Vegetarian for 10 years, big fan of spinach smoothies, pretty much every day, I ended up with a stage 3 colon cancer, which I cured with a 21-day fast and a strict keto-carnivore diet. The cancer was gone in four months, I have no proof, but I completely blame oxalates.
@@jasminejones9937 I am 😊. I already almost was. When I say keto, I healed myself with daily ribeyes, ghee, and some vegetable juices (which I have dropped since)
I suffered for years with bladder infections, Kidney infections until I was so week and had to be admitted to the ER and the Dr showed me the X-ray full of little partials and sent me to a specialist. By then he was speaking of removing the kidney. I found the Keto diet improved my strength but only till I changed to carnivore did I experience a new lease on life. I am 74 years old and very encouraged about life!
@@saskiad.5734 Most animals one very limited diet. The new human idea of a big variety is not natural nor healthy. If you eat many types of meats, red, white, fish, eggs, in many forms... you won't over eat because it is then not about entertainment but about eating to live. Some carnivores include raw dairy products. Looking for plant variety is not going to give you health, only temporary pleasure. And once you get used to eating animal foods, you lose you desire for plants. Eating carbs creates addiction to them. This goes away over time.
@@Aldort It will be very difficult to stay on for the long term, as it is so restrictive. I’m 2 weeks in and struggling, not with cravings, but with oxalate dumping and maybe histamine intolerance. This diet isn’t perfect!
I was on a low oxalate diet for over a year. I never experienced any severe dumping symptoms. So I reintroduced some things like beets and chocolate. Lord have mercy let me tell you!! After you cut out oxalates you cannot go back to eating large amounts. Its torture. And when you cut it out again your body starts dumping. Nope I won't be eating chocolate anymore. Sadly.
Please keep sending out your message. About 10-13 years ago they started those 30 day green smoothie challenges. I started with the usual spinach. I don't like spinach but they said I would not taste it if I added fruit. I also found that peanut butter and chocolate are almost as bad (at least for me) as spinach. Water is what saved me. I was hospitalized twice in 2 weeks as soon as I learned what all this meant I never had another, Thanks for all your videos. You have helped me. I bought Sally Norton's book, and you showed me how to remove oxalates from my body. It is not easy, I suffer from very little pain. But I was suffering from extreme brain fog, the Drs had no idea what to do. After 3 years of not being able to function normally: flushed out many oxalates and now my brain fog is 95 % gone. I can function and I actually get out of bed looking forward to cleaning my house. No more dirty dishes in the sink. I got my joy back. Thank you so much for caring enough to show us the way....
Boiling markedly reduced soluble oxalate content by 30-87% - NIH, Effect of different cooking methods on vegetable oxalate content BY Weiwen Chai et al. J Agric Food Chem. 2005.
Oxalobacter formigenes, a unique anaerobic bacterium that relies solely on oxalate for growth, is a key oxalate-degrading bacterium in the mammalian intestinal tract. Degradation of oxalate in the gut by Oxalobacter formigenes plays a critical role in preventing renal toxicity in animals that feed on oxalate-rich plants. Due to the over use of antibiotics, the Oxalobacter formigenes bacterium has all but been wiped out in the human gut throughout the Western World.
This is such an important topic! I was vegetarian for decades and felt great until my skin went haywire at 63. In retrospect, I can see that there were problems earlier but I had learned to live with them (runny, itchy eyes that I attributed to allergies without questioning the allergen). Going carnivore 3 years ago resolved 90% of my issues. I still have oxalate dumping flare-ups but I understand that they are necessary and just wait them out. With so much current pressure to reduce meat consumption, the danger of oxalates will be a hard sell. Meat heals. 🥩🥩🥩
Started ready your comment and thought I’d written it😂! Decades of vegetarian lifestyle has taken its toll on me, including diagnosis of MS, mmmh wonder where the inflammation was coming from…….once I cut out oxylates the dumping began relentlessly, I was keto then more carnivore for the last 2 years and it’s settling down I think, not as explosive, but it’s been a horrendous side effect. Which just shows how much damage oxylates have been doing. Who knew as I consumed loads of spinach, nuts, seeds, dark chocolate and spices, to name but a few things that they were not actually my friend!
@@Percules15 No, and what I find really interesting is that I don't miss veggies at all, unlike fruit, which I do miss, probably because it's sweet. You can find a list of low oxalate vegetables online.
I would never go all meat Acidic diets kill people Not heal them I wouldnt advise being a full on vegetarian either But im not buying this "vegetables are bad" bs
I struggled with Acne for 11 years went to the top dermatitis and had 4 rounds of accutaine and the dermatologist said he cannot treat me anymore! I cut them completely out and went through horrific detox but my skin now is immaculate. An absolutely outstanding video young man 😊
Can you say what you did? I started carnivore three weeks ago and my skin is very sensitive and my eyes are swollen and red, but getting better. I'm very happy for you that you have a solution. Acne is such an overwhelming pain.
@@jacquigonzalez5447 cut off all diary !!!!! and stop eating dead animals !!! trust me, eat fresh fruits and you will get better in a few days !! Trust me just try it and you will see. and cut off all proccesed foods.
