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Podcast – This food Turns ON the FAT Switch – Healthy Rebel Speaks Out Podcast #13

blogteam July 1, 2024Uncategorized

This is a Podcast with Bonni London from Healthy Rebels. We talk about sugar, fructose and uric acid. Moreover, we discuss how to evaluate your diet for hidden sugars, the importance of staying hydrated, and when you should be concerned …

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Article – Pegloticase-Methotrexate Combo May Improve Blood Pressure in Uncontrolled Gout

blogteam November 13, 2023Uncategorized

An article in Renal & Urology News showing again that treatment of uric acid  (this time with an agent called pegloticase) is associated with a significant reduction in blood pressure. Read the article here.

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Video – A Darker Side to Uric Acid

blogteam July 13, 2023Uncategorized

Discussions with Sara Banta on how uric acid may have a role in obesity and metabolic syndrome. Uric acid is not just the cause of gout, it is intricately linked with the processes involved in weight gain, fat accumulation and …

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Article – The Relationship of Chronic Kidney Disease with Gout

blogteam April 20, 2023Uncategorized

Here I discuss the strong link of gout with chronic kidney disease.  One simple reason is that when people have kidney disease they have trouble excreting uric acid, so it can build up in the blood and increase the risk …

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Article – National Kidney Month Spotlight: Uric Acid and Its Role in Chronic Kidney Disease

blogteam March 22, 2023Uncategorized

A discussion by Dr. Johnson in Rheumatology Advisor on the role of gout and uric acid in chronic kidney disease.  This has been a controversial topic, but Dr. Johnson suggests there are likely specific groups of patients in whom lowering …

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Paper – An Added Benefit from Treating Gout: A Reduced Risk for Dementia

blogteam March 14, 2023Uncategorized

A link to the association of gout with Alzheimer’s disease, and how treating gout is associated with a marked reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease.  This association is largely explained by a relationship of fructose with Alzheimer’s disease that we also …

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Video – Insulin Resistance is Normal, with Dr. Ken D. Berry

blogteam December 6, 2022Uncategorized

A fun, spirited discussion with Dr. Ken Berry on YouTube that discusses the fructose-based biologic switch that drives obesity, the role of uric acid in obesity, the benefits of the keto diet, and the effect of keto diets on kidney …

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Article: The Taste for Uric Acid

blogteam August 18, 2022Uncategorized

While there are four tastes on the tongue that are well known (sweet, salty, sour and bitter), there is a fifth taste known as umami.  Umami is sometimes called the savory taste, and it is one reason we like beer, …

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Article: The Sweet Pain of Gout

blogteam August 18, 2022Uncategorized

While not well know, sugar, and especially the component of sugar known as fructose , makes uric acid when it is metabolized.  One soft drink can raise your uric acid significantly.  Here we talk about the relationship of sugar, sweet …

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