Consider however:Would you drink methylbutane thiol, the activeingredient of a skunk’s defense mechanism?Well, if you’ve ever had a cold beer in a frosty mugon a hot summer afternoon, you have done exactly that!

Would you drink ‘putrescine’ and ‘cadaverine’?Well, if you drink wine, particularly an importedSpanish wine thats exactly what you are doing.

Its those minute, trace compounds that can besignificant. And particularly any bottom fermentedbeer will make gout worse. Trace amounts ofmycological products seem to be quite potent.

Remember, gout may often be related to uric acidlevels and uric acid crystals but that is oftenbecause there is no further investigation into suchthings as infectious agents or why so many people havehigh uric acid levels but do not get gout.

I’m really not interested in any sort of poll fromsubscribers, but I daresay we would find quite a fewvictims of cat bites on this listserve.

Not quite true. Corned beef or mutton would beextremely high in nitrites even though not classifiedas a luncheon meat.

Sustained anecdotal evidence from gout sufferers seemsto indicate a connection.

Vitamin C is excreted in human urine. OMG! I’ll never have vitamine Cagain!

What are you suggesting about cat bites? Please provide some basis foryour reasoning