Oxalates, Gout, and Kidney Stones

My grandfather always said learn from the mistakes of others because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself

I passed about 20 kidney stones between the age of 30-50. Way more painful than childbirth. The last one was 16mm. I was septic and almost died. Couldn’t pass it bc of the size, had two stents, and ureteroscopy. Someone told me about drinking lemon water every day to prevent stones. Drink plenty of water and take Vit D and K together. Never had another one! 🙏🏼✝️

So now that I told you about what I do for oxalates what happened with gout is I had it for six weeks didn’t know what it was. This was back in 2005. I went to the doctor. She gave me some medication. I did some research on the side effects and I wasn’t happy so I did a research on natural ways. And I found a level teaspoon of baking soda in the morning, a level teaspoon of baking soda mixed in water at night, and in three days six weeks of hell was over. Fast forward 15 years later, my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue I was in so much pain for weeks. My doctor said this is your new normal. I was like there’s no way in hell. What happened? Well I decided the pain is so excruciating in every joint. It actually felt like out in every joint. You can imagine how painful that was so I did baking soda and water in the morning and at night and it took 10 days but 10 days after weeks of hell it was completely gone so baking soda is my savior.!!

How did I miss this 11 months ago? In January I went carnivore and experienced an oxalate dump. Took a couple of weeks to figure it out. The little buggers were coming out my ears, eyes, skin and diarrhea. Painful! So I got Sally K Nortons book and listened to her and a few others. Now I'm low oxalate and taking some of the supplements as you suggest. But yours is the best, most informative and concise video on the subject that I've seen. And i watch you almost every day. I wish I wouldn't have skipped over this one 11 months ago. Thanks for all your super informative and concise videos. You're a great educator.

Happy you made this video. I started the keto diet because of you and I got so sick. Not keto flu sick, but like my eyes constantly burned and were red with a roach around them, I had insane amounts of inflammation and fatigue as well as insomnia, I developed full body peripheral neuropathy for several days, l was having so many kidney issues and signs of diabetes. I am a 22 year old, healthy and extremely active girl. I weight train, do lots of cardio, yoga, meditate, and only eat organic Whole Foods. I literally can’t remember the last time I ate out or ate something processed with refined sugars, etc etc. when I started keto I was eating a whole lot of almond butter, spinach salads with salmon, dark chocolate with my almond butter, sweet potatoes as my one carb a day, or beets in my salad, etc etc. after this is when it all started and I stopped keto because I was like this is clearly not for me. After extensive research about what could be happening to me, I learned about oxalates. I’ve been gradually minimizing them to avoid dumping and WOW!!! All those symptoms are gone and I’m starting to feel like myself again. I will attempt a mostly keto diet again without those foods. Please start mentioning this is your keto videos because it may be a huge reason why so many struggle to stick with keto. Oxalates caused me to have ravenous cravings on keto, and it wasn’t even carb cravings, I just felt soooo hungry. I no longer feel that at all and my appetite has diminished SO much. I’m 5’0 105 pounds so I’m not trying to lose a lot of weight, but I gained 10 pounds in the last several months and now I’m finally down 5 pounds after making these changes.

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OMG . I don’t know about oxalate. Am drinking almonds almost every morning and the next day I have a lots of inflammation and cannot even move my body. Thanks God He send you to us you save our health🙏

For those who might not know, hyperparathyroidism can also cause kidney stones. So please, if you have kidney stones, get your doctor to check your parathyroid glands. My mom had a hole in her heart that she didn’t know about. She had a growth on one of her parathyroid glands that she didn’t know about that caused high calcium levels in her blood and urine. She had kidney stones a few times over 20 years. Finally after all those years she had a stroke due to high calcium levels in blood that formed a clot, that went through the hole in her heart, to her brain. Thankfully she had timely medical intervention and she is fine now. She ended having to have one parathyroid gland removed with the growth and the hole in her heart repaired. She was about 58 years old when all of this occurred.

I had to give up roughly 10% of my vegan lifestyle to cope with the problem of creating too many kidney stones that had me in the hospital for two days two separate times. Between the tofu and soy meat alternatives, half the beans and almost all the nuts, it added up very quickly in my overload of oxalates. Fish, poultry, oat milk, lemon and vinegar water put me back on track to recovery. Two things I have a problem with, too many oxalates in me and too many oxalis in the yard.

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