Up to eleven years less: If you eat foods containing purine too often, your body is immensely damaged

A healthy diet prevents illness and therefore extends life.

It should be balanced and versatile - and contain few products containing purine.

Everything in moderation: a credo that also applies to healthy eating.

You shouldn't forbid yourself to chocolate, a juicy steak or a large portion of french fries.

However, those who indulge in it too often run the risk of obesity and metabolic diseases such as diabetes *.

When foods containing purine are metabolized, the breakdown product uric acid is created in the body - which can be deposited in the body.

, as a recent Irish study shows.

The research team had analyzed the data from around 26,500 people with elevated uric acid levels.

The result: men whose blood uric acid concentration exceeded 535 µmol / l had a life expectancy that was up to 11.7 years shorter than men whose value was lower.

In women, the lifespan was shortened by an average of six years when the uric acid level exceeds 416 µmol / l.

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Elevated uric acid levels can shorten life by nearly twelve years

With a balanced and healthy diet, the body excretes all breakdown products that result from the digestion of food through the kidneys, intestines, saliva or sweat.

However, those who eat purine-containing foods too often run the risk of uric acid being deposited in the joints in the form of uric acid crystals.

Obesity and stress can also inhibit elimination, as the Fitbook portal with the DAK as a health partner provides.

This leads to inflammation in the body, which can lead to gout, among other things.

The following foods are particularly high in purine:

• Offal

• meat and sausage

• Poultry (especially with skin)

• Crustaceans, sardines and certain types of fish such as anchovies or herring

• Beer and spirits

To the study

More sources: https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/Gicht/Richtig-essen-bei-Gicht-409363.html

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