Arman Mus.·12h agoGout in Henry VIII and Benjamin Franklin: The Disease That Spared Neither Kings Nor GeniusesFrom the lavish palaces of English monarchs to the Parisian salons of the Enlightenment: two famous historical figures, one painful…
Bill Vero·4d agoGout came back after months of quiet. Here is what the quiet months actually wereThe flare is the alarm, not the fire. Quiet did not mean gone, and a mid flare blood test often flatters you.
OpteeHealth·Nov 1Eating the Most Purine-Rich Foods Raised the Odds of a Gout Attack Almost Fivefold.Nobody plans a gout attack for the week of a wedding. It tends to arrive the night after a big dinner, a swollen toe too tender to bear a…
Marilyn Cornelius·Oct 30All About Arthritis: What You Should KnowLast week, we looked at risk factors for Osetoarthritis. In this post, we cover some of the other common ones, such as Rheumatoid, Gout…
Bill Vero·Oct 30Why is gout on the rise? It is mostly not about dietGout is more common now than it was a few decades ago. What is actually driving it, the comorbidity cluster, aging, fructose, and where…A response icon1A response icon1
OpteeHealth·Oct 21Men Who Ate the Most Seafood Had 51% Higher Gout Risk.A man in his fifties wakes at 3 a.m. with a big toe that feels like it is on fire. The bedsheet hurts. By morning, he has decided the…
Bill Vero·Oct 20It is 3am and your toe is on fire. Here is how to get to morning.What is actually happening in the joint, how to get through tonight, and the warning signs that mean a doctor today, not a blog.
Bill Vero·Oct 16Does non alcoholic beer cause gout flares? Probably less than regular beer, and here is whyThe alcohol leaves. The brewer’s yeast does not. What the mechanism says, where the science stops, and why the label matters less than your…
Bill Vero·Oct 9Which foods actually trigger gout flares? Meat, sugar, or the pile upBoth can do it, through two different doors, and neither one explains most flares on its own. My own trigger took tracking to find, not a…
InHealth and SciencebyIliana Angelova, MA in Journalism·Oct 2High Uric Acid Isn’t Always a Disease and It Doesn’t Always Need TreatmentCardiologist Dr. Alexander Nosikov explains what matters beyond the lab resultA response icon2A response icon2
