Peter Attia· MD
when we were in medical school rick we learned a lot about uric acid through the lens of a disease called gout and it didn't get a lot of air time in school maybe it gets more today but at the time it was basically gout is a disease of civilization it's from eating too much meat and there's no real problem with it except for the nuisance of your toe hurts because uric acid crystallizes it gets inside joints it seems to favor the first joint of the great toe and it's a very painful inflammatory condition and it's what happened to sort of the wealthy people of the last few hundred years as they started getting and acquiring too much meat and protein