The best nutrients to treat gout and uric acid crystals in the joints.
Gout is a condition where your kidneys aren't eliminating uric acid properly from your blood.
This causes uric acid crystals to begin forming inside your joints.
It usually happens in the big toe, but can also effect the ankle, the knees, the hips
and other joints in the body.
At the first sign of gout you usually feel a sudden, sharp sensation in your big toe
or on the side of the foot.
What happens is, your white blood cells recognise and start attacking the uric acid crystals
in your joints.
This triggers inflammation and the sharp pain.
It's not actually the crystals causing the pain, but the inflammation, as your body is
responding to the foreign objects in your joints.
Why Do I Have Too Much Uric Acid
Your kidneys play an important role in regulating the amount of uric acid in your body.
When they are healthy they can easily eliminate uric acid through your urine and keep your
levels in a normal range.
However, if you consume too many junk foods, alcoholic drinks, fructose or sugar for many
years, your kidneys can become damaged.
This causes problems with eliminating uric acid, and it starts to crystallise in the
joints causing inflammation and pain.
Diet
Eating certain foods which contain purines can cause your body to make more uric acid.
Healthy people have no problem digesting and absorbing these foods, however if you have
poor kidney function, they can cause gout and crystals in the joints.
Foods such as organ meats, wild game, shellfish, fructose, sugary foods and fish are some of
the common triggers of a gout attack.
However, it's important to remember that your body makes 60% of all the uric acid regardless
of what foods you eat.
Uric acid is actually a powerful antioxidant used to remove harmful substances from the
body and protect the nervous system.
The Top Nutrients and Remedies for Gout
Now that you understand that it's a kidney dysfunction that causes gout, you will want
to know what steps to take to reverse this condition.
1.
Start taking 1/2 a teaspoon potassium citrate powder on a daily basis mixed in a glass of
water.
Potassium citrate helps to slightly alkalize the Ph.
Level of your urine, which helps to break down uric acid and eliminate it through your
kidneys.
2.
Remove sugary foods & alcohol from your diet, especially fructose.
Soda drinks in particular contain high fructose corn syrup, which damages the kidneys and
can cause a gout attack.
You should also cut back on high sugar fruits such as apples, oranges etc…
Choose low sugar fruits instead such as raspberries, blueberries and strawberries.
These have more fiber to help your body to buffer sugar.
3.
During a gout flare up, cut back on foods which contain high purines such as shellfish,
red meats, organ meats and wild game.
These foods are actually highly nutritious, so you shouldn't need to eliminate them forever,
just until your kidneys are working properly.
4.
Squeeze the juice a whole lemon or lime and drink this daily.
You can also mix this into healthy salad dressings and consume lots of vegetables.
This also helps the kidneys to eliminate uric acid.
Vitamin C found in plant foods like bell peppers, lemons and leafy greens help to reduce gout
pain very quickly by supporting your immune system.
5.
We also recommend using some powerful anti-gout herbs such as ginger, turmeric, dark cherry
juice, stinging nettle root and apple cider vinegar.
These all help the body to remove crystals from your joints, and enhance kidney function.
Summary
Gout is a condition where your kidneys aren't eliminating uric acid from the body, causing
crystals to form in the joints.
Following the actions steps in today's video will help support your kidneys in eliminating
excess uric acid through your urine.
These steps also help your body to remove uric acid crystals from the joints, support
your immune system and reduce pain and swelling very quickly.
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