is it Gout disease, or Gull disease or Gulls disease, which is it?

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So did you have an attack or are you trying to be preventative? High purine foods is really just a tipping point. The core of the problem is that some people produce too much uric acid, mostly genetically inherited trait. Most people don't have this problem, and can eat an insanely high purine diet and never ever have enough uric acid in their system to cause an attack. For those that have this problem, it gets worse and worse as you age, and diet becomes that tipping point that initially can reduce the onset of an attack. But that's just bandaiding the problem. Same with using colchicine to alleviate an attack. Fix the core problem, reduce your body's uric acid production, or in less common cases, increase the body's excretion of uric acid through your piss.

just preventive, as I eat sea food every 2nd week, and that includes scallop and mussels. And my dad has gout disease, so he warns me to do preventive

but how do you reduce your body's uric acid production?

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just preventive, as I eat sea food every 2nd week, and that includes scallop and mussels. And my dad has gout disease, so he warns me to do preventive

but how do you reduce your body's uric acid production?

Eating a purine rich diet won’t give you gout if your body doesn’t produce excess UA. Like I said, diet is just a tipping point. It’s a myth that diet alone can give a person with normal UA production gout.

Next yearly bloodwork you do, make sure dr adds uric acid testing. See if it’s within normal range. If it is, nothing to worry about.

What reduces uric acid production? Drugs lol.

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huh no wonder it hit me in high school while playing football and rugby, losing all that weight back then set it off the first time.

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Fish once every two weeks isn't anything.

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huh no wonder it hit me in high school while playing football and rugby, losing all that weight back then set it off the first time.

Yeah. It's known that fasting spikes UA in body for a short time then drops off. If you have gout, it can set off an attack.
Rapid weight loss too.

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And my dad has gout disease, so he warns me to do preventive

Missed this part. Definitely do yearly blood testing for UA levels. For me it wasn’t until I hit 40 before I had issues. My brothers are younger and checking yearly now for preventative.