The horrible but true fact is that IF you have gout, medications work and a life of “good living” doesn't.
Gout is a killer and before there was decent treatment (circa 1950) every shaman, witch doctor, herbologist, accupunturist, chiropractor, and “new ager” had a fake cure that separated us from our money but not our pain.
Check you uric acid and if high, control it..
Very similar rationale pertains to diabetes before insulin…lotsa “cures” that left the dead in heaps during their teen years. Same for syphilis before penicillin, except death took longer and involved dementia.
There has NEVER been a disease where someone wasn't selling a “cure”…arthritis with copper bracelets, sitting in radium caves, eating one of a thousand “nutritional” aids.
When the REAL cure emerges there are still the shamans who depend for their living on the nonsense cure.