Kidney stones and gout: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors help

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My past newsletter discussed ways to improve renal function and overall health.

Kidney stone formation (nephrolithiasis) was a focus: “Kidney stone formers should eat diets enriched with foods high in calcium and potassium in order to prevent those painful recurrent kidney stones.”

Another disease erupting from crystal deposition is gout. Uric acid precipitates in the joints, and sometimes the kidney, too.

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Gout, which now affects more than 12 million US adults, is an independent risk factor for nephrolithiasis. Recent reports claim that Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors (SGLT2i) can help with both.