Mr. mm also has kidney stones and needs to watch his oxalates, but one interesting thing he found out is that if you eat oxalates with calcium, they bind in digestion and are less likely to cause future stones.
Also, the dr told him to cut back on nuts. He had looked at his labs and asked him if he was doing a lot of nuts, which he had been since they are so good for you in most ways, unless you have kidney stones. He said he had, and the dr told him to cut back again ( but no need to eliminate)
Uh-Oh.
Somewhere I’d read that cashews were good for you, so I’ve been snacking on cashews—by the pound!
[[ but one interesting thing he found out is that if you eat oxalates with calcium, they bind in digestion and are less likely to cause future stones.]]
Thanks for that info- I love spinach, and beet greens especially, but have mostly avoided them because of stones- I’m a “Stoner” and have passed about 150 or so stones in a few years in the past before I found that eating far too many salty snacks was really amazing up the production of stones- I also learned that taking d alone would cause stones. Weirdly though ordinary are table salt doesn’t seem to cause stones, but perhaps if I ate as much as I was getting from eating salty snacks, it would.
Doc put me on allopurinol, and I watch my salt so ewha5 now (not fanatically, I just don’t have chips with lunches anymore, or 1/4 box of cheese nips per sitting, which I loved)