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There's a couple really strange things related to gout that I want to discuss.

Why is it that 70% of people with gout have high blood pressure?

I mean, that's weird.

Especially since uric acid, which most people know that gout is a problem with uric acid

building up in your big toe, is considered a powerful antioxidant.

If it's an antioxidant, then why is it associated with high blood pressure,

and why is it associated with so much pain in your right big toe?

So that's what we're going to sort out today, and I have some interesting conclusions and ideas.

If you have gout, you're going to be very glad you watch this video.

You know, it's not just high levels of uric acid in your blood that's causing gout,

because they found there's no correlation between levels of uric acid in the blood in gouted tax.

But they do know the pain of gout is this uric acid crystal formation,

creating a lot of inflammation. So what is going on here?

Well, what they do know, your kidney is not able to get rid of this uric acid effectively.

It tends to retain uric acid, and then somehow it leaks into the joint of your big toe

in it forms crystals.

The main medication for gout is called alopeurinol, and what that does is it inhibits

the formation of uric acid.

There's an enzyme called xanthine oxidase, which helps you make uric acid.

So this medication blocks that enzyme, thereby lessening the amount of uric acid.

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