Re: Lugols Solution, Gout and Thank You

My guess is that your recent gout attack is related to iodine, as it may highlight a deficiency. Iodine do put a demand on the body, to act. And deficiencies come to surface.

"You may see an extensive discussion of gout inWikipedia along with solubility of it’s salts.I have heard of a doctor who gave his patients potassium losing diuretics and thus triggered an attack of gout. By adding a potassium supplement he was able to remove the gout. A medical doctor respondent has used potassium supplements for years for gout [private communication]. Gout can be triggered by the same agents that cause potassium losses such as fasting, surgery, and potassium losing diuretics [Rodman]. A potassium deficiency can increase urate levels in the blood [Davis] so there is a circumstantial connection. Urate kidney stones form during gout in a 10-30% of cases [Colton]. Making the urine less acid with potassium citrate or sodium bicarbonate is a current treatment for kidney stones [Shekarriz] [Rodman]. Potassium citrate has been successfully used to eliminate urate stones. I suspect that potassium bicarbonate or citrate would be preferable to potassium chloride, and there is now clinical evidence that potassium bicarbonate will remove kidney uric acid stones while sodium bicarbonate will not prevent their formation. Potassium chloride added to a junk food diet should be equivalent to adding hydrochloric acid to a nutritious diet. I have rapidly removed gout symptoms by large potassium bicarbonate supplements several times. By rapidly I mean several days. There are case histories at this site which describe removing gout by potassium bicarbonate supplements. You may see my extensive discussion in this article.

The initiating factor is probably usually lead poisoning though [Wright]. There is an association in peoples minds between gout and rich foods and lifestyle, probably because people with gout have trouble excreting nitrogen in a soluble form, which nitrogen is high in meat, and perhaps also because wine bottles and plumbing used to contain lead, which last were only available to affluent people in the distant past. Until such time as the matter is elucidated, it would be a good idea to stop eating lead, eat less proteins (especially purines), and not allow any potassium to be lost from one's food at least if you have gout. It may be that proteins from low fat dairy products may not exaggerate gout [from an inaccessible publisher URL]. Cherries have been shown to decrease urate in the urine of healthy women [Jacob], so they may have some therapeutic value. Some support to this possibility is that one half pound of cherries relieved the gout in 12 people [Blau]. It is possible that there is a substance in cherries that retards potassium excretion. There is some anecdotal evidence that Celery and lettuce will relieve gout. If so, their high potassium content is probably what is involved. There is a discussion of current alternate treatment for gout online, which include black cherries. One would think that people with kidney failure that causes potassium retention would not have gout, but I know of no evidence for such a correlation. "
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