How can I protect against oxalates?

Question: How can I protect against oxalates?

Short Answer: Getting 300-400 mg calcium between food and supplements at each meal will minimize oxalate absorption. Maintaining postprandial urine pH in the 6.4-6.8 range by getting 3-5 grams of potassium per day from food or from organic acid salts such as potassium citrate will prevent its crystallization in the kidney. Reducing dietary oxalate will prevent any possible damage in the gut.

This is a clip from a live Q&A session open to CMJ Masterpass members. In addition to this episode, you can access two other free samples using this link:

In that batch of free episodes you will also find the answer to this question:

Why Should Postprandial Glucose Be Kept Under 140 mg/dL?

If you want to become a Masterpass member so you can participate in the next live Q&A, or so you can have access to the complete recording and transcript of each Q&A session, you can save 10% off the subscription price for as long as you remain a member by using this link to sign up:

Learn more about the Masterpass here:

This snippet is from the April 12, 2023 AMA. The full recording and transcript is reserved for Masterpass members. Here is a preview of what’s included:

*What Causes Hypercholesterolemia and Does It Matter?
*How to Reverse Coronary Calcification?
*How to do a comprehensive nutritional screening
*How long after eating improperly cooked egg whites should I wait to take biotin?
*Is the extrusion process as harmful as some claim?
*How long can one fast before micronutrient deficiencies become an issue?
*Do B vitamins compete with each other for absorption?
*Why is thirst a symptom of diabetes?
*Do I agree with Peter Attia that ApoB should be driven as low as pharmacologically possible?
*During a fast, does the body break down muscle?
*How do you rest and refeed your brain?
*Why would someone have high RBC magnesium but low serum magnesium?
*GLA deficiency?
*Should we eat for our ethnicity?
*How convincing are polyphenol studies?
*Can coronary calcium be driven by oxalate?
*Citrulline for vasodilation
*How to reduce catabolism
*Rapid-fire run-through of orphaned questions from the submission contest, including a detailed look at Nadia’s thyroid numbers

[localrachel]

No mention of magnesium?!! That's pretty wild.

[davidb]

What about the issue of dietary fat saponifying the calcium, thereby preventing it from binding to oxalate? Should one avoid eating a lot of fat and and a lot of oxalate together? To me, this would also make sense in terms of how our prehistoric ancestors probably ate. When they ate fatty meat, they were probably not consuming high oxalate nuts/seeds/grains/tubers, and vice versa. Combining the two, and making every meal a smorgasbord of food items, is a modern indulgence.

[nootri]

🧲 Note: Lactoferrin in real, that is, raw milk that hasn't been pasteurized to dust, will also remove that mitotoxic poison talked about here. The binding of oxalate in the C-lobe of lactoferrin has been observed in crystallographic studies.

[Lovescoffeeandtea]

Is eating cheese or milk or sour cream say on a sweet potato with a meal a good way to bind oxalates?

[SJ-gjmx]

Chris, does cooking of Spinach or beetroot destroy Betaine?

[CTPH-]

So does that 3-400mg of calcium end up bound to oxalate and then excreted? Would you have to compensate for that "loss"?

[jirihutecka]

Btw isn't pH of the body controlled by breathing as well?

[nootri]

Wouldn't supplementing calcium mean potentially more free iron and other heavier metals escaping "oxalic grip" and lead to more heavy metals being absorbed? Oxalate sources such as leaves are generally high in these.

[markaguilera]

So basically eat fruit and vegetable for potassium to bind the oxalate. So what's the scare about?

[nootri]

Neither calcium nor potassium, nor non-heme iron supplements appeal to me. All these elements are generally ubiquitous, as they are also in oxalate rich leaves. To the best of my knowledge yellow spots on your tomatoes are already calcium bound oxalic acid crystals and also have plenty potassium, are they thus of no concern?

[agentoranges]

I never had a problem with oxalates once i gave up vegetables. Maybe its my microbiome, your mileage may vary

[nieuweabnormaal]

I found another method. Do not eat food with oxalates. I eat potassium chloride, that i add to the food. And magnesium citrate.

[LenkaVolnhals]

I don'ta ttatch suddenly to anything or anyone emotionally my dogs but all others my mind nblocks out even working having hundert of passengers around etc.... I am never myself but since the vaccine my brain has changed all has changed within me

[LenkaVolnhals]

HAve you ever eat without thinking what you eat just eating I have done it and do it since the vaccine

[LenkaVolnhals]

Please don't be angry me typing this thank you

[snowyowl]

3-400 mgs calcium ?… can you please make that “real” for us .. a couple of commonly ingested foods ??