I can remember when my father was diagnosed with gout. He went to bed one night, feeling fine. The following morning, he could hardly walk. He came home from the doctor’s office with a new medical diagnosis. “Gout,” he said, matter-of-factly. I was shocked. My grandfather had gout. How could my father, in his 40s, have gout? As it turns out, gout has become the most type of inflammatory arthritis in the world. According to the...