Paul Saladino· MD
two cups of spinach is like 450 milligrams of oxalates and people can listen to the podcast with Sally for the full oxalate download but probably we want to have 50 to 100 milligrams of oxalates per day in our diet
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two cups of spinach is like 450 milligrams of oxalates and people can listen to the podcast with Sally for the full oxalate download but probably we want to have 50 to 100 milligrams of oxalates per day in our diet
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uh yeah tons of like almonds nuts these mess up people's digestion like people feel better their guts get better and there are hundreds if not thousands of anecdotes people who feel better cutting these Foods out and I just think okay eventually people will catch on and realize like these these Foods don't really do much for you and you know who knows with your brother or with you whether your aches and pains or I'm sure the majority of it is cutting out the garbage seed oils and the other stuff but for some people even cutting out the vegetables helps as well which is crazy
if you eat one cup of spinach I think that the statistic is 550 milligrams of oxalates in one cup of spinach now 550 milligrams of spinach of oxalates is a ton and most people are going to eat more than a cup of spinach because you're going to cook it it's going to be smaller or you're going to dump two handfuls in your smoothie just got a thousand milligrams of oxalates that's a significant amount we absorb about 10 of those oxalates so you're going to absorb 50 to 100 milligrams of oxalates from spinach just in that example that's probably 10 times what your body is going to make in a day it goes through your body it accumulates in your joints potentially in your thyroid and we know that calcium oxalate kidney stones the most common type of kidney stone
oh spinach is full of oxalates so if you've got issues maybe you know what I want people to think about
whether it's spinach could be an issue for some people because it has oxalates this is another one of these problematic compounds in food oxalates are a component of the main kidney stone that we get as humans calcium oxalate kidney