Top 5 Foods To Avoid On A Gout Diet

Gout is an extremely painful condition that millions of people suffer from each year, causing untold amounts of suffering and misery. Fortunately, it’s also something that can be treated by eating a proper gout diet.

After a gout diagnosis, most doctors will recommend medication, the most common gout treatment, but this is not the most effective way to handle your gout symptoms long term.

One of the primary gout causes is a diet that is too high in purine. Now, you’re probably wondering what purine is, or protesting that you don’t eat dog food. Purine is an amino acid, one of the basic build blocks of protein.

When you digest purine, your body breaks it down into uric acid. When your body can’t get rid of the uric acid, it builds up in the joints and causes the pain and swelling we associate with gout.

As you might imagine, an effective method of gout treatment is to reduce the amount of purine-rich foods you eat, which is the basis of a good gout diet. This is also one of the traditional gout remedies from before the disease was fully understood, and it’s one of those areas where the folk wisdom happened to be completely right.

If you’re going to pursue gout treatment without resorting to drugs, or as a supplement to them you’re going to want to avoid certain foods. A good gout diet menu won’t include a lot of:

1. Seafood

Generally speaking, seafood is regarded as being good for you, and for the most part that’s true. Unfortunately, if you have a gout diagnosis, you’re going to have to severely restrict your intake. On a gout diet, seafood needs to be an occasional treat. Anything more will interfere with gout treatment.

2. Organ Meats

This is probably less of an issue on a gout diet than seafood, simply because most people don’t eat a lot of organ meats these days. That said, kidneys, liver, and the like are all high purine foods, and eating them will make gout treatment more difficult.

3. Red Meat

A gout diet, which is essentially a low purine diet, can’t have a lot of red meat in it. If you suffer from gout, you need to try and limit your red meat intake to a few ounces a day if you want to see real results.

4. Fructose

One of the latest discoveries in gout treatment is that fructose can contribute to flare-ups. Fructose is a sugar found in fruits, but the fruits aren’t really the problem on a gout diet, since the amount of sugar in real fruit is usually pretty minimal.

What does interfere with gout treatment is high fructose corn syrup, which is in nearly everything. You definitely need to drop sodas, but if you’re on a gout diet you should also start checking labels and avoid anything with high fructose corn syrup in it.

5. Alcohol

Strictly speaking, alcohol doesn’t have anything to do with purine, but it does affect the levels of uric acid in your blood. It slows down the metabolism of the acid and causes you to become dehydrated, both of which will interfere with gout treatment. If you decide to get on a gout diet plan, limiting alcohol needs to be a top priority.

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Eat less meat? Drink less alcohol? Drink more water? Follow the usual advice.

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Top 7 Myths About Gout

I am always taken aback at the number and persistence of gout myths. Just read a few Internet web pages on gout and gout treatments and it won’t take you long to find contradicting information — even from supposedly reputable sites.

These myths are one of the key reasons why the quality of gout care for gout has fallen so much over the past few decades. Bad information keeps getting passed on — over and over. This article will help you understand some of these myths and learn the truth.

Myth #1:

Gout medications will make your attacks stop right away. Actually, uric acid-lowering medications can increase gout attacks in the short run but eventually, over the course of 6–12 months, they will usually stop them completely.

Most people experience more attacks when they first start taking these medications, then stop taking them, figuring that they are not working. This is because we know that sudden changes in uric acid levels, even drops in uric acid levels, can trigger attacks.

Most doctors do not prescribe uric acid lowering medications at the right doses and do not also prescribe prophylaxis medications to prevent these attacks.

If you are starting to take uric acid-lowering medications, make sure you are starting at a very low dose and increase slowly over a period of several weeks to full strength — never start or stop them suddenly.

Also, make sure your doctor has given you medications to prevent attacks during the first 6–12 months of treatment.

Myth #2:

If you stay away from seafood and beer your gout will go away. Of all the gout myths, myths about diet are the most persistent. But like all good myths, there is some truth to it.

Seafood and beer have both been shown to be powerful foods to cause a sudden increase in uric acid, which can trigger an attack but in most cases staying away from these foods or eating a strict “low purine diet” will only reduce the number of attacks you have, not eliminate them completely. 90% of gout cases are genetic and diet cannot overpower genetics.

Myth #3:

If you have gout, you should stay away from all alcohol. Again, like with all good myths, there is some truth here. Beer has been shown to be very bad for gout. People with gout should not drink beer at all — this advice doesn’t make me very popular, but it is true.

Spirits such as vodka and whiskey also raise the risk of gout but only about half as much as beer. Red wine, on the other hand, can slightly decrease your risk of gout if you drink no more than one glass per day.

With two glasses, the risk is about the same as for those that do not drink at all. So the key here is if you want a drink, stick to red wine and limit yourself to, at most, two glasses.

Myth #4:

Other than the pain of gout attacks, gout really doesn’t cause any other problems. This one is dead wrong, and I mean dead. Improperly treated gout can be a crippling disease. Regular gout attacks can damage and even destroy joints, and tophus can disfigure hands, feet, and form in other parts of the body, including the heart.

Also, the underlying cause of gout, hyperuricemia, has been shown to be strongly associated with heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, diabetes, stroke, and obesity. All of which are very deadly. Gout can and does kill!

Myth #5:

I am overweight but that doesn’t have anything to do with my gout. Absolutely wrong! Excess body weight is strongly connected with hyperuricemia and gout. Probably the best thing you can do for your gout, as well as your health, is to lose weight and keep it off!

Of course, no one wants to hear that, but if you have gout and are significantly overweight, you are all but guaranteed to get one of the deadly diseases I mentioned in the previous myth. Losing weight and exercising regularly are the best ways to avoid these diseases.

Myth#6:

Once an attack starts, there is nothing you can do by waiting it out. Actually, if you act quickly, you can stop an attack for an hour or so. How? Take some of the powerful non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs your doctor has given you at the very first sign of symptoms (see gout basics).

If you have medical reasons why you can’t take NSAIDs, don’t worry, there are many other options including corticosteroids, ACTH, and others. However, you should avoid colchicine in your can.

Myth #7:

Food high in proteins is bad for gout. Food high in proteins actually lowers uric acid levels and is good for gout. What matters is where the proteins come from. Meat proteins have been shown to raise uric acid levels while vegetable proteins have been shown to lower uric acid levels — even those that are high in purines.

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Gout is pretty unpleasant, to say the least.

But what can you do about it…

Eat less meat?

Drink less alcohol?

Drink more water?

Follow the usual advice?

I’m sure you already tried all that, but it made zero difference didn’t it?

The pain remained as bad as ever?

Our doctors mean well, but the medications they prescribe are trying to manage the disease rather than cure it. I’m sure that’s not what you want. You want your gout cured, not managed. Right?

But now there is a new discovery that changes everything about how we treat gout. Researchers from the US and Europe have worked out what causes gout.

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