Why Does Dietary Protein NOT Cause Gout? – Dr.Berg

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so the question we’re going to answer today is why dietary protein does not cause gout many people think that it does they do have this consideration because purines turn into uric acid and foods that are high in purines are organ meats veal turkey venison sardines and fish and red meat well let’s just first talk about what uric acid is uric acid is a byproduct of protein and when uric acid gets too high in the blood it can precipitate out and settle into certain joints and create all sorts of inflammation mainly in your big toe but it can happen in your knees your hips your shoulders anywhere in the body then you have all this advice to cut out the medes and become a vegetarian etc etc but I want to explain a couple interesting facts number one over 60% of the uric acid in your body does not come from the diet it comes from your own body your body makes it it’s called endogenous so that means that only one-third of the uric acid that’s in your body actually comes from the actual diet now when people do fasting for example or go on a ketogenic diet they may have an initial spike of uric acid in the transitional stage and that occurs because of the fact that uric acid is also a major antioxidant in your body so apparently when your body is fasting and on a low-carb diet your body is needing these antioxidants which are made internally to clean up or heal certain things I mean think about it it’s really the protein that’s causing the uric acid why would you have a spike of uric acid when you’re fasting and you’re not eating anything and the next point I want to bring up is this 90% of people with gout heavy problem with eliminating uric acid not the overproduction of uric acid only 10% of the people with gout produce too much uric acid so the real problem with gout is that you’re not able to eliminate the uric acid so what does that mean it means that the problem was within the kidney itself so there’s some type of kidney damage or some type of kidney dysfunction where you’re holding on to uric acid so the next question is what types of conditions create kidney damage now the top the list we have diabetes if you’re diabetic you have a major risk of getting gout why is that because when you’re diabetic now I’m not talking about type 1 I’m talking about type 2 which is the majority of diabetics you have a higher level of insulin okay of course it’s not working so you have insulin resistance so that means you have a situation where you have the cells not absorbing insulin so the body compensates by making more insulin so you have all this insulin that’s ineffective because you have insulin resistance so we have high insulin but it’s not working you have high glucose okay because you don’t have insulin in there to regulate it even though you have an excess of amount but it’s dysfunctional and that’s what causes the kidney destruction there’s actually four areas of your body of that insulin and high sugar destroys one is the nerves in the brain number two is the eye and the heart the vessels around the heart and the heart muscle itself and the kidney so insulin resistance is really behind the gout so fructose for example will really cause gout pretty quick why because out of all the sugars fructose has the biggest impact on causing insulin resistance and fructose directly can increase uric acid so high amounts of insulin and/or high amounts of glucose cause the kidney to retain uric acid they also cause the kidney to retain fluid so now this is making a little bit more sense it’s not the protein it’s the insulin resistance so what can you do alright number one you have to heal insulin resistance now when you start a healthy key to a plan and you do in a minute fasting you may find that your uric acid does spike only on a temporary basis but if you continue it and you get through the adaptation this that will go away but you want to do health Aikido and in a minute fasting to target this to improve this so you can improve this and then eventually this right here so as a side note in the meantime what you could do to temporarily reduce the gout symptoms is to alkalize the body a little bit how with potassium citrate okay you can get it in an electrolyte powder or just take potassium citrate that will increase the ph a little bit of the urine and that will inhibit the formation of uric acid in the joints alright thanks for watching so if you like this video go ahead and share it with someone that you know that can truly benefit from it