Expert profile
Dr. Ravi Kumar
Neurosurgeon and podcast host
Metabolic health and prevention
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Focus: Metabolic roots of chronic conditions
A board-certified neurosurgeon who hosts a podcast on prevention and metabolic health. He describes his approach as questioning accepted medical thinking and drawing on older ways of eating alongside clinical research. Topics he covers, such as gout, sit outside his surgical specialty.
Expert discussions with Dr. Ravi Kumar
Can you control gout without medication?
Gout happens when uric acid gets high enough to crystallise in a joint. Humans run higher than any other animal because we lost the enzyme that breaks it down. Beer, fructose and organ meats push it up, and the number that matters is 6 mg/dL. Whether diet alone can get you there depends on how high you started.