You did not do this to yourself. Now get the flares under control.
A 90 day, evidence graded system from someone who has been on the floor at 3am. Get your baseline number, change one thing at a time, and know when it is a doctor conversation.
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You are not imagining
how confusing this is.
You did not do this to yourself, and you are not powerless. Most of your uric acid is made inside you, so this was never just about willpower. What you have been missing is not effort. It is a plan that tells you the truth.
The part nobody tells you early enough Well proven
Above the saturation point, about 6.8 mg/dL, uric acid stops staying dissolved and keeps forming crystals between flares, silently. Left unmanaged, flares tend to get closer together, not further apart. The good news: this is exactly what makes the number worth moving now, and moving it is the whole method.
The misconception that costs people years is that the crystals go away after a flare. They do not. Only the number decides that.
One of the four grades every claim on this site carries.
Find your floor, then hold it.
Gout is two problems, and mixing them up is why most advice fails you. The Floor Method keeps them separate and gives you a plan for each.
Lower your uric acid toward its natural floor with the handful of changes that actually move it.
A calm, step by step plan for a gout attack, and the clear signs that mean see a doctor today.
A real number you track over 90 days, so you know what is working and when lifestyle has hit its ceiling.
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This is how every claim is marked.
No blur between the science and one man's story. Four grades, used everywhere I write: Well proven, Reasonable, My experience not proof, Be careful.
"Heavy drinking roughly doubles your gout risk, and beer is the worst of the bunch. It carries a real load of purines, mostly from the brewer's yeast, and the alcohol itself tells your kidneys to hold onto uric acid instead of dumping it."
"Two beers on a Friday and my big toe knew about it by Sunday. That was a reliable pattern for me, not a one off."
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All 86 load bearing claims are graded in public. The whole ledger is free to read ›
A guy with gout, not a guru.
I do not treat gout. I have gout. I got it at 36, fit, training, and completely blindsided. A second, far worse flare two summers later finally made me take it seriously. The book is that road written down. The full story lives at the about page.
The Floor Method. One system, two ways to run it.
This is not a list of foods to avoid. It is a 90 day system. Get your baseline number, change one thing at a time, and retest until you know what actually moves your number. The book is the complete system to read and run yourself. The Portal runs it with you.
Which test, when to take it so a flare does not fake a low reading, and the $48 self order lab if your doctor will not order one.
Water, electrolytes, cherry, coffee, dairy and the supplements I tried, graded by what moved my number and what did not.
The log method that separates a real pattern from a coincidence, and the trigger stacks that hide in plain sight.
Measure, stabilize, build. One change at a time, retest, and know when lifestyle has hit its ceiling.
Why rapid fat loss, fasting, hard training and enhancement can set off flares, and how to train without inviting one.
The human part nobody writes about, and what I did about the dread that fed my worst stretch.
The flare plan, the number check and the food basics are free on this site and always will be. The book is the system that turns them into a number you can move.
If you prefer reading the method and running it in your own notes, start with the book. If you want the daily next steps, the tracking, and the doctor hand off built for you, start with the book + Portal.
The Portal · your Today list
Nothing appears that a chapter didn't put there.
The Portal · a flare, at 3am
since you marked this one starting
Your flares have ended before. 2 resolved, both inside 5 days. Your record, not a forecast.
See inside the Portal ›- Everything in the component list above, complete
- Written to be read in one or two evenings
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- Every claim graded, all 86 in the public appendix
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- 86 claims, all graded
- Everything in the book, in full
- Chapters end in real steps that land on your daily plan
- The flare clock: your own history, at 3am, when it matters
- The one-page hand-off your doctor can read in a minute
- 60 day money back guarantee
- One payment, no subscription
- 86 claims, all graded
Amazon is full of $10 gout diet books. None of them come with a baseline, a retest schedule, or a page your doctor can read. That is the difference you are paying for.
Buy this if you want to know, in 90 days, whether lifestyle is moving your number or whether it is time for the doctor conversation. Guessing through another year of flares is the expensive option.
See the full table of contents
- Welcome to Gout (Read This First)
- What Gout Actually Is (and Why It's So Misunderstood)
- The Floor: The Idea That Changes Everything
- The Big Three: Beer, Water, and Sugar
- The Stack I Actually Ran (An Honest n=1)
- Get Your Number: How to Actually Test
- The High-Uric-Acid Foods List and the Self-Check
- Finding YOUR Triggers (Not the Internet's)
- The 90-Day Arc: Measure, Stabilize, Build
- When the Fire Hits: The Flare Protocol
- Lifters, Fat Loss, and Enhancement
- The Fear of the Next Flare (The Human Part)
- Keeping It: Maintenance and the Honest Myths
- The Doctor Hand-Off
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Questions, answered straight.
Is this a cure for gout? +
Not one you can buy. Medicine can drive gout into full remission: hold uric acid low enough for long enough and the crystals dissolve, and rheumatologists do call that a cure. It takes sustained medication for most people, and it returns if you stop. What this does is lower your uric acid as far as lifestyle honestly can, then show you where that leaves you. For many people the real answer is lifestyle plus medication.
Will it tell me to quit my medication? +
Never. It will not tell you to start or stop any drug, and it explicitly never advises stopping a prescribed uric acid medication. That decision stays between you and your doctor. The method runs alongside your care.
I eat clean and still get flares. Is this useless for me? +
The opposite. The book addresses this head on: most uric acid is made inside you, so your worst flare can come when you are doing everything right. It explains the real combination that trips people up and respects that genetics set a floor.
I lift and I am on a cutting or hormone protocol. Is there anything here for me? +
Yes, and it is the part almost no gout resource covers. There is a full chapter on how cutting, fasting, hard training, and performance compounds can drive flares, framed honestly as risk to track, never as advice to use anything.
What is the difference between the book and the Portal? +
The book is the complete method to read and track yourself, a one-time $19, yours forever. The Portal is the interactive version of that same book: it walks you through it, turns the method into daily habit tasks, and tracks your number for you. You can start with the book and upgrade to the Portal anytime.
The First Week is the starter plan from the book's water, beer and sugar chapter, by email. Five short notes over ten days, then nothing until something worth reading ships. Unsubscribe is one click and actually works.
Stop guessing. Start with your number.
The lifestyle first plan for getting your gout under control, from someone who has been exactly where you are.
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