The high reading of uric acid makes most people think due to excessive protein intake. Drinking soda is like neutralizing the uric acid but this is not really cure. It is just like the water is too sweet and you just add water. Yes, it will be less sweet but the amount of sugar you consume is still the same if you drink the whole solution

Gout sufferer has high uric acid accumulation at joint. The traditional cure by kampung people and orang asli is to take a handful of daun ketapang* (the one that has fallen to the ground) and boil it. You can save it in a bottle and drink a glass of it every morning. This might be because the water soaked with daun ketapang can naturalized water.

You would be surprised if I tell you the high uric acid reading is caused by something like soft drink you are drinking. There is complicated link between uric acid and fructose (the sweetener used in almost all drink nowadays which is in form of corn syrup). When fructose is broken down into glucose, the by-product is uric acid.

So, if you like to drink all these drink like Coke, Pepsi, or any canned drink, try to stop or reduce. See if this helps. The same goes to people who has kidney stone problem. Kidney stone is not only formed by crystallized calcium, but it can be also caused by crystallized uric acid.

* Pokok Ketapang -- Terminalia catappa