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Can Biotin Help Detoxify Oxalate?

Mastering Nutrition

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Oxalate Detoxification in Bacteria

This thing is in any diet on the earth at tens or hundreds of milligrams per day has toxic effects at physiological concentrations. And we are supposed to not be able to split it into two molecules of CO2. The only way we can break this thing down is to hope our gut bacteria contain the rare organisms that specialize in feeding off of it. That is the conventional belief. So what do I think? Well before I talk about how I think that humans should be able to break down oxalate, let's look at what is known about the detoxification of oxalate in bacteria.

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