Chaga mushroom consumption can lead to oxalate nephropathy and kidney damage. — Whalespan
Chaga mushroom consumption can lead to oxalate nephropathy and kidney damage.
⚠ High risk
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“chaga induced oxalate nephropathy and it's a case of a 72 year old japanese woman diagnosed with liver cancer and she'd been eating a lot of chaga mushroom powder four to five teaspoons a day for the last six months for liver cancer and she got oxalate crystal nephropathy this is the first case report of oxalate nephropathy associated with ingestion of chaga mushrooms”
“there is some precedent for this if you look at the literature there are certainly cases of oxalate nephropathy from chaga in the literature which i have talked about in my book the carnivore code and elsewhere so chaga induced oxalate mushroom nephropathy was a woman who was 72 years old she already had cancer um and she was taking quite a bit of chaga four to five teaspoons a day but then she ended up with diffused tubular atrophy intercessor fibrosis of the kidneys oxalate crystals and the kidneys not a good thing”