" By the 1990s, Gerald Reaven at Stanford, among others, was reporting that insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia raised uric acid levels, apparently by decreasing the excretion of uric acid by the kidney. “It appears that modulation of serum uric concentration by insulin resistance is exerted at the level of the kidney,” Reaven wrote. Therefore, the more insulin-resistant an individual, the higher the serum uric acid concentration. "

― Gary Taubes , The Case Against Sugar