Gout and Stress - How Reducing Stress Can Help Your Gout
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-08-27 01:44:36 | Word Count: 610
When your stress levels increase this increases your metabolism. Now when this happens more uric acid is produced in your body. High levels of uric acid produce uric acid crystals in your joints, causing painful gout. You can now see that there is a link between stress and gout.
So, as a gout sufferer, you need to do everything possible to reduce your stress. There are many things that you can do to help reduce your stress and so break the link between that and your gout, but here are 3 simple ones...
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1. Deep Breathing Exercises
When we are stressed out we tend to breathe faster and in a more shallow way. This upsets your body's natural oxygen / carbon dioxide balance, which you need to reinstate.
So on a daily basis practise deep, controlled breathing, breathing in slowly though your nose and slowly out through your mouth. Ensure you use your diaphragm as well as you chest so as to use your full lung capacity.
2. A Relaxation Exercise to Reduce Stress
(a) Find somewhere you won't be disturbed, e.g. your bedroom. Lie flat out on the bed, or, recline in a comfy chair.
(b) Close your eyes and begin slowing down your breathing.
(c) Breathe in through your nose for a count of 2 inflating both your diaphragm and your chest.
(d) Breathe out through your mouth for a count of 4 expelling all the air using your abdomen and chest.
(e) Repeat steps c. and d. for at least 2 minutes.
(f) Now, concentrating on each part of your body in turn (starting with your right arm perhaps), relax each muscle group, feeling them getting heavier and heavier and your stress just flowing away. Repeat for your left arm, face, neck, shoulders, etc.
3. Meditation to Relieve Stress
Many people swear by the use of meditation for relieving their stress, leaving them with more energy, needing less sleep and feeling more 'alive.' But, it's a skill that you need to learn. You can do this by trawling the Internet or by reading books on the subject. However, it's probably best to contact a teacher of meditation near you.
These 3 tips are healthy ways to reduce your stress to help combat gout.
But, of course, stress is only one element in your battle against your condition. There are many other issues that you need to become familiar with and to take action on if you are to eliminate your gout for good.
And you really do need to get rid of your gout permanently because recurring gout attacks can eventually lead to kidney problems like painful stones, and, permanently damaged joints.
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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.
