First we have to look at what uric acid is?
In fact, uric acid is ultimately changed from the DNA or RNA in your body. The general form is this.
Nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) → nucleotide (purine nucleotide) → purine base → uric acid
Nucleic acids are generally divided into two categories, namely DNA and RNA (one is deoxyribonucleic acid and the other is ribonucleic acid). These things are all chain structures, and their most basic unit is nucleotide (deoxyribonucleotide or ribonucleic acid). Ribonucleotides) Ah, come to think of it! Nucleotides are roughly divided into five types according to their bases, which are A, G, C, T, and U in high school biology (actually there are others) , these five things in the college entrance examination harmed many people at that time...the A and G in them are purine nucleotides. Then this thing is finally metabolized into uric acid.
Ok, once we understand the appearance of uric acid, we will know. The human body produces uric acid every day. And most of it is endogenous. Not much uric acid is metabolized from the food you eat, and most of the uric acid is metabolized through feces and urine.
If you only have high uric acid but your body is normal, you don’t actually need to care about it at all, just eat normally. If you have extremely high uric acid and have developed gout and other complications, all you need to do is follow your doctor's advice, receive active treatment, and comprehensively control your diet. There are also cases of congenital uric acid, such as abnormal purine metabolism, commonly known as self-harm syndrome or self-disfigurement syndrome. If you are interested, you can check it out.
What kind of food is high in purine? We have already known before that uric acid is DNA or RNA, which means it is something inside a cell organelle or nucleus, or more broadly, it is something inside a cell. This is Easy to handle. In other words, the food you eat must have cellular structure. If there is no cellular structure, there will be no way to talk about purine or uric acid. It can be said that all foods contain purine, but the amount differs.
The main raw material of protein powder is generally whey protein, and more specifically, various amino acids. It has no cellular structure at all. Where does purine come from? If you leave it for too long, the protein powder will go bad, bacteria will breed, and there may be some purine.
(However, amino acids are indeed the raw materials for the synthesis of purine, but this is different from your direct intake of purine, if you do not have a purine metabolism disorder.)
From another perspective, whey protein is generally purified from milk. The purine content of milk is extremely low because it is a body fluid and has almost no cell structure. Therefore, the purine content of milk is extremely low. , so the purine in protein powder is almost 0, or none, and you can eat it with confidence.
But there is another problem. The source of protein ingested by the human body is mainly animal protein or plant protein, that is to say, meat and some plants. It has a cellular structure.
Most animal offal, meat, seafood, beans, and wine (beer and liquor) are high in purine.
Many people will say that beans are high in purines, so will some of the plant proteins I eat, such as soy protein, be high in purines? This has been mentioned before, refer to whey protein, which is the protein in isolated and purified soybeans, and the cell structure is basically destroyed. Moreover, the current separation and purification technology is so advanced that the purity can reach very high levels, so you don’t have to worry about this. (In fact, if the beans are processed well, most purines can be removed. For example, they can be made into tofu.)
Question: My uric acid is high, so I can’t eat meat, seafood, or drink beer?
Answer: If you are just on the high side, it’s not a serious problem. Just eat less. Once in a while, it will be fine. The body will metabolize it. Be careful to drink more water, because this metabolic process requires kidneys. If it gets to a pathological level, man, you basically say goodbye to seafood and beer. Follow the doctor's advice and actively cooperate with treatment.
Several reasons for high uric acid:
1. Excessive exercise causes muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis), which will cause excessive uric acid because the muscle cells are destroyed. I once saw a buddy peeing blood after practicing for a week. In fact, this can be used to monitor exercise intensity. But generally the indicator creatine kinase is used. (I mentioned creatine kinase in my blog "What is Fat?")
2. Intake of too many high-purine foods, such as a diet that is too meaty. Like ancient knights, they drank heavily, ate meat and vegetables, and were short of staple food.
3. Abnormal purine metabolism in the body is pathological.
4. Too fat. Excessive obesity generally not only causes high uric acid, but also causes many other complications, so control your weight. As long as you don't get so fat that you'll be outraged.
Question: Why do fitness enthusiasts generally have high uric acid levels?
Answer: Fitness enthusiasts need a lot of nutrients due to exercise, so their protein intake will be too high., most fitness enthusiasts take meat as their main source of protein intake, so they will inevitably consume too much purine. So uric acid is generally high. Especially bodybuilders. Don't be afraid of this. This is normal.
Summary:
Eat a light diet and exercise moderately.
These horoscopes are not only applicable to high uric acid, but also to the prevention and control of most diseases.
Attached information:
Slight purine content (contains 0-25 grams of purine per 100 grams)
Milk, cheese, cheese, eggs, most vegetables, fruits, rice, noodles, bread, fats, oils, tea, coffee, etc.
Medium purine content (contains 25-100 grams of purine per 100 grams)
Lean meat, pork, mutton, poultry, fish, shrimp, lobster, tofu, soy milk, spinach, mung beans, cauliflower, asparagus, mushrooms, seaweed, etc.
High purine content (150-1000 grams of purine per 100 grams)
Goose meat, animal offal (liver, kidney, intestine, heart and brain), eel, herring, fish eggs, fish skin, shrimp, seafood, shellfish such as scallops, oysters, etc., baking powder, etc.