Uric Acid and Metabolic Diesase
This article arrived from Perlmutter this morning. I was stunned!
Uric Acid is a major player in metabolic diseases such as Type II Diabetes and not limited to gout? Who knew? https://www.drperlmutter.com/uric-a...1d94 37c9672ec |
I know a chapter about uric acid/gout issues in Good Calories, Bad Calories, was left out of an already giant book.
Also, I discovered that in women, gout was more likely to exhibit in the UPPER extremities. Ladies, it might not be arthritis after all. Especially since gout diagnoses are often missed. |
My gout shows up in my feet making walking painful in the extreme
Uric acid and gout are well known - but Type II Diabetes? |
Staying on low-carb, especially being in ketosis, lowers uric acid.
https://www.virtahealth.com/faq/ketogenic-diet-gout |
I've been running into gout for a couple years ..... embedded in low carb/ keto interviews and in depth discussions posted on YouTube.
It deserves to have it's own focus. |
I eat a keto diet >95% of the time and notice that when I indulge in grains or sugar, 35-45 minutes later I get excruciating plantar fasciitis in both feet/shins and similar cramps in my left palm & forearm. It also makes me wonder if peripheral neuropathy with "burning" that some diabetics get is also a result of glucose + uric acid -> nerve pain. The ones I know who suffer from PN all follow the ADA diet, not keto.
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So many people recommend tart cherry juice for the prevention of gout attacks. 8 oz has 31 carbs!
For those of us who try to keep our carbs around 20/day - we blow it on cherry juice. Then - slightly off topic - to avoid tortillas made without grain, their carb count is high too. Grump grump |
I find 1-2 tsp of tart cherry juice does the trick (0.65-1.3g carbs). Sometimes I'll have a second dose, or rarely a third, so <4g carbs total per day. One day is usually long enough to quell my gout symptoms.
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I use Tart Cherry in capsule supplement form.
1 gram carbs in 3 capsules, which is my normal dose in the morning if I wake up with angry thumb joints :) |
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