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02/04/2026

How Oxalates Harm
Health food or Health Disaster Part 5 of 10

02/04/2026

How Oxalates Harm
Health food or Health Disaster Part 4 of 10

For a great majority of plants, oxalic acid and oxalate crystals are essential to their growth, survival, and reproduction, and they are also secret weapons in the defensive warfare plants wage to keep from being eaten. Plants use oxalic acid's toxic powers to shun a variety of predators, including infectious fungi, other microorganisms, insects, and other plant-eating animals - including humans.
In an ancient technique, central and southern African hunters harnessed the power of oxalic acid by driving wooden arrowheads into banana tree trunks about 24 hours before the hunt. The oxalic acid in the tree sap is powerful enough to paralyze prey. It's a nerve toxin.

02/04/2026

How Oxalates Harm
Health food or Health Disaster Part 3 of 10

Or perhaps you have long-standing injuries or chronic itching, tingling, or pain that never fully resolves. Your doctors can’ help you figure out what is going on; they seem to think you’re “just fine” and should just live with life’s little miseries.

Other seemingly small things can be indicators of oxalate overload, including itchy or dry eyes, eye floaters, excessive tartar on the teeth, tooth sensitivity, frail skin, irritable bladder, UTI infections, frequent urination or cloudy urine. Liver stress from oxalate overload can aggravate chemical sensitivity. Digestive problems like indigestion, reflux, bloating, excessive belching, constipation, and IBS are especially common. Additional symptoms include shortness of breath, sinus problems, yeast infections, and even cold hands and feet.
You don't have to have symptoms to have a disease, and oxalate toxicity is no exception. But a wide spectrum of potential symptoms can occur in the wake of oxalate overload, and each of us will (eventually) suffer from our own unique subset of them if we persist with high-oxalate eating.

01/30/2026

How Oxalates Harm
Health food or Health Disaster Part 2 of 10

Because it is so easy to overeat oxalates, chances are you may already experience occasional oxalate-related aches and pains somewhere in your body.

Do you tend to get a stiff neck? In those of us with dietary oxalate overload, pain, knots, or stiffness in the top of the shoulders or in the upper or lower back are typical. Some people experience chronic or intermittent joint inflammation, gout, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, or a more generalized stiffness, often accompanied by a lack of pep.

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01/28/2026

How Oxalates Harm
Health food or Health Disaster Part 1 of 10

Even moderate, relatively common levels of oxalate in a habitual diet can fuel the customary aches and pains of life: digestive distress, inflamed joints, chronic skin issues, brain for or mood problems, as well as health declines associated with “normal” aging. And then there are those painful kidney stones. 80% of them are formed from oxalate, much of which comes from the foods we eat.

01/16/2026

Sugar is the criminal.
High blood pressure caused by high glucose levels not salt! Check your blood glucose levels. Should be under 85. Get rid of your sugar first and don't eat sugar and salt together.

For most people, a diagnosis of HYPERTENSION is a lifelong sentence to daily medication and a likely death from the consequences of high blood pressure. Most...

01/16/2026

LDL cholesterol is a poor predictor of heart disease. Here's why your LDL cholesterol is not the key

LDL cholesterol is a poor predictor of heart disease. Here's why your LDL cholesterol is not the key to helping you predict your risk for heart disease. ...

01/07/2026

Your future health is being built today—one meal, one movement, one night of sleep at a time.
Small daily choices add up.
Start now. Your body will thank you later.

12/31/2025

Chronic inflammation doesn’t “just happen.”
It’s driven by gut damage, diet, stress, insulin resistance, and low oxygen.
Remove the triggers — don’t just silence the symptoms.

11/14/2025

Great Eliminator

In Chinese medicine, the large intestine is referred to as the "Great Eliminator" because its sole focus is to move stool out of the body. However, there is a similar function on an emotional and spiritual level: find the gems, the most important nuggets of wisdom and love, and let go of the rest. When we learn to let go appropriately, we find becoming present a much easier task than when we were holding on to too much of our history. Emotional backing up leads to physical backing up and vice versa.

Source: Everyday Chinese Medicine, Mindi K. Counts, MA, LAc