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  • Does gout come from consuming animal products? Hmm, I hadn’t heard that, before.

    Opposite actually - fructose intake, alcohol intake (same pathway as fructose in liver), advanced glycation end products (glucose intake) are the major drivers of gout.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821617-0.00004-8 Section 7.3 if you would like to know more (overwhelmingly so) - it’s available on the normal 🦜 sites.

    Basically the old connection that meat can drive uric acid a bit and uric acid is a component of gout isn’t actually helpful, during a active flare up avoiding meat can help reduce uric acid levels a tiny bit but it does nothing to address the systemic cause of the gout in the first place. i.e. Watermelons have a high water content but are not causal in drownings, but avoid eating watermelons while actively drowning… same thing













  • I have no data for this, so i’m just speculating wildly (and accepting this will be a unpopular conjecture):

    Lemmas - Things I have data for

    • Metabolic dysfunction is endemic in the population (96% westerners)
    • Metabolic dysfunction impacts hormones, especially sex hormones
    • Aromatase happens at elevated levels in metabolically compromised people
    • This can manifest as man-boobs, love-handles, chin hair, etc
    • Metabolic dysfunction is principally caused by diet.

    Speculation - Things I have no data for

    • There is probably some connection between sexuality and hormones
    • There is probably some connection between sexuality and life-long diets

    This means there might be a interesting correlation you could discover. However, I don’t think anyone would fund this type of research, or publish it - it would cause controversy needlessly.


    Seeing a population prefer vegetables doesn’t speak to cause and effect, it could be a cultural appreciation for being healthy and vegetables are mostly seen as healthy by most groups.