Gout is a very painful experience I was fortunate enough to experience. I could not wear any kind of foot wear for over a year and a half. Walking more than 10 feet was very difficult. I visited the hospital GOLD ward where people are dealing with severe pain. Where they are very nice you do not want to be in a situation that puts you there.
I have the cure and have proven it on myself and others I have met with great success.
When we move our muscles we excrete uric acid into the blood stream where it is carried off and expelled through the kidneys.. It is a by product of our efforts.
If we do not drink enough fluids especially when exerting ourselves and sweating in the heat our blood can thicken resulting in reduced blood flow. The uric acid builds up and exceeds the limited ability of the kidneys to remove the uric acid. Ingeniously the body stores this acid outside the blood stream as uric acid crystals in out joints. Think thousands of rock like needs in your joints.
The feet swell become reddened and hot to the touch. Pain radiates throughout the joints and toes. It is bad, very bad. You can't stand sheets on your feet!
The medical field has nothing to reverse the gout only products to numb the pain and cause other health problems. After 5 years of serious pain they will perform surgery, opening your foot and gouging the uric crystals out. That is the best they can do… no thank you.
While laid up with gout I had the opportunity to distract myself by looking for an alternative. There are a lot of people selling solutions that don't work and homophobic solutions that don't function as suggested. Other solutions at the time seemed risky.
One solutions that I ran across caught my attention. Dark cherries. I can;t say this is scientific research, but I do like cherries. Dark cherries are supposed to have a chemical that reverses the uric acid chemicals back to uric acid. If it worked that would be like a miracle.
I drank 4 oz of dark cherry concentrate (not juice) or ate cherries.8 cherries a day. At first I only noticed small changes like swelling going down, less heat in the joints and reduced redness. Minor changes but it gave me hope.
I dug deeper and learned about the acid and crystals, blood flow and how the kidneys functioned. I also learned that sweets like sugar on the outside is an acid on the bloodstream. And an acid on the outside does the opposite changing your PH, Backing soda is an acid on the outside; to help my kidneys I took a pinch of it in a pitcher of water everyday. I could see and feel progress after about a month not much but progress.
In about 4 months I was walking short distances and under less pain. At a year and a half I could walk long distances with limited pain. At 2 years I could walk, run do what ever I liked.
My gout was very bad. Those that I have helped were under medical care for their gout and wearing Velco casts to ease the pain and allow them to hobble with crutches. All of them reported within 6 months they were normal once again. I had over a dozen people I have recommended this to; it worked every time. I had a few that did not appreciate advice from a non-practicing doctor. Their gout sadly persisted. That was their choice, I do not push what I know on others.
My experience was around 2008. Since then I have not experienced gout beyond a few minor aches. I immediately ate some frozen cherries and the next day no pain.
Prior to the gout experience a few of us in the area caught a flu?? in the spring which seemed to suppress our thirst. It was warm and I was pushing a manual labor project (woodworking) that needed to be done. Exercising, sweating and not drinking is bad. My foot started to ache, but I assumed I had hurt it somehow. A few days later the other foot started to ache. A week later I was hobbling but still pushing on the project… it had to get done. A few weeks later I was crippled with gout.
My wife had a very mild case of gout that lasted a month. Later I found two other people in the area that had experienced the same sickness and lack of desire to drink. They also had gout, but for a very short period.