A Balanced Diet

A Balanced Diet:

It is commonly misconceived that diet is the main reason for why people get gout. There are many things that contribute to gout for people all over the world. Gout is hereditary in many cases and even if they have a perfect diet, they will still end up suffering with gout. Many people also live there whole life with elevated Uric Acid levels and never have a gout attack. Diet does play a role in gout, but it is only part of the bigger picture.

A balanced diet can be as important as staying away from food high in purines for gout sufferers.  The diet while cleaning out stored Uric acid in the body (UA) should be 20% acidic (including unprocessed meats) and 80% alkaline. After UA levels drop to an acceptable level a person should try to maintain a balanced 70% alkaline to 30% acidic diet.

Uric acid is produced by our foods at a 30% total load per day; the other 70% comes from our own body cells.