In this post I’m going to show you how to get rid of uric acid symptoms with 3 simple tips, that don’t require the use of drug-based medication.

Firstly, what exactly are uric acid symptoms?

Really, what we’re talking about here are the symptoms of gout, because gout is caused by the formation of urate crystals in your joints as a result of having high levels of uric acid in your body.

So what are the symptoms of gout?

These are stiffness, swelling, redness, heat, inflammation and extreme pain. The pain can be so bad that you can’t even bear the light ’brush’ of  a bed sheet on the affected joint, for instance.

And how do you get rid of these uric acid symptoms of gout?

In order to really understand how to eliminate these symptoms you also need to know how uric acid is produced…

Uric acid is produced as a direct result of the breakdown of chemical compounds in your body we call ‘purines.’ These form a very important part of your metabolizing process.

But they also exist in the food your eat in varying concentrations. That is, some foods are higher in purines than others.

Tip #1 A Low Purine Diet

So this leads us to our first way to get rid of uric acid, or at least reduce uric acid in the body, and that is to change to a low-purine diet that avoids foods that have higher levels of purines.

Foods with high purine levels are things such as meat (especially organ meats and game), fish (especially mackerel, sardines, anchovies and sardines), all shellfish, poultry (especially turkey and goose), broth and consomme, legumes, and some vegetables such as cauliflower, asparagus, spinach and mushrooms. You can get a more detailed list in a previous post High Uric Acid Foods to Avoid if You Have Gout.

Note: Change over to a low-purine diet gradually; don’t crash diet as this can make your gout symptoms even worse! 

Tip #2 Eat Lots of Cherries

Cherries are well known to be able to reduce inflammation (one of the symptoms of gout) and also to actually help lower the uric acid levels in your body quite quickly.

Some studies suggest that eating between 30 and 40 cherries every 4 hours during a gout attack will help quell your uric acid symptoms.

Tip #3 Drink Lots and Lots of Water

A dehydrated body is more prone to high uric acid levels and thus gout attacks. Water helps your kidneys to excrete excess uric acid more efficiently, and, can actually help to prevent urate crystals forming in the first place.

Drink a minimum of 3 litres of water daily, more during hot weather. Try to space your intake evenly throughout the day for best results.

These are 3 very simple, but nevertheless, very effective tips on how to get rid of uric acid symptoms during a gout attack. There are many more that you can find throughout this website.

But as well as getting rid of the symptoms during an attack, you have to ensure that your gout doesn’t keep returning time and time again. Why?…

 Well, apart from the excruciating pain, frequently recurring gout can eventually lead to permanently damaged joints and other problems such as painful kidney stones and other kidney problems.

You don’t have to figure out how to do this for yourself, because the Gout Remedy Report has done it all for you. Just click here to download your copy today.

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Searching for natural tips on how to stop gout? Then you’ve landed at the right place because, here, you’ll discover 5 simple steps to stop gout pain in it’s tracks.

There are many ways to stop gout naturally, many of them contained in this website, but here I explain 5 of the best ways to stop gout… 

Step 1. Drink Lots of Water.

As a gout sufferer you need to drink at least 3 litres of water a day. But you mustn’t drink that amount in just two or three goes, but rather, you need to spread the glasses evenly throughout the day.

Water is vital in combating gout because it helps to prevent uric acid crystal formation in your joints, and, it helps your kidneys to flush excess uric acid from your body much more effectively.

Step 2. Get Down to Your Ideal Weight.

If you are overweight, then your body has much more tissue to breakdown during your body’s normal metabolism process.  This then produces much more uric acid than if you were at your healthy weight.

So, if you are overweight (appropriate to your body size), you need to lose some of that fat and get down to your ideal weight.  

Step 3. Take Regular Daily Exercise.

Taking regular, daily exercise will do several things: it will help you to lose weight, plus, it will also help you to strengthen your tendons and muscles around your joints, and, it will aid in the process of breaking down early crystal formation.

Step 4. Reduce or Avoid Alcohol Completely.

It is well known that alcohol is a top trigger for gout. There are studies that show that people who drink more than 2 units of alcohol regularly have higher uric acid levels than people who don’t. And when they reduce their consumption, their uric acid levels also reduce.

So if you can you must avoid alcohol, or, at the very least, reduce your consumption considerably.

