And unlike you, he never has had to consider loss of bone mass secondary to loss of estrogen, pregnancy, nursing, or decreased absorption secondary to bowel loss. One of those cases when “what is good for the goose is NOT good for the gander….

I was told to drink lemon juice daily to prevent kidney stones. You might ask about that. (No, I don’t do it … probably should.)

Glad he found a potential cause for things.

My goodness! The ways of the human body are so strange and contradictory at times.

Interesting! I, too, have taken 500mg of C for decades. My husband adds a tablespoon or 2 of lemon juice to his tall water bottle all day long, and that seems to have prevented more kidney stones for him. A tablespoon of lemon juice has 3 to 6mg of vitamin C, depending on where you look.