Gout And Psoriasis: A Strange ConnectionPsoriasis causes skin rashes with bumpy, scaly patches of thickened skin. Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis that affects the joints, most often the joint of the big toe.

So, what could possibly be the connection between these two conditions?

A clear one, says a new study in the journal Clinical Epidemiology.

So clear that if you suffer from one, you’re at drastically increased risk of getting the other.

The researchers used data from one million people from Taiwan, some of whom had psoriasis and some of whom did not. They followed all of them for 14 years.

The scientists made sure that sex, age, co-occurring health conditions, and urbanization did not influence their findings.

Based on 14 years of observations, they drew three definite conclusions:

1. Psoriasis patients were 38% more likely to develop gout than their healthy-skinned peers.

2. The risk of gout was 21% higher for psoriasis patients who used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories compared with those without psoriasis.

3. The risk of gout was 65% higher for psoriasis patients who did not use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories compared with those without psoriasis.

Therefore, there is an association between psoriasis and gout, and the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories does not break the Association.

It is not obvious why this association exists.

Previous studies have discovered that people with psoriasis had much higher levels of uric acid in their blood than people without this skin condition. Uric acid is usually elevated in the bodies of people with gout, so the connection might work through uric acid.

When new skin cells are produced, which happens in overdrive in psoriasis patients, your body releases purine metabolites as a byproduct. Purine later forms uric acid.

Another connection is through systemic inflammation. If you have psoriasis and high uric acid, you are likely to have extremely high levels of inflammatory chemicals throughout your body.

In fact, some studies have found 20-fold higher levels of the inflammatory chemical called C-reactive protein in psoriasis patients, and this level of inflammation may contribute to the development of gout.

This means that if you heal psoriasis, you may also rid yourself of gout (or avoid developing it) at the same time.

Fortunately, it’s quite easy to heal psoriasis using the simple, natural steps explained here…

And if you suffer gout, you’ll be happy to learn that thousands of readers have completely reversed their gout using the easy approach explained here…