Gout With High Blood Sugar Isn't Regular Gout. Here's the Half Most Men Never Hear.

Dear friend who watches two numbers,

Every three months the lab sheet comes back, and you read the A1C line first. Before you even find your own name.

Two numbers: A1C and uric acid. One lab sheet.

Then the morning pills: the gout pill, the one for your sugar, maybe one for blood pressure.

The soda went years ago. Sweet tea too. You read labels. You drink your water, and that's smart: water helps.

You did your part.

And gout came anyway.

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Whoever wrote that didn't do anything wrong. Neither did you.

Before we made anything for gout, we read 239,712 public comments from people who have it.

Men with an A1C to watch turned up again and again. What we almost never saw was a plain explanation of how the two connect.

This report gives you one:

• How sugar feeds gout TWICE.
• Why one of those times starts where your A1C starts.
• Where your gout list and your sugar list DISAGREE.
• THREE questions that put both numbers on ONE plan.
• One small cherry change you can make ALONGSIDE the pill.

Tart cherry.0 g sugar

About ten minutes. No lecture about your dinner plate.

Let's start with the company you keep.

Inside This Report

Made to sitnext to the pill

Five plain answers. They read best in order:

1. You're not a rare case. About 1 in 4.
2. Sugar feeds gout, twice. Start with the faucet.
3. The drain. Where the second time starts.
4. Two lists that don't agree. And who settles it.
5. Three questions for the visit when both numbers come back.

And: the one glass in the middle →

Thing #1

You're Not a Rare Case. You're About One in Four.

A gout pill next to a pill for your sugar? That's ordinary.

Gout and sugar? You're not the odd guy who drew both.

In a national US health survey (2007 to 2008), about 1 in 4 adults with gout said a doctor had told them they had diabetes.

Past 65 it's common anyway. CDC's latest numbers (2021 to 2023): more than half of Americans 65 and older have prediabetes, and more than 1 in 4 have diabetes.

One organizer. Pills for more than one number.

One HALO Customer Review lists the gout pills, then this:

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If cholesterol gets a line on your lab sheet too, you're in good company. It has its own pill and its own talk with your doctor.

So why do these two travel together? Start with something you already believe.

Thing #2

Sugar Feeds Gout. It Just Does It Twice.

You've heard it a hundred times: sugar feeds gout. You're right.

"The number" is the uric acid in your blood, what your blood test checks. For most people, the target is under 6.

Most uric acid comes from your body's own wear and tear. Sugar is one thing that can turn it up.

Think of it as water in a kitchen sink. No plumber needed.

The faucet is your liver. It makes uric acid.

The drain is your kidneys. That's the main way out.

More in than out, and the number climbs.

Sugar has a hand on both.

First, the faucet.

Meet fructose: the sugar in high-fructose corn syrup and in half of table sugar.

When your liver gets a big load of fructose at once, it burns through its energy supply faster than it can refill it. The leftovers get turned into uric acid. In lab tests, a big dose raised uric acid within about two hours.

Among the sugars, only fructose does that. Glucose doesn't turn the faucet up the same way.

In a 12-year study of more than 46,000 men, those who drank 2 or more sugary sodas a day got gout more often than men who almost never did. Diet soda showed no link.

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And your daily gout pill? Allopurinol, the one most men take, works right at the faucet: it has your body make less uric acid. That's the pill's job, and it's the biggest hand on the sink.

That's the faucet. The drain is where your A1C story starts.

Thing #3

The Drain: Where Your A1C Starts

The part almost nobody draws for you.

Now the drain: your kidneys. Then there's insulin, the hormone that moves sugar out of your blood and into your cells.

When the body pushes back against its own insulin, it has to make extra to keep blood sugar in line. Doctors call that insulin resistance.

Your A1C measures sugar, not insulin. But in prediabetes and type 2, high insulin is usually where it starts.

And high insulin slows the drain.

In small studies, people whose bodies pushed back harder against insulin cleared less uric acid and had more in their blood. When insulin ran high, the kidneys let less uric acid out.

Small studies. But they point one way.

So the same thing that sits behind a rising A1C has a hand on your drain. That's why the two numbers travel together.

Sugar feeds gout twice: once at the faucet, once at the drain.

This is about how your body runs day in, day out. Not about one meal.

Did you cause this? No.

Nobody picks how his body handles insulin. It runs in families and changes with age. So does the way the body handles uric acid.

Which brings some good news.

The good news

On Sugar, Your Two Lists Agree

The 2020 gout guideline suggests limiting high-fructose corn syrup. It's a "conditional" call, so you and your doctor decide. Your sugar list says the same thing.

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He's right to wonder. Nobody can promise that. Food counts. So does the gout pill. Neither one does the other's job.

The pill turns the faucet down. Skipping soda and high-fructose corn syrup keeps big loads of fructose off the faucet. How your body handles insulin is a job for you and your doctor together.

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So why does it feel like your two lists are at war?

Thing #4

Two Lists in One Kitchen, and They Don't Agree

On sugar they agree. Almost everywhere else, they pull apart.

The gout list says go easy on shellfish and organ meats. Bread, pasta and rice are fine.

The sugar list says count every slice of bread and every forkful of pasta. The shellfish is fine.

Shrimp night, the gout list frowns. Spaghetti night, the sugar list does. Lean on one list, and you lose on the other.