Step 5. Change to a Low-Purine Diet.

As you know gout is caused by urate crystals in your joints that form when you have high uric acid levels in your body. And uric acid is a byproduct of the metabolizing process that involves chemical compounds called ‘purines’ in your body.

But purines also exist in our foods, so that a gout sufferer needs to reduce the amount of purines ingested through food. This means changing to a low-purine diet by substantially reducing and even avoiding foods that are high and very high in purines. You can get information on low and high purine foods here.

These 5 steps are very important, but they aren’t the end of the matter, as there are a number of other issues that you need to address in order to completely prevent your gout from reoccurring.

And the prevention of recurring gout is very important because of the permanent joint damage, and other things like kidney problems, that frequently recurring gout can cause.

You can catch up on this in the Gout Remedy Report by clicking here.

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Looking for simple tips for natural gout pain relief? Well, you’re in luck because, here, you’ll discover 3 simple steps to to take to help you get gout pain relief quite naturally, without costly drugs and without their horrible side effects, i.e. organic gout pain relief.

And, more importantly, you’ll also discover what you need to do to help prevent recurring gout attacks from destroying your joints and giving you long term kidney problems such as excruciating kidney stones.

When looking to relieve your gout pain naturally, it’s important that you do things properly. If you don’t, the consequences could be regrettable. You can end up with even worse pain or an even longer gout attack. Allow me to share three simple, natural ways to stop that from happening to you…

1. Drink Lots of Water For Uric Acid Pain Relief.

To relieve your gout pain naturally, you have to be certain you drink at least 3 litres of water a day. Water helps prevent uric acid crystal formation. And it also helps your kidneys to flush excess uric acid from your body more effectively. This is one of the most overlooked natural home remedies for gout pain.

2. Avoid All Alcohol.

Whenever attempting to relieve your gout pain naturally, you need to avoid all alcohol. It’s not something you should easily ignore. By avoiding alcohol, you help to prevent further uric acid production, which is something anybody involved in finding natural gout pain relief wants. I know it can be difficult, but alcohol is a proven trigger for gout, so avoid it please.

3. Avoid High-Purine Foods.

Finally, you will need to avoid all foods that are high in purines because doing so limits the production of too much uric acid. Failing to get this done can result in higher levels of uric acid levels leading to gout crystal formation in your joints and inevitable gout attacks. So you need to adjust to a relatively low-purine diet.

These are just 3 tips for natural gout pain relief, there are many more, too many to cover here.

But, as well as pain relief when you have an attack, you really need to prevent further gout attacks from causing possible permanent joint damage and kidney problems down the road. And to do this effectively you need to consider a many other issues not covered here.

However, the Gout Remedy Report, by Barton Publishing, is a down-loadable report that covers most everything you need to know to get natural gout pain relief and how to prevent recurring gout causing such damage. You can download your copy now by clicking here.

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Trying to prove a link between diet coke and gout either way is difficult. Company scientists say no, whilst other researchers say yes. And gout sufferers tell conflicting stories as well; some saying they stopped their regular gout after changing to diet coke from classic coke, others saying that their gout only started after going on to diet coke.

The problem is that there are many underlying reasons for raised uric acid levels leading to the urate crystal formation that causes gout. Unless you carry out long term studies with a sufficiently large group of people and carefully filter out all the other causes of high uric acid, then the test results cannot be relied on.

What is a fact though is that diet coke contains Aspartame, which is a non-calorific sweetener, in general use in soft drinks and food preparations since the 1980’s. And, although it has been passed by various governing bodies worldwide, there is a huge debate going on about potential serious side effects such as epilepsy and brain tumours. Although nothing has been proved scientifically as yet as far as I am aware.

But there is some evidence from a recent study that shows that sweet drinks, such as normal coke, which contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as the sweetener DO lead to a higher risk of gout. So, in terms of trying to prevent gout, you may want to seriously consider avoiding normal coke and similar drinks that contain HFCS. 

But does this mean that you should stick to / change to diet coke? As I said at the start, there probably isn’t enough evidence to conclude one way or the other whether there is a link between diet coke and gout. Maybe the best option for you as a gout sufferer is to avoid diet coke and similar non-calorific sweetener drinks?

