Key To Curing Gout Lies In One Fruit Juice

This tasty fruit has captured the attention of medical researchers for some time now.

Not because it makes a delicious juice, but because of all the anthocyanins it contains, which are believed to fight damage caused by oxidation and inflammation with a vengeance.

And now a recent study in the Journal of Functional Foods also revealed that this so-called “wonder fruit” is amazing when it comes to curing gout.

Because gout is usually the consequence of uric acid crystals deposited in our joints, the best way to prevent or treat it is to stop your uric acid level shooting through the roof, and apparently Montmorency tart cherries could hold the key to the cure (or part of it).

A research team from Northumbria University studied 12 healthy subjects to see whether these cherries could keep uric acid and inflammation levels under control.

They split the subjects into two groups – one received 30 ml of Montmorency tart cherry juice concentrate blended with 100 ml of water and the other received 60 ml of concentrate in the same amount of water.

All the subjects drank the juice for twice a day for two days.

The researchers took blood and urine samples before, during and after the study.

For the next 10 days, the subjects continued their normal diets without any juice before they swapped the two groups so that those who had previously taken the larger dose were now taking the smaller one and vice versa.

They again measured blood and urine and discovered that the subjects had lower uric acid and C-reactive protein in their blood when they consumed the cherry concentrates.

Since the study did not include people with gout, arthritis, and other inflammatory conditions, we cannot assume that these cherries will work for everyone, but at least we know that relatively healthy people can reduce the uric acid and inflammation in their bodies by consuming it, and since these are the primary contributors to gout, it might be a good prevention strategy.

You can buy montmorency tart cherries as a dried powder, in frozen form, or as a juice or concentrate.

But juice alone won’t get rid of your gout completely, for that you need to tackle the real underlaying cause of gout (which is probably different from what you think)…