Gout Diet Blog

As many of you know I have been researching this thing, this goutthing, now for about 6 months and I have come to some conclusions.

However, a conclusion that we have all read about, and talked about,hit me the other day and after having thought about it for a fewdays, and it really does make sense.

What is the advise that accompanies any remedy for gout?

Well, it is “Drink lots of water!”

I have been given that advise, I have given that advise to others andI have followed that advise each time I have been afflicted with thepain. Moreover, to my not quantitative but pretty accurateobservations, drinking lots of water helps more than any other thingI seem to be able to do.

Which brings me to the point of this tirade.

What do I do, and I will bet that you do, when your gout symptoms goaway?

Well, because of the information on purene and high levels of it inthis and that food we all have seriously altered out diets.

But….and here is the catch…

How many of us continue to drink a lot of water when we are not beingattacked?

In reality we live our lives gout free, how much, 75% of the time,85% or even more. During that time I always have reverted back to myold habits of drinking when I am thirsty. Sometimes I will drink alittle more thinking that, well I do need it for my gout, but I donot seriously practice drinking an extra gallon, or two, of waterabove and beyond my normal drinking requirements. Why? Because I justdon’t think about it. I am willing to take 300 mg of allopurinol aday but I don’t force myself to drink the extra water.

The allopurinol may not hurt me but then again it probably will havelong term side effects. Some of them are known and some of them areprobably there and just not documented. It is, after all, a drug thatis altering my basic chemistry and, although I have committed toeating my little pill each and every day, I fear it and I reallydon’t like it.

Now back to the water. What are the long term effects of drinking anextra gallon or two of water each day? The major effect is that youwill have to go to the bathroom more often. I think that’s probablywhy I end up limiting my intake because of the inconvenience ofhaving to go so often.

The bottom line is this. If you double the water your kidneys processeach and every day of your life, particularly when you are not in thethrows of a gout attack, you will, in almost all cases of gout,eliminate the gout. I don’t have any data on this nor do I know ifthere has been a study on it but it is simple logic.

If my body just barely makes it with the amount of water it has towork with, that is makes it in terms of keeping up with the amount ofuric acid it has to get rid of each day, if I double that amount ofwater each day, I am going to increase the amount of uric acid it isable to excrete. It very well may not double it but it absoluely willincrease the excretion.

Therefore the number one recommendation for a gout patient:===>

Drink at least 1 and preferably 2 extra gallons of water each andevery day of your life and it is particularly important to drink theextra water when you are not being attacked by the unfiendly crystalsof Mono Sodiun Urate.

By the way, someone with a good lab could conclusively show what thedifference in uric acid excretion is, in normal gout sufferers, whenthey are not under attack, when they drink twice as much water asthey normally do. In fact two 24 hour urine collections would tell ushow much difference the extra water would make. In fact my Doc mightbe willing to run the test.

It the test has already been run, I’d like to read the descrtiptionof the study.

What I’m proposing here is that doubling your intake of water eachday of your life is a long term cure for gout.