Last update and review: December 16, 2020.
A short summary.
A discussion about serum uric acid levels with an example of a popular health educator Tommy Wood.
“The Serum Uric Acid Challenge”.
Tommy Wood had elevated serum uric acid in 2015. Is this normal on a low carb diet?
Tommy Wood is an MD PhD trained in the UK and in Scandinavia. Tommy is popular health educator.
In 2015, Tommy was a very busy PhD student in Norway and a medical consultant for a US-based outlet. In October 2015, Tommy Wood got his blood tested at a laboratory test provider in the US.
One of the interesting details in the blood test results was Tommy’s serum uric acid. It was 8 mg/dL.
A PDF file with Tommy’s labs from October 2015 is linked below.
Here is how Tommy described his diet at the time he got his blood tested in October 2015:
I eat a (rather) low carb diet. Many days I eat under 50 grams of carbs. I usually only eat my carbs after training. It’s very rare that I’ll eat more than 200 grams of carbs a day… But after a heavy set of squats, I’m fairly sure that most of those carbs go into my quads.
So, an elevated level of serum uric acid in a physically active person who is on a low carb diet. Tommy appeared to be doing everything right. Should elevated serum uric acid be considered as acceptable on a low carb diet? Or should this marker be corrected?
A discussion about serum uric acid levels observed on different diets and life-style regiments is needed.
A discussion about serum uric acid levels on different diets would be interesting. Health enthusiasts experiment with different protocols and create peculiar metabolic and hormonal profiles. Many dietary and training regiments, that are considered as optimal or even ideal in the grassroots health community, may produce metabolic profiles with multiple markers outside the conventional ranges. It is important to understand which marker ouside the conventional range can be tolerated and which marker requires correction.
“The New Neander’s Medical Serum Uric Acid Challenge”.
We have launched several “Challenges” on different biomarkers. We want to discover the highest and the lowest levels, in this case, of serum uric acid, that people achieve through diet and other interventions. It is also interesting to learn the levels of uric acid that are typical for different popular diets and life-style interventions. How often is it to see a serum uric acid of 8 mg/dL on a low carb diet? Why some people have elevated serum uric acid and some don’t on similar diets?
What was the highest level of serum uric acid on your blood tests and what was your diet and exercise regiment at the time?
What was the lowest level of serum uric acid that you could ever achieve?
What is the typical level of serum uric acid on your ideal diet and exercise (or just physical activity) regiment?
A Collaborative Working Group on serum uric acid
We invite medical practitioners, researchers and health enthusiasts to join our Working Group on serum uric acid. Share your experience, your ideas, your laboratory test results with us. Together, we may advance to a better understanding of serum uric acid in different contexts.
Participate in our Challenge on serum uric acid. Let us know what values of serum uric acid you observed during your own journey. Could anyone beat Tommy Wood with a higher serum uric acid on a low crab diet with 50 – 200 grams of carb a day?
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