Gout has tormented kings, presidents, and Benjamin Franklin. You, at least, will have data.
* GoutLog is in development. Founding members get first access.
Gout is old, well-bred, and exquisitely documented in every way except the one that matters to you.
Henry VIII dined through eleven courses a night and gouted through every consequence — eleven courses, no data.
Benjamin Franklin, between revolutions, wrote a Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout. The gout got the better lines.
Once the affliction of monarchs and popes; now democratized by the takeout menu.
Most flares have a cause you can find. Patients who track what they eat report fewer of them.†
† Around 80% of gout patients who track their diet report fewer flares, per patient-survey data. GoutLog will help you find your triggers — which is the only sample size that matters.
The modern promise, in plain sentences:
Look up a food before you eat it. Log a flare when it comes. Watch the pattern surface.
Purines — the compounds in certain foods your body turns into uric acid — are the thing to watch. These four pieces will help you watch them, together in one place.
Look up any food before it's on the fork — plain ratings, not biochemistry.
Thirty seconds to log; your 2am self will manage.
Track uric-acid results over time; bring the trend, not a shoebox of printouts.
Where diary meets data: which foods precede your flares.
* AI meal scan — photograph your plate, get a purine estimate — is planned for a later course.
Planned pricing, stated plainly and subject to refinement. Waitlist members shall be offered founding rates. No payment is requested today.
It is in active development. There is no app to download yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. The waitlist is how you get first access — founding members see everything before the doors open.
First access when GoutLog opens, founding-member pricing, and an honest line or two as we build — no flood of email. We write when there is something worth writing about.
No. GoutLog is a tracking tool. It informs the conversation with your doctor — it never replaces it. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment, or a substitute for your rheumatologist's judgement.
It will tell you what correlates with your flares — the patterns in your own log, not a sermon. What you then do at the bar is between you and your rheumatologist.
It is private, it is yours, and it is exportable. Your log belongs to you — take it with you whenever you like.
We shall write when the doors open — and not before, and not often.
* GoutLog is in development. No payment is requested — only your place in line.