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In this video I want to talk about why certain people get oxalate kidney stones and others

don't.

An oxalate is a certain chemical that combines calcium that then has a capacity to form these

little crystals in your kidneys and there are certain foods high in oxalates like spinach,

beet greens, Swiss chard, peanuts and there's quite a few others.

But the question is there's a lot of people consuming these foods and they don't get kidney

stones and other people consume them and they do get kidney stones.

Now there is a microbe, a very special microbe in your gut that has the capacity to break

down oxalates.

It's called oxalobacter formogens so it can break down and remove oxalates from the body.

And take a while, guess what will destroy this microbe?

You guessed it, antibiotics, especially cipro, which just happens to be the most widely

used antibiotic in the world.

The problem is when people take cipro there's also a lot of other side effects as well and

I just want to talk about this as a side note because so many people are taking this.

It actually has a black box warning of tendon ruptures, okay?

So you get increased risk of rupturing your tendon.

So if you're an athlete for example, you're more susceptible to rupture of the Achilles

tendon, which is it right in the connecting your calf to your heel.

Now in 2018, they added two additional side effects on the black box warning, hypoglycemia

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