Paul Saladino· MD
you mentioned that something like some astronomical number like 85% of thyroids above the age of 50 Something have oxalate crystals in them
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you mentioned that something like some astronomical number like 85% of thyroids above the age of 50 Something have oxalate crystals in them
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this um what happens with modern people is you may have two three four even five decades of oxalate accumulation that's why 85 percent of us have oxalate crystals in our thyroid gland
there's no physiologic reason for oxalate to be in the human thyroid that we know of and I think this is probably just an accumulation of oxalates in the thyroid because we consume them commonly in childhood leading to adulthood and they increase with age so I don't know that it's necessarily normal for oxalates to be in the thyroid