A liver specialist is sounding the alarm about fad diets that are being promoted online and call for a “detox juice” of lots of fruits and raw vegetables mixed in a blender.
? This is a reminder too much of a good thing can be unhealthy or even cause injury in very rare cases.
“Please don’t do it. It can cause OXALATE KIDNEY INJURY and the kidneys take a LONG time to recover,” Philips tweeted last month. “For example, juicing oranges and avocados along with beets and spinach leads to very high levels of oxalates in the final product, which can harm kidneys,” Philips, a specialist in hepatology and liver transplant medicine at Rajagiri Hospital in Kerala, India, tells TODAY.com.
Kidney specialist Dr. Ray Bignall says oxalate kidney injury is not something that’s likely to affect the average person who is juicing as part of their breakfast, but agrees it’s important not to overdo it.
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