Gout is a common form of arthritis that affects over 2m people in the USA every year. It is a condition that causes acute pain in the joints and more often than not strikes first in the big toe. It can arise, however, in any joints particularly the hands, feet, instep, ankles, knees and elbows.
The pain from gout can be so intense a visit to the doctor is necessary. The symptoms are well known and very easy to diagnose but unfortunately medical professionals have no quick fix prescription to help you. There are no conventional cures for gout.
Nobody is ever born with gout or arthritis. That’s a medical and statistical fact. In acknowledging this therefore, we can faily safely assume that gout is a condition that is a product of other factors. The word ‘product’ is important as by definition it points to multiple causes as opposed to a single thing.
Understanding gout is a precursor to curing it. In those who have minor attacks, it usually clears up in a few days suggesting that the body responds to those factors that caused it in the first place. In chronic cases, however, the body is not given a chance to recover and we then see evidence of crystallization in ugly, lumpy joints and hard nodules that start to appear under the skin. This, indeed, is proof that your body is having trouble coping.
Gout and the lumps that manifest themselves on the joints in caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood. Normally the body does a good job of regulating these levels and excess acid is excreted from the body in the normal fashions.
However, when uric acidity is so high that the body cannot regulate it efficiently that’s when the symptoms worsen.
Any treatment for gout must acknowledge this first and then look at what the patient is consuming and/or doing to propogate such high levels. Normally, it comes down to foods and particularly those high in ‘purines’. Men who are beer drinkers are especially susceptible. There is a useful gout remedy report available to interest readers and fellow gout suffers at www.curesforgout.net.
This comprehensive 82 page report details why gout occurs and what is the naturally approach to curing it. The patient learns how to once again give the body a chance to regulate the uric acid naturally and then take control by adjusting the types of foods and drinks that are consumed.
By Errol Bump