Great video! I am 70 yo. I had kidney stones since I was 26 until 3 years ago. Not anymore. 3 years ago, I was slowly dying. Obese, bad sleep, kidney stones all the time, prostate inflamation, arthritis, some day I douldn't walk or get up, high blood pressure, etc. I went on a keto diet for 3 months in Jan 2020, then a year on paleo diet and now on carnivore for 18 months. I lost 100 lbs (45 kg), stop taking about 8 to 12 medications. I am feeling great. Oxalate is the worst. I still have some issues to fix because of it. Just had another Uveite (eye inflamation) due to oxalates.
@@bluemoon472 Hi, I only eat meat, mostly red meat, salt and water. I eat eggs regularly but skip some days/weeks. I try to get rid of dairy. I eat cheese and fat yogurt (10%) plain or with berries. That's my problem I think. I do fasting 16 to 24 hours regularly, i.e. 1 or 2 meals a day. I can fast up to 2 or 3 days. That feels so good but my weigh is very stable and optimal.
@@KaiODojo By association. My uveite is one factor of my 'genetic' Ankylosing Spondylitis artritis. Oxalates accumulation is exacerbating the symptoms.
I was suffering from a Microscopic Colitis flare for over a year (diarrhea just about every day). I started a low oxalate diet about a month ago and within 1 week the diarrhea stopped, and I haven't had it since. 😊
Very dangerous. My kidneys are severely compromised. They did a biopsy of my kidneys while I was in the hospital for kidney failure and found them full of oxalate shards and scar tissue. After a couple of years function has come back enough that I should not need dialysis, but I really dodged a bullet there. All my life I hated veg but forced myself to eat them BC (before covid) because they're "so good for you". I should have listened to my taste buds warning.
@@RepublicOfWesternCanadaNOW Kidneys can get pretty bad before it becomes apparent. There was no pain but I started getting extremely light headed a lot and peed out quite a bit of blood at a blood/urine test. When the doctors saw the results they called and sent an ambulance. Foamy urine too, it means you're losing protein. My kidney function fell to 18%.
Yes I liked this video,and I found it very helpful 😀 I've suffered with gout and early arthritis, both painful, I'm carnivore now and feeling much better, I'm facing my biggest problem now with trying to convince my adult kids how damaging their diets are,I can only lead by example at this point.
I tend to go to a carnivore diet. First with keto, but then you can eat still plants. And now i learn about lectins and oxalates, that eliminates many vegetables. I prefer foods from planteters like cows, because those guys have 4 stomages that take care of plant nonsense. They are the professional plant destroyers.
Thank you, This is a perfect, short comprehensive video that I can share with family and friends so they can better understand me. My health was devastated 2 years ago and it was only through my own dive into research and finding your videos (and Sally Norton's), that I discovered the problem. It was a tough road of dumping, and I pretty much live on a carnivore diet and I am doing so much better. I still get grainy eyes and pain in my body and skin if I ingest oxalates. I wonder how many people have this issue and have no clue!?
But How can one get rid of the oxalates whats in the body ...this man does not mention a solution or detox from it ...He actually says that the liver or kidneys can not ?
@@margueritebeson8498 The body naturally dumps it when the amount of it in the blood are low calcium binds to it and it's excreted. But if you have eaten foods high in oxalates for many years, you have to slowly reduce the amount so that a large amount of oxalates is not dumped at once. Drinking the juice of 1 lemon a day also helps to keep the crystals smaller so they can be more easily peed
Lemon juice, the whole lemon, as well as the essential oil, actually smooths out the jagged edges of the crystals so that they can slide out and be excreted more easily
Great 👍 video thanks for the information I experienced severe joint pain after 3 months of spinach smoothies everyday and feel so much better now that i have removed all the high oxalate foods from my diet. Oxalates are a real problem and people need to know about them 😊
i came across this delicious line up of low carb baked goods at a local store here. they became a staple of my diet for years. it used almond flour and soy flour as the alternative to wheat flour. now my health is in shambles. burning stools have become a regular occurrence. chronic back itch. anxiety. impaired sleep. foul smelling urine and now i have a few bubbles in my urine that won't dissipate. patches on my skin. really in the process of tackling this right now.
this is exactly what contributed to an 8 days hospitalization in intensive care in January 2021. Since that day, with the recommendation of my urologist, my cardiologist, the nutritionist and my Naturopath, I have adopted a low oxalate diet and now all urine tests show low oxalate. The Carnivorous Keto diet is what suits me best for several aspects of my overall physical and mental health. thank you for this great video.
I never got tested for oxalates but carnivore diet has made me feel very light and comfortable. I still eat a bit of cinnamon and dark chocolate but a huge improvement being mostly carnivore.
Holy crap. Weird thing I noticed when I had to stop eating meat after Lyme's disease infection. I began eating greens, sweet potato, beans etc. I noticed that I am.now unable to be in severe cold weather. I explained it as a " feeling like something in my blood an muscles was literally freezing 🥶!!! Tysm for making me aware of this.
Appreciate how concise and clear you are! Right to the point! This is so informative! I can listen to you for 5 minutes and pick up vital info that takes others 10 times longer!
One year of green smoothies and beets gave me Fibromyalgia. It took me years to understand my pain is coming from my oxalate heavy diet. I said what i said.
