I can add something interesting to this. I've been vlc for about six or so years now. As mentioned I've been experimenting with urine therapy... What urine therapy has shown me is that eating even less than 'normal amounts of protein, my urine is dark and not very 'attractive' especially to drink. Basically real strong and acidic, and if left sitting will often have sediment. (Yes I could lessen it's color and strength by drinking a whole lot more water, but that isn't something that feels like what my body wants,, would have to be more of a mental regimin) My thinking is that my kidneys are having to filter all this out all day long. To taste it tells me that I'm glad it's not in my blood any longer. I started experimenting by eating very small portions of protein, meat, maybe three ounces several times a day instead of eating basically the same amount twice per day, and sure enough my urine is very light yellow, and certainly as mild as if eating fruit and veggies. Again, this is a most recent discovery, but seemingly significant from at least my point of view. I try to imagine how this could be and come up with a few thoughts. One is that if you agree with Bruno Comby from the instincto group in France who wrote the book on eating insects, he believes our strongest genetic digestive makeup for digesting protein comes from eating insects. In other words, as humans we have developed the genetic digestive system for eating insects longer than any other protein. And if so, insect eaters would eat through out the day, as they find they're bugs,, more like grazing. Rosedale speaks of the dangers of eating larger protein meals. That the excess protein not used for repair and maintenance is converted to sugar at the expense of creating an obnoxious byproduct (?).
I've also switched to distilled water and tend to believe the theories that excess inorganic mins, especially excess calcium can get left behind in the body. Most well or mineral waters are full of calcium, mine being no exception. And try to provide my mineral uptake, from organic mineral food sources like the seaweed. Lex for some time also took as a supplement one of those dead sea bed deposit mineral powders, I think from Utah which I think is one that is part sea sediment, and part volcanic ash. So when you think about that, and about how hard the water is in LA, and eating one meal a day as Lex so often does and the resultant information from the Phil's previous post, it does seem to add up to the potential of creating stones. I wonder what the urine is like from other vlc eaters like Lex who especially eat one meal a day. I remember while visiting 'Zeroing in on Health' a meat and fat cooked site, Delfuego a popular contributor, who's wife supposedly cured her lyme disease with eating only pemican, wrote where he eats one big pemican meal per day, at night, and will during and afterwards drink upwards of a gallon of water,, exposing how that watching wolves drink water after eating explains his drinking ( or to me seemingly diluting his stomach digestive acids) of so much water.
From eating smaller meals, I am enjoying the feeling of never feeling weighed down by a big meal, and the ability to simply go all day long with out resting after eating. It does feel unnatural to only eat such a small amount when I could obviously put more in my mouth, and does require some inner coaching, but I do also appreciate knowing that if I eat mono meals, the next meal can be something completely different and thus include more variety that way.
