lung, skin, and cardiovascular health, oxidative stress, and bioavailability. When I was new to the Juice Plus products, my aunt was dealing with kidney stones, and she added this product and hasn't had a kidney stone since!
The simple concept is that the 30 fruits and veggies within these capsules or gummies are picked at peak ripeness (nothing else is unless you grow it yourself!), flash frozen and dehydrated (removes sugars, safe for diabetics), and encapsulated, all within about 24 hours of its harvest. The body knows exactly what to do with it, and sends it to the locations within you that are nutrient deficient - all dis-ease within the body is an exhibition of nutrient deficiency.
Anyone that says you can eat your way to health, doesn't live in the USA where food is rotting before it arrives, grown in depleted dirt, sprayed with numerous toxins, and passed off as fresh and nutrient dense when it's not close to either. You'd have to eat 5x the broccoli and 9x the spinach that you had to eat in 1950 to get the same levels of nutrients, and yet our bodies are fighting 70% more toxins than they were even 30 years ago.
In summary - pack in the power plants, flush the toxins with a lot of fluids and supportive herbs and plants, and make some changes to your diet - add more plants, reduce toxins and read the label.
To your health!
Andy
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