Are you better now? I spent years drinking green smoothies. Lots of spinach, kale, chard, etc. Now I have all sorts of issues. Parathyroid (surgery scheduled), kidney stones, aches and pains. I have been healing thru a low carb diet, but I am just learning about this oxalate dumping. Explains a lot of things, in retrospect. 🤔
@@jellybeanvinkler4878 I found Sally Norton and got rid of all my "super foods". I did hear about the carnivore diet some time ago but i was 100% it is too extreme.. Now that i eat mostly raw dairy and beef and fruit i am doing soo much better. My PCOS got worse on the clean green vegeterian diet, now i am doing soo much better. Lost all the extra body fat in can keep the muscle mass, my joint pain and cronic fatigue is 80% gone. I avoid grains, legumes, seeds and high oxalate foods. I eat low carb and do short fasts.
I am downright glad to have clicked on this, as well as one other video about calcification issues in the body. I have a starfruit tree and absolutely have relished eating that fruit. I don't mind the taste of the high oxalate at all. Unfortunately I am experiencing the effects and have noted how long it will take the effects to lessen. Wow. I think I need to start taking potassium citrate.
Another wonderful video! Yeah I was in a wheelchair on a plant based diet, I have hypermobile Ehler’s Danlos, went carnivore and was walking in about two weeks! Oxalates are a killer for me, I get the crystals coming out of my fingers, feet and eyelids, so painful 😓
I can sympathise. I was getting them for years coming through the vaginal skin areas, no doctor could diagnosis what it was. Cleared up since I changed my diet. All the best with your walking.
Oxalates are only a problem if the gut can't handle them. They're degraded 100% by B. animalis subsp. lactis and b. infantis, by fulvic acid, also by THIAMINE -- which I'm surprised Elliot didn't mention. Also Ester-C, a buffered form of vitamin C.
@@mettejensen8653 Do you eat fruits also? Meat and fruits generate uric acid in moderate amounts when eaten separately but it appears that when are combined can cause too much uric acid that can not be excreted efficiently. Maybe it is because the sugar from fruits raise the insulin and raised insulin blocks fluid excretion to a certain extent and maybe also the uric acid but not sure about that.
@Betty Sera Me too. For the last 10 years painful crystal like granules have been coming out of my skin -all over my body eyes, ears, etc . A tissue biopsy of one of my lesions stumped a pathologist with 30 years experience. Maybe it's oxalates?
I severely suffered from a Salicylate problem for years before it was diagnosed but it only took a few days to clear up as soon as I stopped eating vegetables, so I'm glad it wasn't an Oxalate problem I had. That was thirty years ago and still I'm virtually on a carnivore diet now. Vegetables can be really bad news.
Have you had any salicylate since? Can you use beauty products or high salicylate products like coconut oil on your skin? If oxalate didn't cause the salicylate do you know what did?
@@rachelmagill1536 I can get away with eating occansional green beans and peas but I did once try to fry an egg in coconut oil, (just a teaspoonful) I wouldn't do it again, that was about two years ago. What caused the problem was (I believe) a medication I was given which damaged my digestive system. I wouldn't recommend anyone take any medication for any length of time without a very good reason. And look out for the history of that medication first. That's one thing I couldn't do back then, it was before the days of personal computers. NEVER TRUST DRUG COMPANIES TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS ANYWAY. Not all of it.
Thank you this video, it is very helpful. I am learning that I was eating an extremely high oxalate diet for 30 years or more.Both of my sons have kidney stones, so I started to research the reasons how and why and found out about oxalates. I have suffered from UTIs for years, 4 UTIs were severe enough to cause kidney infections. I've had severe pelvic pain for years and gallstones. I'm thinking all due to our high oxalate diets. Our diet is now carnivore and trying to detox from high oxalate toxins. Please keep posting about the evils of oxalates.
I suffered from my first episode of renal calculus (kidney stone) at 18 year old as of age in my fist year trainee nurse on night duty. It was the most excruciating pain worse than child birth. I was advised to drink plenty of water. I had been symptom free until I was in my 50s when it struck again. X-ray showed the total amount of 12 stones , 7 in left and 5 in right. I had lithotripsy procedure which is a shock wave of blasting bigger stones into smaller stones so they can pass easily through the urinary system and not blocking the passage of urine and causing pain. I can trace back to the time when spinach was (still is) hailed as a super food which got me ingesting it as smoothies almost everyday. I still have the same amount of 12 stones in both kidneys. They have not increased in size or number even after more than a decade since I stopped eating spinach and kales . I guess they will be there for as long as i live. The awareness of low oxalate diet has stopped them from multiplying and causing trouble. This is a clear connection between high oxalate diet and kidney stones Thank you for your valuable information which I hope will increase the awareness of the damage of what oxalate can do your body
Hello, fellow kidney stone sufferer! I sympathize with you. I have "given birth" to five or six stones, and it is no walk in the park. I relate my experience when women brag that men cannot withstand pain, and that the human race would go extinct if it depended on men having to bear the pain of delivering children. I tell them to try delivering a kidney stone only to realize afterward that you are not left with an adorable human life with whom you will share love for the rest of your days. Instead you're left with this hard, stony, crystal thing that you would like to consign to the deepest reaches of Hell! My hope is that your stone passing days are gone for good. I pray nothing but health for you!
Thank you for this excellent information. Wellness does not come in a green smoothie. And many of us learned this the hard way. Good to know that reducing oxalates is not very hard to do. Slowly eliminate and avoid these foods for better health.
