Can Allopurinol Help Your Fatty Liver? What the Research Actually Shows A patient asked me something last week that I couldn’t answer off the top of my head. He has gout, takes allopurinol, and just found out he has fatty liver disease. Could one pill do double duty? I told him I’d look into it. … Read more
Last July, a guy in his early forties came to see me. Fit as hell—ran 10K every morning, watched what he ate, barely touched alcohol. But every summer, his foot would explode with gout. “I sweat so much,” he told me. “Thought I was flushing out all the bad stuff.” Sound familiar? Here’s what nobody … Read more
Here is something I hear all the time from readers: “My uric acid test came back normal. So why does my joint still feel like it is on fire?” If that sounds familiar, you are not losing your mind. Plenty of people with gout walk into their doctor is office with a lab report that … Read more
You just finished a 10K run. Your legs ache, you’re lightheaded, and your mouth feels like sandpaper. Normal, right? Just tired from the workout. But here’s the thing nobody tells people with gout: that dehydration you’re feeling right now? It’s basically handing your joints a lit match. Last year, a guy came into my cliniclet’s … Read more
\ \ \ \ \ You wake up feeling fine. No pain, no swelling, nothing. Maybe you even forgot you have gout. \ \ Then it hits. That familiar explosion of fire in your big toe, the one that makes you want to scream at 3 AM. \ \ Here’s the thing most people don’t … Read more
You’ve been blaming your weight on the usual suspects—restaurant dinners, skipped workouts, one too many late-night snacks. It’s a logical story, and most of us have been told this our whole lives. But what if the real problem isn’t just what you eat, but what your body does with it? A study published in June … Read more