In the report's keywords it mentions spinach. How much spinach is ok vs too much?
Is this issue caused by consuming too much spinach or by consuming spinach in combination with specific foods found in green smoothies?
Is this issue caused by consuming too much spinach or by consuming spinach in combination with specific foods found in green smoothies?
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.
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.
The bypass probably doesn't help because you are reducing the time exposed to acid/alkali. The antibiotic also kills off any bacteria that would absorb oxalates.