I don’t know if cherry extract pills will prevent goutattacks. They certainly will not hurt and would be asensible dietary modification, but many tablets forvitamins and the like are poorly absorbed and may notoffer sufficient quantity to do much good.
I would consider them to be an interesting andflavorful “adjunct” that at the very least do no harm.
Most often recommended are dark cherries. Farless often strawberries are recommended. Thereseems to be a difference of opinion as tocranberries.
Usually these are recommended as some sort ofanciliary measures that you can take in additionto whatever other measures you take to lower youruric acid levels or lessen the pain of goutflareups caused by continued high levels.
Occasionally, these anciliary measures provesufficient on their own and only an occasionaluric acid test is needed to monitor thesituation.
To the extent that some researchers think gout isreally caused by an infectious agent, thecherry/strawberry routing would proveparticularly interesting.
Masking? Well, alot of pain relievers work bycausing pain. So all they really do is ‘mask’ themore severe pain by causing a milder pain thatthe body reacts to.
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