gout is an inflammatory disease in which monosodiumurate crystals deposit into a joint, making it red, hot, tender and swollen within hours. when this happens, it’s called a gouty attack. the underlying cause is hyperuricemia—toomuch uric acid in the blood, which results in the formation of sharp, needle-like crystals,in areas with slow blood flow like the joints and the kidney tubules. over time, repeated gouty attacks can causedestruction of the joint tissue which results in arthritis. to understand where the uric acid comes from,let’s start with purines, which, together with pyrimidines, are nature’s most commonnitrogen-containing heterocycles. a heterocycle being any molecular ring orcycle with different types of atoms. purines, as well as pyrimidines, are key componentsof nucleic acids like dna and rna, and when cells, along with the nucleic acids in thosecells, are broken down throughout the body, those purines are converted into uric acid—amolecule that can be filt
hey guys, dr. axe here, founder of draxe.com.today, i'm going to give you my top, six home remedies to heal gout. gout is something that's plaguing more andmore people every day, and it's caused from uric acid buildup in the body. i want to goover my top six home remedies, but right before that go over the diet that is crucial to getrid of gout, and the worst food offenders. so if you have gout, the first thing you haveto do is eliminate the excess sugar and grains in your diet, and then processed meat. soagain, excess sugar, grains, and processed meat products are some of the biggest foodsyou need to get out of your diet. sugar feeds yeast in the body, the conventionalgrains turn into sugar, and then those meats, the problem there is, they're full of hormonesand antibiotics and they're so acidic to your system. then in terms of beverages, stayingaway from alcohol. so again, those are the best things you can do right now to eliminategout symptoms. stay away from