Oxalates cause breast cancer... And oxalates are found in high amounts in ‘healthy’ plant foods such as spinach, sweet potatoes, cacao, almonds, and chia seeds, just to name a few.
Do you know that multiple studies over the past few years show that oxalate induces both breast calcifications and breast cancer? I’d never come across information on this before, and I’d never looked into it. That was, until an experience I had recently caused me to question whether oxalate might be linked to breast cancer, and then to go looking to see if any studies were confirming this connection. I’d also hazard a guess that this is not something that most breast cancer sufferers have heard about either. So my next question is, why is no one talking about it?
What spurred me to ask the question and go looking for the studies was because I had this bizarre experience where an abundance of oxalate crystals exited my breasts, through my skin, and into my bra. I made the following video about it. It honestly felt really crazy to be sharing what I was sharing, but it was the truth, and it did happen!
At the time, I actually tried to think of any other reason that my bra would be filled with these tiny crystals, but there was no other explanation. It was as it appeared – oxalate crystals that had come through my skin, en masse.
I Consumed a VERY High Oxalate Diet for Years
At the time of writing this article, I’ve been eating a carnivore diet for just over a year. But before diving into this ‘crazy meat diet’, plants were my priority. I’d actually spent most of my adult life eating a very highly plant-based, whole-food diet. I’ve read, listened, and researched nutrition and diet for decades in my quest for good health. However, good health not only eluded me but seemed to move further and further from my reality as the years went by.
I won’t go into too much detail in this post, but suffice it to say that I ate a strict vegan diet for two years in my mid-thirties. I was a vegetarian for over a decade around that time as well, and I have drifted in and out of both raw vegan and standard vegan diets regularly in the years since. My last vegan episode was in early 2022, just before going keto, and then carnivore. And although my diet became more and more ‘clean’ over the years, having removed all gluten, and only rarely consuming processed foods, not only did good health elude me, but my health continued to decline while my weight also climbed. I found myself in my fifties, weighing in at over 100kg – a weight I’d not seen on the scales since I was thirty years old.
My ‘healthy’ diet in recent years consisted of loads of leafy greens such as spinach, chard, and beet greens; superfoods like cacao, chia seeds and nuts; herbs and spices; sweet potatoes and beets; and gluten-free grains like buckwheat and rice.
But what I’ve now learned over the last year or so, is that I was literally poisoning my body. I was filling my body with oxalate by eating large quantities of these high-oxalate foods. I was also causing chronic mineral deficiencies! Now I’ll likely spend years going through the process of eliminating this oxalate stockpile from my body.