And there are many other issues that are well known to help cause the high uric acid levels in your body that lead to gout. So your time would probably be better spent working on what we DO know rather than what we DON’T know… 

For example, we DO know that some of the most important underlying causes of high uric acid are; being overweight, regular and excessive alcohol consumption, high-purine diet, family history of gout / arthritis and hypertension (high blood pressure), some medications, some medical conditions, high levels of fats (lipids) in the bloodstream. 

You’ll find more information on these issues, and, a more holistic approach to preventing the permanent joint damage and other health problems that can occur with frequently recurring gout attacks, by downloading The Gout Remedy Report. Just click here.

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Apple cider vinegar has been used since antiquity as a natural remedy for many ailments, and gout is just one of them. But it has to be organic, or raw, apple cider vinegar, not the distilled, pasteurized stuff you normally get in supermarkets. You’ll get the raw version in specialist food shops and /or health food stores.

This particular home remedy can be taken as a drink as well as for soaking your ‘gout’ feet’ in it…

As a drink, it is believed that it actually changes the pH value of your blood which reduces your high uric acid levels, and so helps to alleviate your painful gout.

As a soak for your feet, it can help to alleviate the pain and inflammation that you get during a gout attack in your feet.

Here’s how to take it as a drink…

Just add 3 teaspoons of cider to a large glass of water and drink 3 times per day. If the taste is just too much for you, then add some honey to help sweeten the drink.

Here’s how to use apple cider vinegar as a soak for ‘gout feet’…

Make up a batch in the ratio 1/2 of a cup of the cider to 3 cups of hot water, i.e. 1 of cider to 6 of hot water, and soak your foot / feet for half an hour. Repeat, reheating the mixture as required.

Note: Do not boil the water. Only make it hot enough that you can soak without burning your feet. Always test before putting your feet in the mixture.

Raw apple cider vinegar is a popular home remedy for gout and, for many folks, has proven to be pretty effective during an attack.

But, the critical thing is to prevent gout attacks from happening in the first place. You see, recurring gout is known to produce serious complications like kidney stones and other kidney problems, and, permanently damaged joints. And the worrying thing is that once having had only one gout attack, you’re now very likely to have even more.

So, you need to do everything in your power to prevent this from happening…

You’re in luck though. There’s a special gout report available online that has all the information you need in one place. It is what thousands of ex-gout victims worldwide have successfully used to prevent their gout returning. It also contains a special 2 hour gout pain relief program.

And it uses fully-researched, totally natural methods. So that you benefit two ways: (1) you get rid of your excruciating pain very fast, and, (2) you prevent your gout returning, so that you reduce the risk of permanent damage.

If you want to get gout pain relief in 2 hours, plus, prevent your gout returning in the future, then go to http://bit.ly/thegoutremedyreport and discover how you can quickly do both without expensive drugs with their horrible side effects.

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Gout and stress. How on earth are they related? Well, since gout is caused by high uric acid levels as a result of your metabolism, and stress is known to increase your body’s metabolism, then when your stress increases, more uric acid is produced, thus triggering a gout attack.

It is well known that stress can trigger gout. So it makes sense then, if you’re a gout sufferer, to do all you can to reduce your daily stress levels in order to help prevent gout attacks. There are many ways to help you do this, including the following…

Deep Breathing

Under normal circumstances the oxygen and carbon dioxide in our bodies is kept in balance by normal, correct breathing. But when we are stressed, we tend to breath more quickly and shallowly, which knocks the ratio out of balance. And when we do this we actually make our stress even worse, perhaps even to having a panic attack.

Deep, controlled breathing is a well known way to help reduce stress by re-balancing your oxygen and carbon dioxide. The key point is to ensure that you breathe using your diaphragm (abdomen) as well as your chest cavity. Breathe slowly and evenly making sure when you inhale that you inflate your abdomen and flatten it when you exhale.

Meditation

People who regularly use this method say they feel much less anxiety and stress, feel more alive, have much more energy, and need less sleep, than before they started meditating. The problem is that many people (most even?) find the whole idea of meditation disconcerting. But if it gets the job done, why not give it a go? You can learn how to do it yourself from books, etc., but you’re best to seek out a meditation teacher in your local area.

