How to Lower Uric Acid in the Blood and Prevent Gout Attacks
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-07 07:44:34 | Word Count: 719
In this short article you'll discover how to lower uric acid in the blood without drugs. If you are a gout sufferer you need to lower your blood uric acid levels because it's this that causes your gout. And if you can't maintain your uric acid at healthy levels, you can sufferer recurring gout which can lead to permanent damage.
Gout symptoms are actually caused by uric acid crystals forming in your joints and surrounding tissue. And uric acid is formed when your body goes through the chemical processes needed to provide your energy and protein needs. Key elements in this are compounds called purines which exist in our body and food. They eventually breakdown and uric acid is formed.
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It is vital that you prevent yourself from having frequent attacks of gout. Not just because of the shear pain and agony that you suffer, but because these frequent attacks can cause you to end up with permanent joint damage, kidney stones and even more serious kidney damage. So it's important for you to maintain healthy levels of uric acid in your blood.
Now, whilst your doctor can prescribe drugs such as allopurinol to help do this, they only work at the symptom level. They can't address the causes of your high levels and sort those out. Only you can do this. And so, in order for them to be effective, you need to take them all the time. If you ever come off them, then your uric acid levels can rise again.
And taking these for very long periods is not everyone's cup of tea, because they do have side effects like nausea and diarrhea, and, less common ones such as, skin allergies, stomach pain and unexplained weight loss.
But you do have another option, and that is using totally natural methods to control your acid levels. This is what more and more gout sufferers are successfully doing nowadays.
And these natural ways of controlling your gout, not only help lower acid in the blood and prevent future gout attacks, they can also help reduce inflammation and relieve the pain.
So if you're suffering a painful attack right now, these natural remedies can help to both reduce the symptoms of your attack now, and, then help you to lower uric acid in the blood and prevent further gout attacks by maintaining your acid at healthy levels.
Now, there is a ton of information on these types of natural remedies out there -- too much for me to go into here -- but some of the key areas you'll need to investigate are things such as; dietary changes (vital), herbal remedies, natural supplements, kidney cleanses, detoxing, weight issues, even lifestyle changes.
To give you just an idea...
(1) Drink at least 12 x 8oz glasses of water daily to help your kidneys flush excess uric acid out of your system.
(2) Eat lots of cherries every day and take advantage of their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant capabilities.
(3) Take tissue salts such as silica to help prevent uric acid crystals from forming.
(4) Go to a 'low purine' diet, i.e. avoid things like red meat, shellfish, some fish, poultry, legumes, alcohol, etc.
You're in luck though. There's a uric acid gout report available online [see below] that lays it all out for you in a very simple way. And thousands of ex-gout victims worldwide have successfully used it to lower uric acid levels and prevent their gout returning. It also contains a special 2 hour gout pain relief program for those suffering a gout attack right now.
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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