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135. Could oxalate overload be causing your symptoms? With Sally K Norton

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Why Do Plants Have Oxelate?

Plants have to control calcium. If soil is very heavy in calcium, especially for plants that don't need a lot of calcium, the plants neat a way to kind of control the calcium. So making oxcillate, you can grab excess calcium and make these crystals and things as a way to just kind of set it aside. You also need to set aside calcium in your seeds, because that becomes a great way to have dormant storage calcium in a seed. And often seeds have a ring of calcium oxlate crystals around the outside of them. I'd say that plants invented warfare, cause they invented the spear and arrow away before they were even humans or animals around. They make these sort

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