New adherents to #Carnivore should sip hot lemon water with minerals, salt, and extra magnesium for the first year of their journey.

Why?

Because oxalates (small plant crystalline) from tea, chocolate, green leafs, soy, wheat, nuts, and seed consumption results in a large store of oxalates in the body that get dumped into the bloodstream when the intake of these plant foods stop.

Oxalate dumping can cause burning rash, kidney stones, burning dry eyes, and even gout. It's the crystals flooding your system.

The lemon water contains citrate together with the added minerals, especially magnesium, dissolve the oxalate crystals (preventing gout + stones) and restore the minerals being used in greater demand during the transition.

For those who *came* to #Carnivore because they developed an #oxalate intolerance, this can be kind of maddening since they will continue to experience autoimmune symptoms like rash until the oxalates have been fully extricated. Oxalates in, oxalates out.