The Best Natural Treatment for Gout

Medications and drugs don’t fit the natural treatment bill due to the range of side effects they impose as well as their potential long term health consequences.

Kidney damage, ulcers, and deterioration of joint cartilage are a few of the well known side effects of NSAID usage.

While pain killers can be useful over the short term in acute cases, it’s not something you want to entertain long term, if your health is of utmost importance!

What Does a Natural Treatment for Gout Consist of?

1. Must be natural to the body i.e. protein, vitamins, minerals, etc…

2. Must support long term health.

3. Must treat the problem at its source and not just control symptoms.

I’m sure you’re asking now… what’s the magic formula for long term gout avoidance? Here’s something to think about first…

The Main Causative Factor on why we Develop Gout

What is the similarity between these two populations you may be asking?

In a word… estrogen.

Men are more susceptible to developing gout due to having lower estrogen compared to women of child bearing years (15-50).

In order to really understand what’s going on, we have to understand what causes the formation of gout and its symptoms… and that is the enzyme called xanthine oxidase.

The purines in the foods you eat (meat and alcohol primarily) are transformed in to uric acid (the cause of gout) by the enzyme xanthine oxidase.

If you control the rate limiting enzyme xanthine oxidase then uric acid production is halted and susceptibility to gout is reduced!

The Natural Treatment for Gout

And what does copper have to do with low estrogen populations? Estrogen and copper go hand in hand. When estrogen goes up copper does as well, and vice versa. When estrogen is low, copper is low as well.

When copper is low, more uric acid is produced which causes a whole chain of events to happen. You have to control your diet to limit purine containing foods (meat and alcohol), and you need medication to artificially do what copper does naturally on its own!

To get even deeper in to the science… if that is something you are interested in. Here it is spelled out.

1. Eating protein and alcohol rich foods increase purine consumption.

2. Purines get converted to uric acid through the xanthine oxidase enzyme.

3. Molybdenum (a natural element) is the rate limiting cofactor for xanthine oxidase.

4. Copper competes with molybdenum for uptake in the body (metabolism and excretion).

5. The less molybdenum your body has the less xanthine oxidase.

6. The less xanthine oxidase, the less uric acid produced, no matter how many purines you consume.

7. The less uric acid you have, the lower the susceptibility to develop gout!

8. The lower your susceptibility to gout, the more you can enjoy food, and stop worrying about what you’re eating. Because face it… watching your meat and alcohol intake can be a major pain in the ass for some people. It’s a hassle socially and limits your quality of life!

Summarizing the Natural Treatment for Gout

- Copper is natural and widely used by our body for a variety of functions.

- A lack of copper or estrogen causes an increase in uric acid production.

- Uric acid is the cause of gout!

You can buy copper at almost any health food store. 3mg per day is usually enough. It’s simple, painless, and cheap! Only a few bucks for a months supply.