The Hidden Danger of a "Healthy" Low Oxalate Diet

You spend years drinking the dark, green blood of the earth. Spinach smoothies, almond flour crusts, turmeric lattes. You do everything "right." And then the floor gives way. You realise the very things you trusted to knit your cells back together have been quietly flooding your system with oxalates.

When the realisation hits, you go looking for a map. And thank God, a map exists.

A group of fiercely dedicated, chronically ill pioneers spent years crowd-funding and curating a massive database of food values. They built an absolute fortress of knowledge whilst their own nervous systems were misfiring and their bodies were in pain. They fought for answers the medical establishment couldn't provide, and we owe them an immense debt.

They gave us the map.

Why Avoiding Oxalate Dumping Requires So Much Maths

But having a map, and having the cognitive bandwidth to read it, are two entirely different animals. The protocol dictates a careful, plodding 5-10% reduction in oxalates each week to avoid the terrifying physiological crash of oxalate dumping. To do this safely, you are handed a magnificent, sprawling spreadsheet.

But how do you perform daily calculus when your mitochondria are sputtering like wet matches? When brain fog sits behind your eyes like thick tar? Tracking this way requires a cognitive budget you simply do not possess.

So, one of two things happens. Either you abandon the spreadsheets entirely because the friction is too high, or out of sheer desperation, you slash your intake overnight. You drop the oxalates. You trigger a massive dump. A new kind of hell opens up.

Healing is already a labyrinth; we don't need to navigate it whilst carrying a calculator.

I am exploring an idea to solve the maths problem. I want to build a quiet, digital tool that handles the calculations for you. No complex visual clutter. No alarms. Just a gentle algorithm that automatically calculates your safe, slow taper and lets you track your symptoms. A tool designed specifically for days when every tap on a screen costs energy.

Help Me Build a Better Oxalate Calculator

Before a single line of code is written, I need to know the topography of your daily struggle. I need to know what breaks your brain on a Tuesday afternoon when you are just trying to figure out what to eat.

There is an anonymous, six-question survey below. If you have two minutes, I would be deeply grateful for your insights.

Thank you for trusting me with your reality. We have to stop expecting exhausted people to push through impossible friction to get well. Your insights will dictate exactly what we build.