💡 Uric acid is the main culprit for gout, which is produced as a metabolic byproduct of fructose (sugar) and alcohol.
🥤 Minimizing consumption of sugar and alcohol is crucial to avoid high levels of uric acid in the blood.
🍖 Foods high in purines, such as red meat and seafood, raise uric acid levels but not to the same extent as fructose and alcohol.
🧪 Different types of sugar have different effects on the body, and fructose causes more oxidative stress and insulin resistance than glucose.
🧠 Eating too much sugar, especially fructose, can lead to addiction, chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and other metabolic illnesses like type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, high triglyceride levels, and high blood pressure.
🍭 Added sugar is in 75% of the food on grocery shelves, and the average American consumes three times the recommended amount of added sugar per day (25 grams).
🔬 Uric acid levels above 5.5 indicate mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance, two lab markers that strongly suggest metabolic illness.
