What is a Natural Way to Get Rid of Gout - Is This the Best Way?
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-05-14 07:21:54 | Word Count: 706
One of the best natural ways to get rid of gout is through your diet. Here, you'll discover why, and, which foods you must avoid to help get rid of your gout.
More and more gout victims are seeking a natural way to eliminate gout. Mainly because they are fed up of drug-based medications that can have some very serious side effects such as vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, stomach pains, ulcers, bleeding, skin and other allergies, etc.
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So in this article I only address the natural way to get rid of your gout. There are many natural remedies out there, but diet is a key component of any natural approach to eliminating your gout.
How does diet affect your gout? In order to answer that you and I need to go back to basics...
Your gout is caused by uric acid crystals in the affected joint. These crystals can form when you have high uric acid levels in your blood. And this situation can occur when your kidneys can't process and excrete enough uric acid out of your body as they normally do.
This can happen either because your kidneys aren't working efficiently enough, or, there is just too much uric acid being produced in your body. Or possibly a combination of both.
How is uric acid produced? It is produced as a byproduct of the metabolizing processes in your body concerning natural chemical compounds called "purines." These exist in your body's cell structure and in the food you eat. So, more purines, more uric acid.
You, as a gout sufferer, need to lower your uric acid levels. And there are very many totally natural ways to help do this. But, since the foods you eat contain purines, and purines produce uric acid, your diet is really one of the most important ways to help get rid of gout.
And since some foods have higher concentrations than others, you need to take a close look at your diet and eliminate or avoid those foods that have relatively high purine levels.
Mainly, the foods that have high purine concentrations are fatty red meats, organ meat, game, poultry, fish, shellfish, yeast, dried legumes and alcohol (not a food but a very important trigger for gout). But even within these food groups, there are variances in purine content.
Just a small selection of high purine foods you should avoid in your diet are; liver, kidneys, heart, gravy, broth, venison, pheasant, grouse, turkey, partridge, mackerel, herring, anchovies, sardines, scallops, shrimp, etc. You absolutely must avoid alcohol, especially beer.
There are more high purine foods to get to know, as well as low purine foods that you can replace them with. But there are other issues you also need to consider, such your weight, lifestyle, family history, and so on. These, and other things, can be the basis for gout attacks.
And it's very important, not only to get rid of a gout attack, but to ensure that you don't have any more, as lots of recurring gout attacks may lead to you having kidney problems and / or permanent joint damage over time.
You need to tackle this seriously as, once having had a gout attack, you now have a very high chance that you'll suffer even more.
You're in luck though. There's a special gout report available online [see below] that has all the information you need in one place. It is what thousands of ex-gout victims worldwide have successfully used to prevent their gout returning. It also contains a special 2 hour gout pain relief program.
And it uses fully-researched, totally natural methods. So that you benefit two ways:
(1) you get rid of your excruciating pain very fast, and,
(2) you prevent your gout returning, so that you reduce the risk of permanent damage.
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