Certified Holistic Nutritionist: nutrient dense, low oxalate. 1 size fits all doesn’t - it’s what's right for you. Change your diet; change your health!
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I signed up for Dave Asprey's 30 Day oxalate reset. He's got some good information; he's got some problem information. I break down Day 1 in this free post - and I'll keep doing that over the next 30 days.
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These are lower oxalate fruit - so if you are going to eat them, buy organic.
American strawberry fields are being DRENCHED in cancer-linked pesticides — while workers are in full-head-to-toe hazmat suits, respirators, and gloves!
Two workmen, spraying poison directly onto the berries that will soon hit grocery stores nationwide. These are the “fresh” strawberries your family eats.
If the chemicals are so toxic that the *applicators* need full-body protection… what exactly are we feeding our kids?
This isn’t “farming.” This is chemical warfare on our food supply.
It’s time to Make America Healthy Again. Boycott the poison. Grow your own. Demand clean food. Seek out local 'pick your own' strawberry venders and farmer's markets.
I wouldn't have juice in the house if I had kids today.
Orange juice is not a health food. It's sugar water with a good publicist.
One 8 oz glass = about 20 grams of sugar. That's 5 sugar cubes.
And about half of that is fructose, the same sugar we're blaming for the fatty liver epidemic in kids.
No fiber. No protein. No fat. Just sugar water with a pinch of vitamin C...
Eat an orange if you must. Better yet, eat some eggs.
Carbs are optional & not needed.
Nick Norwitz is a great follow if you want to have a chance to learn some nuance on various nutritional questions.
4/5) My 3 biggest takeaways:
i. Carbohydrate processing matters. This can amplify the insulin responses, potentially influencing how the body partitions energy.
ii. Your blood sugar doesn't tell the whole story.
iii. “Eat less processed food” isn’t a mechanistic explanation. It's a reasonable rule of thumb, but scientifically, it's only the first layer of the onion.
We need to go deeper.
Looks like the obvious issue is NOT blood sugar per se; it's insulin.
2/5) The most important finding:
👉Both meals produced similar blood sugar responses.
👉However, the ultra-processed meal triggered a significantly larger insulin response.
Why does that matter?
Insulin promotes fat storage.
According to the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity, chronically higher insulin responses could favor fat accumulation over time.
(And your continuous glucose monitor wouldn't necessarily catch this difference.)
Why CPR training is worth every penny (and minute) you put into it.
My husband brought me flowers today. ❤️
Because my oldest and I saved his life 13 years ago.
About a week after open-heart surgery, his heart stopped. Cardiac arrest. I called 911 and started CPR. I quickly realized I couldn’t keep going on my own, so I screamed for our oldest son. He was just 13 at the time.
Together, we kept up the chest compressions for 27 minutes until paramedics arrived and delivered the lifesaving shock.
I had learned CPR during my EMT training in Germany. My son had learned CPR as part of his swimming lessons just a month earlier. Neither of us could have imagined that we would need those skills together, in our own home, to keep someone we loved alive.
Please learn CPR. Learn how to use an AED. If you’ve taken a course before but it’s been a while, take a refresher. Encourage your family to learn, including your teenagers.
You hope you’ll never need it. But one day, the person who needs you might be your spouse, your parent, your child or your friend.
Thirteen more years together. Three sons who still have their dad. All three followed in their dad’s footsteps and became volunteer first responders. One of them works as a paramedic.
Photo taken just months before the cardia arrest.
I've got a new video, just under 10 minutes - talking how oxalate and histamine differ, and how they are related.
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A reminder that gluten is not your friend - you can have inflammation that is subclinical, so not "feeling bad" after eating gluten is not necessarily diagnostic.
Gluten is a good source of *oxalate* - and generally considered high histamine.
#lowoxalate #lowhistamine
Certainly would have kept oxalate in the diet to a minimum... Meat is one of the lowest oxalate things you can eat; it's effectively zero.
For those of you who eat an omnivore diet and want to keep the oxalate low - consider the mango as an option.
#lowoxalate
Low oxalate pumpkin spice? Yes, please... especially if it's part of a high protein snack.
You can buy the post with a free membership to Patreon. I do have regular free content there. And I've love to have you as a subscriber!
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If you are looking for information to help you understand the basics about oxalate - as well as how to get started - this is your best video from my YouTube channel. It's the first in my series called "Coaching Corner", and this will be coming as a special feature for subscribers.
youtube.com/watch?v=MYps2frH…
One of the things which might be most detrimental about oxalate is that it appears to be a mitochondrial toxin.
Mitochondria should be busy doing work for you - not coping with a toxin that inhibits their function.
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Stress is eating up your body's resources.
I suspect that stress could be physiological (and not just emotional or psychological), and triggered by toxins like oxalate.
Martin Picard's lab (@MitoPsychoBio) at Columbia grew human skin cells on a cortisol analog for up to 250 days. Each division cost more than double the energy.
Thankfully, my elderly mom has no computer and no Amazon account. The dopamine hit from buying something can be an irresistible enticement.
Yesterday I was alerted by a caregiver that a resident was receiving a lot of deliveries from Amazon.
When the caregiver showed me the garage I couldn't believe how much stuff this resident had ordered. We asked her about (she doesn't have dementia), and she had no idea what she was ordering.
So we checked her account. Everything she ordered she placed as a subscription to save money. I counted 72 subscriptions in her account.
We have a lot of returning ahead of us! Be careful with your elderly parents and Amazon.
A free post on my Patreon channel. Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians, and here's to being thankful, wherever you are.
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Here's the problem with the first picture: the FOODS that are used as examples! When you base your diet on plants to get your protein, you are consuming way too much oxalate! While it's possible to eat 6 Tbsp of peanut butter, that would be over 150 mg oxalate. If you eat 300g kidney beans, while better, are still about 45 mg oxalate. If you consume 600g broccoli (which is, for reference, about 1 1/3 POUNDS), you would be consuming 90 mg oxalate.
Your best bet: animal products. The oxalate is low; the nutrients dense; the protein high.
The second picture is of the Carnivore Bar. They now have a variety of flavours; you get 20 grams protein, with 35 grams fat and 3 ingredients. They should be low to no oxalate - and they fit nicely in a pocket.
These are not cheap food; they are portable food. Essentially your protein for a meal in your pocket (it's about 1/2 pound of beef, dried.) I honestly like that when I'm on the run. (And many influencers are now making all kinds of recipes with them!)
When you buy more, you get a better discount. That's still my primary way to keep the price lower. You can also use my coupon code which is lowoxcoach. That will save you 10% on your purchase; I will get a small commission. We both win. .
If it's your first time to purchase, I would recommend setting up a subscription (to maximize your discount) and use my coupon code! Why not double up on discounts?
