Gout is a type of auto immune disease in which the body is trying to defend itself from a perceived foreign substance that is not supposed to be part of the body. This substance is not a virus or bacteria. It is not a living micro organism.

It is a stone! It is a type of micro crystal that formed within your body. It is often seen in the needle like shape. These tiny mineral crystals can form in your blood, in the interstitial fluids between cells, and very often, it forms inside the synovial fluid of your joints.

Under certain conditions, it can appear through crystallization or disappear by dissolving itself back in the ions form in the fluid that contains it. When the concentration of uric acid level in your blood is close to the saturation point, these crystals will form like the flower blossoming during spring time. But when the uric acid level drops, these crystals will slowly dissolve and become uric acid again.

Urate crystal or uric acid crystal is among the common names for this bio-chemically form gem. Among the scientists and researchers, it is known as monosodium urate or MSU crystals. It is the formation of MSU crystals in the body tissues that causes the acute or chronic inflammatory response which is usually known as gout.

If the uric acid level of a gout patient is always on the high side, this provides an optimum condition for the formation of urate crystals and leaves no room for the opposite reaction which is the dissolving of crystals to take place. The result is more and more urate crystals will form within the victim body which will bring more frequent visits of the awful gout attack.

It takes years for those crystal deposits to reach a point that brings acute gout attack. Thus, it is not easy to remove them by dissolving them. None of the available gout drugs is created for the purpose of urate crystals removal. These drugs can only temporary suppress the symptoms cause by the gout attack and not dealing with the root of the problem.

This is why most of the medical practitioners will tell you that gout is not curable. All they can see and deal with are just the surface of the problem. Those drugs are either pain killer or anti-inflammatory. None of them is designed to remove the root.

If you do not want those crystals to keep forming in your body, then you should take active action to search for the alternative solutions. The truth is out there.