I get severe pain from oxalates. Getting free of oxalate poisoning is very difficult… I suffered so much as I went off too quickly. Now I get pain very quickly when I eat high oxalate foods and I get free of the pain quite quickly when I stop eating them.
What is your diet like? I find it so hard to eat because of lectins, salicylates, phytates and histamine. And now low FODMAP due to SIBO. It's such a challenge and so stressful.
@@jillherrmann1918 I had to go carnivore to get healthy. It's not always easy, but waking up full of energy and joy, and free of pain, is worth it. I'm 66 and don't miss most things that I've eliminated. Shopping and preparing meals is simpler too. Please don't stress. Eating should be a pleasure, not a chore. 🥰
@@TerriblePerfection I tried carnivore multiple times because I have SIBO. Always had a terrible time with it. I know quite a few who felt great for months or years only to destroy their health. Idk, it definitely can be beneficial short-term, but long-term I'm not so sure. There are no 100% carnivorous cultures that I know of. I wish I could do it, would make things such easier. Lol Glad it's working for you.
Great summary of the oxalate issue Elliot. I first watched your video I think it was with Sally and I went 0 oxalate and felt great for a few weeks until the dumping started which lasted a year and a half.
@@fusion9619 good question, why does it wait? For me it was violent diarrhoea in the mornings, crystals (which I didn’t see but could feel under the skin) around intimate parts and my right eye, painful and irritating.
Based on what you said then the best thing to do is not to go oxalate free at all but low oxalate so to avoid those dumping issues that last like forever (a year or so is forever when in pain)!!
I remember as a Kid having Spinach Soup on a regular basis! At 18years I had my first Kidney Crisis. I ended up being a one time a year thing where I had one of these. Excruciating pain! Turned Vegan around 2012, for 3.5 years. It became worst. Stopped all Oxalate rich food when I changed to Keto, later Carnivore. It's been 8 years with no Kidney Crisis! This Pain was probably my worst debilitating experience! Glad you made this Video! Much Gratitude 🥰🙏🏼
Thank you!!! I’ve been following Sally K Norton …. 2yrs of dumping - autoimmunity/thyroid problems. She has written the Oxalate book! Thanks again Elliot!
Awesome video. I was researching it earlier today and saw this pop up. I'll be binge watching your videos this weekend. Hope you talk about how to deal with it.
A few years ago I started eating almonds (and other nuts and spinach) to avoid 'junk food' . Later started having kidney and bladder stones. More recently I learned I had high oxalate in my urine. Just stopped the almonds.
@@elektrish4217 years ago, my husband and I developed plantar fasciitis at the exact same time. I thought it was really odd, and knew it had to be caused by something we were both exposed to. Now that I think back on it, I subscribed to a local CSA for a weekly vegetable box earlier that summer. Lots of greens, nightshades, etc. At the time, I was drinking obscene amounts of green smoothies. 🤦♀️
I just went pure carnivore 30 days ago and already I see the oxalate dumping in my skin. I have small bumps appearing in many places that itch for a day or so and then they're gone. This has been going on for about a week.
I don't understand all this. I have loads of issues I'm trying to resolve. IBSC, IC, chronic UTIs, allergies, slow metabolism, vaginal pain, pelvic floor, poor immune system, and more and more. It goes on and on. I'm under age 30. 😢 By many different drs, nutritionists, natropaths, and other people with the same chronic conditions as me, for different reasons I've been told that for me: meat is bad, veggies are bad, wheat is bad, carbs are bad, sugar is bad, don't eat gluten, don't eat oxalate, don't eat high inflammatory, don't eat acidic foods, etc etc etc until there is literally nothing left on the can eat or drink list! Which then I will starve and/or dehydrate and die. 😢 I do not know what to do. Apparently all food is harmful in some way. I can't just not eat anything!!!
I'm doing low oxalate plant based, but I might have to incorporate some meat/eggs at some point. I wont ever use dairy again in my life as it objectively has no place at all in the human diet. I use ground flax seeds now instead of chia seeds, for the anti-inflammatory omega 3. Flax is low oxalate. Steamed bok choy is high calcium, low phosphorus (required to get the most out of the calcium) and almost zero oxalate - which makes it a good option for people with oxalate/inflammatory issues. Hope you get better. Can also check out Dr. Brooke Goldner on youtube here. The green smoothie protocol of hers is good, I just swap the high oxalate foods for low oxalate options.
SIR, I want to thank you for doing GOD'S work and getting this info out there. I was hospitalized for days with Interstitial Cystitis. They said there is sediment in my bladder. None of the doctors know what caused it. I spoke to 6 surgeons and none of them knew what was going on. I've been out of the hospital 2weeks. I drank shave grass and corn silk to get rid of infection and the pain in urinating out the sediment. Now that my bladder isn't swollen I am able to get up and research. And because GOD is good your videos popped up on my feed. I THANK YOU SO MUCH from the bottom of my heart for this information. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I found that doing a parasite cleanse using horsepaste, after going carnivore, jump started oxalate dumping. Yes, the dumping is cyclical, coming in waves. Great video!
I started getting pain in my joints after months of eating lots of nuts and vegetables, whole grain bread etc in an attempt to eat healthily, never again!!!
