Interesting, that when you search "oxalates", the ambiguous scientific statement that "oxalates contribute to kidney stones" is what you receive back...
The truth is much darker than they want you to believe.
Plants produce oxalic acid as a defense. Not only is it corrosive, but it also binds to minerals.
Plants love to use heavy metals for this purpose.
The oxalic acid, once bound to a mineral, produces an "oxalate" or a "raphide". These are plant defenses.
The consumer ingests/absorbs/inhales the oxalic acid, and the acid binds to the minerals in the consumer's body.
Starting with the first area of contact, it makes its way through the system, attracted to the minerals that are abundant in every part of the body.
The ingestion/inhalation of oxalates and raphides take a similar course through the body.
Starting with the initial contact location, they proceed through the body, tearing up systems as they go. These abrasive structures also get lodged in small narrow spaces.
The body's only mechanism for breaking down and removing these insidious crystals, is acid.
The immune system can see them; however, it is unable to dissolve and remove them.
Should they be contained within an organ, this promotes the inhabitation of that organ by organisms.
The immune system WILL mount an attack, and this situation is a common cause of what "they" call auto immune. Your body is not dumb. There is a reason it is attacking your organs, or self.
As mentioned, the only mechanism the body can utilize to break down and remove these structures is acid.
The problem lies with the inability of the body to utilize this mechanism within sensitive organs.
The only remedy is to coat them in calcium, to buffer them. This is where you get calcium oxalate stones.
Uric and pyruvic acid are commonly utilized in the breakdown of this acid/mineral bond.
What happens when those oxalates are stored in your bones?
In your eyes?
In your cells?
In your gallbladder?
In your liver?
In your joints?
In your... pineal gland?
That is tomorrow's "Simple Truth".