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Drop acid?

When's the last time you heard a health professional give you this advice? Well, actually probably never.

But my guest today says it's all about dropping acid and love. Spelled LUV to help you live your healthiest, happiest life.

And no, my guest is an original wood stocker, hippie. He's my good friend, Dr. David Promoter.

Neurologist, a New York Times best-selling author of grain brain and brainwash, and a new book called Drop Acid, the surprising new science of uric acid, the key to losing weight, controlling blood sugar, and achieving extraordinary health.

He's here to explain his surprising findings about uric acid, a waste product that we produce that can harm almost every aspect of our health.

And he'll share what we can do about managing our uric acid levels to support long-term health.

So stay tuned to learn how you can drop acid and live well. We'll be right back.

Welcome back to the podcast, David, and Happy Belated Birthday.

Not sure how you knew that, but I'm glad to see you again and glad to be back. Thank you.

All right, let's dive right in about your exciting new research and drop acid.

All right, you're a neurologist. Why did you decide to hone in on uric acid of all things?

Well, you're a cardiologist, and what do we share, you and I? We share the idea that metabolic problems are at the heart of the diseases that you are most interested in, those of the heart, and diseases of the brain, the area that I specialize in as well.

So that disturbed metabolism becomes a big player. It relates to coronary arduous disease.

It dramatically relates to risk for Alzheimer's disease, for a disease for which there is no pharmaceutical treatment.

So my interest for many, many years and years, too, has been to look at what's available to help people regain their metabolic health.

And these days to kind of offset the metabolic mayhem that is so pervasive looking at obesity rates, diabetes rates, hypertension rates, problems with this lipidemia, elevated triglycerides.

These are all metabolic issues. Sure, they're bad for the heart, but they are so bad for the brain as well.

And that's why I'm interested, and that's why, you know, I even wrote grain brain now a decade ago talking about stopping this sugar because it's threatening to your brain.

Well, we now have a new tool to look at, and it is not your grandfather's uric acid. You know, you and I in medical school learned about uric acid and something called gout where people who ate rich food would get a painful problem in their toes and would be unable to walk.

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