Gout

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What is Gout

A very common form of joint inflammation, gout causes sudden & severe pain. Skin over the affected joint may be red and shiny. Gout often attacks as quickly as overnight.

Initially, gout affects one or two joints at a time, most often in the feet (the ball of the big toe) and ankles. Without treatment, the pain will subside in about a week, and return in later months or years. But in time, the attacks become more frequent and severe, involving more joints. When gout becomes chronic, joint damage is deforming and crippling.

The Cause of Gout - Excess Uric Acid

Naturally present in your body, uric acid is used for metabolism, the breaking down of food for energy. When your body is healthy and in proper pH balance, uric acid dissolves in your blood and passes through your kidneys into urine. When your pH levels are acidic from poor diet, stress, and lack of sleep, too much uric acid is produced, or too little is excreted. Too much uric acid can result from purines. They are uric acid producing substances, found in many of the high-protein foods consumed by our society.

From these causes, your blood and tissues become saturated with uric acid. This can cause the formation of microscopic needle-like crystals in joints or surrounding tissues, resulting in pain, inflammation and swelling. This is gout.

Too much uric acid does not happen suddenly, but every day over years, more uric acid is produced than excreted. If your body?s balance is not restored, and blood levels of uric acid are not brought down to a manageable level, then new attacks can become more frequent.

Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism (purines are building blocks of RNA and DNA).

The uric acid in your blood can be measured: excess disease is called hyperuricaemia, and does not necessarily cause gout, as the body does eliminate some of the excess. Blood testing for uric acid will not show the amount of crystallized uric acid in connective tissue, that is gout.

How To Prevent Excess Uric Acid, and Prevent Gout

Maintain a Healthy Weight and Diet

Gradual weight loss reduces the load on affected weight-bearing joints, and may lower uric acid levels. Rapid weight loss and fasting may temporarily raise uric acid levels, so should be avoided. Carrying 30 pounds more than your ideal weight also increases your risk of developing gout.
Health authorities advise us to eat no more than 6 ounces of lean meat, poultry or fish a day, especially for people who have gout. Excessive protein should be avoided, as high-protein foods increase the blood level of uric acid. Purines are substances found in food, that also produce a lot of uric acid.

The following foods are high in Purines, and should be avoided: organ meats (liver, brains, kidney, tongue, tripe and sweetbreads), anchovies, herring and mackerel. Smaller amounts of purines are found in all meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, fish roe, scallops, peas, lentils, and beans.

Avoid Alcoholic Beverages

Consuming too much alcohol (especially beer) can inhibit the excretion of uric acid, which can lead to gout. Generally speaking, too much alcohol is more than two drinks a day for men, and more than one for women. If you're having a gout attack, it's best to avoid alcohol completely.

Drink Plenty of Energized Water

Water, especially energized water will dilute uric acid in your blood and urine.

Genetics, Gender and Age

One out of four people with gout has a family history of the condition. Gout affects mostly men, usually between 30 and 50 years of age. Pre-menopausal women generally have lower uric acid levels, that tend to increase after age 50, along with the increase incidences of gout.

Medical Conditions and Drugs

Medical conditions that can cause gout include high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, high levels of fat & cholesterol in the blood (hyperlipidemia), and narrowing of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Surgery, sudden or severe illness or injury, and immobility due to bed rest also can increase uric acid levels. A less common cause is longstanding kidney disease.

Drugs that can cause excess uric acid include thiazide diuretics (used to treat high blood pressure), low-dose aspirin therapy, and anti-rejection drugs (prescribed for people who have undergone a transplant). Chemotherapy drugs that increase the breakdown of abnormal cells, release large amounts of purines into the blood, raising uric acid levels.

There's no short-term way to prevent gout, but keeping uric acid levels within a normal range is the key to being free of this painful disease.

How To Naturally Prevent Gout and Allow Healing

The most important route to vital health, and to naturally prevent and cure gout is:

• regular cleansing to detoxify,
• proper nourishment,
• keeping neutral pH balance in your body.

