Gout Treatment with a Cherry on Top

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DESCRIPTION: How do sweet cherries compare to the drug allopurinol and a low purine diet for the treatment of the painful inflammatory arthritis gout?

More about the inflammation fighting effects of sweet cherries in my last video Anti-inflammatory Life is a Bowl of Cherries (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-life-is-a-bowl-of-cherries).

I’ve previously mentioned gout and controlling uric acid levels in my videos:
• Testing Your Diet with Pee & Purple Cabbage (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/testing-your-diet-with-pee-purple-cabbage/)<br />• Who Shouldn’t Consume Curcumin or Turmeric? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-shouldnt-consume-curcumin-or-turmeric/)
• Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/miocene-meteorites-and-uric-acid/)
• Flesh and Fructose (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flesh-and-fructose/)

Other foods that may help tamp down inflammation:
• Garden Variety Anti-inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/garden-variety-anti-inflammation/)
• Anti-inflammatory Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-antioxidants/)
• Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-inflammation-in-a-nut-shell/)
• Boosting Immunity While Fighting Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-while-reducing-inflammation/)
• Which Spices Fight Inflammation? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-spices-fight-inflammation/)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gout-treatment-with-a-cherry-on-top/ and he’ll try to answer it!

Image Credit: NEW! Pink Sherbet via flickr, and James Gillray via Wikimedia.

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25 Risposte a “Gout Treatment with a Cherry on Top”

  1. Thanks for the report. We've known about cherries for a long time in regards to gout but getting fresh cherries here is very difficult. I haven't seen any places that stock frozen cherries. How about cherry juice? The only juice we see in stores is black cherry juice. Does that have the same effect? In many reports that I've seen they specify tart cherries over black cherries and we don't see tart cherry juice anywhere. Please look into it and report.

  2. I have been boycotting conventionally grown cherries because they rank #18 on the EWG pesticide profile, maybe with cherries, the benefits outweigh the risks?

  3. First off, thanks so much for sparing us the photos…some of the photos you have shared in the past are not for the faint of heart (like me), so I appreciate your restraint!  And, per usual, I always appreciate your tremendous information…let us eat cherries!

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  5. I've been a whole-foods, plant-based vegan for 13 years, and I still suffer attacks of gout.  Contrary to popular opinion, gout cannot be cured by a change in diet.

  6. Would love it if Dr. Greger made a video on this study showing vegans had highest uric acid levels. I'm a vegan myself, and although the level was highest, it was NOT high relative to normal range. 'Results regarding uric acid levels is mixed and controversial. Uric acid has a bright and dark side. It is an antioxidant, but in excess it can increase risk of kidney stones, gout, etc. However, the only study I found comparing meat-eaters to vegans found vegans had the highest levels of uric acid. That said, even though the differences were statistically significant, they were not huge (about 11% in men and 8.5% in women). My question is:
    1) Is there a difference between the uric acid produced from intense exercise and a vegan diet vs. uric acid produced from being obese, excessive alcohol, high red meat consumption?
    Anyway, I was surprised by the findings b/c a vegan diet is typically very alkaline. Although studies have shown some plant sources are high-purine foods (asparagus, spinach, certain legumes, etc.) and some high-fructose fruits can increase uric acid. The caveats were the vegans in this study were possibly being deficient in calcium and B12 could have led to the elevated uric acid levels. Studies have shown dairy products actually reduce uric acid, while cherries can reduce it as well along with exercising and losing weight. That said, the levels in this study were within normal range for men and women, which is 202-416 µmol/l for men and 143-357 µmol/l for women.
    Here are the results:
    Men
    Meat-eaters – 323
    Pesco – 307
    Lacto-ovo – 301
    Vegan – 336
    Women
    Meat-eaters – 239
    Pesco – 224
    Lacto-ovo – 228
    Vegan – 243
    Here's the study->http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418557

  7. I realized why I get attacks during winter. No cherries in season. During spring and summer I always pick them up from some Mexican on the middle of the road and gorge on them.

  8. Thank you Dr. Greger. I regularly donate to you, and appreciate all your work.
    I never had as dramatic a reversal in gout recurrence as when I stopped eating fish. I had alrady stopped all other meats (and started vegan eating) , but figured fish was a 'good' protein. NOT! No more fish, and 2 years later not a hint of gout. Just sayin'.

  9. "Studies have shown that vegetables high in purines do not increase the risk of gout or recurring gout attacks."

    B.S. asparagus is a huge trigger. I ate a lot of asparagus with pasta and was bed ridden for a day and unable to walk normally for three more. It's a horrible vegetable loaded with purines. The conventional dogma that "all fruits and vegetables are good for you" is a lie.

  10. My gout has not troubled me since I have started a morning/ night routine of this gout treatment solution “Vοvοpαm Azb” (Google it). This item fits me best and it provides the most excellent results. I love this product. Compared to chemical drugs, this treatment method is much better without the dangerous side effects.

  11. Beware. Veggies can cause gout. I got a case of it right now. I was eating beans, nutritional yeast, mushrooms. I don’t drink alcohol only filtered water and still got it.

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