Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) — a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet — may reduce hypertension-related heart disease symptoms. New research in rats finds that low-dose treatment with TMAO reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animal-model, cardiac-fibrosis, compound-linked, consumption, diet, heart-disease, heart-failure, may-reduce, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, primarily-vegetarian, reduced-heart, tmao
Red meat compound linked to worse outcomes in heart failure patients
Higher levels of circulating TMAO – a compound gut bacteria produce during digestion of red meat – precedes worse outcomes in acute heart failure patients, a new study finds.
February 19, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acute-heart, bacteria-produce, compound-gut, during-digestion, failure-patients, heart-disease, levels, new-study, nutrition, nutritional counseling, precedes-worse, red-meat, tmao
Compound In Red Meat, Energy Drinks, Raises Heart Risk Via Gut Bacteria
Researchers in the US have discovered a surprising new connection between red meat and heart risk that involves bacteria living in the gut. Gut bacteria digest L-carnitine, a compound abundant in red meat and added to popular energy drinks, to produce trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite already suspected of helping to clog up arteries…
April 8, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bacteria-digest, compound-abundant, connection-between, involves-bacteria, nutrition, oncalldiets, popular-energy, red-meat, surprising-new, tmao