I JUST learned about this because my grown son has long covid, mold toxicity, lyme co-infections, and has been sick for over two years. I saw that he had mold issues when he came here one day, and I knew it was mold because his father’s house has it everywhere. Then the doctor tested him for tick-borne infections, and he has those too. Then almost a year ago, he got Covid for the third time and has been almost bedridden with horrible pain that isn’t going away. I’m scared to death, but the doctors are just treating him with therapy and mold tinctures and supplements to get his body better, but no one has mentioned long Covid, mast cells, nor the correct diet! He has every symptom and I’m disabled, have a broken arm and I’m taking care of him! I do research constantly, but for some reason, I just found out about the low histamine diet and then the oxalates. I’ve GOT to get him better, or he will try to take his life again! Thank you for this info!!!🙏💕💫
He needs to sweat out in infra red sauna and get his bowels moving then take a binder for the biotoxins like activated coconut charcoal 2 -4 hours before or after food cos will absorb nutrients as well. Biotoxins affect the mind badly and cause suicidal ideation.
@@Tinyteacher1111 I’m in almost the same situation as him so I’m not much help. It’s hard to juggle mould toxicity and thiamine deficiency at the same time. If I find out anything else I’ll let you know. I’m currently having severe heart issues and brain as well and no hospital will help me
And all the Blue Zones where legumes are a staple yet they live to be the longest. Hmmm... Oxylates, salicylates, phytates, lectins, histamine. Take out all the foods that contain mod to high levels and what's left is only a few foods. And meat must be fresh and no leftovers because of high histamine. Ugh! No wonder so many people are stressed. I'm sitting here wondering (literally) WTF am I going to eat?
there are no blue zones.. , the main staple in okinawa before ww2, was pork.. they still eat a lot of pork, but for a while, after the war killed all the pigs, they had to resort to sweetpotato as a survivalfood. The ideal diet for humans is meat and the fats that goes with it. It has all ( ALL) the nutrients a human needs, and none of the toxins or carcinogens that are in all plants. High fat diets are healthy, as we are designed to eat fats and use fat as energy ( plus all the other jobs it has in our body). The one thing you DONT want to do, is mix fat and carbs (no matter how tasty:P), as this will trigger the Randle cycle, and fat storage ensues. If you are used to eating a lot plants, then it make take some time and effort to transition into more meat and fat, and little to no plants. The gut needs the time to readjust.
@@Goldenhawk583 there are no 100% carnivorous cultures. We are omnivores, not carnivores. I think we overconsume plants, but if your gut function is healthy, some plants are not a problem and will feed beneficial bacteria.
I would love to see the question of Oxalates and Vitamin C supplementation (at higher doses, such as 4 grams per day or more), thoroughly dealt with. So far, despite my searching, I haven't found a conclusive answer from a source I trust highly, such as Elliot Overton. Sally K. Norton seems to set the safe upper limit for Vitamin C supplementation at around 250 mg per day, if my memory is correct. It's pretty low. She seems quite wary of it, as far as its potential to contribute to oxalates forming in the body. However, a few other experts (who seem Oxalate savvy, or at least partially so), set the safe upper limit at approx. 3 or 4 grams per day, or higher even. Which is it? Have there been any actual empirical tests (on animal models, for example) to test out the various hypotheses on the best safe Upper Limit amount of Ascorbic Acid (or Sodium Ascorbate), to see if extra oxalates are actually being formed in the body? -- as a result of oral (by mouth) Vitamin C supplementation. I wonder if any ardent Vitamin C proponents (advocates for high dose use of it, for various health concerns) have grappled with the Oxalate question, and have subsequently changed their mind about regular Vitamin C supplementation. ~ at the somewhat higher dosages that they used to recommend? (in the multiple grams per day dosage range, that is.) Under what bodily, or environmental, conditions, does Vitamin C "turn into oxalates"? ~ If, in fact, it even does that once it's inside the body. ~ Is this a phenomenon being speculated about, or has it been observed as actually happening? Example: a Petri dish experiment, OR , ... has it been seen actually happening inside a real live body? A creature that (like humans) can't manufacture its own endogenous Vitamin C, and has to get all their Vit. C through their diet. Some Vitamin C proponents call it a "genetic defect" that we humans have, and portray our bodies as very hungry for Vitamin C. And fairly high doses at that, especially when we're sick (or fighting off an infection). Has anybody here learned, from somebody authoritatively knowledgeable, what the truth is about Vitamin C and oxalates? I would appreciate any leads, or knowledge on this topic. I really don't want to give up my Vitamin C. Thanks!
Using Oatmeal mixed with apple cider vinegar and colloidal silver will pull it out of your skin. I started taking apple cider vinegar with Mother mixed with colloidal silver orally every day which pushes it straight to the surface of our skin. Oh yeah thank you for sharing and this remedy was an answer from our Most High to a prayer I did to help fix my daughter's acne and my mom's dementia. It does both.
Sally Norton who has a website and helps people with healing from oxalate poisoning. Shen whet to a clinic in the United States where she was treated for oxidate dumping herself; so there is a clinic dealing with it. Another reason oxidates are so bad is because you can actually die from oxalate poisoning if you eat too many at one time and this is Illustrated by the fact that a man made a smoothie using Sorrel which is very high in oxalates and died shortly after because of oxalate poisoning.
