Uric Acid Exposed: The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health with Dr. Anna Cabeca and Dr. David Perlmutter

<p>David Perlmutter reveals the exciting and challenging science behind a major health risk that almost no one is talking about. Find out how uric acid is contributing to some of the biggest health risks in modern life, how the standard American diet is the perfect formula for creating dangerous levels of uric acid in your body, and how you can make changes to your diet that will help you lose weight, control your blood sugar, and live a healthier life. </p> <ul> <li>[1:40] As of 2022, David will be 67 years young and he’s planning on traveling from Vancouverto Alaska with his wife. The world has a lot of variability and uncertainty right now so it’s hard to make detailed plans for the following year, but in some ways, that’s good because it forces you to focus on the present.</li> <li>[5:00] David’s new book is called Drop Acid. It specifically deals with uric acid and how we discovered it to be a central player in regulating metabolic health. It’s not only that uric acid just becomes elevated, it actually plays a causal role in conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.</li> <li>[7:45] Metabolic issues are the number one cause of mortality on the planet. Countries like Japan have been aggressive in intervening with people with high levels of uric acid because of its dramatic associations with death from all causes.</li> <li>[8:25] Risk of death due to cardiovascular disease rises by 38%, stroke by 35%, and for every point of elevation in uric acid above 7 all cause mortality increases by 8%-13%. Having a high uric acid level is associated with a 80% risk of dementia, and a 55% risk of Alzheimer’s.</li> <li>[10:00] Testing uric acid levels is fairly routine, but what it indicated wasn’t meaningfully understood until recently. David began  looking at uric acid because of his interest in metabolic health and its association to Alzheimer’s. The original paper linking uric acid to metabolic issues was published in 1894, and was buried until a researcher named Dr. Richard Johnson started doing studies on it