Toxic Superfoods

How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick—and How to Get Better

By: Sally K. Norton

Narrated by: Sally K. Norton, Jeremy J. Raw

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

An acclaimed nutrition educator reveals how the foods you’re eating to get healthy might be making you sick.

“Sally Norton’s well-researched book makes a truly important contribution to the literature in revealing just how much oxalates can damage the human body.”—Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise

If you’re eating a healthy diet and you’re still dealing with fatigue, inflammation, anxiety, recurrent injuries, or chronic pain, the problem could be your spinach, almonds, sweet potatoes, and other trusted plant foods. And your key to vibrant health may be quitting these so-called superfoods.

After suffering for decades from chronic health problems, nutrition educator Sally K. Norton, MPH, discovered that the culprits were the chemical toxins called oxalates lurking within her “healthy,” organic plant-heavy diet. She shines light on how our modern diets are overloaded with oxalates and offers fresh solutions including:

• A complete, research-backed program to safely reverse your oxalate load
• Comprehensive charts and resources on foods to avoid and better alternatives
• Guidance to improve your energy, optimize mood and brain performance, and find true relief from chronic pain

In this groundbreaking guide, Norton reveals that the popular dictum to “eat more plants” can be misleading. Toxic Superfoods gives health-seekers a chance for improved energy, optimum brain performance, graceful aging, and true relief from chronic pain.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of figures and tables from the book

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Sally K. Norton (P)2022 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Who knew that some so-called superfoods could be the opposite of healthy? I’ll never forget when my twenty-one-year-old friend who drank daily spinach and almond milk smoothies came down with a kidney stone. Sally Norton’s well-researched book makes a truly important contribution to the literature in revealing just how much oxalates can damage the human body. The conventional advice to eat ‘mostly plants’ is seriously challenged by the reality that plants contain known toxins. Norton makes a compelling case that oxalates are the X factor contributing to many mysterious health conditions.” —Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise

“What if your favorite superfood was actually a supervillain? Sally Norton masterfully pinpoints the changes in our food system and eating style that have turned a common, natural occurring toxin into a potential public health crisis for people who are trying their best to eat well. Her simple and effective recommendations are grounded both in modern science and the principles of ancestral health.” —Aaron Blaisdell, PhD, UCLA professor of behavioral neuroscience

“As a medical profession, we have only recently begun to realize how commonly we are seeing oxalate issues be a part of the presentation of a wide variety of chronic illnesses. Sally has done an excellent job of bringing this information to our attention, including a clear program of exactly how to work with oxalate toxicity. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has been wrestling with poor health and not gotten the answers they need from the medical profession.” —Neil Nathan, MD, author of Toxic

Life changing

This advice has saved me mentally and physically. I believed the narrative of what is healthy and many doctors and many years and a lot of money later I found I was wrong. Thank you Sally for doing the hard work first and then being brave enough to share it!

One of the best health-related books I've read

It made sense of so much that I've been experiencing. Invaluable information is contained within this book.

Paradigm shift! WOW.

I've read ALL of the books that were supposed to heal my body with all the so-called Superfoods. The healthier I ate (gluten free, dairy free for years then even lectin free), the more ill I became. I'm refusing to go on lifelong immunosuppressive medications with all their side effects. Out of desperation I began the carnivore diet and within a week, thankfully, I came across Sally Norton in one of the many YouTube interviews on carnivore. I realized what I was experiencing was a toxic overload of oxalate from my lifelong eating habits. Now I have the proper information, backed by REAL science to slowly transition to a low and eventually no-oxalate diet. I ordered the paperback to use as a guide. I couldn't stop listening to this book. Her story and those of her clients are so close to my story. Applying this information is a life changer. Thank you Sally Norton!!!

A very important book for my own health

I found out about Sally K. Norton through interviews on YouTube. She gives lots of great information there, and I’m quite glad that I purchased her book. She has more in depth information and explanations here that are totally worth the read.

Highly recommended.

This book will open your mind!

This is the most important book about nutrition that I’ve ever read. Truly recommend it!

Healthy, Strong, and Victorious

A monumental, must-read addition to any healthy eater's library, especially critical for anyone consuming plant matter (veggies, spices, tea), which is nearly everyone these days; up there with Taubes' treatement of sugar in Bad Calories, which convinced me to adopt animal product based #keto a decade ago.

I was both delighted and enlightened by Norton's similar approach to oxalate education in this book - starting out with the surprising wealth of historic understanding of the problem and modern disinterest and obliviousness, very strong paralels with obesity and diabetes treatement.
Some of the most fascinating points in the book lie on the very periphery of the topic of oxalate poisoning and treatement, such as renal biology, vascular cell epigenetics etc. and it is exactly this type of wider theoretical connectivity I am looking for in popular science books like this.

This book will surely be of interest to carnivore dieters also because it gives strong scientific arguments for what may otherwise be a very emotional or naturalistic appeal.

clear and useful info

must read- who knew about oxalates? a whole new world of health possibilities and opportinites.

Very informative

Very informative and researched-based. No wonder I felt terrible after years of veganism.

Easy to listen to. A delightful voice

You can do this life warrior

Sally has such a pleasant reading voice with poignant quotes by a narrator launching each new chapter. This is a digestible, educational, science filled book. A few simple charts point readers to a safe way to launch a thriving lifestyle making healing choices. Sally provides social media and internet resources to insure you do not stand alone.
Thank you for sharing your story and research so that we can all benefit Sally!

Scary yet very helpful

This book was an eye-opener, a little bit frightening, but mostly very helpful.
I hope more people find help through this methodology