240: Oxalates: The Hidden Toxin in Your "Superfood" Diet — With Sally K. Norton

240: Oxalates: The Hidden Toxin in Your "Superfood" Diet — With Sally K. Norton

March 10, 2026 · 1h 1m

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Sally K. Norton discusses the health issues caused by oxalates in supposedly healthy foods.

Sally K. Norton, a Cornell-trained nutritionist with a master's in public health, spent decades sick while eating all the "right" foods before connecting her arthritis, chronic fatigue, sleep dysfunction, and other symptoms to oxalate accumulation. Her research — drawing on tens of thousands of peer-reviewed articles — reveals that medical and nutritional institutions have long known oxalates cause problems, but the information never connected across disciplines, was never prioritized, and go...

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Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia

Guest: Sally K. Norton

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Organizations: Cornell, medical and nutritional institutions

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