Thanks for the video Elliot. I've learnt a lot from the solid info you provide. A few years ago I was having chiropractic adjustments which included massage. After going 2x per week for 3 weeks, I started getting blepharitis. I must have had oxalates stored in tissue and they were released. Only now, putting all the pieces together I'm realising it was my high oxalate diet. Peanut butter everyday was most probably my biggest trigger. I thought I was eating a clean diet like most of us do. I'm 4 days into reducing my oxalate intake and I'm starting to see the dumping effects.
Kale/spinach smoothies and vitamin D supps wrecked me for years. Gave myself ankylosing spondylitis. Carnivore for a year kind of helped but still had IBS and sacroiliitis. But it wasn't until I started cutting/detoxing vitamin A and then later maxing my thiamine I started to feel really healthy again.
Thats why I always add citric acid (lemon juice). Citric acid stops oxalate from reacting with calcium. More effective: You can give a pinch or two of baking soda into your cookings. That will reduce the amount of oxalate dramatically
spinach, kale, sweet potato, beets, cacao, nuts, and nut flours, tea, certain herbs and spices like turmeric, black pepper, cinnamon, most staples in green smoothies.
Yes it was a problem in our family as well. It was seen once we cut it out as cutting it out made it clear it was causing us a big problem that we thought was due to getting older. Glad we tried it for ourselves. I recommend it to someone that does gluten free foods so tons of almond flour and almond milk amount other things. She seen huge improvement but cutting back when her expensive natural Dr didn’t even go there for her
I dont think i ate high oxalates, but when i went carnivore, all my joints and muscle pain and fatigue went away immediately. Then when i cheated with keto cookies (so i know its not gluten causing problems) but almonds and chocolates... I had massive calf muscle cramps and my bunions hurt for days. This also happened the day after i ate 3 big vegetable rolls. Resolved once im back on carnivore. I only eat strawberries and blueberries right as plant food right now.
I had a 25-year-old friend who died after drinking a few glasses of star fruit juice. There are cities that force bars and restaurants to display signs warning about the dangers of the star fruit.
@@user-qg1ic3jm4w I have a mild, never diagnosed kidney failure, and my feet became like soccer balls after I ate few star fruits. Why are you watching this video if you don't believe what he and the comments are saying?
@@reginafarias where did I say I don't believe what he's saying? I'm just saying I never had a problem with star fruit not that I'm gonna keep eating it lmao
I've been low oxalate for 5 and a half years, and I'm still dumping. I am apparently someone who dumps heavily between October and January (winter), and the past month has been pretty miserable. This year, I feel that I'm dumping quite alot around my nose and nasal passageway, and it's weird but I'm smelling chlorine. I used to swim ALOT when I was a child, like everyday, and got alot of chlorine up my nose. And I looked up to see if chlorine could combine with oxalates, and yup, it can---oxalyl chloride.
Thank you Eliot , you helped save my gut with vitamin B1 benfotiamine.i use . They diagnosed me with sibo , weather I had it or not I was defishint of all b vitamins started taking b 12 shots came across your vids in B1 . But I had switched to eating nutts , couldn't eat spinach , because it tasted awful .it's high in iron , but started to listen to your vids in oxilets . Had no idea how bad all these so called health foods are for you ate them because ya there promoted and tasted good at the started .had no idea the harm .didn't understand why I felt so crappy . I stopped eating it all .started supplementing citrate minerals and ya started to dump .then I started to increase all minerals of all types. MSM , manganese, Potassium , but other types not just citrate. Stopped eating all oxilets foods except peanuts and some tea . Diarrhea eventually stopped . Also Bananas .eat banana for my gut I have no pain .bananas are good . My back is readjusting and pain going away . Thank you , and ya it's like glass at first . I feel thousand times better . .
Note: Oxalic Acid is the active ingredient for the majority of aluminum wheel polishes, and metal polishes, like Mothers Mag Wheel polish, Simichrome, Meguier's. That should concern you!
Do you know if years of oxylate poisoning can block your sweat glands. Years ago I stopped sweating for the most part. Also my lymph seems to have thickened and doesn’t move. I was a vegetarian for seven years and vegan for a few. I just started eating meat 3 months ago and I have cut out all fruits and vegetables. The first three weeks I felt great and then the dumping started. I drink a cup of unsweetened black tea every day to slow it down. I have so much to learn. I’ve been dealing with joint pain and inflammation for years.
Some vegetables just aren't meant to have ever become staple foods. We chose to take things that would be garnishes/snacks and turned them into massive side dishes and main pieces of a meal.
This honestly makes all my symptoms make sense. I'm dx with RA fibro, interstatial cystitis and I've been allergic to milk soy and antibiotics since I was an infant. Just adding b1 to my diet regimen has helped me so much. I recently added boron and that's helped my body so much it's insane. I recently found out that tobacco helps with stomach issues. The more my body heals the less I want to smoke both cannabis and tobacco. I appreciate you making these videos. I really do. Thank you!
Very low oxalate diet 24/7/365..... Cured my 20 years of migraines, pain in joints/tendons, eye/vision problems, chronic diarrhea, brain fog/ muddled thinking, colon polyops, the benefits are ENORMOUS! No wheat, potatoes to start, no nuts, leafy greens, dates, figs, a lot of enjoyable foods BUT! wonderful health withought.....
Not much of a defense system if it takes years and decades before symptoms in humans even manifest. If it takes that long how would plants be able to stop getting immediately chomped on. Seems like not a good plan.
