Ep5 Diet for People with Gout Arthritis

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This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist.  I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer. 

Suggestions for people with gout arthritis,  it is important to manage your stress, manage your emotional state, and get sufficient rest.

What should you avoid?
1. you should avoid food with high purine proteins. The end products from metabolizing purine proteins are uric acids. That is why you should eliminate your consumption of food with high purine. Food includes: 

• beef, animal organs, animal meet, any animals’ bone marrows, 
• Seafood such as shrimp, crabs, shellfishes, mussels, 
• Some fish such as carp, flatfish/turbot, sardine, and codfish
• Vegetables: spinach, beans, peanuts, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, asparagus 

2. you should eat less oily food to eliminate the burden on your kidneys: 

• pork oil, butter, whipped cream, animal oil
• Eliminate deep-fried food, 

3. Eliminate stimulants including alcohol, coffee, dark tea, pepper, curry, and hot red pepper. 

4. you should eliminate acidic food especially fruits including bananas, apples, plums, oranges, strawberries, grapes, and apricots. 

What are the foods people with gout should have more often?
1. You should have food with low purine proteins including dairy products like (milk, and eggs), you could have rice, noodles, whole wheat bread, lotus roots, juicy fruits that are not so acidic, mixed nuts (except peanuts), vegetable oils, celeries, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, carrots, daikons, white cabbages, lettuce, coleslaw. 

2. you should have more basic/alkaline food including kelp, seaweed, green leafy vegetables, fruits and yam, and sweet potatoes. 

3. you should have food with high pantothenic acid because pantothenic acid could transform uric acid into urea and be eliminated from our bodies through urine. However, people who have high cholesterol should avoid such food because pantothenic acidic food could be transformed into cholesterol. Those foods are dairy, whole wheat, and egg yolk

4.  you should consume more of the following vitamins which could help to eliminate your stress level. 

• Vitamin C, most green leafy vegetables have high Vitamin C. 
• Vitamin A: milk, carrots, pumpkins, cabbage, sweet potatoes
• Vitamin B: milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, green leafy vegetables, fruits, yeast, malt, brown rice 
• Vitamin E is an antioxidant, that protects cellular membranes, improves microcirculation, and prevents vascular arterial conditions. Green leafy vegetables have high vitamin E. 

5. you should have more lactobacillus drinks 
6. Drink at least 2000 cc of water per day. 

7. It is highly recommended to drink water boiled with plantain seeds or corn silk. Coin silk is the hairy part of fresh coins. You could also have barley congee. These could help to eliminate uric acid from your body via urine. 

In summary, people with gout should consider a vegetarian diet. 

Wish this diet suggestion could help people with gout being pain free. 

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast.  Namestate!