Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we're going to talk about

Oxilates. It's something you might have heard about in the past. I certainly have

maybe 20 years ago when it was found to be useful for women with

pelvic pain but I discounted it and didn't find it very useful because I just didn't understand it.

And unfortunately that was not a why strategy because it's a really important influence on your health and one that most health care practitioners are

fail to understand completely and we are fortunate to have Sally Norton on today who is an expert in this area probably want to believe experts in the U.S.

largely because she had personal challenges for this and she's got a really good educational

background in public health and nutritional sciences to put it all together as to what,

how oxly can tackle her own health and how she can now use that understanding and help other people.

So welcome and thank you for joining us, Sally.

Thank you, Dr. McCullough.

It's really fun to be with you and your vast audience, which is obviously a very diverse audience, but one thing most everybody has in common is we've never heard of Oxley and have no idea why it matters.

Yeah, yeah, so you've been impacted with it for most of your life but didn't understand the reality until

relatively recently as time goes, about 10 years or so I guess but why don't you briefly share your story and how it

impacted your life and started into this but I guess yeah then then we can go into exactly what oxalate is because, well, I mean, most people have heard of it, but there's a great confusion as to precisely what it is.

Yeah, and some of that techie stuff, like what is this stuff, and it matters less than the understanding

that it seriously can stop you in your tracks and cause a lot of different kinds of health problems and a lot of

problems in the same person. And like so many other people who are now discovering this, I was the kind of person who no matter what I did I could not create the vibrant robust health that I felt that I wanted I felt was intended for me to have. And it was just perpetual frustration, which is kind of amazing because, you know, the more you try to be healthy, the less it works. And even when you've got a degree in nutrition from Cornell

University and a degree in public health. I worked in integrated medicine and

knew all the holistic and complementary healing modalities. We taught that in a survey

course and we worked with holistic healers in the community to try to bring some

awareness of a broader perspective on health and lifestyle and

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