Doctor’s Painful Gout Gone in Weeks! | Dr. Richard Schmidt
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A doctor was able to stop crippling gout that haunted him for years within a matter of weeks. The painful flare-ups vanished quickly and never returned.
What changed for Dr. Richard Schmidt? He began focusing on different protein sources than he was used to. While he never ate heavily processed junk food, his diet did feature what he considered to be healthy sources of protein such as fish and lean meats.
He decided to eliminate them after discovering research showing their ties to inflammatory gout attacks. He now focuses exclusively on plant-based protein sources and has never looked back.
It is a remarkable turnaround for someone who once needed a wheelchair because the gout flare-ups had become so extreme.
Dr. Schmidt is a reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist based in Mountain View, Calif. He also serves on the President’s Council of the Physicians Committee.
On This Episode
- What causes gout?
- How gout is treated
- What wasn’t working for Dr. Schmidt
- Top triggers for gout
- Best foods for gout
- Dr. Schmidt’s fateful trip to Japan
- How quickly his symptoms improved after eliminating meat and dairy
- Dr. Schmidt’s new outlook on life
- The need for more research on treating gout with dietary changes
- And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. I kept going up on the dose of the medication because I was |
| 0:08.4 | continuing to have these attacks and when these attacks were real they were about every three to four weeks, I would have two to three days where I just was in so much pain I could barely put my shoe on. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm trying to run a full medical practice and I have a vineyard as well be productive in my |
| 0:26.5 | vineyard and I just couldn't do it and I said I have to make a change and so I was reading things about the anti-inflammatory diet and how important it is to have a |
| 0:35.8 | really good number of fruits and vegetables in your diet every day and I just started to make the change |
| 0:40.8 | and said I have to get rid of all inflammatory products. |
| 0:43.9 | It was that bad, huh? |
| 0:44.9 | It was that bad. |
| 0:45.6 | Wow. |
| 0:46.7 | And so I made the change about seven years ago this month and within three weeks I had not had an attack and I said okay |
| 0:56.2 | knock on wood let's see what's going on by six weeks not an attack and I knew |
| 1:01.7 | something was different in my body. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the physician's committee. |
| 1:14.3 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and |
| 1:19.5 | around the world in great cities like Roseville, California, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and |
| 1:25.8 | La Paz, Bolivia. |
| 1:28.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 26 of season 7, number 525 overall. |
| 1:40.0 | We are putting the spotlight on Gout today and hearing from a doctor who was able to put a stop |
| 1:45.8 | to crippling flare-ups that haunted him for years. |
| 1:50.4 | We are talking years of pain up in smoke within just a matter of weeks |
| 1:57.4 | So what changed? Well, let's start with the type of protein he was eating. |
| 2:04.2 | You see, Dr. Richard Schmidt was never a junk food junkie |
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