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Two years ago, a team led by biologist Jürg Tschopp of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland showed that uric acid causes gout by overactivating inflammasomes, immune proteins that spark inflammation to help wipe out germs.
This notion is intriguing because a defect in purine metabolism causes gout; human health therefore may be affected by selenium availability to gut bacteria.
We did not identify possible biological explanations of the observed association of anemia and gout; although, it is possible that anemia causes gout.
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To the Editor: Geoff Nicholson's wonderful essay lists a number of foods associated "with old school gluttony — goose, partridge, mutton" and so on — that can cause gout.
The resulting reduction of oxygen in the blood during sleep then leads to known mechanisms which lead to precipitation of the urate crystals that cause gout.
Dr. Neogi noted recently in The New England Journal of Medicine that simply having a high level of uric acid is not, by itself, enough to cause gout.
Synthesizing these conjectures, Taubes sees insulin resistance as the bedrock disturbance in the body which unleashes a cascade of other hormonal and inflammatory molecules that attack the brain (causing dementia), degrade the heart and the blood vessels (causing heart attack and stroke), disturb the metabolism of uric acid (causing gout), and so on.
Without processing to cut the amount of nucleic acids, single-cell foods may cause gout if consumed in great quantities.
High plasma urate concentration is associated with articular deposits of urate crystals that cause gout [ 15].
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