Gout – considered one of the worst types of pain that human beings can experience but researchers may just have found that drinking large amounts of coffee can cut the risk of this illness by about half.
Gout is a form of arthritis where a compound, uric acid, accumulates and causes inflammation in joints and long thought of as the preserve of port-swigging gluttons of a by-gone age, but 1 to 2 out of 1000 men aged over 40 years are diagnosed with gout each year.
How coffee works in guarding against gout remains unclear. Researchers do not believe that caffeine has a protective effect as decaffeinated coffee was linked to a reduced risk of gout, while regular tea had no impact on risk. They suggest that another component of coffee, an antioxidant called chlorogenic acid, might somehow lower levels of uric acid in the blood.
That is really good to know, my uncle suffers from gout. He rarely drinks coffee but might consider drinking more if it could potentially give him some relief.
Thank you
My friend suffers from gout and also does not drink much coffee. This would be a good idea to sell him one of our coffee machines.
I have suffered from gout for about 10 years, although I am only 35, and have recently put it down to a high salt intake and carbonated soft drinks, I also stopped drinking coffee when i recently had a bad spell of attacks, as I had heard that caffeine could cause it, so this news that coffe helps is a surprise, I’ll try it and let you know
I quite drinking coffee three years ago. In that time my uric acid levels went up and my gout attacks became more frequent (1/6wks). In January I experienced an attack that was th most painful thing I have ever endured. It lasted 10 days. Fed up, I found info on the web suggesting coffee as a cure for gout. In February I started drinking coffe again. It’s now August and I’m attack free!!!
i suffered with gout for about twenty years, as i got older it became worse i am 61 now, i came across the bbc web site saying 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day cures gout,in desparation i tried 3 cups of decafe coffee a day. i am now attack free, it really worked for me. so i reccomended it to two friends of mine who also suffered with gout, it has also worked for them. why dont your gps tell you to try it, i wonder?
I have just been diagnosed with Gout. I curently drink 4 to5 cups of Coffee a day. I will try drinking more ( I can’t sleep anyway with this pain).
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I will add coffee to my daily diet. Andrew, thank you for the information.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for sharing, this could help those who had suffer so much with gout. I have also read about the chlorogenic acid that somehow can lower the level of uric acid in our body.