[dbcurtis]

> What do gut bacteria do again? ...

> Well, I’m here to tell you that they do nothing.

Utter tripe. After getting a cardiac stent placed last April, I did a deep dive on cardiovascular disease. I landed on work from the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. In his long-term studies, he finds that bacteria in the gut metabolize certain proteins found in meat and dairy into trimethethylamine, which the liver metabolizes into trimethylamine-oxide (TMAO). TMAO annihilates the nitric oxide blood gas created by the endothelium to protect and repair itself. In other words, that is the root cause of CVD.

That, my friends, is not nothing.

The author of this piece claiming that gut bacteria have no impact on the body's biochemistry is being willfully ignorant of years of well-established studies. At the very least, for the one, narrow interest where I have done a deep dive.

[simmerup]

Is there any bacteria in particular that you would recommend for preventing CVD?

Also, you should probably say it’s ‘a’ root cause. I’m aware of other theories that place a big emphasis on an imbalance between calcium and magnesium/k2 intake.

[sedivy94]

The next paragraph, “They have numerous benefits, but possibly the most important is just existing and taking up space so that bad bacteria have nowhere to invade.” Everything you shared corroborates the author’s claim.