What men with gout are saying about Cirae
"My doctor had been watching my kidney numbers slide for two years straight. eGFR kept dropping and I was still flaring every few months even with everything I was doing. Started taking this daily in January. The flares stopped by week three. At my nine month checkup my eGFR had come back up 11 points. My doctor looked at the chart twice and asked what I changed."
MARTY K., 46
✓ Verified Customer
"I had a bottle of tart cherry in the cabinet that did nothing for a year, so I nearly didn't bother. The difference is the 25 percent printed on the front. Within three weeks the flares that had been waking me up at 2 AM just stopped. Six months later my nephrologist ran labs and my creatinine had improved for the first time since my diagnosis. Told me whatever I was doing, keep doing it."
WENDELL J., 61
✓ Verified Customer
"Sixteen years of gout and my kidneys were starting to pay for it. GFR had dropped into the low 50s and my rheumatologist was talking about referring me to a nephrologist. Four months on this and I haven't had a single flare. Not one. But the part that made my wife cry was the bloodwork. My kidney function came back up 8 points. My doctor said he rarely sees that number move in the right direction."
CURTIS M., 52
✓ Verified Customer
What men told us after 12 weeks on Cirae.
Cirae is a daily thing, not a rescue. Here is the order it tends to happen in.
The part nobody explained
You cut the beer. You cut the shellfish. You lost the weight. Maybe you are on the pill too, and your number finally looks fine. And the flares keep coming anyway, or the kidney number keeps sliding while nobody looks at it.
Everything you have been told to do works on one end. Getting less uric acid in. And if you are on allopurinol, that does the same job from the inside. It tells your body to make less.
Nobody talks about the other end. Your kidneys pull uric acid out of your blood every day, and it is supposed to leave in your urine. That is the exit.
In most people with gout, the exit is shut. It gets filtered out, and then instead of leaving it gets pulled straight back into the blood. It goes around in a circle because it cannot get out.
That is why the diet barely moves your number. And it is why the pill can hold your number in range for years while the real problem keeps going. It was never getting in too fast. It was never getting out.
Above 6.8, uric acid cannot stay dissolved. It turns to crystal and settles in the coldest, slowest joint you have. Below 6.8, what is already sitting in there goes back into your blood and leaves with it.
What cannot get out goes through your kidney again. Every day, the same uric acid gets filtered and pulled back. Some of it crystallizes inside the kidney, where there is no pain to warn you. That is how the kidney number slides in men who have not had a flare in years.
A tighter faucet doesn't dry the floor. You have to open the drain.
Why nobody told you this. Gout shows up in your foot, so you get sent to someone who treats joints. The exit is in your kidney. Nobody sends you to a kidney doctor over a swollen toe, so nobody looks.
Anthocyanins, the deep red pigment in tart cherry, are studied on exactly that part of the kidney. Not on what goes in. That is the whole reason Cirae is one ingredient and not a blend.
Most supplements are a blend. Cirae is one thing: cold extracted tart cherry, standardized to 25% anthocyanins.
Cold extraction keeps the deep red pigment intact, which is the part the research focuses on. No heat. No fillers. Nothing else in the capsule.
You have probably already tried one of the other two columns.
| CIRAE | Juice | Standard capsules | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthocyanin mg on the label | 60mg, printed | Never | Almost never |
| Standardized anthocyanins | 25% | Not stated | Rarely stated |
| Processing | Cold extracted | Pasteurized | Usually heat dried |
| Daily dose | 3,600mg equivalent | Varies | Varies |
| Added sugar | None | Every glass, every day | None |
| Third-party lab tested | Yes | No | Rarely |
Go turn over whatever tart cherry is in your cupboard right now and look for a milligram number for anthocyanins. Not total tart cherry. Anthocyanins. That number is the entire product. Everything else on the label is weight.
Feel it first, then check your labs
Take Cirae for 90 days. If your flares have not stopped, you do not have more energy, or your kidney number has not gone up, write in and we refund your first order in full.
We do not want the bottle back. No forms, no questions.
No. Cirae is a daily thing, not a rescue. It works on the uric acid that keeps building up between attacks, so the attack you have right now needs whatever your doctor gave you for it.
Start Cirae now anyway, so it is already working before the next one.
Yes. Allopurinol works on how much your body makes. Cirae works on the way out, so it does a different job whether you are on the pill or not. If you are on it, keep taking it.
Keep drawing your uric acid, read it against 6.8, and tell your doctor what you are taking.
Because a number in range says nothing about the exit. The pill turns down how much you make, but what cannot get out still goes through your kidney again every day.
That is how the kidney number slides in men who have not had a flare in years. Ask your doctor for your kidney number before you start, and again at week 12.
Cirae is one ingredient: cold extracted tart cherry in a vegetable capsule. Nothing else.
If you take any prescription medication, including blood thinners, colchicine or blood pressure pills, show your doctor the Supplement Facts before you start.
No. The diet works on what goes in, and for most men it moves the number a few tenths of a point at best. Eating sensibly still helps, but you do not need the list on the refrigerator to take Cirae.
Raw sour cherries carry the same deep red pigment. The problem is the dose. It changes from bag to bag, and most frozen tart cherries are packed with sugar for baking.
