About Uric Well
Uric Well explains gout and uric acid to the people living with them: what a reading of 8.2 mg/dL actually means, whether the cherry juice in the supermarket is worth buying, why the attack always seems to start at two in the morning, and what changes when a doctor puts you on allopurinol.
We started the site because the gout internet is unusually bad. Search almost any gout question and you land on either a thin listicle that repeats the same twelve foods, or a sales page promising to flush uric acid out of your body in three days. Gout is one of the most treatable forms of arthritis there is. The gap between how well it can be managed and how badly it is usually explained is what this site exists to close.
Who writes this
Uric Well is written and edited by a small group of health content editors working on one subject. None of us holds a clinical qualification, and we do not pretend otherwise — you will not find an invented “medical review board” on this site. What we do is read the primary sources carefully, say plainly where the evidence is strong and where it is thin, and send you to a clinician for anything that is a clinical decision.
You can read more about how we work on our editorial policy page, and about who does what on the editorial team page.
What we cover
- Gout basics — the mechanism, the diagnosis, the stages, and what happens if gout is left untreated.
- Uric acid and testing — blood tests, target numbers, and how to read your own results.
- Diet and nutrition — purines, alcohol, fructose, coffee and dairy, with realistic estimates of how much each matters.
- Attacks and pain relief — what to do in the first hours of a flare and what to stop doing.
- Supplements and natural remedies — the ones with trials behind them and the ones without.
- Medications — how the drug classes compare, and the questions worth taking to an appointment.
- Lifestyle and weight — the habits that move uric acid, in both directions.
- Living with gout — work, travel, footwear and the long game.
How we handle money
Some articles contain affiliate links. If you follow one and buy something, the seller pays us a share. That is how the site is funded, and it is disclosed on every page that carries one — at the bottom of the article, where a disclosure belongs, and in full on our affiliate disclosure page.
What that money does not buy is a different verdict. The clearest example is our review of The End of Gout: it is the product we earn from, and the review spends several paragraphs on where its marketing overstates the case. If a recommendation is not honest it is worthless to you, and a site full of worthless recommendations earns nothing anyway.
What we will never say
- That gout can be cured. It can be controlled, often completely, which is a different and more useful claim.
- That you can safely stop a prescribed urate-lowering drug because of something you read here.
- That a food, drink or supplement will end an attack in progress.
- That a number from a marketing page is a research finding.
Contact
If you think something on this site is wrong, tell us — we correct things. The contact page has the details.
Uric Well is educational and does not provide medical advice. Please read our medical disclaimer.