Learn how gout sufferers can benefit from exercise and how much physical activity is the most recommended.

1. GOUT AND EXERCISE
THE IMPORTANCE OF EXERCISE
FOR THE GOUT SUFFERER

2. “If You Have Gout, You Should
Be Exercising. Period.”

3. You don’t need a gym
to exercise, you can
do it from the comfort
of your own home or
outdoors where it
costs you nothing.
We all know the benefits of
exercise like improving the fitness of your
heart, lungs, bone strength, mental well-
being, improves energy levels and your sleep!

4. “But how can i exercise when i
suffer from gout and my joints
are so sensitive?”

5. Exercise will keep you in shape, helping you
maintain an ideal healthy weight, will
increase your energy and will help you build
strong bones, joints and muscles which gout
slowly deteriorates over time.

6. Since your joints hurt, that makes you less likely
to get up moving or exercising. This inactivity
makes you less flexible, weakens your joints and
muscles which can result in bone loss by the way
intensifying the painful symptoms of gout.

7. At the end, exercise will promote faster healing
from gout attacks. A 2008 study on gout and
exercise stated that men who ran 5 miles per
day had 50% less occurrence of developing gout
than least active men.

8. You should not employ crash diets or over-
exercise causing rapid weight loss. Losing weight
too quickly can actually have the opposite effect
and cause your uric acid levels to rise.

9. Rule #1
If you are suffering from a
gout attack and/or your joint
is inflamed regardless if it’s
due to a gout attack or not,
do not exercise!
Exercising during a gout attack and/or when a
joint is inflamed will worsen your condition by
causing you more pain and lengthening your
inflammation.

10. Listen to your body signals and only
exercise when the flare up, gout attack or
inflammation is over and begin gradually,
building up slowly again.

11. Exercise has no effect whatsoever on
breaking up uric acid crystals or tophi
for that matter but it lowers uric acid
levels and keeps them low.

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