Oxalates: Their Influence On Chronic Disease

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Diets often heavy on these nut flours include: SCD, GAPS, and Paleo. And vegetarian diets are often high in oxalate; since they usually include many beans, grains, nuts and seeds, as well as high oxalate greens or starchy vegetables, like spinach or sweet potatoes.

Practitioners should be aware that diets high in oxalate could create a wide variety of problems for some people. Making informed choices or modifying a diet for oxalate can make a dramatic difference in lowering the oxalate load (note: it is important to reduce oxalates in the diet very slowly).

It's worth reading the whole article.

Thanks for this great share, jrpsf!!

oh goodness gracious - things I love to eat!

One of the greens that I've found that are low in oxilates and do not bother me at all are sweet potato greens. I grow them in copious amounts in my garden and they're super easy to grow and harvest. I substitute them for spinach, kale, etc. I'm wondering when they will make it on the "scene" as a health food like kale because they are awesome and low in oxilates :) They are a mild green, like baby spinach and don't have a strong flavor at all. You can grow them just about anywhere in the states, but they like the warmer climates the best and do really well here in Arizona as long as they get a good watering about once per week.

Just like everything else this only effects some people. Being aware that this may be an issue can only help.

Thanks for the link and a very important topic. It was interesting to read this article and one's perspective certainly can change one's views on high oxalate levels. Eating high oxalate laden food is not the same as having high oxalates in the blood. It would be advised in someone who has high oxalates in their blood that they reduce oxalate intake, but most everyone does not have high oxalates in their blood. I'll try to explain. Since 80-90% of oxalates are made inside our body, they are supported by a vast array of biochemical pathways which utilize oxalates for our benefit. When these systems become less efficient, oxalate blood levels can rise and the most common result is kidney stone formation. This is due to not only oxalate level increase but also a decrease in our buffering ability and a slight acidosis. Acid, often noted as increased potential hydrogen, plays a huge role on whether oxalate (the salt form) or oxalic acid is formed. I would go out on a ledge and say that an acidic diet plays as much or more of a role as our amount of oxalate intake. As a former kidney stone sufferer, I have quite a bit of experience in this area. Eating vegetables that are higher in oxalates and in pH value has benefited me bigly (thanks Donald) greatly when it comes to decreasing stone formation.

I went through and read all 28 references noted in the article and only 12 of them had anything to do with oxalates. Most related to autism which is a can of worms that I don't think anyone can open at the present time. One talked about how the gallotannins in green tea decrease oxalates and I find it interesting that those same gallotannins have antiparasitic effects. Another article referenced fucoidan as decreasing ROS but we already knew that iodine helped to protect the mitochondria in that manner. One study, that I was not fond of, showed increased hypothyroidism in rats with increased oxalic acid intake. Another showed the benefits of molybdenum with transsulfuration issues. I won't knock science but it has to be applied correctly and this author did not do this with these articles. I respect her opinion and her experience but what she referenced did not support her claims. We know too much oxalate in the blood is not a good thing but there are so many variables that we can't say "do this" or "do that." I give her credit for saying individualized nutrition is recommended. I often say my opinion on diet in the same manner she did and some people don't agree with my opinion either. I guess I am as guilty as she is.