If meat caused gout I would have it all the time.
More likely it is evil cooked veggies and French wine deficiency. :D

This is an update, I'm really pleased with the result. Two weeks ago, I had to have my wedding ring cut off my finger, my whole hand was swollen, fingers numb, and after a second treatment with the Iodine painting, my symptoms are a lot better.
I talked to someone today who had treated his gout with allopurinol, and the surgery- that's standard.
I am also eating no meat shellfish baked goods (yeast, brewers yeast and baking yeast are not good) broccoli, mushrooms, and chugging down as much apple cider vinegar as I can without heart burn or just throwing it up. Also turmeric bromelain, Celery seed.
The joint at the base of my index finger which was badly enlarged is back to regular size, my only remaining symptom other than being really tired because the fever finally went away is some numbness in my finger tips. I can deal with that, after not being able to use the hand for three weeks or so.
You are supposed to move the joints that have gout as much as you can, but it's very hard to do because it's so painful, but I actually felt something slide out of the joint in my hand last night when I was flexing it. I presume that was a uric acid crystal, could have been my imagination, but I will definitely take the lack of pain, and the reduced swelling.
What I read is that when Iodine was used in the 1800's for gout, people painted the soles of their feet- probably because gout usually hits the big toe. I have no idea if Iodine would be helpful for any other type of arthritis, I suspect it works because is dissolves the uric acid crystal.
Once I realized I had gout about 6 months ago, I started changing my diet, now it's about right- I can't get away with anything that is even doubtful. A lot of people with gout can eat chicken and fish, but I can't, and even with all the changes I had made I was considering the meds. Gout really hurts, no question about it. The iodine really took down the swelling and pain, immediately.
I did try iodine supplementing for about a year, but I've decided my thyroid gland really is somewhat toasted, I grew up near the Santa Susanna Missile testing range in southern California, like a lot of people in the area, I got too much radiation, and I am lucky that all I have in an under active thyroid.
I did try iodine supplementation as described on this forum, but it did not improve my thyroid problem. However, I knew the protocol, and I knew to take boron and selenium and vit c with the iodine.
It is good to be feeling better, and I hope someone else tries this, I seem to have rediscovered something that works.

Julie77

Yes to both, Cherry juice does help, but you have to chug a whole bottle of it to get much good, (which I've done before I got my diet under control) and then you get the runs pretty badly. I do drink it, but it's not all that effective. Biggest change for me was eliminating baked goods- yeast sets it off for me. Gout occurs in the spring- to you get the spring weather change and swell up, which sucks. Right now, thanks to the iodine, I'm typing with both hands, although this morning my left hand just didn't move. I had very good luck with Iodine in the past, got rid of Fibrocystic BD-I followed the Brownstein protocol to the letter.
I tried quite hard to fix my thyroid, but I was repeatedly disappointed with the tsh test, so I do take the thyroid replacement hormone, at least in small quantities. Gout is associated with an under active thyroid, I'm 62, I'm pretty sure that due to where I grew up, my thyroid gland just doesn't work correctly, and it's something I just have to deal with.
I have friend with gout who drank so much cherry juice he went into anaphalactic shock from an allergic reaction and had to get carted off to the emergency room. So the cherry juice remedy has it's limits. Gout is thought to be heredity, so I guess I did a lousy job of picking my parents.
Best thing to do about gout, treat yourself for parasites before you are 55 years old like I was- that very likely didn't help matters for me. Don't get fat, if you are hypothyriod, realize that's a contributing factor to a lot of bad things and use Iodine to fix your thyriod if you can.
Julie77