Peter Attia· MD
and this mutation led to a much stronger uric acid response to fruit because this mutation was of an enzyme that degrades the uric acid and when you block that and you eat fruit your uric acid levels go up much more
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and this mutation led to a much stronger uric acid response to fruit because this mutation was of an enzyme that degrades the uric acid and when you block that and you eat fruit your uric acid levels go up much more
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the fossil record shows that it was a european ape that made it back to africa and also to asia to become our ancestors as well as the ancestors of the great apes that live in africa and in southeast asia like the orangutan that they all came from a common ancestor that was in europe and that went back to africa and we know from the genetics that that ape carried the uricase mutation
and ultimately that's why we as humans are among the very rare animals that have uric acid levels that are quite high relative to cats and dogs for example