Vitamin C has been in the news lately as a natural means of managing gout.  It has been known for a long time that vitamin C intake helps the kidneys eliminate uric acid from the body and I wrote about it in my book, but this new study focused on seeing if this actually translated into a reduction in the frequency of gout attacks.  The results are pretty compelling.

This study, which followed 46,994 men over the course of twenty years showed that taking over 1500mg of vitamin C per day resulted in a 45% reduction in the risk of gout attacks.  Of course, taking this much vitamin C per day can be problematic for a couple of reasons:
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