Gout Relief - Foods to Avoid to Get Rid of Gout Naturally
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-12 06:23:36 | Word Count: 656
Looking for gout relief? Well, a key element in your fight to get relief from gout has to be your diet. Whether you use drugs or natural remedies, your diet is at the heart of things. Here, you'll discover why, and, which foods to avoid to get gout relief.
Before we go on to discover which foods to avoid to help get gout relief, it makes sense just to quickly go over what causes gout...
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Gout is caused by needle-shaped urate crystals in your joints and surrounding tissue. The crystals are formed from high levels of uric acid in your blood, so, it makes sense to do everything you can to reduce these high levels, right?
Now, high uric acid is caused by the inability of your kidneys to process and excrete excess uric acid from your body. This may be because there is just too much uric acid being produced, or, your kidneys aren't working efficiently. Whatever the cause, excess uric acid is retained in your blood, leading to the formation of those crystals that actually cause the symptoms of your gout.
But uric acid is actually produced as a byproduct of the breakdown of natural compounds in our cells and food called "purines". So it also makes sense to reduce the amount of purines available to produce uric acid in the first place, doesn't it?
So you can definitely get gout relief by avoiding foods that are high, or very high, in purines. Different types of foods have different levels of purines present. But, generally speaking, foods that are high in purines are foods that have lots of protein.
The following foods should be avoided completely; liver, heart, tongue, kidneys, brains, game, gravy, mincemeat, roe, anchovies, scallops, sardines, mackerel, shellfish, turkey, goose, partridge, yeast and yeast extracts. Also alcohol, but particularly, beer.
These foods should be taken sparingly, but if you can, you may want to avoid them too; soy, spinach oatmeal, lentils, legumes, mushrooms, cauliflower, asparagus, lentils and dried peas.
The thing is that everyone is different, and what might cause a problem for one person might not for another. So, experiment to find the best diet for yourself.
That's the foods to avoid, but, they can take some time to take effect, i.e. for gout pain relief. In fact, you don't want to go on a 'crash diet', because this in itself can temporarily raise uric acid levels, making your gout even worse.
So you also need to do something to get gout relief as fast as you can. You can be prescribed drugs that can reduce inflammation and relieve pain, which they do pretty effectively. But they do have some bad sĄde effects which puts many sufferers off their use.
So, increasingly, they are successfully turning to natural remedies for gout relief. They are using natural things like; herbs, fruits, vegetables, kidney cleanses, detoxing, supplements, weight reduction where appropriate, and even lifestyle adjustments.
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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