Waterstones Drop Acid
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Price: £16.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: *** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** What do obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neurological disorders and premature death have in common? All can be stoked by high uric acid levels. Our most respected scientific literature is bursting with evidence that elevated uric acid levels lie at the root of many pervasive health conditions, but mainstream medicine for the most part remains unaware of this connection. This is especially alarming because many people don't know they are suffering from sky-high levels, putting them at risk for developing or exacerbating potentially life-threatening illnesses. Offering an engaging blend of science and practical advice, Drop Acid exposes the deadly truth about uric acid and teaches invaluable strategies to manage its levels, including:- Simple dietary edits focused on reducing fructose and foods high in 'purines' that can raise uric acid.- Natural hacks that lower levels such as consuming tart cherries, vitamin C, quercetin, and coffee.- Identifying common pharmaceuticals that threaten to increase uric acid.- Lifestyle interventions, like restorative sleep and exercise.- How to easily test your uric acid levels at home - a test routinely performed in your doctor's office during regular check-ups but typically ignored. Featuring the ground-breaking 'LUV' (Lower Uric Values) diet, 35 delicious recipes, self-assessment quizzes and a 21 day program for dropping levels, Drop Acid empowers readers with the information they need to address this hidden danger and live longer, leaner and healthier lives.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781529388435
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781529388435
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Author: Maggie Luuka
Rating: 5
Review: A great book to read - well written, full of important information of how to improve one’s health. Comprehensive and interesting as a whole. I highly recommended!
Author: MSMG
Rating: 1
Review: I have been a gout sufferer for a very long time (17 years) and I have always been told by doctors that uric acid is a cause of gout and that allopurinol was the answer. However I have had attacks when I have been taking allopurinol and the foods and drinks which I associate with attacks are wheat based foods (especially baked goods) and alcohol. But when eating lots of red meat and purine high seafood particularly my favourite salmon I get nothing. I tried a highly carnivorous diet for around 6 months before adding in a few veggies I happen to like and recently went full carnivore again and this works superbly well for me. I haven’t had a gout attack in well over a year when back when I was eating flour, sugar and drinking alcohol I got them relentlessly. I have to say I find the associations mentioned that say uric acid is associated with gout and that the foods listed in the diet section that are high in purine should be avoided to be troublesome. If this was true would not the Masai in Africa and the Inuit in the arctic be absolutely unable to function without almost constant gout attacks from their massively purine-rich foods? Red meat and high fat seafoods are their primary diet and they have zero access to any ‘uric acid’ reducing fruits and vegetables. The last time I looked the Inuit with their almost zero incidence of heart disease were not farming broccoli in northern Canada. Dr Perlmutter is focused on fructose throughout the book and I see the connection with our high sugar diet in the west, but again I don’t see the direct causal connection between uric acid specifically and gout. If Dr Perlmutter and his colleague have access to a strong double-blind trial where patients were taken off sugar, carbs and alcohol but remained on high purine foods and so as a result had constant gout attacks I would love to see it. I think that would strengthen his case. But this seems to be a very poor association study. It seems rather more to be the case that if you have a poor sugar/carb/alcohol rich diet you will have a high incidence of gout attacks, as well as elevated uric acid, as well as be more likely to die from all cause mortality because of the damage done to the body through a damaged metabolism. I must say I did find the evolution aspects very interesting and that uric acid was associated with our ancestors ability millions of years ago to store fat was one of the more interesting aspects of the book. However I do think again that in this case I didn’t see too much specific evidence of why uric acid specifically was a causal factor. If our ancestors were eating high purine foods, gaining high incidence of uric acid and then having many, many gout attacks would we also not have many thousands of incidents of gout / arthritis in the fossil/bone record? I’m just not convinced. Martin
