Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid - The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar and Achieving Extraordinary Health Paperback – 3 Mar. 2022

Brilliant read for those of us wanting to try and keep inflammation down not too high brow and full of science around food and what it’s doing to your health

Very readable and helpful for a sufferer from gout. It dispels the commonly held belief that gout is caused by too much alcohol or very rich food. Science seems sound, especially the input from Dr Richard Johnson.Cannot comment on the diet but otherwise can thoroughly recommend.

I’ve read virtually all the “diet” books, Wheat problems, Sugar problems, Keto, Paleo etc. This book brings in all of these and more. Diet, exercise, sleep, lifestyle, fasting etc. so that’s why I called it The Lord Of The Rings. It’s got everything ! As a retired dentist, the science was quite understandable, if not a little tedious at times. The science is sound , logical , and relevant..You can skip to the nitty gritty bit and take onboard the suggestions for supplementation, foods to avoid, and those to embrace. The menus at the end are amazing ! Lots for everyone, vegan as well. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER DIET BOOK ! It is a lifestyle change, with dietary improvements and suggestions , no counting of calories or horsehair shirt wearing !I feel that even adopting several of the suggestions would make a great impact on people’s lives. It is not a Bible to be followed to the letter. I still love my beer, but it’s dramatically reduced. I still rather like Gin And Tonic. I note my tonic is “Naturally” sweetened with fructose juice ! I eat the same ( too much !), but swapped out the tonic. Lost seven pounds in ten days without trying !It’s all about small changes are all that is needed.So, this is not another diet book, but essential reading for everyone, especially doctors, who tend not to be very nutritionally savvy.I can’t recommend this book strongly enough.

If you suffer from high urate levels, gout, too much uric acid, etc. read this. I was told by my dietician it is down to eating foods high in purines, nothing else. You might find that explanation is too rather too simplistic and ill-informed for words. Read this.

Everyone should read this book, at first I was sceptical of the claims so I fully researched the claims and found the book to be factually correct. I have made many lifestyle changes and I am already seeing the benefits.

Particularly if you've been trying a low carb or keto diet, and finding it frustrating, reaching a plateau, or even going backwards.I bought the book some time ago, and stupidly ignored the lessons from it, but now at last taking the lessons on board, reducing inflammation and pain. So don't just buy and read the book, but act on it, if your Uric acid is high, get it down!

This book can be summed up in one sentence, keep your Uric acid levels below 5mg/dL and you should be fine, found the book a tedious read, it overloaded with scientific studies, in an attempt to convince the wider scientific community of its validity, but to be fair to DP, he makes clear it a theory and will eitherr get accepted in 10-20 years time, ignored (a big possibility) or shot down in flames,. In the meantime I intend to cutdown on my beer consumption and get my uric acid levels measured, as this theory could prove to be right, who knows?

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