The Mystery of GOUT Revealed

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there’s a couple really strange things related to gout that I want to discuss why is it that 70 of people with gout have high blood pressure I mean that’s that’s weird especially since uric acid which most people know that gout is a problem of uric acid building up in your big toe is considered a powerful antioxidant if it’s an antioxidant then why is it associated with high blood pressure and why is it associated with so much pain in your right big toe so that’s what we’re going to sort out today and I have some interesting conclusions and ideas if you have gout you’re going to be very glad you watch this video you know it’s not just high levels of uric acid in your blood that’s causing gout because they found there’s no correlation between levels of uric acid in the blood and gout attacks but they do know the pain of gout is this uric acid Crystal formation creating a lot of inflammation so what is going on here well what they do now your kidney is not able to get rid of this uric acid effectively it tends to retain uric acid and then somehow it leaks into the joint of your big toe and it forms crystals the main medication for gout is called alopurinol and what that does is it inhibits the formation of uric acid there’s an enzyme called xanthine oxidase which helps you make uric acid so this medication blocks that enzyme thereby lessening them out of uric acid now the problem with this medication is it creates all some side effects and some pretty major side effects so a lot of people don’t like to take it so they’re searching out for alternative methods to help their gout but I think once you understand some of these things I’m going to talk about and sort out some of these Mysteries and paradoxes you’ll have a solution a common natural remedy for gout is celery seed another common remedy would be tart cherry and both of these can actually inhibit that enzyme and that’s probably why they do help a certain amount of people but there’s a couple other points of this problem that I want to bring up number one why is there such a high correlation between gout and high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems that’s kind of a mystery that relates to this Paradox this information that’s kind of conflicting because uric acid is considered an antioxidant as well as a pro-oxidant now that’s the conflicting information so how can it get rid of inflammation but cause inflammation if it’s such a powerful antioxidant in your blood then why is it associated with heart problems okay why is it one of the strong predictors of heart problems in fact it’s also linked with insulin resistance and even liver fat but how can this be if it’s supposed to be an antioxidant so let me just kind of go through a couple interesting points about this number one and this is what I found out uric acid inhibits nitric oxide nitric oxide is what a lot of people are trying to increase to lower blood pressure to help their hearts to protect the inside of the arteries and it’s considered a powerful antioxidant it’s a potent vasodilator okay so it just it relaxes the blood vessels so it’s really good for high blood pressure other people try to increase it for other reasons like erectile dysfunction because if it’s a potent vasodilator it can help with erections and so people take Viagra for example which increases nitric oxide or they might take a natural form of that called L-Arginine which increases nitric oxide so nitric oxide is a powerful antioxidant but uric acid inhibits this nitric oxide I mean if you even think about what happens to a gout patient with their big toe you’re getting a tremendous amount of inflammation you’re getting a lot of free radical damage you’re getting a lot of oxidative stress right and if you don’t have this nitric oxide to counter that you’re going to have a problem the other point I’ll bring up and this is interesting nitric oxide can help regulate that enzyme that makes uric acid so it can help decrease or inhibit this xanthine oxidase but on the flip side if you have uric acid that’s going to inhibit nitric oxide so what’s going on I really think what’s really going on at a deeper level is there must be some type of genetic weakness that sets someone up for this problem with the inability to eliminate uric acid and maybe even the inability to produce enough nitric oxide or absorb enough nitric oxide but that being said um I’m going to cover some other points that relate to this coming back to this celery this phytonutrient that can help increase nitric oxide is not really present in large quantities in the stock but it is present in the celery seed extract in larger amounts as well as the celery leaves okay those little things that you kind of cut off and don’t eat right those are the things you need to eat if you have gout it’s the leaves of the celery now you can also get this phytonutrient from artichokes artichokes is a good source also sage in Thyme and you can also get it in a lot of other leafy greens as well but I’m just pointing this out that there’s even people that have claimed to get rid of their gout by taking artichoke another common remedy would be to actually lower your sodium chloride apparently salt inhibits nitric oxide especially if someone is salt sensitive okay when I read that line okay in this article a little thing popped up in my mind because anytime someone mentioned salt sensitivity what they’re really describing is the potassium deficiency because you really no longer become salt sensitive if you get enough potassium and so now the question is what is the relationship between potassium and nitric oxide well apparently potassium increases nitric oxide in a potent way and this could also be the reason why quite a few anecdotal reports indicate that taking potassium can help reduce gout and so you have this restriction of sodium that helps gout and this taking potassium that helps go personally I think it’s the ratios if you get the ratios just right I think you’re going to be in good shape but if you have gout and you’re taking a lot of sodium that could potentially be a problem I always recommend having sufficient amount of salt especially sea salt but for some people with gout maybe it’s not the best idea maybe you restrict your salt but you start really increasing your potassium to the level where maybe your gal can go away now the other thing related to potassium is that diuretics okay deplete potassium they also get rid of sodium and diuretics are linked with decreasing nitric oxide as well as uric acid and potassium is alkaline and so we also know that if you alkalize your urine you’ll have less gout attacks another interesting connection omega-3 fatty acids also increase nitric oxide okay and we know that omega-3 is an anti-inflammatory and so the real big idea with nitric oxide is this it’s an antioxidant okay and if you have inflammation in your big toe you need antioxidants and nitric oxide could just be what you’ve been missing and there’s also some additional data about uric acid I want to bring up now is it an antioxidant is it a pro-oxidant well I think it’s both because there’s some data that when it gets into the tissues intracellular it becomes a pro-oxidant which would make a lot of sense because if this uric acid gets into your arteries or let’s say it gets into the joint then it starts creating inflammation that’s why we need nitric oxide because it’s not only an anti-inflammatory it’s an antioxidant as well there’s another term I want to introduce you to and it’s called an inflammasome A protein that is within the immune system that you’re born with and apparently this inflamasome triggers a Cascade of inflammatory things that happen a gout attack and nitric oxide is a potent suppressor of this inflammasome what are some other things that can trigger a gout attack well you have fructose and when people have fr