Do You Know What Oxalate Is?

In 1939, they had already identified some really nasty side effects from oxalate. The lab animals who are fed spinach for their calcium component couldn't mineralize their bones properly. When it's not soluble, we may not absorb it, but we're going to drive information in the gut with those microcrystals as we'll have sandpaper running along through the inside of the gut. But the challenge with that insoluble oxalate being present in a food is that we're not going to absorb that.

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