Q: I have had gout for more than 15 years with consistently high uric acid levels. Recently, however, I began taking 2 milligrams of folic acid daily, and I have since had two blood tests showing normal uric acid levels. What is the recent research concerning folic acid and gout?
A: High uric acid levels – due either to excess production of uric acid or to abnormally low excretion of this waste product in the urine – are what cause gout. In recent years there have been a few studies examining the effect of folic acid on uric acid production and excretion. These studies have shown that folic acid has no effect on uric acid levels. It is interesting that in your case folic acid appears to have lowered gout uric acid, but “appears” may be the key word here. Is it possible you have made other changes that might have affected your gout uric acid level, such as switching medications for another health problem? I am glad your uric acid levels have stabilized, for whatever reason. For the moment, I cannot recommend folic acid as a therapy for patients with gout, but it does appear that the issue should be studied further.
Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MS, Rheumatologist
A New Gout Therapy
Joe 18 Aug 2009, 09:48 |
| what natural herbs can I take for gout...?? |
mike wertelet 12 Aug 2009, 12:22 |
| Gout dental amalgam and other metal poisoning causes gout. You should see a natualpathic doctor and have a heavy metal and toxic hair test done. If you have fillings or root canal over on the 6th molars you will get kidney issues- ie gout, cysts, stones, cancer, etc...see a biodentist ASAP I know I had it happen to me i am now a dams intl activist see website toxicteeth.org or com metal disrupts protien synthesis thus raising uric acid levels how come your doctor doesn't know this??? hes trained not too- (in the USA) this lack of knowlege sells more drugs, silly "oh- your western orthadox doctors will not test you for metal poisoning nor will they acknowlege the test from an outside source- even if all the symptoms line up like mine did USA doctors dont want to know the truth Fact up to 70 % of disease is caused by metals and or Toxins if you eliminate these then Thats a lot of business out the door in a for profit healthcare system like ours "doesn't it feel great to be viewd as a commodity to exploit and not a human being to be healed" so what do you do??? save yourself go outside the corrupted system and get the truth!" see a naturalpathic doctor and a biodentist then see an iridologist and have an energy test taken this will give you a lot of knowlege over your health. knowlege is power in this case power to heal heal you- and others may take note!!! oh yes i'm writing a book detoxing edta I use an oral edta product to chelate the metal poisoning from me all my stats are improving from cholesteral to uric acid. alkallse you should also alkalise that will liquify uric acid so that you can pass it metal acidifies the body and you should be tested outside the system for metal poisoning as you now have an acidic disease (gout) the most acidic disease is cancer and you dont want that! alkalising puts a monkey wrench in the cancer process (the acidifiing process) its easy to alkalise and cheap too, so do get a book on alkalising and keep at it. right now i can tell you that your urnie will be too acidic if you have gout if your saliva becomes too acidic then you will probably get cancer too not to scare you but diseases of acidity like cancer occur in an acidic state. the more acidic the more likely you will get more acidic diseases- like cancer so reverse the process alkalise i did it works ps again western doctors dont know this and alkalising is health 101 as far as im concerned your saliva should be 7.4 ph and that reading should be fairly steady your urine should be above 6.0 and better up toward a 6.5-7 ph reading but urine ph varies alot - if its consitantly too acidic youll have health issues like gout fun!!! oh homeopathic nat mur is great for gout attacts i got rid of mine in minutes!!! so is folic acid for the overall condition i think you gonna love edta as it geta at the root cause metal poisoning and then you'll know the truth and you will get the 100 dollar metal /toxic hair test done and the 6th molar metal filling or root canal removed oh ya save your reciepts for the upcomming class action law suites against the fda and ada they are comming boy are they comming |
Lynn 10 May 2009, 12:03 |
| Well, folic acid "appears" to work for me as well. I, too, take approx 2 mg daily but much more if I've left it unattended too long. Please cite the studies, (and their sponsors) which showed that "folic acid has no effect on uric acid levels." |
I am at wits end with my gout and will try it if it works.
How do I alkalise and what is edta?
Thanks
Beth