Men live this every day:

One 78-year-old went strict low-purine, exactly as the gout list says:

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Nobody gave bad advice here.

Each list was written for one condition, as if it were the only one you have. Both are right about their own number. They just never met.

So who settles it? The person who sees both numbers.

Thing #5

Three Questions for the Visit When Both Numbers Come Back

Your doctor is on your side, and probably sees both numbers. Your doctor also has about fifteen minutes.

So walk in with three questions, and ask them first.

One plan. You and your doctor pulling the same way.

That's the doctor's part. It settles most of the kitchen. Except one glass.

Where the lists collide

The Gout Tip That Forgot About Your A1C

Mention gout to anybody over 60 and somebody says it: tart cherry juice.

Some habits get handed down.

A lot of men with gout swear by their cherries. We won't argue with them, and we won't make promises for them either.

Turn the jug around.

One 8-ounce glass of 100% tart cherry juice: about 30 grams of sugar.

All of it comes from the cherries, so No Sugar Added on the front is true. The 30 grams are still there.

One 8 oz glass: about 30 g sugar, 0 g of it added.

One glass is nowhere near the big load of fructose from Thing #2. The reason to count it is your A1C.

Cut it out too, and here's the menu:

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So you drink it and count every glass. Or you drop cherries and keep nothing of your own next to the gout pill.

Before you pick, the honest part about cherries.

The honest part

What the One Real Test Found, and What It Didn't

One study put tart cherry to a real test in people with gout. 50 people, about half of them on allopurinol, took tart cherry concentrate or a dummy, twice a day for four weeks.

Uric acid didn't change. Attacks didn't change.

Four weeks is short, but that's the honest result.

The 2020 gout guideline doesn't recommend cherries either way.

Researchers studying cherries and gout are looking at the deep red. They call it anthocyanins. You can call it the red. That research is early.

One HALO Customer Review, in a dozen words:

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So we made the cherry habit with 0 g sugar.

Meet HALO Tart Cherry

Keep the Cherries. Leave the 30 Grams Behind.

The cherry habit, in one small capsule you take with the pills you already take.

Sugar per capsule:0 g

One glass of the juice: about 30 grams of sugar. So we kept the cherries and left the 30 grams behind.

It's called HALO Tart Cherry: tart cherry extract, in one capsule. 0 g sugar. And it's the same amount every day.

What's an "extract"? Tart cherries, dried down into a powder. One capsule holds a small scoop of it, so the 30 grams in a glass don't come along. It isn't a glass of juice in a pill.

Take it with your morning pills.Coffee, water, one capsule. Done.

Show the bottle to your doctor or pharmacist first, especially if you take diabetes medicine or a blood thinner, or have kidney disease.

A capsule is the small part. So what else can you do this month?

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5 Things to Do This Month (4 Simple Habits + Your Cherry Routine)

1. Keep taking every pill your doctors prescribed. The gout pill too, even through an attack, unless your doctor tells you otherwise.
2. Take the three questions to the visit. Write them on the appointment card.
3. Ask for one plan for both lists. A dietitian can help. See the Medicare box under the three questions. And keep drinking your water.
4. Keep the daily log and bring it to lab day.
5. Make HALO Tart Cherry part of your morning. One capsule a day with your morning pills, once your doctor or pharmacist is fine with it. It's the cherry habit with 0 g sugar. It doesn't replace any prescription, and we make no claim about attacks, blood sugar or uric acid.

The steps that run through your doctor come first. Your optional fifth step is the daily cherry capsule.

The log takes a pen and ten seconds a day. On lab day, it beats trying to remember what you ate three Tuesdays ago.

Lab day, circled.Bring the log.

Easy to write down. Harder to explain to anyone who only has one number to watch.

Why We Made HALO Tart Cherry

Short answer: because of what you wrote.

Remember those comments? Three things stood out.

1. Men doing everything right for their sugar and their gout, and getting hit anyway.
2. Two lists pulling different ways, and nobody explaining why the two numbers travel together.
3. Cherry juice at about 30 grams of sugar a glass.

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For the third one, we made one simple thing: tart cherry extract, one capsule, 0 g sugar, to take alongside the pills. For the first two, we wrote this report, because the explanation matters as much as the capsule.

What a lot of men want back is plain old normal.

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We can't promise you normal. We can explain what's going on, and take the sugar out of the cherry part. The rest, you and your doctor work out together.

The HALO founder

So, the practical question: what does it cost?

All of it on one page

Here's the Deal.

The pill for the number. Three questions for your doctor. And the part that's yours: the cherry habit, with 0 g sugar.

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One capsule a day, next to the morning pill. Thirty capsules in a bottle, so one bottle is one month.

Here's what it costs:

• 1 bottle: $39.99. 30 days.
• 3 bottles: $79.99 $119.97. 1 bottle FREE, FREE shipping. 90 days.
• 5 bottles: $119.99 $199.95. 2 bottles FREE, FREE shipping. 150 days.

Where I'd start: 3 bottles. That's 90 days of capsules, and the guarantee runs 100, so you can use every one before you decide. Under 90¢ a day.

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Fair question: what happens if it turns out it's not for you?

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Sources mentioned in this report

Real public comments, word for word, typos and all. None are HALO customer reviews. Photos are illustrations.

We make no claim about blood sugar, A1C or uric acid.

Keep taking the medication your doctor prescribed. Show the bottle to your doctor or pharmacist before you start. Individual experiences vary.

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