Can drinking beer and eating seafood cause gout? First of all, what is gout?
Gout is a kind of metabolic arthritis, which occurs in the joints of big toes, ankles and knees. Redness, swelling, fever and severe pain appeared at the onset. The word "gout" first appeared in the medical classics of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it was named because of its pain like a gust of wind.
This disease is often due to uric acid is too high in our blood, which can't be excreted, and finally forms needle-like crystals commonly known as "urate" in joint soft tissues. When the immune system removes these impurities, it will cause a series of inflammatory reactions, causing joint pain and swelling and deformation.
Urea in human body is mainly produced by purine oxidation. When the purine content in our body is too high, or uric acid is not excreted smoothly, the probability of gout is greatly increased.
Is beer the culprit of gout?
Why do people often say that eating seafood and drinking beer are more likely to induce gout? Now there are two different versions on the Internet:
One is that beer contains vitamin B 1, and vitamin B 1 makes purine more easily converted into uric acid. This statement makes no sense-the content of vitamin B 1 in beer is actually very low and can be completely ignored. Moreover, the absorption of vitamin B 1 will be inhibited by alcohol. At the same time, the conversion of purine to uric acid is a normal metabolism, and it is inevitable not to take vitamin B 1.
Another explanation is that the metabolites of alcohol in beer will compete with uric acid for excretion, which is not conducive to renal tubular excretion of uric acid, resulting in a decrease in uric acid excretion. In this way, uric acid accumulated in the blood will induce metabolic disorders in high-risk groups. This statement has certain rationality.
However, we can see that it is not necessary to combine "seafood" with "beer" to produce this factor. Seafood can be replaced by animal viscera or similar meat with high purine content, and beer can be replaced by wine or spirits. This conclusion will not change. In addition, besides eating seafood, strenuous exercise will also reduce the speed of uric acid in the blood, so the mechanism of gout is similar between eating seafood and drinking beer and playing basketball and eating barbecue.
How to drink beer and eat seafood gout?
Still the same problem, purine intake through food actually accounts for only one-fifth of the human body. For people without gout symptoms, as long as they don't eat big meals, occasionally eat seafood and drink beer, there will be no health problems.
On the contrary, for people with high uric acid in their blood, it is equally dangerous to replace seafood with barbecue, or beer with white wine, or even strenuous exercise.
From the point of view of preventing gout, the only real ways to prevent gout are regular physical examination, reasonable diet, moderate exercise, avoiding hyperlipidemia and obesity, and drinking more water at ordinary times, which is conducive to the excretion of uric acid in the blood. For people with high uric acid index, we should try to avoid excessive drinking of any food with high purine content and any alcoholic beverage, and beer is just one of them.
Of course, don't eat more prawns in Qingdao even if there is no gout problem. Please do your best.
Dietary advice
Suggestion 1: Eat more vegetarian dishes when drinking.
Advice 2: Vegetarian dishes are rich in folic acid, which is beneficial to the decomposition of alcohol. Recommendation 3: Don't drink too much at once.
Recommendation 4: It is not advisable to eat seafood at the same time when drinking beer, which is easy to cause allergies.
Recommendation 5: Don't drink beer after sweating heavily.
Recommendation 6: Drink as little or no beer as possible.