Gout and Amino Acid Supplements

Copyright Carl Janssen 2024

This is not legal or medical advice

Gout supposedly is aggravated by eating specific chemicals

If someone could take amino acid supplements then perhaps they could get their protein intake while avoiding or minimizing the types of chemicals that trigger gout

But unfortunately there are legal and regulatory issues with trying to do so

Some products are not what they are marked as

Some products are illegal to sell

This is not legal nor medical advice

I am not as of the time writing this knowledgeable enough with the legal and medical issues involved with such a method to deal with gout

But I would suggest that if someone is legally and medically qualified that it would be a good idea for doctors or whoever is legally and medically qualified to run an experiment with gout patients using a custom combination of essential and conditionally essential amino acid supplements without protein from food sources, combined with pure sugar, choline, essential and conditionally essentially fatty acid supplements, dietary element supplements, vitamin supplements and water but with no normal food.  Normal food would be avoided so as to avoid having any or having more than the minimally necessary amount for nutrition purposes of the chemicals that can trigger gout in the diet.

Such that one can have a diet without any of the chemicals that trigger gout that might accidentally be in normal food or with the lowest amount of those chemicals reasonably and safely possible.  If a specific amino acid triggers gout but is also essential or conditionally essential then they can lower the amount of that amino acid present relative to other amino acids if each type of amino acid quantity is custom selected by using supplements to a degree that normally can not be done with food.  If no essential or conditionally essential amino acid triggers gout then they can just give them all the essential and conditionally essential amino acids to meet protein dietary requirements but avoid whatever food that has protein in it that also has the other chemicals that trigger gout in it by completely avoiding normal foods.

If some or certain essential amino or conditionally essential amino acids triggers gout an interesting question would be would the side effect of not having that essential amino acid in the diet actually be worse than gout?  Another question in such a case would be does that essential amino acid get used for anything other than creating gout in people with gout.  Another question would be how low can someone safely go on that essential or conditionally essential amino acid if the side effect of not having it is worse than gout, it is much easier to test that question with supplements where exact amounts can be measured than by giving someone normal food.

If no essential or conditionally essential amino acids trigger gout but only other chemicals in foods that are protein source then theoretically by completely avoiding normal food and only using amino acids for protein and a carbohydrate source that does not have gout triggering chemicals such as perhaps pure sugar, along with choline, essential and conditionally essential fatty acid supplements, dietary elements, vitamins and water then perhaps someone should theoretically be able to completely avoid chemicals that trigger gout while also getting all the nutrients currently theoretically required for human nutrition.  If any type of fatty acid, dietary element or vitamin is a chemical that triggers gout that could also be either completely removed or minimized from the diet for the experiment.  If another type of carbohydrate than pure sugar does not have any chemicals that trigger gout that could perhaps be used instead, but the danger of using normal food instead of pure sugar for the diet in that experiment is that normal food that is used as a carbohydrate source might have other chemicals in it that trigger gout.  Often normal food other than pure sugar that is a carbohydrate source also has protein in it and a lot of foods that are protein sources have chemicals that trigger gout. 

It ought to be worthwhile to see if gout can be in a sense cured in diet by completely eliminating chemicals that trigger it through a diet entirely of supplements that lack these chemicals while including all essential nutrients that are not chemicals that trigger gout.  This would not be a cure in the sense that if someone returns to a normal diet gout would potentially return but it might be a cure in the sense that as long as someone sticks to such a diet they might not have any gout symptoms or at least people should experiment to see if gout symptoms go away on such a diet or at least maybe no new gout crystals might form while on such a diet.  Perhaps such a diet might prevent new gout crystals from forming but gout crystals that are already there from before the strict diet might stay in the body.

In summary people should look into the possibility that a cure for worsening gout symptoms might be possible by a strict diet of supplements that avoid or minimize the chemicals that trigger gout instead of normal food that has those chemicals, and I would suggest that the world would be a better place if people did a study on such a thing if legally possible.  If such a study has legal barriers then I would suggest that maybe the laws should be changed if the risks of continuing to live with gout are worse than the risks of the experiment.

I am not saying such a study would be legal to do but that people should look into the legality of doing such a study and possibly conduct it if it is legal to do and if from their point of view it is safe and ethical to do.