Peter Attia· MD
glucose plummets insulin becomes unmeasurable uric acid goes through the roof along with beta-hydroxybutyrate of course two possible explanations for the uric acid going through the roof one is the breakdown of nucleic acid then obviously you know when I talk go through I mean doubling of uric acid so much so that I started taking allopurinol during a fast to make sure I didn't get gout of course it could also be and I've read something that says that uric acid and BHB compete for the same transporter in the kidney so there might also be a bit of a competitive blockade but nevertheless we have at least one possible explanation there endocrine function changes dramatically t3 goes down significantly and reverse t3 goes up significantly such that the ratio of them changes by four to six fold which means you basically shut off the metabolism