The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Some studies have suggested that vitamin C intake is a risk factor for kidney stones due to the formation of oxalate which is an end-product of vitamin c metabolism the kidneys typically filter oxalate and excreted in the urine but when high amounts of oxalate are present it can form crystal structures with calcium these crystal structures can lead to the formation of solid masses that can promote the formation of kidney stones
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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these findings make me think that the body has a compensatory mechanism to prevent kidney stones when high amounts of vitamin C are consumed the increased risk is theoretical when factoring out those compensatory factors