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Toxic Superfoods: Are Chocolate, Spinach and Almonds Making You Sick? | Sally K. Norton
You eat healthy and you still feel sick. Aching joints, broken sleep, up at night to pee. Sally K. Norton lived that way from childhood and was forty-nine before she worked out why. She says the sweet potatoes, spinach and chard she relied on were the cause, and that almonds and dark chocolate carry the same compound.
Sally is an Ivy League nutritionist and the author of Toxic Superfoods. I asked her which symptoms point to oxalates, why cutting these foods out fast can make you feel worse, and what she swaps in instead.
Key Insights:
✅ Cloudy Urine Is a Warning Sign
✅ Five to Eight Spinach Leaves Daily
✅ Swap Spinach for Romaine or Arugula
✅ Pumpkin Seeds Are the Safe Seed
✅ Leaky Gut Can Multiply Oxalate Absorption
✅ Quitting Too Fast Can Backfire
Chapters:
00:00 Why Ancestral Eaters Still Have a Blind Spot
03:59 When Sweet Potatoes Replaced the Bread