Interested in gout

Congratulations to those who have found
strawberries to be helpful.
Most often recommended are dark cherries. Far
less often strawberries are recommended. There
seems to be a difference of opinion as to
cranberries.
Usually these are recommended as some sort of
anciliary measures that you can take in addition
to whatever other measures you take to lower your
uric acid levels or lessen the pain of gout
flareups caused by continued high levels.
Occasionally, these anciliary measures prove
sufficient on their own and only an occasional
uric acid test is needed to monitor the
situation.
To the extent that some researchers think gout is
really caused by an infectious agent, the
cherry/strawberry routing would prove
particularly interesting.
Masking? Well, alot of pain relievers work by
causing pain. So all they really do is 'mask' the
more severe pain by causing a milder pain that
the body reacts to.