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Green leafy vegetables—like spinach—are high in oxalates, which can form crystals in the body and lead to excruciating pain. Think kidney stones.

Ever-common Candida overgrowth makes it harder for your body to rid itself of oxalates. Body Ecology’s Culture Starter provides healthy, beneficial bacteria which greatly enhances digestion and can cleanse Candida to help your body eliminate oxalate buildup.

Dr. Shaw explains that with enough buildup, you can find oxalate crystals in the:

• Blood vessels
• Bones
• Brain
• Eyes
• Lungs
• Muscles
• Skin
• Stomach
• Thyroid gland

Oxalates also have a high affinity for heavy metals, like mercury and lead. Oxalate crystals can trap these heavy metals in the body, causing extreme toxicity.

Worse—we’ve known about the dangers of oxalate in foods for decades.

In research published over 75 years ago, scientists put rats on a high spinach diet—where spinach was 10 percent of their diet. They found that the rats died, could not reproduce, and their bones and teeth were falling apart.

All because of a diet that was high in spinach and oxalates.

What Are Oxalates?

Oxalates are found in many foods, such as nuts, soy, and chocolate.

You can also find oxalates in “healthy” foods, like:

• Arugula
• Beet tops
• Berries
• Broccoli
• Collards greens
• Curly kale
• Parsley
• Spinach

When oxalic acid pairs up with calcium, you get something called calcium-oxalate. This is a good thing—because once oxalates bind to calcium, they can be escorted through the intestinal tract and out of the body.

But the inability to fully digest fat or a diet that is high in saturated fat can interfere with your ability to get rid of oxalates.

According to Dr. Shaw, this has to do with the unique relationship that fat and calcium share. Too much dietary saturated fat will bind to the calcium that should be helping oxalates with their exit.

In order to ensure that saturated fat isn’t stealing your calcium, be sure to eat a diet that is low in saturated fat. If you have a hard time digesting fats, introduce a supplement that contains ox bile and the enzyme lipase.

Candida Destroys Your Ability to Get Rid of Oxalates

Candida yeast produces a precursor to oxalates, and it has the ability to transform collagen into corrosive oxalate crystals.

This is the same collagen you find in bone broth and take for beautiful skin.

While bone broth can help the gut heal, excessive collagen in the diet and an overgrowth of Candida can team up, generating a toxic accumulation of oxalates in your body.

In order to fully eliminate oxalates, it’s essential to support your inner ecosystem. This means:

1. Taking antifungal herbs that control Candida overgrowth. Specific herbs have been shown to effectively kill Candida and stop it from invading tissue growth. These herbs include turmeric, garlic, oregano leaf, and the inner bark of the pau d’arco tree.
2. Restoring healthy communities of good bacteria with fermented foods. Specific bacteria living in the gut are wired to break down oxalates.¹ And antibiotic drugs destroy these communities—increasing your risk of kidney stones and oxalate buildup.² By simply adding fermented foods to every meal, you rebuild your inner ecosystem.

While you’re controlling Candida overgrowth and rebuilding your inner ecosystem with probiotic-rich fermented foods, Body Ecology has one other tip: Boil your high-oxalate foods. After boiling high-oxalate foods in a large pot of water with a pinch of Celtic sea salt, remember to get rid of the cooking water—it contains the oxalates boiled out of the food.