How does it work? Researchers discovered that all animal tissues (skin; muscle, nerve, and bone) respond by OPTIMIZING their preprogrammed cellular functions when exposed to a light emitting diode NARROW BAND NEAR IR ENERGY, delivering a gentle warming sensation causing a very rapid pain relief response from the damaged and inflamed cells that were exposed. In most cases full and instant relief of pain is noticed. However, the instant results are just the beginning of the pain relief process that your damaged cells will experience. Over the following hours after exposure, the reduction of pain continues to increase, not decrease as with pain medicine. Many still believe that gout is caused by a combination of dietary factors and "laziness". In particular, many believe that gout develops following several years of excessive alcohol consumption combined with an ongoing lack of physical activity and a diet completely lacking in purine-neutralising foods, such as berries, as well as other specific fruit and vegetables (see below). Others have refined this theory, saying that some are genetically predisposed to gout and some are not. As a result, people who are not predisposed can live over-indulgent lifestyles and not develop gout, while others who are predisposed can develop gout, despite being physically active and having a well-rounded diet. However, most in the "genetic predisposition" school of thought nonetheless believe that the condition is much more likely to develop in the predisposed if the other factors are present over several years (excess alcohol, inactivity and failure to eat purine-neutralising foods). It is known that lead sugar was used to sweeten wine, and that chronic lead poisoning is a cause of gout which condition is then known as saturnine gout, because of its association with alcohol and excess