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This is a repost of a thread I started at thisisms.com In gout high uric acid levels (usually > 7) resulting from high iron, molybdenum, vit B12 and niacin levels and low copper, magnesium, vit D and folate levels result in the precipitation of painful sodium urate crystals. Continue reading →

1) What is uric acid? Uric acid has the formula C5H4N4O3 and it is the end product of purine metabolism in humans Continue reading →

There are hundreds of threads in the web started by people complaining about how many years they have been tortured by the excruciating and incapacitating pain of gout. However, most of them end up with few answers and without the person ever solving his problem. Gout is the easiest and cheapest disease to prevent and to treat, so anybody who is being tortured by gout in the 21st century is a victim of his ignorance or negligence. Continue reading →

After the first gout attack, the person makes antibodies that bind to tiny sodium urate monohydrate crystals in the joint and cause them to grow. Continue reading →

You have to see these pictures and pity this man http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854566 Continue reading →

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2011 Apr;19(4):553-5. Continue reading →

Pseudogout: Calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition in shoulder, knee, elbow, etc, like gout, it is very painful & more commmon with low Mg and thiamine (ethanol abuse, low vit D, HPTH, etc,), low P (HPTH, low vit D), high Fe (hemochromatosis, etc,), Pb (which causes HPTH), oxalate & Ca (hyperparathyroidism, cancer, etc,). Continue reading →

Gout is often considered part of the metabolic or X syndrome, which also involves diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low density cholesterol and low high density cholesterol and cardiovascular and kidney disease. Continue reading →

Although gout is extremely painful and people with poorly treated gout are at increased risk of developing many diseases, gout is also extremely easy to treat. Continue reading →

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17041421 Continue reading →