Kidney Stones Caused By Vitamin C. This type of poorly organized study does. Those who reported taking vitamin c supplements were twice as likely to have experienced the misery of kidney stones.
Over an 11 year period about 2 of the men developed kidney stones. The adverse effects of vitamin c including digestive distress and kidney stones appear to occur when people take it in mega doses greater than 2 000 mg. Omns feb 11 2013 a recent widely publicized study claimed that vitamin c supplements increased the risk of developing kidney stones by nearly a factor of two 1 the study stated that the stones were most likely formed from calcium oxalate which can be formed in the presence of vitamin c ascorbate but it did not analyze the kidney stones of participants.
According to one 2013 study men who took high doses of vitamin c supplements doubled their risk of forming a.
Omns feb 11 2013 a recent widely publicized study claimed that vitamin c supplements increased the risk of developing kidney stones by nearly a factor of two 1 the study stated that the stones were most likely formed from calcium oxalate which can be formed in the presence of vitamin c ascorbate but it did not analyze the kidney stones of participants. In an article published yesterday in jama internal medicine swedish researchers detail a connection between kidney stone formation and use of vitamin c supplements among more than 23 000 swedish men. If that doesn t happen the dhaa turns into diketogulonic acid which then converts to lyxonic acid xylose. The researchers suspected that greater amounts of vitamin c could elevate the risk of kidney stones because the body breaks down the vitamin into material known as oxelate a part of the stones.