Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Gout diet

You can eat as much of cherries as you want. Consuming 250 grams of fresh or canned cherries every day helps to lower uric acid levels and forestall gout attacks. Cherries, blueberries, and other dark and red-blue cherries are rich sources of anthocyanidins and other flavonoids. These natural healing agents reinforce the collagen matrix of cartilage and tendons. They also prevent the synthesis and release of histamine, leukotrienes, and prostaglandins, compounds that cause the intense pain of gout. If you cannot eat cherries, try taking 125-250 milligrams of quercetin 3 times a day between meals. Quercetin also stops the synthesis and release of histamine, leukotrienes, and prostaglandins, and has some actions similar to the drug allopurinol. Bromelain, taken in doses of 125-250 milligrams with quercetin 3 times a day, increases the body’s absorption of quercetin and may break up uric acid crystal deposits. There are indications dandelion and stinging nettle may also break up uric acid deposits, since they help dissolve uric acid kidney stones.

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