How to Lower Uric Acid in Your Body Totally Naturally
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-03 02:42:33 | Word Count: 724
Discover how to lower uric acid in your body here, using totally natural home remedies without the side effects of expensive drugs. And it's very important to lower uric acid in your body because high levels cause gout, and, repeated gout attacks can lead to permanent joint damage as well as kidney damage.
Let us first delve into the causes of high uric acid and how this causes your gout...
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Uric acid is produced in your bloodstream as a result of the breakdown of chemical compounds called "purines". Purines exist in our bodies and in our food and drink. They form an integral part of the production of our protein and energy needs. During this, however, these purines breakdown and uric acid is produced as a result.
It's your kidneys' job to process this out of your blood and expel the excess out of your system. The normal levels of uric acid left perform antioxidant duties which is beneficial to you.
But when there is too much uric acid being produced, or, your kidneys can't cope with the normal levels being produced, not enough uric acid is expelled. The outcome is that this 'excess' uric acid forms crystals in your joints, thus causing gout.
Now let's look at your mainstream treatment...
This is usually drugs to treat the pain and reduce inflammation. Sometimes, for frequent sufferers, drugs are prescribed that help to lower uric acid.
But, whilst these drugs can be effective, they are basically addressing the symptoms of gout not the underlying issues, so that once you stop them your acid levels can easily rise again causing more gout attacks.
Plus, they have very bad side effects, like; diarrhea, nausea, headaches, vomiting, stomach pain, bleeding and stomach ulcers.
For all of the above reasons, more and more people are settling into using totally natural, home-based remedies to treat the symptoms of their gout, but just as importantly, prevent their gout returning.
Here are just a few of the most effective natural home remedies that you can try...
1 - Perhaps the most important; change to a low purine diet. This entails avoiding high-purine foods like red meats, certain fish, shellfish, legumes, and poultry, etc. Also alcohol, especially beer.
2 - Eat lots of cherries which have great antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
3 - Drink 3 teaspoons of raw apple cider vinegar in a glass of water, 3 times a day, to help neutralize uric acid.
4 - Use alternating, 3 min hot / 30 sec cold, compresses on the affected area to help circulation and inflammation.
5 - Also very important; drink 2 to 3 liters of water everyday to help your kidneys flush acid out of your system.
Of course, there are many, many more natural remedies out there for you to try. And you should try as many as you can until you find what works best for you.
Why it is important to prevent further gout attacks...
The first thing to consider is that once having had just one gout attack you are extremely likely to have others. But frequent gout episodes can lead to permanently damaged joints. They can also lead to kidney stones and even more serious kidney damage.
So your treatment has not only to deal with the symptoms of high uric acid and gout, but also, the ongoing management and prevention of further attacks.
You're in luck though. You don't have to do all the work yourself. There's a uric acid gout report available online that 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.
