Por qué las vísceras no solo causan gota.
Esta semana abordaré el tema de las vísceras que causa mucha confusión, pero si usas el sentido común, estarás de acuerdo lógicamente con mi breve tesis. Consumir vísceras es muy popular en todo el mundo, pero más popular fuera de los Estados Unidos, principalmente en Asia. Las vísceras pueden incluir hígado, riñones, corazón, cerebro, lengua, mondongo y muchas otras partes de un animal.
Encontrarás en internet y en los medios a muchos médicos, profesionales de la salud, dietistas que afirman que las vísceras son muy saludables para ti; ricas en vitaminas y minerales, bla bla bla... en realidad es impactante ver a algunos de los nombres más importantes en la provisión de consejos de salud y nutrición hablar de esta tontería. Afirman que las vísceras son saludables porque son extremadamente densas en nutrientes.
La verdad del asunto es que sus consejos son bienintencionados, ya que están confundidos acerca de los hechos, pero igualmente insensatos. Sí, las vísceras son ricas en multivitaminas, pero ¿tomarías una pastilla llena de toxinas que incluye multivitaminas? No lo harías, porque ninguna cantidad de nutrición puede compensar los problemas generados posteriormente. La gota es uno de ellos. Supongo que si repites una mentira lo suficiente, se convierte en la verdad.
La toxicidad de las vísceras
Déjame preguntarte, ¿comerías el contenido de una fregona? Sí, la fregona con la que limpias el suelo. ¿Comerías el filtro de tu coche? El hígado de un animal es la fregona y/o filtro de su cuerpo. Las vísceras como el hígado y los riñones están llenas de toxinas filtradas del torrente sanguíneo. Lo que encuentras en el hígado son productos químicos tóxicos como... mercurio, plomo, PCB, arsénico, cromo, cadmio, DDT, selenio, y la lista continúa.!
La función principal del hígado es eliminar de manera segura las toxinas o almacenarlas si no es posible eliminarlas.Comer hígado, por ejemplo, es como comer todas las toxinas que un animal no pudo expulsar durante toda su vida, y sabes la cantidad de productos químicos tóxicos que se encuentran en las granjas hoy en día, como antibióticos, pesticidas, hormonas, alimentos procesados e ingredientes de vacunas. Y no importa si el hígado es orgánico o no, todavía no te recomendaría comerlo porque aún contiene toxinas.
Luego tienes a otros que dicen que comas las vísceras crudas junto con la sangre cruda, que es un concentrado y peligroso para tu salud. Esto te puede causar una infección parasitaria y/o... infección por toxocariasis¿Te gusta comer cerebros? ¿Sabías que comer 5 onzas de cerebros de cerdo te proporcionará alrededor de 2000 mg de colesterol del tipo perjudicial? En la actualidad, se considera muy de moda y "lo último" comer paté o salchichón de hígado en restaurantes elegantes.
Si sigues la dieta paleo, una dieta alta en consumo de carne que incluye vísceras, te insto a que la abandones de inmediato. Es una dieta basada en grasas saturadas y colesterol que obstruyen las arterias y que también puede dañar tus huesos y aumentar los niveles de ácido úrico en la sangre. Recuerda que las poblaciones con mayor longevidad en el planeta hoy en día (como Okinawa en Japón, Ikaria en Grecia y Cerdeña en Italia, por nombrar algunas) se alimentan principalmente de dietas bajas en alimentos de origen animal y ricas en carbohidratos complejos, frutas, verduras y granos enteros. Las dietas bajas en carbohidratos y ricas en proteínas están generando daños en la salud humana.
Para aquellos de nosotros que padecemos de gota, todos sabemos que las vísceras son uno de los mayores culpables en el desarrollo de la enfermedad, y comer vísceras puede desencadenar un ataque de gota. No solo son altas en purinas, sino que cuando el cuerpo descompone las purinas, desarrolla ácido úrico como subproducto, el cual se acumula en el torrente sanguíneo y los riñones no pueden eliminar fácilmente. Comer vísceras causará la formación de cristales de urato alrededor de las articulaciones, lo que puede provocar síntomas de gota. Mi consejo: ¡evita las vísceras como si fueran una plaga!
23 replies to "Gota y vísceras"
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Hello Spiro,
Thank you for that article. Do you still have the references you used to write this article ? I can’t see them around the post but maybe I don’t find them…
Thank you very much !
Wow…this is really bad science. Please lookup how liver works. Liver is not a filter that holds all the bad stuff forever – it just separates it so it can be evacuated by the kidney. Sometimes not all toxins/metals are eliminated – some will be stored. The liver is not an independent entity in the animal body. If the liver has heavy metal residue so does lean meat (from the same animal).
Organs are indeed an important component of a healthy diet. Read Kate Shanahan’s work. She is the doctor for LA lakers. Also why do you think the pack leader in the animal world eats the organs from the prey and leaves the meat for the weaker members?
As for the cholesterol causative link to CVD…..Ancel Keys has been proven a fraud for a long time already.
Fix the inflammation. Cholesterol will go down. Fighthing cholesterol is like pulling firefighters off the ladder. You don’t see them – means no fire?????
