The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Also, you want to increase your citrate intake. That's an inhibitor of kidney stone formation. So increasing fruits and things like that, to increase citrate vegetables as well. Actually, one easily accessible thing is Crystal Light. It has a high citrate composition, so you can drink Crystal Light with that, two to three liters. And that can be helpful.
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if you're getting enough minerals and enough citrate in your diet the citrate keeps the ph in the correct place that really supports kidney function and and you can excrete more citrate with your urine higher citrate levels again prevent this crystallization process
that's one reason why people say plants and plant-based is good for kidneys because it it potentially can keep your system alkaline enough so that you can release citrate in the urine which is another protective compound in many ways it has many ways that it's helping protect us from Stones
Citrate from lemons has also been shown to prevent and improve kidney stones in several different clinical studies because citrate is able to prevent calcium oxalate from forming crystals.