What Are Good Foods to Help Get Rid of the Gout?
I’m often asked this and my reply is always the same; that it’s not just what you eat that helps get rid of the gout, but more importantly, what you don’t eat. Let me explain… GOUT CAUSES Your agonizing gout is caused by crystals in your joints that have formed out of you having high uric acid levels in your bloodstream. But uric acid is actually a byproduct of chemical compounds called ‘purines’ that are part of the metabolizing process in your body. When these breakdown as part of this process, uric acid is produced. Your kidneys then take up this uric acid, process it and then excrete excess from your body. But sometimes your kidneys can get overwhelmed by the amount of acid being produced, or, they just don’t work efficiently enough for some reason. When this happens excess uric acid is retained and you finish up with high levels in your blood, leading to crystal formation and gout. PURINES IN FOOD Gout and diet are linked. As well as being in your body cells, purines are found a
