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I had another question from someone that wanted to know, why am I getting gout in my big toe?

Why isn't it in my less shoulder?

So we're going to cover that today.

First of all, what is gout?

That is a situation where you have uric acid crystals that are depositing in certain joints,

and it's causing pain.

Now, what causes this to happen is a mystery.

In fact, researchers have a big problem trying to understand this because the minority of people with gout attacks have high uric acid.

So, in other words, the 10% of the population that has high uric acid, only half a percent, 0.5 percent of them, get the actual gout attacks.

So that's kind of a mystery.

You would think it would just be the opposite.

And on top of that, most of the gout attacks occur when people have normal levels of uric acid.

The other point about this is the uric acid crystals are not in the exact location of where the person is feeling the inflammation.

In other words, they're located in the extracellular area.

Okay?

The inflammation is inside the cell.

So that throws a little wrench into the whole theory.

And so what they basically concluded from that is that it's an immune reaction that is transmitting through this membrane.

So your immune system is reacting to the uric acid crystals, creating inflammation.

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