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Oxalates and Histamine Intolerance
Oxalates and Histamine Intolerance+Mast Cells tend to go hand in hand.
What is an oxalate?
Oxalates — also known as oxalic acid — is a naturally-occurring compound in plants. These plant-based oxalates are consumed through our diet as well as produced as waste by your bodies.
Various foods high in oxalates are rich in many nutrients beneficial to your health, like leafy greens and legumes. However, because oxalates bind to calcium as they leave the body, they can increase the risk of kidney stones in some people. If you tend to make kidney stones, its a good indicator you're accumulating oxalates in the body and are sensitive to it. (Severity of sensitivity varies between individuals)
However, there's an extremely high likely-hood that with histamine intolerance, you're also suffering from oxalate intolerance or oxalate poisoning and dont even realize it!!
I didn't!!! So don't discount it right away!! Keep reading!
Where did this sensitivity come from?
When we encounter something stressful - either physical or mental - our body goes into fight or flight. Our body makes small changes to protect us to combat the stress; either run away, fight, detox, heal.... etc.
Chronic stress is harmful to the body, it damages organs, tissue, and your cells - to include the mighty mitochondria! Your cells make up everything in your body! If the cells take on too much damage, no longer transporting nutrients, energy, etc; they become clogged up with debris (usually toxic), cell health declines, cell death, and mitochondria becomes weaker and weaker until unable to provide the body with what it needs to function or live. This will result in life debilitating health issues and major illness.
So we can see the importance of cell health, right??
During prolonged chronic stress exposure that's damaging the cells and body, the more it will make metabolic changes. These metabolic changes also have life altering affects to you, your health, and how your body works.
What are these metabolic changes?
They are changes to your METHYLATION!! As we have learned so far, methylation is a critical component to managing your health, as well as regaining it. But its also responsible to help metabolize, and more particular, detox Oxalates out of the body.
Some processes in metabolism will actually create more oxalate as a by-product. Proper methylation is needed to 'metabolize' it and clear it out of the body via the kidney and urine (Urea Cycle in Methylation).
Oxalate issues primarily come from:
- Eating a poor diet filled with primarily processed foods, junk foods,
- Plant foods high in oxalates,
- Mitochondrial damage,
- Methylation issues (mainly urea cycle dysfunction)
- Leaky Gut. Leaky gut means you'll absorb more oxalate from the food you eat.
- Too much VITAMIN C!
If you are suffering from chronic illness, you're already struggling with cell health and methylation issues. That part's guaranteed.
The part in question, or part we need to question is... 'Are oxalates hurting me without even realizing it?'
The short answer to that is - with enough mitochondrial or methylation impairments, the answer will be YES!! Its unavoidable. The level of sensitivity will vary from person to person and it can be masked by an other co-morbidity or symptom. BUT FEAR NOT - We 'can' heal this as well.
If you're eating too many oxalates, or oxalate intolerant, especially with a compromised body - you may be doing a lot more harm then good. So understanding this often overlooked part of Mast cells and histamine intolerance would be a mistake.
In today's video interview, we're going to speaking with Author Sally K. Norton about Oxalates to get a better understanding of them. We're going to be talking about what oxalates are, how they affect the body, and what they do to immune cells.
Below is the Live discussion with Sally K. Norton, MPH on Oxalates and Histamine Intolerance
After video are the slides from the video.
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