Gout Orange Juice

Orange juice for gout? What kind of joke is this? Well this is not a joke at all. In a small study of 12 fairly young people in Spain in 2003, orange juice reduces levels of uric acid, which suffers from gout knows very, you must do if you want to beat the drop.

Everyone knows that there is vitamin C in orange juice, but very few could tell you how a glass of orange juice raises your vitamin C levels, and how long it takes for that. Incredibly, although the vitamin C of orange juice has been known for decades, researchers in this study indicated that the extent to which it raises blood levels of vitamin C, and at what speed it was not until this study.

How much and how fast?

Six men and six women consumed two glasses of orange juice on the first day, and for the rest of the period (a fortnight) drank a glass in the morning and a drink in the afternoon. This amounted to 500 ml per day, which means an additional 250 mg of vitamin C per day. Their normal diet during the fortnight gave them an additional 136 mg (men) and 112 mg (women). Thus, their total daily intake was

386 mg (men) and 362 mg (women), which is only one third of vitamin C dietary supplement preparations (1,000 mg) on sale everywhere. After a fortnight of this natural remedy gout the serum of men (blood) level of vitamin C increased by 52% and 22% of women. The levels of women from the vitamin C was higher.

Uric acid REDUCTIONS

And now the question every gout patient wants to know. In two weeks, the men reduced their uric acid levels of about -12.5% (0.71 mg / dL) and women - 6.5% (0.24 mg / dL). Women starting (basic) of uric acid levels were much lower than men: women 3.64 mg / dL (216 mmol / L), men 5.75 mg / dL (342 mmol / L ). Each participant reduced their UA.

WHAT CAN we learn from this?

These reductions are good if one keeps in mind that vitamin C produced orange juice was only 250 mg per day for two weeks. It is possible that two times more juice, twice as long, or six months or a lifetime (in the case of maintaining the levels of CPU forever to prevent recurrent gout attack), could reach higher reductions. But remember, if you have gout, these were healthy young (20-32) and only 12 people were tested. Your results may not be the same.

These kinds of reductions are not as much as you want to make a medicine to reduce uric acid drugs for two weeks. They are probably useful in cases of gout at UA normal or, in case of drop slightly excess uric acid (hyperuricemia), or for people with hyperuricemia, but no drop so far, who know they are at risk of him, which indeed they are. On the other hand, one could hardly call orange juice a medicinal drug.

In a much larger study in 2005 vitamin C for gout was retested. He studied vitamin C and uric acid using dietary supplements, not orange juice. Participants took one tablet of 500 mg. average reduction in uric acid have been - 0.5 mg / dL in all study participants and - 1.5 mg / dL in study participants with hyperuricemia.

We do not know for certain why vitamin C reduced the levels of UA. We think it encourages the kidneys to excrete more uric acid. Orange juice is also rich in potassium is a mineral useful alkalinization (increases pH) in natural remedies gout. And of course orange juice contains certain flavonoids which help absorb vitamin C and retention. Many dietary supplements of vitamin C do not contain these flavonoids, or not enough, even if some do.

WHAT TYPE of orange juice?

The juice used in this study has been described by researchers as the "fresh squeezed orange juice commercial."