The top two risk factors for heart disease are smoking and family history. Do you know the third? Gout. When you've done an internet search for gout, did you notice how often diabetes comes up in the same conversation?
Throughout the world we are witnessing an alarming rate of Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Arthritis and many other Degenerative Diseases. Why do so many of the those diseases have similar risk factors? And why are so many similar diet and lifestyle changes advised to deal with them?
Typically the starting point beyond the myriad of pharmaceutical drugs that are available, including all the new ones that are continually being developed, is Diet.
Gout, like so many of the other degenerative diseases falls into the same category. Gout is overly diagnosed as a condition where the uric acid levels have become too high. This can be an Acute condition where it has spiked and it is an uncommon or infrequent occurrence or it can chronic, meaning that the condition is happening with regularity and is becoming more severe.
While the use of a couple of common prescription drugs (Allopurinol and Colchicine) are prescribed for gout and the associated pain and inflammation, the mechanism that they employ is the interruption of production of uric acid and the inflammatory process.
What needs to get more attention is the buildup of acid wastes. Uric acid like many other organic acids leads to various detrimental and debilitating forms of Acidosis.
Acidosis to a large degree is due to a combination of the following:
All too often, because our modern pharmaceutical drugs, we can isolate and over-power a specific symptom. We then develop a dependence and short-sighted approach to the severity of a disease or condition and ignore the long-term cumulative damage that is being done.This is true with gout. This is true with heart disease. This is true with diabetes.
To understand Acidosis we have to observe it from a more "cellular" and "molecular" point of view. Here is a rudimentary explanation of how Acidosis undermines our health:
To continue beyond the explanation, our bodies, in their miraculous wisdom then work to deposit this acid waste buildup as far from the vital organs as possible; in our fat tissues and in our joints. In the case of gout, the uric acid get deposited in our joints. A gout attack is excruciatingly painful, however, not life-threatening as in a heart attack.
Gout and the subsequent attacks generally set-in several years before most people have their first heart attack or the on-set of diabetes.
The blood thickening, the arteries hardening, and the clogging of the arteries are all a result of Acidosis.
The cells inability to accept the glucose and/or the insulin is a result of Acidosis.
If you are experiencing a gout attack, your body is doing you a painful favor; it's letting your know that your systems are malfunctioning and it is time to make some adjustments.
The 4 Ways Deep Breathing Techniques Will Make A Difference With Gout
The condition of Gout is caused by an over-acidic body condition, specifically Uric Acid. Toxic acid waste will build up from several different causes. Deep breathing techniques will serve to assist in both preventing the accumulation of acid waste and help move it out to be excreted as well.
Gout And Celiac Disease: What Is The Connection?
Gout and Celiac Disease appear to have some interesting connections although there is no conclusive evidence that specifically ties them together at this time. Bone and joint pain, as well as Autoimmune Symptoms and Rheumatoid Arthritis are commonly included in a long list of symptomatic descriptions of Celiac Disease. Gout is classified as a Rheumatic Disease, it certainly qualifies as a condition of Bone and Joint Pain, and it has an Autoimmune component as in the body attacking itself when the presence of the naturally occurring substance, Uric Acid, becomes too prevalent.
Baking Soda For Gout: Why Take Drugs?
Baking soda or Sodium Bicarbonate is a well-known treatment for neutralizing the acidic buildup that causes Gout. The effectiveness is well-documented and widely used today. It's ability to raise the pH of the body chemistry makes it a more attractive natural method to relieve Gout than NSAIDS; why do our doctors ignore it?
