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hey guys dr berg here in this video we

want to talk about spinach okay uh do

you want the good news or the bad news

first the good news okay good good news

is it it’s rich in iron

and magnesium i mean it’s off the charts

it’s also very high in vitamin a but

it’s a pre-vitamin a has to be converted

vitamin k tons of vitamin k that’s for

clotting and if you bruise easily you

want to consume that

it’s loaded with chlorophyll

and also vitamin c

so it’s really good for a lot of

different things in the body

folic acid b2 and b6 that’s for the

heart

it’s also

can be

it can improve macular degeneration it

supports the eye probably because the

vitamin

a and also because of all the

phytonutrients in there

xanthine and lutein and things like that

okay it’s an anti-inflammatory and the

list goes on and on and on and on okay

so that’s the good news

the bad news it’s loaded with oxalates

and if you’re predisposed to kidney

stones

you got to

just be cautious because oxalates are

certain things in the body that will

start to pull calcium and combine and

create stones

and that can be very painful

but there are certain things that you

can do to lower the risk for

oxalate stones number one you can steam

the

spinach but make sure you don’t go

overboard and cook it too much

because you just kill everything in it

okay so if you steam it you decrease the

nutrition by about 11

if you fully cook it like i remember

going to an indian restaurant and they

serve this spinach it’s literally been

cooking for a long time there’s no

nutrition left in that thing

and there’s probably no oxalates either

but steaming will lower the oxalate

lemon putting lemon on it will also help

the uh reduce the oxalates and potassium

citrate

okay so that’s the supplement because

the citrates combine and actually

inactivate the oxalates

and then there’s calcium calcium will

help reduce the oxalate stones because

it combines in your digestive system it

won’t let it form in the kidney i like

to get my calcium from cheese and i love

cheese i’m from wisconsin and i just the

other day i had some raw milk cheese

from the swiss alps

unbelievable i love that cheese and it’s

from trader joe’s they have some really

good uh great cheeses um so consuming

calcium will also lower your calcium

your calcium oxalate stones all right

and the last thing i want to mention

about spinach is you really

make sure that it’s always organic

because if you consume just commercial

spinach a lot of times it’s from sources

that could been exposed to you know ddt

and other chemicals that are banned in

america but they come over from other

countries all right thanks for watching

i’ll talk to you soon