Relaxation Exercise

Here is an exercise to help you relax and relieve stress:-

1. Get comfortable in a room / place where you won’t be disturbed by people or noise. Your bedroom is ideal.
2. Either lie flat on your bed, or, recline in a comfortable chair.
3. Close your eyes and start to slow your breathing down. Inhale through your nose for a count of two. Make sure your abdomen is inflated as above.
4. Breathe out through your mouth for a count of four, ensuring your get all the air out of your abdomen.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for, say, 2 minutes.
6. Then starting with an arm, and concentrating on each part of your body in turn, consciously relax each set of muscles, making them feel heavier and heavier, so that the stress just flows away. For example, begin with your left arm, then the right, your face, neck, shoulders, etc.

These are just three of the measures you can take to help relieve your stress and prevent gout attacks. Other things are; don’t take your work problems home with you, make sure you take regular vacations, and so on.

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Are you at risk of gout? Here, I’ve listed key gout risk factors so that you can see how much you may be at risk…

Hyperuricea — the condition where there are high uric acid levels in the body — is a leading cause of gout. Around 70% of people who suffer from gout produce too much uric acid, whilst about 30% can’t eliminate it from their systems effectively enough.

So what are the things that can give rise to high uric acid in people?

Lifestyle Issues

1. Your Diet

Foods contain compounds called ‘purines’ that, when they breakdown during your normal metabolizing process, produce uric acid. And some foods are higher in purines than others. If your diet is high in purines (as western diets tend to be) then your uric acid levels can be elevated.

2. Too Much Alcohol

Alcohol — beer in particular — is known to produce hyperuricemia because of it’s ability to hamper the normal removal of uric acid from the body. It is believed that, on average, 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink a day for women, can lead to hyperuricemia.

3. Being Overweight

Someone who is overweight has a higher risk of hyperuricemia, simply because there is more tissue to be broken down. The human body also contains purines, so that when these breakdown uric acid is produced, therefore the more tissue to breakdown, the more uric acid produced. The risk exists if you are 30 pounds or more above your model weight.

Other gout risk factors are…

Family History

There is research that suggests that 1 out of 4 gout sufferers has a family history of gout. So, if you have a family history of gout — or arthritis because gout accounts for around 5% of arthritis cases — then you have a higher risk of gout than someone who hasn’t such a history.

Medical Conditions / Medications

Some medical conditions can help to increase your gout risk. These are conditions such as; diabetes, high cholesterol, narrowing of the arteries, high blood pressure, and chemotherapy which can release a lot of uric acid into the bloodstream.

And some medications can also increase your gout risk, e.g. medications for high blood pressure, diuretics, niacin (vitamin), cyclosporine (immuno-suppressant), levodopa (for Parkinson’s disease), meds that use salicylic acid (e.g. aspirin), and so on.

Age and Sex

Gout affects men more than women, because men usually have higher uric acid levels in their bodies compared to women anyway. On average, men seem to get gout between the ages of 30 and 50.

Women don’t usually start getting gout until they are over 50. It is believed that this happens because a woman’s uric acid levels naturally rise after the menopause.

Relatively very few gout cases have been diagnosed in children and young adults. 

By knowing and understanding the risk factors leading to gout, you are now better able to help yourself prevent gout attacks in the future. Please now look around this website for more information on symptoms, causes and treatment options.

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Apple cider vinegar is a popular and pretty effective home remedy for gout. It contains loads of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes etc., so is beneficial in many ways, apart from as a gout remedy.

It cannot ‘cure’ gout, but it can certainly help to reduce the symptoms of gout. When drunk, it is believed to alter your blood pH so lower your uric acid levels. And, applied externally to the affected joint, it can help to alleviate the pain and inflammation there.

Let’s start with the drink…

Add 3 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar into a large glass of water and mix thoroughly. Drink a glass at least twice a day. I personally drink three glasses a day. If the taste is too much for you, you can add some honey or fruit juice to help it along.

Now for the topical remedy…

Use a ratio of half of a cup of vinegar to three cups of hot water and soak your foot for about 30 minutes. Repeat as you like, reheating the mixture as you go.

As for the type of apple cider vinegar you use, it must be the raw, un-distilled, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar you would get from a health food store or other specialist store. It normally has a good deal of sediment in the bottom of the bottle; called the ‘mother.’ 

