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Can Biotin Help Detoxify Oxalate?

Mastering Nutrition

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The biotin-dependent enzyme pyruvacorboxylase actually detoxifies oxalate. This is a hypothesis that may reconcile some anecdotes and as many hints suggested in the Enzamologic literature. Can I be confusing oxalate toxicity with biotin deficiency? Not entirely. But at the time that Sally Norton's book, Toxic Superfoods, struck me as very relevant.

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