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With oxalate nephropathy, I have an oxalate budget of 100/day - 2 oz of dark chocolate covers that. But then, if one is concerned, citrates provide a first-lin
by gardenfelder 3y ago
With oxalate nephropathy, I have an oxalate budget of 100/day - 2 oz of dark chocolate covers that.
But then, if one is concerned, citrates provide a first-line defense,e.g. 4 oz of lemmon juice, or,say, calcium or potassium citrate. That doesn't stop things, but it helps.
In your microbiome, oxalobacter formigenes is the primary defense. Lose that from, say, antibiotics or IBS, and you've got problems.
- gardenfelder 3y agoLet me build on that visit https://elicit.org/ https://elicit.org/ and type in a research question like "what causes oxalate nephropathy" and look at the results (elicit is free). That happens to be where I found the paper linked at the top.
- KMag 3y agoDuring COVID lockdown, working from home, I dramatically reduced my coffee intake while not replacing it with other liquid intake. I was literally drinking about 500 mL per day during lockdown. I also snacked on lots of almonds. When my son was born (still during lockdown), I literally did lots of running (jogging) around for various paperwork. 7 days after my son was born, I woke up, mentioned to my wife it felt a bit like I had been punched in the kidney the night before, and promptly found blood in my urine. Luckily, it turned out that I had a kidney stone, and apparently the jogging for paperwork shook it loose. (Cancer, kidney infection, kidney stones, and physical injury are the main causes of blood in urine.) Magnesium citrate is now my citrate of choice. It turns out I should drink at least 2 L of water per day.