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What is your current diet, aside from tasty fresh meat?

I am still refining my diet to eliminate the last of the inflammation.

The short version is: No sugar. No bread, pasta or pastries; nothing made with enriched white flower or containing sugar or corn syrup. No members of the Nightshade family - white potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant or peppers d:^(
No artificial sweeteners. No processed foods.
Sadly, no fast food or anything fried at a restaurant (Not even fish). Almost all of them use canola oil. Which brings up the next category of things to avoid: Seed oils. No corn oil (Mazola) cottonseed oil (Crisco) or any kind of "Vegetable oil". They all come from seeds or grains.

The good stuff: Whole, natural food from the produce department. Lots of veggies and a little fresh fruit.
If you can't get your hands on wild game and fish, get grass fed beef or better yet, bison, free range chicken and eggs.

Do NOT eat farmed fish! (See tagline)

Instead of the usual cooking oils above - Use Extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil or Butter. Yes. Butter.
While I'm on dairy; quality cheeses and plain yogurt. Full fat versions of everything.

I like to make hearty stews with lots of veggies to go with moose or venison. Also chowders with salmon or halibut. Unfortunately, because of my gout, shellfish are completely off the menu. This is a sad thing because there is virtual cornucopia of seafood available here. Happily, I can eat any kind of fish that swim with fins and a tail

A favorite is King salmon chunks rolled in rye flour which I saute' in coconut oil. I eat lots of eggs cooked in butter. Avocado (When I can get it) with full-fat cottage cheese.

My wife makes an oatmeal dish that we enjoy for breakfast or lunch: Rolled oats with almond butter, an egg, walnuts and dates with maybe a dollop of butter and a teaspoon of maple syrup...or maybe not.

I really enjoy oatmeal with maple syrup. It used to be a daily breakfast for me but I'm cutting back. I'm not sure if the oats are a problem, but I know the maple syrup is. (But how bad can a teaspoon twice a week be?)

Intermittent fasting, I believe, is an important part of the regimen. Simple enough. I don't eat on Sunday. Every six months or so I will fast for 72 hours.

Lastly, Exercise. Nothing major. I walk to the Post office about a mile each way, do some stretching, breathing exercises and fifty pushups five days a week.

I'm in AFIB so I'm taking an anti coagulant to prevent blood clots. Other than that, I take CBD morning and evening. No other drugs. I haven't needed any pain meds like Ibuprofin or aspirin since I stopped drinking beer* and started taking CBD.
*Beer was a major gout trigger for me. It was very hard to give up my daily pint. Happily, I discovered that a glass or two of bourbon and water two or three times a week had no apparent ill effect.

FWIW, At 72, I am the same size and weight as when I entered the Army in 1966. I've lost forty lbs since I retired.

Maybe that wasn't the "Short version" after all d;^)