Gout Support
Registered dietitian and nutritionist for gout management will assess your diet, offer appropriate nutritional interventions and create a personalized gout meal plan to help manage the condition.
Can a dietitian help with gout?
Yes, a registered dietitian can help manage gout via various nutritional interventions and personalized meal planning.
How Can a Dietitian and Nutritionist Help with Gout?
Our gout dietitian and nutritionist offer support in a number of ways:
- Thoroughly assess diet with gout in mind, specifically looking for inflammatory foods.
- Discuss guidelines regarding consumption of high-purine foods and finding suitable alternatives, as needed.
- Thoroughly review foods that are high in purines, which can increase uric acid levels and cause gout attacks.
- Demonstrate how to build and maintain a Mediterranean (anti-inflammatory) eating pattern.
- Indicate the importance and sources of omega-3 essential fatty acids.
- Outline supplements and/or nutrients that can help prevent gout attacks (by decreasing uric acid levels).
- Provide guidance on supplementation, if necessary, to address any nutrient deficiencies or support overall health alongside gout management.
- Offer education on alcohol consumption and its impact on gout.
- Co-create a personalized low-purine diet and gout meal plan.
- Provide a variety of nutritious food swaps based on your food preferences, lifestyle, restrictions, budget, and so on, to reduce purines.
- Give support during nutritional counselling sessions, making adjustments to the gout diet plan, if or when needed.
- Get opportunities to have a gout dietitian and nutritionist answer questions pertaining to disease or its connection to diet.
- Help address co-existing health conditions as well as other nutrition concerns by working with a dietitian for diabetes management, dietitian for high cholesterol or high blood pressure, IBS management, and more.
- And much more.
Related Services
Contact us for a no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
✓ outline how the process looks like
✓ discuss your goals and concerns
✓ explain how billing and pricing work
✓ address concerns about insurance, if any
✓ answer any other questions
How much does it cost to work with our dietitian and nutritionist for gout?
Dietitian Recommended Gout Resources
In addition to nutritional counselling with a gout dietitian and nutritionist for management and support, we are also including a handful of useful resources that you may find helpful in a supplementary fashion.