Health / Re: Your opinions on Uric Acid blood readings?
« on: September 13, 2011, 11:16:02 am »Hi,
I started experimenting with paleo about a month ago; I think I was very strict paleo for two weeks and have been about 80% paleo ever since then. About half of my meat and fish I eat raw (if you include marinated as raw) and maybe 1/4 of my vegetables. Anyway it is way too soon to tell what effect this is having, if any, on most of my health issues. But one thing is dramatic: my gout has gone away! I'm really excited about that. I attribute it simply to giving up sugar and white flour. I don't even have to be completely strict about that. I included honey in my first few days of paleo before giving that up, and in the last two weeks have cheated twice with very dark chocolate and once, I am ashamed to admit, with a really crappy slice of cake that just happened to be sitting on a buffet table at a moment when I had a sugar craving. But still, a month ago I basically went from eating 50% good food to eating around 90% good food, and my gout went away.
As for cherries, they never did very much when I was eating "normally", although of course it is always possible that they made things a little less bad!