Natural remedies for gout. More ways to discover, measure and boost your pH levels

Natural remedies for gout, which means remedies that avoid drugs, include gout diets. The awkward truth about lowering purine intake is that for most people restricting purines to reduce uric acid levels is not enough. This is mainly because most purines are made in the body and don't come from what you eat and drink.

So you also need to consider the acid/alkaline (alkaline is also called base) balance of your body and if required increase its alkalinity. The acid/alkaline balance measurement is known as the pH ratio or pH level. pH is a short form of the words "power of hydrogen".

If you increase your body’s alkalinity you have a better chance of a natural remedy for gout - see below. And, it is strongly argued that a more alkaline body is a healthier one. This makes adjustment of your pH level one of the natural remedies for gout.

Your acid/alkaline balance can be self tested so that regular monitoring of progress towards a natural cure for gout is measurable. For testing you use pH test strips or litmus paper.

Why is an improvement of pH levels one of the natural remedies for gout? Recall that uric acid has to be reduced and removed. Drinking lots of water, as part of your gout diet, is one way of assisting this process. Water has an approximate acid/alkaline ratio of 7.0. When you drink more water, this helps to raise your pH ratio i.e. it makes your body more alkaline as well as diluting uric acid.

Taking baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) in water, if your doctor approves, will raise your pH ratio more than plain water, with the usual proviso that the amount required to do this varies from person to person. So too will alkaline water drops or water filtered through water ionizers. (See the baking soda page).

Uric acid is not especially soluble.But what makes uric acid more soluble? i.e. what makes it more likely that drinking lots of water will dissolve and remove more uric acid and make your gout diet a successful contributor to your natural gout treatment ?

The answer is that the solubility of uric acid depends to some degree on your body’s pH level. The higher the acid/alkaline ratio i.e. the higher the number on the pH scale, the more alkaline your body, and the more uric acid you should dissolve. The normal urine score is a pH ratio of 5.8-6.8 but it can vary from 4.5 – 9.0. At a pH of 5.0 you will dissolve much less uric acid than at 7.0. Over 7.0 and you should dissolve more.

There’s a third help in improving pH. (First help is lots of water, the second help is water plus an alkalizing agent to raise pH).

A natural gout treatment diet includes foods higher in pH, (more alkaline) and it reduces foods with a low pH (more acidic). This will also help to raise your body pH ratio. (See the pH potential of foods further on. Click on the link at the bottom of this page for the pH potential of foods). But remember, just as a highly acidic body can suffer from acidosis, an over alkaline body can suffer from alkalosis, which causes muscle cramps and spasms among other problems. So don't over do it.

When, and how often, do you do these natural remedies for gout tests? Note that pH Levels change after a meal. Some meals are more alkaline, or more acidic, than others depending on what you have eaten. pH levels also vary during the day and at night - for example, whilst we sleep our body becomes more acidic. Body pH changes perhaps even minute by minute. So do tests at different times of the day – first thing in the morning is one good time. Look for trend changes over time. The results from a few tests simply don’t cut it.

If your pH level improves (i.e. rises) you’ll know something very useful – it’s likely that you may be removing more uric acid. If it doesn’t, you’ll know you may have to eat gout remedy foods that are lower in purines and are less acidic, use other or additional alkalizing agents, or focus on one of the other natural remedies for gout.

Apart from a more alkaline diet, and the other alkalizing agents already mentioned, still more alkalizing agents include minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, zinc and sodium. (See the gout vitamins introduction page for more about gout vitamins, and potassium citrate, which can alkalize urine).

Click here to learn about the pH scale of foods. And, which foods are alkaline, which are acidic?

Click here to go to our tips for using pH as one of the natural remedies for gout.

Visit our pH (alkaline gout remedies) testimonials page, where our visitors explain how pH helped them. And where you can learn something about alkaline remedies in the 19th century.

Orange juice can lower uric acid levels? Are we kidding? No. Read about it here.

You can also view instructional videos which show you how to install, (not difficult), use and maintain Jupiter ionizers. Most people will not require the services of a plumber to install one.

There's free pH test strips with this acid/alkaline product. Click on the advertisement below.

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