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The year 2020 is not going the way most people had planned. And in Liam Hemsworth’s case, he’s still recovering from a difficult 2019 that included surgery for a painful kidney stone and a divorce from Miley Cyrus

The experience led him to reexamine several parts of his life, and he started with his vegan diet.

“I was vegan for almost four years, and then February of last year I was feeling lethargic. Then I got a kidney stone. It was one of the most painful weeks of my life. I was doing press for Isn’t It Romantic. But I had to go to the hospital and get surgery,” Hemsworth, 30, told Men’s Health for their May cover.

The actor said that “it’s all good now,” but that he had to lower his vegetable intake.

“Once you get one kidney stone, you have a 50 percent chance of getting another one if you continue eating the way you were eating,” he explained. “Well, my particular kidney stone was a calciumoxalate kidney stone. It forms from having too much oxalate in your diet. Oxalates are really high in a lot of vegetables, specifically spinach, almonds, beetroot, potatoes. Every morning, I was having five handfuls of spinach and then almond milk, almond butter, and also some vegan protein in a smoothie. And that was what I considered super healthy. So I had to completely rethink what I was putting in my body.”
Liam Hemsworth Men's Health

https://people.com/health/liam-hemsworth-needed-surgery-that-forced-him-to-completely-rethink-his-vegan-diet/