Living well with gout — exercise, sleep, stress management, and daily habits that keep uric acid in check.
You Cut the Steak, Dropped the Eggs, and Your Uric Acid Still Won’t Move If you’ve been dealing with gout for a while, you’ve probably heard the same advice a hundred times: cut the purines. Drop the red meat. Skip the seafood. Lay off the beer. So you did. You swapped steak for salads. You … Read more
Your Gout Crystals Aren’t Just in Your Joints. They’re in Your Arteries. Think about the last time gout hit you. That throbbing big toe, the swollen ankle, the knee that screamed at the slightest touch. You probably thought the problem was in your joint, right? What if I told you those same needle-sharp crystals are … Read more
Only 1 in 3 People With Gout Take Their Medication. Here’s Why That’s a Crisis. If you have high blood pressure, there’s a roughly 70% chance you take your pills every day. Diabetes? About 65%. Osteoporosis? Around 55%. Gout? Thirty-seven percent. That’s not a typo. According to data presented at the RheumNow Gout Campaign in … Read more
A 28-Year-Old Walks Into a Rheumatology Clinic With Gout His big toe is swollen to twice its normal size. He can feel his pulse in the joint. He used to run 5Ks. Now he cannot put on a sock without wincing. His doctor asks about his diet. “I started carnivore six months ago,” he says. … Read more
Your Gout Might Start in Your Sleep Imagine this: you go to bed feeling fine, then wake up at 3 AM with a big toe that feels like someone hit it with a hammer. Sound familiar? Most people blame dinner. The steak, the beer, maybe that extra slice of bacon. But what if the real … Read more
You Cut Out Beer and Seafood — But Your Uric Acid Keeps Climbing You gave up beer. You stopped eating organ meats. You even swapped your sugary soda for water. But your uric acid keeps creeping up year after year, and your doctor just shrugs. Sound familiar? You’re not the only one. Plenty of people … Read more