Gout Treatments

Discover gout treatments from alternative medicine here, including gout diet and foods, how to avoid and prevent gout, natural home remedies, information and research on gout relief.

Gout Foods To Avoid

As you are striving for gout prevention or gout relief, here is a information to consider: There may be a link between gout and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). If you start checking the labels on the foods you buy, you’ll be amazed at how frequently you’ll find HFCS as an ingredient. Soft drinks are a major culprit, but many canned and frozen foods, even bread may contain it. Just cutting out sodas, though, would be a good step; a study found that consuming just one soft drink a day increased the risk of gout by about 50 percent, and two drinks a day almost doubled the risk. So if you are looking for a gout diet or for gout foods to avoid, give this information some thought, and check with your doctor.

The professional researcher/reporter who writes this site has no medical training. Always check with your doctor before trying anything you read here. Everyone is different, and what might be good for some people might be bad for you, considering your medical history and medications.

Gout Remedies

Olive Leaf Extract
In Mexico, says Dr. David Williams, medical researcher, they use a tea from olive tree leaves and twigs as a gout treatment, using about 1/3 cup of dried leaves and twigs in a tea kettle of water, simmeres and then allowed to steep for 20 to 30 minutes. They strain it and add enough water to make a gallon of tea, which they store in the frig, drinking three 8-oz cups per day. They get gout relief in 7 to 10 days.

An easier gout treatment, says Dr. Williams, is to use an olive leaf extract, available at your health food store or online. He recommends Pure Health's Olive Leaf Extract, but he says to be sure your olive leaf extractis standardized to 20 percent oleuropein concentration, and start with somewhere between 150 to 450 milligrams of oleuropein a day. (But you know the drill: Don't start with anything until you check with your doctor!)

Gout Relief

Celery Seed Extract
Dr. Williams also recommends celery seed extract, and likes the Natural Factors brand of it, which you can get at vitacost.com. Start with two to four capsules a day and then gradually cut back as the pain starts to go away. Experiment until you get the proper dose for yourself. Some people get relief even with fresh celery or with celery seeds.

Source: Alternatives newsletter, by Dr. David Williams, October 2008. See more about Dr. Williams at drdavidwilliams.com.

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