I found the paper you refer to myself some years ago and managed to understand and control my occasional experience of gout with the new knowledge that fructose was the cause. In my case an orchard full of fruit trees would see me overindulge when there was a surplus.
Wondering if you have seen the information of Quercetin/Quercetain (spelling is sometimes different) and its ability to clear uric acid. Much better alternative to pharmaceuticals. You can find the paper on this with a simple quercetin - gout search.
Since I dialed back the fructose and started taking quercetain I haven't had a single episode of gout.
It's not so much that it is incorrect, more incomplete. Sugar is the primary and most significant driver today. If sugar didn't exist, there'd still be gout, just much much less.
In my boozy youth I discovered alfalfa powder in large doses as some sort of powerful neutraliser of what I assumed to be all-body acidity. (My hangovers were like one big electric twitch, not the drowsy nausea with headaches most complain of.)
In sober old age I still take grass powders and they still have the neutralising effect I seem to need. I tend to keep it to myself, as it's surprising how people suffering the most atrocious joint pains will not hear of acidity and remedies for it. Seems the idea has been quashed by most specialists. (I wouldn't know. If I see a member of the medical profession coming down the road I cross to the other side.)
Hi David,
I found the paper you refer to myself some years ago and managed to understand and control my occasional experience of gout with the new knowledge that fructose was the cause. In my case an orchard full of fruit trees would see me overindulge when there was a surplus.
Wondering if you have seen the information of Quercetin/Quercetain (spelling is sometimes different) and its ability to clear uric acid. Much better alternative to pharmaceuticals. You can find the paper on this with a simple quercetin - gout search.
Since I dialed back the fructose and started taking quercetain I haven't had a single episode of gout.
Jamie
It's not so much that it is incorrect, more incomplete. Sugar is the primary and most significant driver today. If sugar didn't exist, there'd still be gout, just much much less.
In my boozy youth I discovered alfalfa powder in large doses as some sort of powerful neutraliser of what I assumed to be all-body acidity. (My hangovers were like one big electric twitch, not the drowsy nausea with headaches most complain of.)
In sober old age I still take grass powders and they still have the neutralising effect I seem to need. I tend to keep it to myself, as it's surprising how people suffering the most atrocious joint pains will not hear of acidity and remedies for it. Seems the idea has been quashed by most specialists. (I wouldn't know. If I see a member of the medical profession coming down the road I cross to the other side.)
Thanks for a great read.
Is the older idea of purine-rich meats and seafood leading to gout incorrect or merely inapplicable?
In other words, Henry VIII's gout was caused by meat or leaded wine or by sugar?
Excellent post!!
Chanca piedra works wonders in treating gout.
Keto diet would cause gout???