How Uric Acid Disrupts Your Metabolic Heath – Dr. David Perlmutter : 906
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...
… guest Dr. David Perlmutter explains how he’s an expert in dropping acid, but not in the way you might think. A regular contributor to groundbreaking science, he’s back on the show to talk about why you should be paying attention to your uric acid levels.
Dr. Perlmutter is a neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. His books include “Brain Wash,” “Grain Brain” and “Brain Maker.” He’s recognized internationally as a leader in the field of nutritional influences in neurological disorders. Now, he’s turning his attention to how uric acid threatens your metabolic health.
Uric acid is a waste product of metabolism, and its levels are a key health marker and indicator of chronic degenerative diseases. When uric acid levels rise, they tell your body to store fat, which messes with your metabolism and poses a danger to your health.
Alcohol, purines (breakdown product of DNA and RNA in foods) and fructose (the kind of sugar found in processed foods) are the three main sources of uric acid. Since the days of our primate ancestors, we’ve lost the ability to break down uricase, so what we choose to consume makes a big difference.
“If we can emulate those signals to our DNA and our physiology that have evolved to keep us healthy,” Dr. Perlmutter says, “we're going a long way to offsetting these incredibly powerful metabolic disruptions that are paving the way for the biggest cause of disease on our planet.”
His newest book, “Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid—The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health,” includes ways to measure, control and track your uric acid levels and key strategies to manage them. You’ll find out the top five foods that raise uric acid (hint: fructose earns the No. 1 spot). You’ll also find out the five important supplements to take to lower your uric acid levels back into a healthy range.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.2 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.2 | Today is going to be a lot of fun because I'm interviewing a dear friend and a fantastic |
| 0:20.8 | human being who's moved the needle on our awareness for health and much of his career. |
| 0:26.9 | Dr. David Pearlmutter, he's been on the show several times and is one of those guys who's |
| 0:31.2 | connected the gut and the brain and how we treat kids, how we treat ourselves for decades |
| 0:36.9 | of writing books. |
| 0:38.2 | One of the greats and someone I've recorded to interview on his boat tends to be in my |
| 0:43.8 | part of the world some of the year so it's always good to get to interview him because |
| 0:47.8 | he knows stuff that no one else does. |
| 0:50.9 | In our interview today, we're going to talk about what I think might be the next big |
| 0:55.8 | biomarker. |
| 0:56.8 | You've already learned about levels health and what you can do with continuous glucose |
| 1:02.1 | monitoring. |
| 1:03.1 | You've learned about ketone monitoring, all the different ways you can do that. |
| 1:07.3 | But do you know your uric acid levels? |
| 1:10.7 | You probably don't, but it turns out there's equipment and there's reasons to measure this. |
| 1:16.4 | So what you're going to learn as I promised you this year, I'm going to tell you exactly |
| 1:19.5 | why to listen to a show before the show so you know that it's a good idea to listen |
| 1:23.3 | to it or you could say I just don't care. |
| 1:25.8 | So you're going to learn in this one from one of the great functional medicine doctors |
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