No More Kidney Stones: The Experts Tell You All You Need to Know about Prevention and Treatment

In Retrospect - This Is Not the Book I Now Wish That it Was

This is an okay book from the standpoint of advice from a urologist. After all such doctors should be the experts on kidney stones. I was diagnosed this past spring with two 8mm kidney stones - one in each kidney. So I found and read this book. While reading it I thought it was extremely good and was prepared to give it five stars but now a couple of months later I realize that this book has really missed a lot of information that people like me need.

I may be wrong in some of the things I'm about to say because I really need to reread the book to remember what it said and what it did not say. The advice on staying hydrated is always a given. The second point the author made was to limit animal protein to what I remember to be about 12 ounces a day. I believe this to be a valid point because while I once made stones every 2 years my recent experience with them was the first I had in the past 9 years. During that time I was eating a lot less animal protein and for part of... read more