Step One: Cleanse and Detoxify

Regular cleansing of your body will begin the healing of discomforts and diseases, and bring you into a more vibrant state of health. Every system in your body will function more efficiently.

To be free of discomforts, you must remove the underlying cause, or the condition will return. It takes time to clean a body that has been accumulating toxins over a lifetime, but the rewards will be well worth the time and effort.

Step Two: Proper & Adequate Nutrition

When supported with proper nutrition from food, your body can heal arthritis and maintain a state of health. With the proper foods eaten at the right times, your body efficiently absorbs nutrients, and eliminates toxins, resulting in a healthy immune system that can heal and be free of pain and disease.

Learn to obey the laws of nature: eat simple & natural foods, properly prepared & combined, and your body will be happy to restore and maintain vibrant health.

Nourishment from food should maintain your ideal weight. Your ultimate diet is 80% raw food (organic, if possible), including some live foods, that are still growing (sprouts, wheat grass, fresh picked garden salads). This diet includes more grains, vegetables and fruits than protein, which should come mostly from non-animal sources like nuts (almonds, apricot nut, hazelnuts), legumes (beans, peas, lentils), and seeds (hemp seed hearts, flax, sesame).

Step Three: pH Balancing

A critical factor in curing arthritis is balancing the pH in your body. This creates a healthy internal environment and immune system.

Total healing of chronic illness takes place only when your blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH. The magnitude of this is of incredible importance to someone who is fighting a disease, overcoming an illness, or just wanting to feel better. Our overly acidic society is producing very high rates of diseases.

Your body is an amazing naturally self-correcting system: if you work with it, it is capable of tremendous self healing.

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Himalayan Crystal Salt Brine Therapy

Eating common table salt results in the formation of edema, or excess fluid in body tissue, which is also the cause of cellulite. Doctors tell us to avoid salt (sodium chloride) because it is harmful. For every gram of sodium chloride your body cannot get rid of, it uses 23 grams of water to neutralize the salt.

If the sodium chloride is still too high, your body re-crystallizes it by using available dietary (animal) proteins, which also cannot be broken down and eliminated. Your body uses these proteins to produce uric acid, in order to get rid of the excess salt. As your body cannot dispose of uric acid, it binds with the sodium chloride to form new crystals, that are then deposited directly in your bones and joints.

This is the cause of different kinds of rheumatisms such as gout, arthritis and kidney & gall bladder stones. This re-crystallizing is your body's "band-aid" solution for cells and organs, to protect them from irreparable damage of irresponsible food intake. In the long run, it poisons your system because those substances cannot be disposed of.

Exercise is Essential for Vitality
And To Be Free From Gout

Exercise, to be rid of gout pains, should include stretching to maintain & increase all joint?s range of motion, strengthening to stabilize joints, and endurance to increase stamina. You should also reduce repetitive joint use, and avoid sports injuries with proper warm-ups, and choose appropriate sports equipment.

Complications of Gout

When uric acid levels have been high for a long time, and acute gout has been frequent and severe, deposits of uric acid salts may appear around the affected joint, and even in other tissues such as the ears. They appear as chalk coloured bumps, called tophi.

Long term high uric acid levels can lead to kidney damage. Some people with gout develop kidney stones.

Crystal deposits also cause another condition, known as false gout, or pseudogout. Instead of crystals formed from uric acid, pseudogout crystals are made of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate. They can affect the big toe, but more likely the large joints, such as your knees, wrists and ankles.

These complications show a critical need for removing the pre-existing conditions of gout (acidic pH and high level of uric acid) through the processes of Cleansing, Nourishing, and Balancing Your Body?s pH, as mentioned above.

Treating an Acute Attack of Gout

Drugs used for acute attacks (typically non-steroidal anti-inflammatory) have no effect on reducing uric acid levels, and they have a limit as to how much pain they can control. But most importantly, the pre-existing conditions of gout remain, and attacks will continue to burden you. You must take measures to reduce uric acid levels.

We at Life-Enthusiast Co-op, along with our members, have had wonderful results with our products. Let us help you heal through the processes of Cleansing, Nourishing, and Balancing Your Body?s pH, to allow your body to naturally heal itself.