I do not keep a diary of my life but I can still associate events.
I play lawn bowls and I can remember changing my bowls delivery because of gout from conventional to fixed stance because of gout and then changing it back again when the bowls stance was affecting my hip and that was probably 27 years ago and at least 10 years before I was diagnosed as diabetic requiring diet and exercise.
Since then I have had some twinges I associated with gout but I have never had an attack bad enough to go to the doc nor have I taken anti inflammatory or any other medication.
In that time I went from diet and exercise to 1/2 tab per day for T2 to a full tab then mixed fast and slow jab and then 3 fast jabs plus 1 slow jab, and that increased to 130 units jab per day. And during this time I put on weight about 15kg.
I kept a lid on my purines intake which means for me no offal and no pork and only a few prawns occasionally.
So simply by doing nothing else other than purine excess limiting I went from crippling gout attacks stopping me catching a bus to go to work to virtually gout free. And during this period I went from pre-diabetes to insulin dependent and added 15 kg. and I also became 27 years older.
I was a member of the wine and beer makers club for 10 years and I drank a lot it is only in the last 7 years that I have reduced my drinking but I still drink every week.
My experience is not aligned with this unpublished speculation. In fact it is quite the reverse
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2009/10/05/gout/
I have no doubt that purine excess causes gout, the medics are not fools and modern medicine does not have to keep proving the same thing over and over again.
They know what causes gout, and just because someone does not like it or wants a magic cure from eating tulip leaves or banana skins does not justify spending millions on research.
Get off the excess purines and it is your best chance of reducing or eliminating your gout attacks.