> I found it interesting that I had to discover this cure on my own. This is sadly true for so many things in medicine. The doctor may or may not care, but eit

> I found it interesting that I had to discover this cure on my own. This is sadly true for so many things in medicine. The doctor may or may not care, but either way they only have 10 minutes for you and are highly incentivized to push some very expensive pills to make you go away instead of being able to analyze the issue in any depth. I used to suffer greatly from gout, to the level of being bedridden for a month+ unable to move from the pain. All the doctors could offer were some pills that helped a little but didn't cure it and had somewhat nasty side effects. And I'd have to take them for life, almost guaranteeing liver problems later in life. With so much time unable to move, I spent it doing all the research I could and one day randomly happened upon research on childhood diabetes that noted that increased fructose intake leads to higher uric acid (which causes gout). So it wasn't even a case where the research didn't exist, it's just that it lived under the folder "childhood diabetes" instead of in the folder "non-diabetic adult with gout", so no doctor made the connection. I cut as much fructose off my diet as possible and within a month my blood uric acid was lower than ever and the gout completely cured, no need for any pills. That was over a decade ago, still doing great.