Gout Lifestyle

Living well with gout — exercise, sleep, stress management, and daily habits that keep uric acid in check.

Why Your Uric Acid Won’t Drop Even After Cutting Protein: The Insulin Trap Nobody Warned You About

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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.

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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.

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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

The Carnivore Diet Gout Explosion: Why Young Men Are Getting the “Disease of Kings”

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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