Every day routine
I was sitting there sipping my morning cup of coffee thinking about
what else I might be doing that would aggrivate my gout. I finished
the paper, and looked out over the tomatoes and decided that it's
time to harvest them again but decided I'd have another cup of
coffee first...
Cup of coffee..
Cafene..
General stimulant, raises blood pressure, stimulates adrenal cortex,
known to be a relatively strong diuretic...
I know all thest things and yet..
Wow...
I'm adicted to coffee...
I drink 3 to 6 cups a day and have done so for more than 40 years..
I did a quick search and will do a much more thorough search later
but-
Yep....
Coffee, particularly the cafene in coffee is probably the source of
my renal imbalance...
Do any of you have any information about coffee use and gout..
Before researching it my reasoning goes like this.
Coffee, cafene, is known to increase the water removal activity of
the kidneys-adrenal stimulation, coffee every day, stimulation every
day will gradually teach the adrenal system and the kidneys to depend
on a level of cafene in the system to function properly. It could
also reduce the effectiveness of the system by keeping it over
stimulated...
Danm... I really would hate to give up coffee, I guess I can go for
the decaffinated variety..
I don't know but I'm guessing that it is causing me a problem and may
be one of the underlying factors, if not the underlying factor
causing my gout.
mmmm