Can I drink coffee from gout? New research shows that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of gout!

Recent research has probably gotten addicted to coffee, with japanese scientists studying how to process coffee grounds more efficiently with lower carbon content, leading to coffee grounds chocolate, and cardiologists showing that drinking coffee not only has no direct effect on heart rhythm, but that moderate coffee consumption is good for heart health and longer life. Recently, Japanese medical researchers have used data analysis to show that drinking coffee can really reduce the risk of gout!

According to a report by Japan Economic News Network on April 5, a research team from Japan's National Defense Medical College and Osaka University recently conducted a study on more than 150,000 Japanese who received a genome individual difference analysis survey, and conducted an association analysis between the number of times coffee is drunk per week and uric acid index and gout incidence rate.

The formation of gout symptoms is due to the increase of uric acid in the blood. A large amount of uric acid reaches each joint of the human body along with the blood circulation, resulting in different degrees of pain in each joint. According to previous cognitive beliefs, caffeine contained in coffee can be metabolized into uric acid in the body, which is easy to cause elevated uric acid levels and gout attacks.

However, in recent years, many studies at home and abroad have found that drinking coffee not only does not aggravate the risk of gout attacks, but also has a certain preventive effect. On the one hand, it is because the metabolite of caffeine in the body is methylurate, which is different from urate and will not be deposited in the body, nor will it form tophite; on the other hand, coffee is weakly alkaline, which can maintain the acid-base balance in the body and improve insulin levels. In addition, coffee also has a certain diuretic effect, thus promoting uric acid excretion.‍

A survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that drinking a certain amount of coffee a day helped reduce blood uric acid; a 12-year follow-up survey by researchers at the University of British Colombia and Harvard Medical School in 2007 showed that people who drank four to five cups of coffee a day were 40 percent less likely to develop gout than those who did not drink coffee. A study by Song Xin, a nutritionist at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital of Capital Medical University, showed that coffee had a calming effect on serum uric acid levels and gout risk: men drinking 4-5 cups of coffee a day reduced the incidence of gout by 40% and 59%.

Although there are many studies that prove the role of coffee in preventing gout, but there is a lack of relevant statistical analysis and data support, so the Japanese research team divided the number of coffee drinks per week into eight stages from 0 to 7. According to the analysis, the risk of gout decreased by about 25% for each additional day of coffee consumed during the week (although the number of times a day, how much coffee, milk and sugar were not considered).

Therefore, drinking coffee for a long time helps to alleviate the onset of gout, and believes that through the analysis of coffee components in the future, it may be possible to uncover the mechanism and prevention methods of gout, but it is not clear which components in coffee can reduce gout attacks.

Professor Hirotaka Matsuo of Japan's National Defense Medical College said: "Coffee has long been thought to be closely related to gout attacks. However, this analysis suggests that increasing the number of days coffee is consumed does not affect fluctuations in uric acid levels and may reduce the risk of gout attacks.

In addition, the scholars involved in the study also said that gout attacks have a greater relationship with weight gain and lifestyle, and the stress of life and the increase of body fat and vascular fat can more directly affect the rise of uric acid index.

Although coffee can benefit heart health and reduce the risk of gout attacks, many cases are based on the fact that coffee consumed in moderation is pure black without sugar and milk, and that the drinker does not have diseases that would be affected by coffee.

At the same time, coffee is not an elixir. When the body is uncomfortable, you must seek medical treatment in time. Pay more attention to people's eating habits and living habits. Do more exercise and rest early is the best way to maintain health.

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