457: Eliminate These Foods to Lose Weight & Prevent + Reverse Disease | Dr. David Perlmutter
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drdavidperlmutter457
Dr. David Perlmutter (IG: @davidperlmutter) is a Board-Certified Neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. He serves on the Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.
Today we’re discussing David's new book, Drop Acid. It focuses on the pivotal role of uric acid in metabolic diseases.
Reducing high uric acid levels through dietary and lifestyle tweaks will help you lose weight, prevent (and reverse) disease, and live a long and healthy life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The role of uric acid
- Fructose is directly metabolized into uric acid
- Fruit in moderation does not elevate uric acid
- Sources of fructose to avoid
- What is the optimal range for uric acid levels
- Estrogen helps with uric acid excretion after menopause
- Alternative sweetener recommendations + what to avoid
- Purines increase uric acid
- Beer stimulates uric acid
- Foods high in purines
- The correlation between salt consuption and obesity
- Lack of restorative sleep is associated with an elevation of uric acid
- Walking after dinner improves sleep
- Time-restricted eating is a powerful tool to improve metabolic health
- Uric acid levels rise during longer fasts + how long it takes to lower
- Luteolin is as effective as Allopurinol for lowering uric acid
- The powerful benefits of quercetin
- Counteracting roles of AMP kinase vs AMP deaminase
- Exercise activates AMP kinase
- When did the uricase mutation take place?
- The problem with sports drinks + healthy alternatives
- Check your blood sugar levels with a continuous glucose monitor
- Consuming coffee is associated with lower uric acid levels
- The dietary approach to lowering uric acid
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast and even going from 1970 to 1990 |
| 0:05.8 | in America, adults consume now a thousand percent more fructose. It's not just the calories, |
| 0:12.7 | it's not just that it's a sugar. It is a powerful signal to our physiology to shift from |
| 0:20.4 | being a fat burning machine, keeping blood sugar low to being a fat manufacturing and storage |
| 0:26.3 | machine and keeping blood sugar high. |
| 0:34.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 457. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take |
| 0:40.0 | your help to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and |
| 0:44.4 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week Dr. David Pearl Mudder is back on the show. |
| 0:49.2 | He's a board-certified neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. He serves on |
| 0:54.8 | the board of directors and is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition. Today we're discussing |
| 1:00.0 | his new book Drop Acid which focuses on the pivotal role of uric acid and metabolic diseases. |
| 1:05.6 | Reducing high uric acid levels through dietary and lifestyle tweaks will help you lose weight, |
| 1:10.8 | prevent and reverse disease, and live a long and healthy life. Highlights of our conversation |
| 1:15.8 | include fructose is directly metabolized into uric acid. What is the optimal range for uric acid |
| 1:22.8 | levels? The powerful benefits of Corsitan? Consuming coffee is associated with lower uric acid levels |
| 1:28.9 | and the dietary approach to lowering uric acid. As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen |
| 1:34.8 | this full interviews available over on YouTube, you can get there by going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com |
| 1:39.9 | slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there. Each and every interview from here on out |
| 1:44.5 | is going to be in full video form as well. The information in this interview is very obscure |
| 1:50.5 | and not a lot of people know about it, including myself until I read David's new book. |
| 1:54.8 | So if you know somebody in your life that can benefit from this information, |
| 1:57.7 | please share the interview with them or share the book with them. Either way, help them along |
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