960 - How to Lower Uric Acid Naturally: Foods, Supplements & Lifestyle
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I’m excited to have Dr. David Perlmutter back on the podcast to discuss uric acid and its pivotal connection to our overall health. Which foods lower and raise uric acid? What is its role in diabetes, alzheimer’s, gut health, and brain health? All of this will be covered, as well as best protocols for lowering high uric acid. You don’t want to miss this! Listen now!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:30 Why uric acid is pivotal to health
05:57 Evolutionary origins of high uric acid
07:12 Why fructose is a major factor
13:10 What elevates uric acid?
18:47 How to monitor levels
24:22 Foods that raise vs. lower UA
25:43 Relation to diabetes & other diseases
29:40 Probiotic protocol to lower UA
31:39 Connection to gut health
35:59 Connection to brain health
44:10 New therapeutics to explore
52:49 How to lower uric acid
57:37 Final takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
| 0:14.8 | To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. For weekly updates, |
| 0:23.2 | visit Dr. Rucho.com. Dr. David Prolmander, welcome back to the show. Well, I'm Michael. Great |
| 0:29.3 | to see you. I'm delighted to be back. It's been a while. You've been a busy bee, and |
| 0:34.0 | Uric acid is one of the things on your radar. So I'm excited to discuss more about this topic. |
| 0:39.5 | And like I was saying a moment ago, |
| 0:41.4 | pretty timely with my father, |
| 0:43.3 | recently having some gout, some high uric acid. |
| 0:45.9 | So a lot of this, I'm motivated to help inform his decisions |
| 0:51.3 | with our conversation. |
| 0:54.0 | That's true. |
| 0:55.3 | You know, we tend to pigeonhole things that we learn in our medical training in terms of |
| 1:01.5 | what they do in the body. |
| 1:03.0 | Like we say testosterone is a male hormone and progesterone is, you know, a female hormone |
| 1:09.9 | that is progestational and that's all we want to, you know, |
| 1:13.3 | we don't want to expand on things. And to think that uric acid, which we really identified |
| 1:18.4 | through our training as being the mediator of gout or not gout, and that's the end of it. |
| 1:24.8 | I've learned my lesson. Let's move on to the next topic. |
| 1:34.4 | It oftentimes is a little bit challenging to us to recognize that these chemicals in our bodies do a multitude of different things, uric acid not being any different. And then, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | the idea that we have recognized for decades that uric acid seems to be related |
| 1:46.8 | to metabolic issues, but now we are understanding that mechanistically it's actually causing |
| 1:54.0 | some of these metabolic issues. And so therefore, you know, with metabolic issues being so |
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