Clean Out Your Kidneys of Oxalates and Stones - Dr. Berg

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about oxalates and the best ways to flush out oxalates to help prevent kidney stones.

Signs your oxalate levels are high:

• Kidney stones

• Gout

• Headaches

• Eye pain

• Urinary pain

• Genital pain

• Muscle pain

• Intestinal pain

Foods high in oxalates:

• Almonds

• Peanuts

• Spinach

• Chocolate

• Kiwi

• Strawberries

• Beets

• Tea

• Bran

Dietary oxalates aren’t correlated with oxalates in your urine. Just because you consume foods high in oxalates doesn’t mean you will develop any problems.

But, preexisting damage to your kidneys, liver, or metabolism can cause you to be unable to process oxalates like you should. Diabetes, prediabetes, insulin resistance, and carb consumption can lead to kidney problems.

A lack of certain microbes can also prevent you from breaking down oxalates, causing them to end up in the kidneys.

Many people who go on the ketogenic diet no longer have a problem dealing with oxalates. But if you’re still experiencing issues, you can try these tips.

What to do if you have high oxalate levels or are prone to kidney stones:

1. Limit foods high in oxalates or consume them with cheese

2. Take a probiotic with a mixture of lactobacillus

3. Maintain higher levels of magnesium and citrates (by consuming magnesium and lemon)

4. Get plenty of vitamin D

5. Drink at least two and a half liters of fluid a day

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to create an updated video on oxalates, especially in the relationship to flushing out oxalets
0:06.9	from your kidneys to prevent kidney stones and other forms of crystallization of oxlets which could show up as maybe a
0:14.8	pseudo-gout or some type of inflammatory condition, there's actually quite a few problems
0:19.9	related to oxlets. Let me just kind of run through the symptoms that a person
0:24.3	could have if they have oxlet dumping or they're absorbing too many oxlets.
0:28.0	Okay? Of course, kidney stones are number one. The most common form of kidney stone is the calcium oxlet stone.
0:36.4	You can also have these oxlets build up in the bone, the skin, the joints, and your blood vessels.
0:43.6	And I already mentioned gout before,
0:46.4	gout doesn't necessarily always have to come
0:49.3	from uric acid.
0:50.3	It could come from the oxlets irritating that joint.
0:52.8	You can also have headaches from oxlets.
0:55.8	Eye pain, urinary pain, genital pain,
1:00.0	muscle pain, as well as intestinal pain. So here's the thing. There's a lot of foods with oxlets, okay? I mean it's in a lot of different plants, it's in fruits, it's not in meats, it's not in dairy, but it's very high in like almonds, peanuts, spinach especially.
1:17.0	It's in chocolate, kiwi, strawberries, beets, tea, and bran. But dietary oxlets are not correlated with oxlets in your urine.
1:30.0	So in other words, they have not found that just because you consume foods high in oxlets,
1:35.8	you're going to have high oxlets in the urine to develop these problems.
1:40.3	There must be some preexexisting damage to either your kidneys, liver, or your metabolism in some way that you're not able to process or deal with these oxlets like you should.
1:52.0	And one aspect of that is in your gut. If you have dysbiosis, if you have a lack of certain
1:59.0	microbes, especially the lactobiscillus microbes, okay, and there's quite a few different ones.
2:04.6	You may have a big problem degrading or breaking down oxlets in the intestine and then they
2:09.1	get reabsorbed into the blood and they end up in your kidneys. But you can also have a problem with the
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