gout. It's a disease that's been documented and discussed for ages. For many, many years, it was actually

called the disease of kings. The reason why was because it was a rich man's disease, simply

because the foods that would cause your uric acid levels to go up

were only available to people who are wealthy or kings like beer, mead, and red meat.

In fact, it's been around for so long that the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen known as Sue is believed to have a gout.

It is a tale as old as time if you were to listen to Beauty and the Beast, and it was actually described as far back as 400 BC by the Greek physician Hippocrates

and even in 30 AD by Cornelius Salas, who we talked about before.

It's been even found to be described in ancient Egyptian texts

and they were written about a thousand years even before the age of Imo Teb. So Gout has been around forever

and it causes a lot of people a lot of pain. So let's start

this new year off right with a brand new series called Crystals now not the kind of

crystals you're going to buy and put over your bed to win the lottery we're talking

about the kind of crystals that are going to beat up your joints so join me Dr. over your

bed, bed to win the lottery. We're talking about the kind of crystals that are going to beat up your

neighbor internist and gastrointestinalologist for this week's

brand new episode in series, Crystals, beginning with gout something

that's going to be a problem it turns out that the incidents and prevalence of gout has

gone up from the 1970s and the reason why

probably because it tracks along with obesity and the kind of foods we're eating.

In fact, the rates have exceeded more than 3% in all adults.

Now there are some epidemiologic facts you need to know about Gout because it's going to influence how you make the diagnosis.

Number one, there is a discrepancy amongst different ethnic groups. Gout is actually extremely common amongst Asian American individuals

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