Remedy for Gout and Uric Acid - Straight From the Garden
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about a natural remedy for gout. Gout medications work by inhibiting the xanthine oxidase enzyme that converts purine into uric acid.
If you want to get rid of gout naturally, you need to eliminate things like alcohol and fructose from your diet. However, many people do this and still have gout!
Is there a natural inhibitor for the xanthine oxidase enzyme that can work as an effective home remedy for gout? The answer is yes!
Sulforaphane is a plant chemical or polyphenol that may be the perfect home remedy for gout.
The best sources of sulforaphane are broccoli sprouts and radish sprouts. You can also find it in a capsule. Sulforaphane is one of the most bioavailable polyphenols with around 80 percent bioavailability. This means that it’s highly absorbable.
Sulforaphane can activate genes and enzymes that help to eliminate poisons and carcinogens from the body. It can activate over 100 defense genes!
Sulforaphane helps restore the nephron in the kidneys, which allows the body to filter out toxins. Our body makes uric acid, which is filtered out through the kidneys. If they cannot filter out uric acid, gout can sometimes be caused by an issue at the kidney level.
Sulforaphane helps upregulate antioxidants, reducing free radical damage and inflammation. It also increases microbial diversity, allowing microbes to dismantle and remove excess uric acid from the body.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm always researching different body problems and I've done several videos on gout in |
| 0:06.0 | New York acid and I found a remedy that I think you should know about if you have gout. |
| 0:11.6 | We take a look at the mechanism of how certain |
| 0:15.7 | gout medications work. Most of them work by inhibiting an enzyme that goes from purine into |
| 0:22.2 | uric acid, okay? So they blocked this enzyme called |
| 0:25.5 | a xanthine oxidase. So of course the question is, is there any natural thing that |
| 0:31.3 | can do the same thing? |
| 0:32.8 | And the answer is yes. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm assuming that you know that you have to get off alcohol, |
| 0:38.1 | beer, fructose, right, to help get rid of this condition. |
| 0:42.7 | But there's a lot of people who do that |
| 0:44.1 | that still have gout. |
| 0:45.6 | And gout can be devastating, especially trying to walk |
| 0:48.4 | because it affects your foot. |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, it can affect the entire body |
| 0:52.1 | because you're limping and shuffling along and all because of this one joint in your toe. |
| 0:58.0 | Humans have lost the enzyme to help break down uric acid. |
| 1:03.4 | What have we gained? |
| 1:04.8 | Well, we've gained a survival mechanism to help us store fat |
| 1:09.8 | during times of starvation, which is probably not exciting you, but that's what happened. |
| 1:15.8 | But I don't want to get into that topic. |
| 1:17.1 | I want to just get into this natural remedy that is quite fascinating. |
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