Drop Acid
The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid - The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health
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Peter Ganim
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Written by:
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David Perlmutter MD
About this listen
The New York Times best-selling author of Grain Brain and Brain Wash offers simple dietary and lifestyle tweaks to help you lose weight, prevent (and reverse) disease, and live a long and healthy life by reducing high uric acid levels - the hidden health risk you didn't know you had.
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 a large number of Americans don’t know they are suffering from increased 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 groundbreaking “LUV” (Lower Uric Values) diet, 35 delicious recipes, self-assessment quizzes, and a 21-day program for dropping levels, Drop Acid empowers listeners with the information they need to address this hidden danger and live longer, leaner, and healthier lives.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2022 David Perlmutter, MD (P)2022 Little, Brown SparkYou may also enjoy...
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"Dr Perlmutter again opens our eyes to another predictor of illness involved in many of the chronic ailments that plague modern humanity and provides us the tools to regain control of our metabolic health." (Mehmet Oz, MD)
"In typically brilliant fashion, one of the most trustworthy voices in medicine today has WOWED again. With Drop Acid, Dr. David Perlmutter has paved the way for a paradigm shift in the way we address the most threatening epidemics of our time. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and Dr. Perlmutter offers scientifically supported practical advice, simple dietary changes, and natural hacks to tackle the metabolic issue underpinning obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and more. Grateful readers will learn exactly how to easily overcome unexplained weight gain and chronic conditions that have plagued them for years." (JJ Virgin, author of The Virgin Diet)
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- Renzo Dalla Via
- 2023-07-29
Very informative
The good doctor certainly opened my eyes to the importance of controlling uric acid. Along with working on improving my nitric acid levels this hopefully will help. However, some of his food choices are not consistent with some of the Blue Zones diets. This is my problem to deal this.
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- Jonathan Brochu
- 2023-10-20
For everyone's health
Every individual should listen to this audiobook and start looking into their nutrition as medicine and therefore a starting point on how to address general health. This book is a great source of information and a great spark of interest into our health and subsequently our well-being.
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- Mario Quesada
- 2022-09-02
Very insightful
The novelty of this approach makes this audiobook worth listening.
I'm eager to verify by myself if my health umproves from applying this knowledge.
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- steve Webster
- 2023-01-06
A must read fro chronic high UA
Very useful, I hope the information will prove beneficial to me. I have the MTHFR gene defect and also suffer from high homocysteine. It also appears these are all linked together as well. Good luck everyone on your individual hunt for health!
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- Brent B.
- 2023-02-03
First place I heard about Uric Acid.
Interesting perspective. We’ve heard people talk about low carb, and how grains are bad for us, but this book provides a fresh take on optimizing our health by reducing UA levels.
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