Today, I'm going to create an updated video on oxalates, especially in the
relationship to flushing out oxalates from your
kidneys to prevent kidney
stones and other forms of crystallization of oxalates, which could show up as maybe
a pseudo gout or some type of inflammatory
condition, there's actually
quite a few problems related to oxalates.
Let me just kind of run through the symptoms that
a person could have
if they have oxalate dumping or they're absorbing
too many oxalates.
Okay.
Of course, kidney stones are number one.
The most common form of kidney stone is the
calcium oxalate stone.
You can also have these oxalates buildup in the
bone, the skin,
the joints and your blood vessels.
And I already mentioned gout before.
Um, gout doesn't necessarily always have to come
from uric acid.
It could come from the oxalates irritating that
joint.
Um, you can also have headaches from oxalates.
Eye pain.
Urinary pain, genital pain, muscle pain, as well
as intestinal pain.
So here's the thing.
There's a lot of foods with oxalates.
Okay.
I mean, it's in a lot of different plants.
It's in fruits.
It's not in meats.
Uh, it's not in dairy, but it's very high in like
almonds, peanuts, spinach,
especially it's in chocolate, Kiwi, strawberries,
beets, tea, and bran.
But dietary oxalates are not correlated with oxalates in your urine.
So in other words, they have not found that just
because you consume
foods high in oxalates, you're going to have high
oxalates in the
urine to develop these problems.
There must be some preexisting damage to either
your kidneys, liver, or
your metabolism in some way that you're not able
to process or deal with
these oxalates like you should.
And one aspect of that is in your gut.
If you have dysbiosis, if you have a lack of
certain microbes, especially
the lactobacillus microbes, okay.
And there's quite a few different ones.
You may have a big problem degrading or breaking
down oxalates in the
intestine, and then they get reabsorbed.
Into the blood and they end up in your kidneys,
but you can also have a problem
with the kidneys from having diabetes, predi
abetes, insulin resistance, years
of eating carbohydrates, et cetera, et cetera.
So if the kidneys or liver is damaged, you may
have a problem dealing with oxalates.
And many people that go on the ketogenic diet and
they start adapting to fat
burning and ketones, get rid of their problem
with oxalates, but not everyone.
So I'm going to give you a list of very important
things that I think could
really help you just by understanding this.
Number one, of course, I would limit the foods
high in oxalates, especially
the almonds, peanuts, chocolate, spinach, the
beet tops, but if you do have these
foods, if you add some cheese with the calcium,
that calcium will bind to the
oxalates in the intestines and prevent the
absorption into the blood and into the
kidneys, so that's one way that you can kind of
lower the amount of
oxalate damage to the kidneys.
Now soy, which I never recommend consuming does
have a good amount of
oxalates, but it also has a lot of phytates,
which tend to minimize the effect.
But of course, phytates will prevent the
absorption of zinc and other minerals.
So that gives you a whole set of other problems.
Number one thing I would recommend is find a prob
iotic with a mixture
of all the lactobacillus microbes.
Those are lactic acid bacteria that actually help
reduce oxalates.
But the next thing that's very, very important is
maintaining
higher levels of magnesium.
Okay.
And citrates, both of those are really, really
important in weakening the
bond between calcium and the oxalates.
But I think magnesium does it in a bigger way.
I just released a video on magnesium and I talked
about what
foods are high in magnesium.
But if you really look at what it's going to take
to get your magnesium
from foods, you're going to find out it's not as
easy as you might think.
So I will put that link down below.
It's very important video.
So you may want to take a magnesium glycinate
supplement to help lower the
risk of oxalates ending up in your kidneys.
The other thing with the citrates is I would make
sure that I would consume
like maybe a lemon a day or a lemon juice, put
some water in there, maybe a
couple of drops of Stevia electrolyte powder, and
I'll blend the entire lemon
with water and drink that down.
Other times I don't have lemon.
So I'll just put some lemon juice in my opposite
of vinegar drink
and I'll drink that down.
But the citrates are very, very important.
Now, the other really important thing is vitamin
D vitamin D increases the
absorption of calcium by 20 times in the intest
ines, which is going to help you.
Take that calcium, make it more available to be
able to bind with the oxalates in
the gut so it doesn't end up in the kidney as
well now, I just want to mention a
problem that a lot of people have a vitamin D.
I did some DNA testing, I think.
Might've been 20 some odd people I tested with
the DNA and every single one of them
had a problem with vitamin D genetically, whether
that's a converting vitamin D or
absorption of vitamin D or the vitamin D receptor,
a hundred percent of those
people had a problem genetically.
And the name for that is a vitamin D polymorphism,
which is a genetic issue dealing with vitamin D.
And a vitamin D receptor.
Polymorphism is a bio indicator of calcium oxalates stones, which is interesting.
So in other words, there's a very high
correlation between people that have
stones and have a problem with vitamin D probably
because of the calcium absorption problem.
So in addition to taking the probiotic with the lactic acid bacteria,
lactobacillus and the magnesium and the lemons, I
would also recommend vitamin
D probably at least 10,000 I use every single day
.
And then on top of all that, I would recommend
consuming minimally two and a
half liters of fluid every single day, just to
keep your urine diluted enough.
So you don't have any type of super concentration
or a consolidating effect
of that calcium binding with that.
If you keep your urine diluted, then you won't
get a kidney stone.
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Now, since magnesium is so important for so many
things, if you have not seen my
video related to magnesium and getting it from
foods, you should probably
check it out and put it up right here.
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