God, this post is embarrassingly bad! Full of misinformation and just outright lies. The reason the Paleo movement and ketogenic diets have become popular is in light of new science. Your parroting the same thing they said back in the 1900’s; that saturated fats are “artery clogging”. You know, the same people who benefited from the “healthy substitutes,” “low-fat” movement that we have to thank for trans fats and highly inflammatory vegetable oils. We now know the science was fraudulent and deliberately deceptive. Humans have eaten meat since the beginning of time yet only in the past 100 years has chronic disease escalated to unprecedented numbers. People’s saturated fat intake has drastically reduced since the 1900’s yet disease continues to spiral. Please, please look into relevant up to date science! This “advice” is so harmful.
Hi Vina!
There are way more studies that prove that high fat diets lowers life expectancy than studies claiming that paleo and ketogenic diet are the way to go for living a long and healthy life.
All you have to do is look at the blue zones where life expectancy is the highest and look at their diets and how it comprises mostly of complex carbohydrates “food as grown from the earth”! In areas of the world where you have high meat intake diets, the life expectancy drops dramatically. I can agree that the ketogenic diet can help certain people with epilepsy for example or other rare conditions but it is not a diet that the majority of people should follow.
If gout sufferers follow that advice of eating more meat so they can improve their gout, we’d all be in serious trouble.
I’m not going to take sides here but there are over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles indexed on PubMed EVERY DAY. Your assertion of “There are way more studies that prove that high fat diets lowers life expectancy…” is, at best an unverifiable assertion you pulled out of thin air, at worst, an outright lie. Humans are incredibly adaptable creatures and have thrived in all kinds of environments. You can find long life expectancy in different environments, and picking variables at random (high vs low animals, high vs low fiber, high vs low carbohydrates) represents researcher (and blogger) bias more than anything else.
Hi George!
Forget the studies for one minute. Let’s use common sense instead. Look at the blue zones where pockets of population have the longest life expectancy and live disease free. Their diets consist mostly of complex carbohydrates (foods as grown from the earth). Very little protein in meat and fish and some good fats, mostly olive oil and some dairy along with nuts. I am fed up of all this confusion that the diet industry thrives on in order to stay relevant. It always needs to feed us new “supposed” scientific data that says this and that. Read my posts on the Tsimane tribes, 7th Day Adventists, Tom Brady etc… you’ll get a good sense of what I am talking about.
Can you recommend foods to prevent gout but also will not affect my blood sugar as I’m diabetic?
Does ostrich meat cause gout?
Warm Regards
Hi Eric!
Any meat will worsen your gout cause meat raises uric acid in the blood.
Check out my site, there is plenty of dietary information on what foods to eat.
Hi Spiro!
First thanks for maintaining a gout website. Any gout references are a good thing, however I think you may want to reevaluate some of your dietary advice.
A ketogenic diet is not a high protein diet. I have been on uloric probably since it came out. I think around 2011? My uric acid level has always hovered around 7.5 on my high grain with added veggies, medium protein diet in the past. I decided to get serious about my health this summer and drop the grains and sugar from my diet, up my fats, keep protein moderate and go keto. Last week my uric acid level was checked and it was down to 6.6. I dropped about 30 lb (from 275 to about 244 zi am 6′) I think my protein intake had even increased a bit too from my previous diet…but still moderate! You may want to do some more research into keto…not high protein Atkins, but keto keeping protein moderate. I am very happy with my results and am thinking of trying to wean off of uloric if my results continue as they are.
Correlation is not causation.
Every doctor I’ve ever met has warned me about organ meat. They all agree lean muscle meat is best at proper serving sizes. They include heart and tongue scince these are muscles and not filters. Also not to be eaten raw or med rare but well done with juices dripping away from the meat.
Hi, Spiro – I thought you might be interested in this.
Today the Consumerist blog had a story about beef heart meat now being allowed in ground beef.
https://consumerist.com/2017/02/02/thanks-to-policy-change-your-ground-beef-may-include-more-heart-than-you-think/
I know we’re supposed to be limiting beef, and eliminating organ meats such as heart. According to this news story, ground beef can now be up to 25% heart, without it even being mentioned on the food label–so gout sufferers have no way of telling whether it’s there or not.
I went to the Dept. of Agriculture page referenced in the article, and clicked on Ask a Question to let them know that this policy could affect gout patients. Maybe some of your other readers will want to do the same.
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The idea that saturated fat clogs arteries is a myth. Also dietary cholesterol has little to no effect on your cholesterol levels. The same with purines. The level of uric acid in your body is 2/3 effected by YOUR BODY. How much purines you eat has little effect.
Hi Roman!
As for the cholesterol argument you make, the scientific evidence proves this argument, please stop reading and listening to these Paleo-fad types who are simply whitewashing the truth for their own personal gain. Studies I’ve posted on this website have proven that diet plays an important role in keeping uric acid levels healthy.
I agree. We eat too much animal food sources. Fish and milk products I eat a lot. I also eat a little bit of shellfish,roe and eggs but I do not want too much cholesterol and also I do not want to promote gout too much. Traditional European overclass diet promotes gout, heart problems and a lot of other diseases.
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