Join the forum discussion on this post - (2) PostsSome of your recent messages activated quercetin interest in me. Or perhaps I should say reactivated.
Ever since I started researching gout, I’ve kept coming across quercetin. I know it’s a flavonoid - a part of a plant that isn’t a classed as a nutrient (like carbohydrate, fat or protein) and isn’t quite a vitamin - though early flavonoid discoveries where classed as vitamins.
I found that quercetin was being pushed as a wonder product, and shied away from it, fearing that it was just an excuse for more snake oil to foist upon us poor gout sufferers. Recently, I found mention of it when I was researching red wine and uric acid, and it also reminded me of my post about morin as a natural gout remedy.
The study that mentioned red wine was “Flow injection determination of xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity and its application to food samples”, and the reference to red wine was so insignificant that I nearly discarded it as irrelevant. Then I read how several natural compounds compared to allopurinol as a xanthine oxidase inhibitor. Chief amongst these is quercetin, though it’s more effective cousin apigenin, is also very interesting.
I didn’t want to waste my time researching this further, if there is nothing significant to report, but I’ve found a lot of very important information, that I want to present soon, including a table of quercetin and apigenin content in food. I need to finish my review of the gout management guidelines, then I’ll be straight on to this. Sorry if it delays responding to emails, but I promise that I will respond as soon as I can. If you have urgent questions, go to the gout forum - that has the greatest chance of a response.
Sorry to post a teaser like this, but I think quercetin and related flavonoids are important enough to warrant a mention. Writing this makes it less likely that I will forget about this important topic. If I’ve activated quercetin interest in you, please remind me to finish this.
Due to a recent comment, I’ve opened this up as a quercetin discussion. Please discuss any aspects of gout, uric acid and quercetin in the gout forum.Tags: _apigenin, _flavonoid, _quercetin
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I have also read about quercetin and, in fact, have bought some bottles of quercetin+bromelain capsules. However, I have read that quercetin is insoluble in water which means that the human body can hardly absorb it. It is soluble in alcohol but it requires pretty large amounts of alcohol and this three times a day. Literature also says it is soluble in alkaline solution but I failed with solving quercetin powder in a solution I made from baking soda. Does this mean it is senseless taking quercetin?
I have read about quercetin chalcone (”Aller DMG”, “Allergy Support Plus”, “Quercenase”) which is water-soluble and wonder whether this helps. Could not find any information on the internet so far.