 But as I said at the start, apple cider vinegar cannot cure the gout in your foot on it’s own. You need to investigate and address a whole range of issues, as well as other natural home remedies, to be able to successfully manage your gout and prevent recurring attacks.

This is important because recurring gout can cause you to eventually have permanent joint damage as well as possible kidney problems, such as painful kidney stones. You can get all this information in one place — The Gout Remedy Report — which I have successfully used and which I review in this website.

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To eliminate gout symptoms you can use natural methods instead of drug-based medications. Many more people are being turned-off drugs because of their side effects and their ongoing cost, but also because they address the symptoms, not the underlying root cause(s) of gout.

Here are 3 of the most effective natural ways to eradicate your gout symptoms…   

Eat Lots of Cherries

Many people believe this home remedy to be the king of natural gout remedies. Cherries are full of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. There is also some evidence that they can reduce the uric acid levels in your blood. So, all-in-all, cherries are a powerful way to help eradicate gout symptoms.

During an attack, eat 30 to 40 cherries every 4 hours. Outside of an attack, 30 to 40 cherries daily should help maintain lower uric acid levels. If they are out of season, get some concentrated cherry juice from your local health food shop.

Drink Lots of Water

Drinking a lot of water every day will keep your body well-hydrated. A well hydrated body can help to fight against uric acid crystal formation and also help your kidneys flush excess uric acid and uric acid crystals out of your body.

You should drink at the very least, 12 x 8 ounce glasses of water everyday, more if you can. And spread these glasses throughout the day for best effect. Don’t ‘binge’ drink.

Change to a Low Purine Diet

Purines are chemical compounds in your body and food that breakdown and form uric acid during your body’s normal metabolizing process. Now some foods have more purines than others. So by eating a high purine diet, you’re just piling on more and more uric acid to your already high acid levels, thus making your gout worse, and, making it very difficult to eradicate your gout symptoms.

Depending on your present diet, you’ll need to considerably reduce some foods and avoid other foods altogether. Typical foods to avoid to help get rid of gout are; game, fatty red meat, organ meat, some fish, shellfish, poultry, legumes and yeast products. Foods to perhaps reduce are; mushrooms, cauliflower, asparagus, spinach, etc.

Note that, as everybody’s metabolism is different, you’ll find that what might trigger a gout attack in one person, might not have the same effect in another, especially with moderately-high purine foods. You’ll get more detailed dietary information in other posts within this site (see links below).

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Acidic urine, or rather, high uric acid in urine can be a symptom of gout. Gout is caused by uric acid crystals that have formed in your joints, because of high levels of acid in your body. The condition of having high acid levels is called Hyperuricemia.

Your body is continually producing uric acid as part of its normal metabolization process. During this process, chemical compounds called ‘purines’ breakdown and one of the byproducts is uric acid, which your kidneys normally flush out of your body through your urine.

The problem occurs when your kidneys fail to do this effectively enough, or, your body is producing far too much for your kidneys to be expected to handle. When either of these situations happens, you’re left with higher than normal uric acid in your blood, which can lead to gout crystal formation in your joints.

Your doctor can arrange for blood and urine tests to be carried out. If you have high uric acid in blood and high in your urine, then your kidneys are likely working well, but your body is making too much acid. On the other hand, if you have high levels in your blood and low levels in urine, your kidneys are probably not working so well. Based on this your doctor can select the appropriate treatment and perhaps some further tests on your kidneys.

 It doesn’t really matter the reason for high uric acid, the outcome is the same; the symptoms of gout, which are, redness, swelling, stiffness, inflammation and the excruciating pain that drives you crazy. More often than not, the attacks are so bad that you can’t even get a sock on, let alone a shoe. (Note: The vast majority of attacks occur in the big toe joint, although any joint can be affected, e.g. side of foot, ankle, knee, elbow, hand, etc.).

Now, although high uric acid in the body leads to gout, there are several underlying factors that can increase the risk of  a gout attack. These are things such as; your diet, lifestyle, if you’re overweight, family history of gout / arthritis, medical conditions, medications, etc.

To get a better understanding of your condition and how to treat it, you need to investigate all of these issues. You’ll find information throughout this site. In particular, you’ll want to discover how your diet can lead to acidic urine or high uric acid.

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