The juice is pasteurized to sit on a shelf, and a cup has about 29 grams of sugar. Sugar raises uric acid.
Cirae gives you the same 60 mg of anthocyanins in every serving, with no sugar in it.
Cirae is one ingredient, tart cherry extract, and every lot is checked by an outside lab. There is no drug in it.
If you have kidney or liver disease, check with your doctor before you start any supplement.
No. You pay once for the bottles you choose, and nothing renews.
2 capsules once a day with breakfast, with whatever you are drinking. One bottle is 60 capsules, which is 30 days.
Buy 2 Get 1 Free is 3 bottles, which covers the full 90 days of the guarantee.
Customer Reviews
Based on 15,000+ verified reviews
My doctor had been watching my kidney numbers slide for two years straight. eGFR kept dropping even with the allopurinol doing its job on my uric acid. Started taking this daily in January. The flares I was still getting stopped by week three. At my nine month checkup my eGFR had come back up 11 points. She looked at the chart twice and asked what I changed.
I had a bottle of tart cherry in the cabinet that did nothing for a year, so I nearly did not bother with this. The difference is the 25 percent printed on the front. Third day the background ache I had stopped even noticing was just gone. Two weeks in, the twinges that used to warn me something was coming stopped showing up. Six months later my nephrologist ran labs and my creatinine had improved for the first time since my diagnosis.
Sixteen years of gout and my kidneys were starting to pay for it. GFR had dropped into the low 50s even with my uric acid under control, and my rheumatologist was talking about referring me to a nephrologist. Four months on this and I have not had a single flare. Not one. But the part that made my wife cry was the bloodwork. My kidney function came back up 8 points. My doctor said he rarely sees that number move in the right direction.
Three years on allopurinol and I was still flaring every couple of months. My number was in range but the attacks kept coming and nobody could explain that to me. Eleven weeks on these and I have not had one. My rheumatologist said sometimes the number being controlled is not enough and something else is driving the inflammation. Whatever this is doing, it is handling that part.
Been on allopurinol since I was 38. My uric acid number is fine on paper, but I was still getting attacks every six to eight weeks. Three in five months, which my doctor said should not be happening with my number where it is. Two months on these, no attacks, and my last labs showed my kidney numbers are holding steady for the first time in years.
Four stars because it took me closer to five weeks, not two. The mornings are better now and I have had one small flare in three months instead of one a month. Just do not expect the first week thing to happen for everybody. It is working, it took its time.
I do flooring. For two years I would not commit to anything more than a week ahead because I could not tell you where my foot was going to be. Booked a full kitchen for the end of the month and did not even think about it until my wife pointed it out.
My allopurinol had my uric acid handled but my eGFR had been sliding for three years. My doctor said gout and kidneys are connected and once it starts going the wrong way it is hard to turn around. Two months on these and my last kidney panel came back better than the one before it. She pulled the chart up and asked what I had changed. She said keep doing it and come back in three months.
Took nine days to reach me and the tracking sat still for four of them, which is the only reason this is not five. The capsules themselves have done what I wanted. Two flares in the six weeks before, none in the seven weeks since.
My dad had gout for nearly twenty years and by the end his kidneys were in bad shape from it. I have been on allopurinol for six years and my number is controlled, but I was still flaring and my doctor started watching my kidney labs more closely. Three months on these, no attacks, and my last kidney panel was the cleanest one in two years.
All winter I slept with that foot outside the covers because the weight of a sheet on it was more than I could stand. About three weeks in I woke up under the blanket like a normal person. I have slept that way since.
The first twenty minutes out of bed used to be the worst part of my day. Around week three I noticed I was walking to the kitchen without bracing for it. I am out in the yard again on the weekends, which I had quietly given up on.
His allopurinol kept his uric acid number in range but the flares never fully stopped, and his kidney labs had been creeping the wrong way for two years. He has been on these for two months, no attacks, and the last kidney panel actually improved. He is far less miserable about the whole thing.
They are not small and you take two, so if you struggle swallowing things that is worth knowing. Aside from that no complaints. Six weeks in, one minor flare instead of the every three weeks I had been having.
The 4am thing was the part that was wearing me down more than the attacks. Waking up and knowing before I even moved. That went away in the first week and a half and it has not come back.
I spent four months on a cherry supplement from the pharmacy that did nothing at all and then gave up on the whole idea and told a few people it was a waste of money. Came back to it because of the 25 percent printed on the front. Completely different thing. Annoyed at myself more than anything.
Over four years I have tried six of these and none of them did a thing. The only difference I can point at is that this one actually prints what is in it. Ten weeks, no attacks, and my last kidney panel came back better than it has in years. My doctor had been worried about my eGFR trending down and this is the first time it reversed.
Women get it as well, especially after fifty, and every product for it is aimed at men. This has been the first thing that has changed anything. Two attacks in the three months before, none in the two months since.
I want to be fair. My hands are still stiff in the mornings, just less, and it clears in ten minutes instead of forty. I would not call it fixed. I would call it noticeably better and worth the money, which is more than I can say for the last three things I tried.
Forty five minutes in the truck each way, which I had missed twice because of my foot. Went last Saturday and stayed until the end. That is the whole review really.
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