Hello everyone, I am Longtian, today we come to discuss the problem of high uric acid and gout.
Many people find that their uric acid index is high during the physical examination, and they doubt whether they have gout. In fact, people with gout generally have high uric acid, but high uric acid is not necessarily all gout. At present, there are about 170 million patients with hyperuric acid in mainland China, of which more than 80 million gout patients have been affected. It can be seen that not every patient with hyperuricemia will develop gout. But if you start by finding high uric acid, you don't pay attention to it and don't correct it. Usually within five years, gout will come true.
Not only that, as long as the uric acid is high, even if you don't have gout, you have more opportunities than others to get diabetes and arteriosclerosis. And these two diseases are also enough to cause a series of chronic diseases. So how to avoid high uric acid from developing into gout? To answer this question, we first need to know what gout is. Gout was first called a court disease because it was most common and first occurred in the European court. Because the life of the European court at that time was very luxurious, the imperial relatives were generally fat, and they would eat fish, eggs, milk, cream, this high-protein, high-fat, high-calorie food. Purines are high in this food. This led to an abnormal increase in uric acid in their blood. Under normal circumstances, people have some uric acid in their blood, and only when it exceeds a certain concentration, uric acid is so thick that it cannot be dissolved and excreted, the crystals of uric acid will precipitate in your tissue. For example, near the joint, because of the looseness near the joint, it is most likely to settle. At this time, there will be joint pain, which is a gout attack.
If you walk down the street and see a chubby young man walking like a foot, it's likely to be gout. Because it has two elements for the occurrence of gout. First, obesity, second joint pain. And they probably woke up after a night's sleep, and suddenly found that the thumb of their foot was swollen, and it was very painful and red, but they couldn't remember when they had sprained. At this time, it is best to check whether it is gout. Many people after the diagnosis of gout, recall that before they fell ill, the night they ate seafood and drank beer, and these two high-purine foods were put together to induce gout. It can be seen that if you want to avoid high uric acid, high enough to develop into gout, you must do two things, the first is to lose weight, and the second is to avoid foods with high purines. And this is also basically known to everyone, such as beans, seafood, mushrooms, animal offal, beer and so on. These are high-purine foods, and one of the characteristics of foods with high purines is that they taste delicious. Unfortunately, if you have high uric acid, these delicious foods cannot be eaten, at least not in excess.
In addition, drinking more water is the best way to reduce high uric acid. If you have been diagnosed with high uric acid, in addition to eating and drinking soup every day, there is water in the diet, simply drinking water, drinking about 2000 ml per day. Our normal healthy people are guaranteed 1500 to 1800 ml per day, and this simple drinking water is mostly enough, equivalent to the amount of four or five bottles of mineral water. And if you are high in uric acid, drink an extra bottle to ensure adequate urine output. Enough urine output allows uric acid to be excreted in time, not to stay in the body, not to be deposited on your joints.
Many patients with gout will choose to drink soda, because uric acid is acidic, soda is alkaline, and alkaline things can help urinary acid excretion. This is medically valid. Because soda or alkaline water can neutralize acidic urine.
But one thing that must be noted is that this soda is not the kind of soda you buy in the supermarket, and it tastes great. Because the soda in the supermarket is an ordinary drink, the concentration of soda does not meet the national standard, and even many sodas are not alkaline. For example, mineral water or cola containing carbon dioxide, they belong to carbonated drinks, this property is actually acidic, and uric acid treatment direction is the opposite. The real norm, the soda used in the hospital to treat gout, is dissolved into water with sodium bicarbonate as a drug to alkalize urine. So in ordinary life, if you want to use soda to cure gout by yourself, it is best to match it yourself, and the ingredients are very simple, that is, the baking soda we use when steaming steamed buns, you can refer to the therapeutic dose of this preparation in the hospital, generally one gram of baking soda is added to 250 ml or 500 ml of water each time. Three times a day, this means that you can eat about three grams of baking soda a day, and only by reaching this concentration can it be used as a drug aid for gout.
There are also some misunderstandings of gout patients, which we need to clarify here. Many people think that since the uric acid is already high, then vinegar, lemon, and yogurt cannot be eaten. This is completely wrong.
The main cause of hyperuric acid is the metabolic disorder of purine in the body, so only foods with high purines should be avoided. For example, the beans, seafood, and beer we mentioned earlier, this taste is very fresh, and the food you eat sour may not contain high purines, and it may not be acidic food. For example, although lemon is very sour, it is rich in vitamin C, contains potassium, contains citric acid, and is also low in purines. At present, most researchers believe that most foods rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium and other metal elements have alkaline effects. Therefore, lemon should be regarded as an alkaline food, it can neutralize uric acid is good for gout. So medical researchers even recommend that if you can drink two liters of fresh lemonade a day, it can also help you lower uric acid.
The other is the problem of drinking yogurt. Yogurt is made from fermented lactic acid bacteria. However, milk foods are alkaline after metabolism. So milk is actually an alkaline food, and a large number of epidemiological investigations have found that dairy products are good for preventing gout. Therefore, yogurt is also beneficial for lowering uric acid. These have been done, and it will certainly help control the occurrence of gout.
In fact, the most important thing to avoid gout is to lose weight. Losing weight is the most important way to avoid gout. Obesity that can induce gout is often eaten, and most of these people are food lovers and are too lazy to move, which aggravates the cause of their gout.
And after gout, many people still think that soy products can induce gout, so they also quit soy products, which is a bit to avoid the weight. Because no fat person is fat because he drinks too much soy milk and eats too much tofu, and compared with the meat and offal they like, the impact of tofu on gout is very small. Because in the process of making tofu, the purine contained in soybeans has been lost with water, so the purine content of tofu is relatively low. And from the perspective of calories, from the perspective of fat, tofu is also far lower than meat. If they eat more tofu than meat at the beginning, they will neither gain weight nor gout. So this prompts a problem, gout must lose weight, so as to avoid obesity, avoid gout.
Plant-based foods, such as tofu, are always safer than animal foods, such as meat. Especially for fat people who have no meat and no joy. In other words, if you eat according to traditional Chinese eating habits, you may not have gout at the root. Why? Because earlier I said that gout is a court disease, but this court is a Western court. The Chinese court has never had a court disease, because the Chinese court pays attention to the taste of mountains and treasures and seas, and is mainly based on rare foods such as birds, bird's nest, and shark fin soup. These foods were not high in calories compared to the cream, cheese, and foie gras of the Western court.
On the question of the wisdom of eating, our classic Yellow Emperor Neijing of Chinese medicine has long given clear guidance. Five grains for nourishment, five Xu for benefit, five vegetables for filling, five fruits for help. If you follow this routine. Grains are the staple food, vegetables and fruits are supplemented foods, and animal foods are just a supplement. This way you can avoid not only obesity, but also gout.
Finally, let's summarize today's lesson. If you find that you have high uric acid, there are three things to pay attention to, lose weight, avoid high purine food, and drink more water at the same time. This water can be your own, soda, or fresh lemonade, but definitely not the delicious soda you buy in the supermarket. Thank you, I'm Dragon Sky, we'll see you next time.