That's only because the plants humans tend to eat have more moderate amounts of oxalate in them. There are plenty of plants that will cause you immediate problems if you eat them due to the oxalate content. Eating rhubarb leaves or too much sorrel can kill you, for instance. The oxalate in many plants can cause immediate damage to the mouth, throat and digestive tract. For example, there is a plant known as the 'dumb cane' because eating it prevents people from speaking because of the damage its oxalates do to the mouth and throat. Defense mechanisms in plants also don't have to work immediately to be effective. Being able to weaken your predator sufficiently to reduce its long term chances of survival can still help your own species. Also, even in plants with lower oxalate levels, this can still be effective against insects. The immediate lethal dose may not need to be as high. Even when they don't kill directly, oxalates literally wear down the mouthparts of caterpillars and other insects that eat the plant, reducing how much damage they can do.
@@marshmallowmeg Hello Megan, that sounds interesting to me, maybe this could help me. DO YOU HAVE SOME LINKS for further information? TMJ is the jaw you mean probably, that I am quite sure, it is a common cause of tinnitus. Also my observation on my own makes me sure, that digestive issues can make big problems with the spine upwards that are having influence on tinnitus as well.
It sounds like it is important to find out if Oxalate is one of the natural toxins utilized in GMO plants to ward off insects, etc. and we should be seeking out readings of its prevalence and levels in various greens relative to beneficial nutrients to determine an approximate degree of risk.
I am so confused about the oxalate toxicity theory, for many years now I have always resolve most of my health issues by doing extended green juice fasts. For many years eating the normal diet with very little vegie intake my health was a catastrophe, I used to suffer from IBS, allergies, headaches, indigestion, bloating, fatigue etc and since I started eating mainly vegetables and mostly raw including green juices my health improved 100%. I have reversed a few health issue which were supposed to be incurable using water and juice fasts, therefore I am utterly confused by all the fuss about oxales, I feel more research needs to be done before coming to this conclusion. Humans are not meant to be carnivores. Thank you for your videos it is always good to have different points of view and healthy productive discussions, keep them coming
If we aren't supposed to be carnivores, why is our digestive system closer to a vulture than a cow, with almost no capacity to extract nutrition from fiber?
@@cornstar1253 our digestive tract is not close to a carnivore, or even an omnivore. So I don't know why you would say that. Our gi tract is 30+ feet long and ribbed for maximum absorption. Carnivores have much shorter, smooth gi tracts and much stronger stomach acid. Just because the human body can process meat, does not make us omnivores. You can feed meat to a giraffe.
humans are not meant to be carnivores? we are only the smartest creature on the planet with the largest brain to body ratio because of meat. without meat we'd no more intelligent then chimpanzees which I'm sorry to say is not that intelligent. We are not meant to eat vegetables and our digestive system proves it. Fiber is actually supposed to be broken down, everything is. Except humans lack the ability to break down the plant fiber. To me this is evidence that we were not designed to eat plants.
All you need is a healthy colonization of your gut with Oxalobacter formigenes. Then oxalates can be easily digested. Lactobacillus gasseri, acidophilus and some others can also break down oxalates.
@@petermaier3725 Perhaps an examination of the intestinal flora can determine this - I don't know. Anyone who has often had antibiotics, especially the dangerous fluoroquinolone, is often deficient. There is a supplement: Yoxa Orosolubile
Here my 2 cents on this. I have been take vitamin k2 which help with remove calcifications from tissues throughout the body. There are many many studies now start to show that people taking K2are at the risk of heart attacks, kidney stones arteriosclerosis, and a bunch of other calcifications that happen throughout the body especially if you take crappy vitamins, like synthetic calcium‘s that people think it’s being very helpful to them but do more damage than good. My experience has been that I have to take a vitamin K2. I started to feel more flexible and also my muscles I became softer in a sense and my shoulders which I used to have, a lot of stiffness with have loosened somewhat even after trying so many different exercises and therapies that may have problems with oxalate to try vitamin K2 it may help. And I’m only giving you an anecdotal point of view And I can also give an experience account with a person that I recommend a K2 to during the Covid fiasco about 10 months later after taking it, she pulled me to the side and she said that she had had high blood pressure and finally when she was able to get to the doctors, about 10 months later, the doctor removed her off of Blood pressure medication because her blood pressure became completely normal. From taking vitamin D3 and K2 and she thanked me for recommending to her the K2 and she continue to take it faithfully with no other problems with her blood pressure since. So my theory is that her arteries were hardened with calcium, causing her blood pressure to become higher than normal, but once that calcium have been removed from those arteries, the tissue soften, and the elastic nature had return to normal, this may be anecdotal point but it was a good outcome. Hope the information that I’m giving helps someone out there.
Going through dumping for 5 months without knowing i had an oxylate problem to begin with was a huge eye opener. 8 months now and I'm finally feeling better than i have for 10 yrs, what an incidious sleeper problem, and when you realize you need to resolve, buckle up...
