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How Fasting Affects Uric Acid

How Fasting Affects Uric Acid

As we explore in Drop Acid, in many ways uric acid serves as an alarm signal in the body, alerting metabolism that food is scarce. As such, elevation of uric acid serves to preserve body fat, increases the …
Fructose, Uric Acid and Diabetes

Fructose, Uric Acid and Diabetes

Over the past 100 years there has been a dramatic rise in two important health-related metrics: the incidence of type-2 diabetes and the consumption of fructose, and sugar in general. What bears exploring …
Simple Steps for Growing Broccoli Sprouts

Simple Steps for Growing Broccoli Sprouts

In my new book, Drop Acid, I describe in detail how powerfully effective a compound called sulforaphane is in terms of supporting health. And many have spoken about how broccoli sprouts are rich in sulforap…
Controlling Uric Acid – The Key to Metabolic Health

Controlling Uric Acid – The Key to Metabolic Health

Our most important task if we are to achieve optimal health centers on optimizing our metabolism. This means doing everything we can so that we maximize our control over things like blood sugar, body weight…
An Integrated Plan for Lowering Uric Acid

An Integrated Plan for Lowering Uric Acid

It’s often said that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” And this is particularly true when it comes to what we can gain from combining specific nutritional supplements. For example, while tak…
Introducing: Drop Acid

Introducing: Drop Acid

The most threatening pandemic of our modern times is not a virus. The number one cause of death on our planet are chronic, metabolic conditions and the multitude of diseases they produce. These include diab…
The LUV Diet  vs. the Ketogenic Diet—You Can Have It Both Ways

The LUV Diet vs. the Ketogenic Diet—You Can Have It Both Ways

One of the most exciting trends over the past decade in the nutrition world has been the recognition of the value of ketosis. Typically, getting into ketosis, meaning that the body has shifted away from bur…
Uric Acid Affects COVID-19 Outcome

Uric Acid Affects COVID-19 Outcome

It’s become very clear that various metabolic conditions are associated with worse outcome as it relates to COVID-19 infection. For example, things like obesity, elevated blood sugar, type 2 diabetes, and e…
Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Why is uric acid included on the typical comprehensive blood panel that many people get as part of their annual physical examination? This certainly would be a good question to ask your doctor. Quite likely…
Uric Acid and Cognitive Decline

Uric Acid and Cognitive Decline

There are several key mechanisms that are directly involved in what causes our most pervasive degenerative conditions like coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity, hypertension, and …