This Common Food Cures Gout

The traditional medical system only has a few ineffective treatment options for gout.

Most likely, the only help you got from your doctor was the recommendation to cut down on alcohol and red meat.

But according to a new study in the official publication of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, it’s not about cutting out on food but loading up on one common type of food.

This is food you’re already consuming—you just have to consume a little more.

Many previous studies have concluded that low-fat dairy has protective effects against gout. In the past, researchers believed that this was purely because of its low purine content, but the authors of this study wondered whether it could have something to do with calcium and its potential as a urate-lowering agent.

It’s not healthy to have too much urate in our bodies. The main consequences are gout, but it has also been linked with kidney disease, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease.

Hence, if calcium from supplements or low-fat dairy products can lower it, we are in a position to treat gout as well as all these other horrors.

They recruited 35 adults who were already on low-calcium diets. Their subjects consumed approximately 800 milligrams of calcium per day.

They divided them into three groups: one received a breakfast containing 770 milligrams of calcium from calcium citrate, one received a breakfast containing 770 milligrams of calcium from skim milk, and a control group received a low-calcium breakfast with 70 milligrams of calcium.

Together with the 800 milligrams of calcium they were already eating, the first two groups were accordingly consuming almost 1,600 milligrams of calcium per day, whereas the third group remained on a very low-calcium diet.

They remained on these diets for 45 consecutive days before and after which the researchers tested their body fat, urate, calcium, vitamin D, and parathyroid hormone. The last two are essential for our bodies to absorb calcium.

They found what they expected:

1. Calcium citrate and skim milk reduced the urate in the subjects’ blood by 14 and 17% respectively.

2. It did not affect their vitamin D and parathyroid hormone counts.

This confirms that the gout-protective effects of low-fat dairy are partly due to the urate-lowering effects of the calcium.

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