I am wondering about the preparation of tea and resulting Oxalates. It seems to me that there are different ways that tea (Camellia sinensis) is prepared, processed, and brewed -- and that the method of preparation might well result in very different amount of Oxalates getting into the tea. For example: 1) time length of steeping, 2) temperature of the water, and 3) whether loose leaf or 'tea bag' , 4) whether it's Green tea or Black tea (the more widely used version of Camellia sinensis, I think), and 5) whether 'cold water brew' or 'hot water brew'. (with variables #2 and #5, above, likely being the most important) Since such a large number of people worldwide consume tea, I wonder if testing has been done specifically on: 'cold brew method of brewing green tea', and/or other "less aggressive" ways of brewing the tea (such as water temperature being much cooler than boiling temp.), and shorter brewing times than usual. I wonder if that would make a meaningful difference in what types of compounds / substances are extracted from the tea leaves, including the oxalate. For example, another "plant anti-nutrient" called tannins is greatly reduced by using shorter brewing times when preparing the tea (especially in less processed, nonfermented, and more delicate varieties of Camellia sinensis). Thus rendering it less bitter to the taste. Could that also work out to be true for Oxalates? In other words, could different preparation methods make a meaningful difference in what ends up in the tea? I don't want to be guilty of wishful thinking, in that regard, ... but my hope is that that might make it easier for more people to gradually wean themselves off of caffeinated tea, if desired, and transfer to drinking different types of teas -- such as herbal or Yerba mate -- which have very low oxalate content to begin with. Changing life-long habits is difficult. I'm used to starting my day with tea and citrus. A Chinese friend once told me that the better Asian restaurants all know about shorter brewing times for green teas. Also, they brew it at cooler temperatures. For example, after bringing the water to a boil, let it cool for at least 1 minute before putting any tea leaves or bags into it. He said they never let it brew for more than 2 minutes, when using hot water to prepare it. Wikipedia mentions several different brewing times, and temperatures, for preparing different kinds of tea - in use around the world. Does anybody know, specifically, what kinds of Oxalate testing has been done on the different 'preparation methods' for Camellia sinensis (regular, caffeinated) tea? I would be grateful to learn. In my case, I'm especially interested in the cold (room temperature) brewing of loose leaves of Green Tea. But also, for the sake of others who drink the more commonly used versions of Camellia sinensis (a.k.a. Black Tea, or Orange Pekoe), and use more typical brewing methods, I'm interested in the oxalate testing results for those also. Thanks!
No, but I know most of my Vietnamese friends do a hot wash of the tea leaves first for a few seconds, dump out the water, then steep a second time for longer. Another problem with traditional tea leaves are the fluoride content.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OXALATES AND HOW TO GO LOW-OXALATE SAFELY BEFORE DROPPING THEM FROM YOUR DIET SO YOU DON'T END UP IN THE HOSPITAL OR IN A LOT OF PAIN!!!
I have been on a more plant based diet for last year, about two months ago my eyes started watering especially at night, it’s really strange, it’s more like a very super fine oil than watering, I have been taking vit A lutein, zinc krill oil and antioxidants to improve my eyesight , it seems to be working but this weeping at night is weird
Not enough to make high oxalate food worth it. I believe sprouting makes it worse. He has other vids on this topic and Sally K Norton has some excellent vids as well where she explains how to go low oxalate safely
I just turned to carnivore 6weeks ago , bad feet ,headaches,bad skin,skin rash , dandruff, I ate a bowl 🥣 of spinach 3 days a week for 20 years ,with lots of other greens in it ,I juiced my spinach too , only now did I find out how much oxalates I’ve been eating ,WOW ,
The only guide is your body. It knows how to remove them as long as you don't continue to poison yourself into oblivion. And it can take DECADES to eliminate them. Yes....decades! But sadly, gov authorities, media and packaged food corporations will continue to brainwash the masses to eat these toxins in the so-called "healthy plant diets" they peddle to the slaves, while these same elites get to eat all the grass-fed premium red meat and use their private jets to fly to warm vacation hot spots every weekend, especially during lockdowns.
Keep in mind that oxalates bind with magnesium. One guy I know, prone to kidney stones, has to be very strict in avoiding oxalates. And he says that therefore he also has to be careful to avoid getting TOO MUCH magnesium. Too much Mg is also stressful for the kidneys.
You might want to do more research. Oxalates binds to magnesium and depletes your magnesium, so that means you want to supplement with magnesium instead of avoiding it. When calcium is low oxalates rise also. So make sure you have a good balance of calcium/magnesium. The better way of decreasing oxalates is having good gut bacteria, probiotics break down oxalates as well as cooking and soaking foods...
@@jsanders9975 The point I was trying to make is that IF someone is very successful at avoiding oxalates, that person's Mg requirements will decrease. According to this friend of mine, it is easy for him to get more Mg than he can handle. I presume he does not supplement but I did not ask. He has a lot of genetic issues, says he has had over $1m of medical interventions and he is probably under 40.
Lord have mercy, I‘ve been Clean Keto for 6 yrs now and doing great. More or less per Dr. Eric Berg‘s advice. So do you think just certain people have sensitivities to oxalates and others can eliminate them easier than others? I mean I‘ve eliminated all processed foods, carbs, seed oils and sugar. Now I only eat organic animal proteins & fats, EV olive oil, coconut oil, dairy and veggies. Back now to my perfect weight, sleeping great, loads of energy and brainpower, no more meds or inflammation issues. So please tell me again . . . what should I be worried about?? I guess the next step would be to go full Carnivore, but I‘m not quite ready for that 🤓
"So please tell me again . . . what should I be worried about??" Maybe nothing! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That said, loading up on un-seasonal high oxalate foods can be a disaster for some people long-term
