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This sounds like a Chubbyemu video premise. (It's an excellent YouTube channel that posts semi-dramatised medical educational videos, usually following a fictionalised patient presenting to ER after ingestion of some substance, with an explanation of how that substance causes problems in the body and how a medical team might try to address it.)

Actually, there has been more than one video about oxalate nephropathy already, but from more obviously potentially harmful sources (https://youtube.com/watch?v=QJs431FsC_k&t=6m40s, https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrbylXMU8Mw&t=7m45s).

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Indeed, the video title could be "A man consumed 2 gallons of kale juice. This is what happened to his thyroid."

The channel is curious in that Dr Bernard seems to hire actors to produce what looks like stock footage to illustrate the story.

Yeah I’ve thought that too. He seems to have very good editorial control and access to decent no-name actors. His channel is really great.

I’ve assumed they were his friends, but I have no evidence.

I've definitely seen a video where he says the actor is a YouTuber friend and links to their channel, so it'd make sense if other videos are also friends?

im finally doing it. there is this thing where people recommend a youtube channel and laboriously explain what its about and 99.99% of the time its a channel that is insanely famous and known by everyone, requiring no recommendation or explanation. doing this has a negative association because it indicates everyone is oblivious to the world, to the fact that what you watch on youtube is not special.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

theres always a weird feeling when the passive aggressive xkcd link doesnt hit home

I had never heard of the channel and was thrilled to learn about it. FWIW.

you live under a rock. the vast majority of people on this website share my experience

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