Peter Attia· MD
oh absolutely part of the pathway through which ampd is working involves the generation of uric acid so we know that the uric acid when it's going up inside the cell is doing all kinds of biologic effects and the ampd is driving that there may be other things besides the uric acid so the hummingbird or the squirrel can still store fat they just don't get the bump in uric acid that comes with it because they don't have the uricase mutation