What i did wrong with oxalates

What I did wrong when I discovered I’d poisoned myself with oxalates…

Many years ago, when I was still plant-based I heard about oxalates and thought it was completely ridiculous that all my whole food superfoods could be harming my health.  I brushed this nonsense off and carried on my merry way – mistake number one!

Last year I was sent a video of Sally K Norton  talking about oxalates and something in me (maybe because I was already animal-based by then) clicked and it all started to make sense to me.  The thing was almost everything I ate daily, coming in at something like 200x the daily recommended allowance was oxalates.  All my superfoods, health drinks, treats, the lot was high oxalate.

So, as I am an all in or all out kind of gal, I decided to do an experiment on myself and I gave up all high oxalate foods, cold turkey! – Mistake number two.

I knew there was a thing called oxalate dumping, but I figured I was fit and healthy and how bad could it be?  I’d done tons of intense detoxes over the years and got through them, I’d get through this too (if it happened to me).  – Mistake number three.

After a week of cutting out all high oxalate foods I felt the best I had felt in my whole life.  I was like superwoman!  So, why would I stop?  – Mistake number four.

For 5 weeks I felt truly amazing, I was on fire!  Less sleep was needed; my energy was through the roof and my brain was firing on all cylinders.  And then…

BAM!  Oxalate dumping!  Loads of symptoms that I had not had for years came flooding back, pain, heaviness, fatigue, and severe IBS.  I had no idea what was going on.  But the feedback I got from animal-based groups was I needed to double-down and go strictly carnivore, so I did. – Mistake number five.

I got worse, the bile issues were intense, it felt like I was spending more time on the toilet than off it, I felt terrible.  I was told, ‘go Lion’ this will sort it, so I did. – Mistake number six.

This sent me over the edge, I felt worse than I had in years!  And rather than improving the longer I did it the worse I got.  I added things like kidney pain and intense histamine issues to my symptoms list.

So, I stopped listening to everyone else and instead to my own body again!  I added back in some seasonal oxalate rich vegetables and when the dumping was to much I had some chocolate, almonds or green tea.

I stopped trying to do it like everyone else was doing it and just did it right for me!  Something I teach my clients but had lost site of with this for some reason.

The oxalate dumping got less intense and further apart (it was every few days before) and now it’s every few weeks.

In between the dumping I feel superhuman, so I just focus on that.  I focus on the fact it’ll pass and it’s a good thing my body is letting go of all these poisons I unknowingly shovelled into my body for the last few decades.

I support my liver and kidneys, get more calcium citrate in, I eat a nutrient dense animal-based diet, and I am addressing other underlying triggers and predispositions to be able to move through the release of these poisons from my body it the gentlest way possible.

There are always so many lessons when we are healing, our health is almost always our greatest teacher.  My massive take-away from this oxalate adventure so far is to listen to my own body and MAYBE also understand I don’t always need to always be ‘ALL-IN’!

If you’ve been feeling dodgy in any way from moving over to animal-based eating then I highly recommend you check out Sally K Norton  and her book Toxic Superfoods she runs live Q&A’s every couple of weeks, and you might be surprised to find our that probably most of your dodgy-ness could be down to oxalate dumping and there are ways to support yourself through this process.