These are interesting comments. My mom has Rheumatoid arthritis bad and my dad used to have gout. He doesn’t have gout anymore. We will all be cured one day too. Anyhoo, I started getting stiff joints when learning to weld as a young fellow. It wouldn’t happen otherwise. As a grew older however in my early 40’s my joints felt stiff every morning. I thought it was just age or maybe early arthritis. So as I took measures and stopped eating meat. I went full vegan. It helped quite a bit. Specially my teeth didn’t feel like I had a piece of meat stuck in between every time I eat. It’s good not eating meat. Another reason I stopped was because of heartburn. And here’s the thing, it did help both heartburn and joint pain, that wasn’t it. I started getting rashes at the time before I decided to go vegan and finally one day my wife was taking an allergy pill and I decided to try that. It was zirtek but I’m using a generic brand that doesn’t cause cancer like zirtek does. Anyway, my occasional rashes went away, my joint pain was eliminated and I discovered that eating certain things like potatoes, chives, onions and garlic trigger my allergies. Additionally my heartburn and hemorrhoids are also connected to this trigger. I found that yoghurt that contains L.Reuteri helps a lot.