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I did a pretty deep dive on that question and what I found was they just blamed everything kings ate. Because back in the day pretty much only royalty got gout.

Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.

I joke but the issue with modern medicine is that the massive groundbreaking humane advancements (antibiotics, safe general anesthesia making all types of surgery possible, MRI/CT/angiography revolutionizing radiology, typed and crossmatched blood transfusions) are always overshadowed by infinite quackery

If a man wished he could sum up modern medicine thusly:

The human brain is composed primarily of a substance called myelin.

Myelin is made of 80 percent cholesterol.

Around 1979 the medical industry told people cholesterol is terrible so people listened and began eating things like margarine instead of butter, took the yolks out of their eggs and cut back on red meats.

On a totally unrelated note, the medical industry can't figure out why that generation suffers from a neurodegenerative disease called Alzheimer's.

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