A Danish doctor named 4 key factors that worsen heart health

0 < p>Cardiovascular diseases and diet are synonymous, but this concept is a bit more complicated. Gut health has recently received increasing attention due to its many connections to overall health and well-being. From effective digestion to strengthening immunity and general mood of a person; gut health is key.

It's also been shown to have a big impact on your heart health, with four key factors potentially hindering the whole process.

Scientists have found that poor gut health increases the risk of heart attack, angina and heart failure. Living an unhealthy lifestyle that includes poor diet, smoking, lack of physical activity, or gut disease can disrupt the balance of the microbiome, further exacerbating a number of heart problems.

When these four risk factors are evident, the microbiome humans are exposed to compounds that can cause multiple non-infectious chronic diseases in people at high genetic risk.

Previous studies have already shown that the gut microbiome changes in people with chronic heart disease.

Later, researchers identified compounds produced by the diseased microbiome, such as a bacterial compound called trimethylamine (TMA), which after modification in liver of the human host causes atherosclerosis.

The European Research Consortium launched the EU-funded MetaCardis research project to study the role of gut microbes in cardiometabolic diseases.

“We found that about half of these gut bacteria and blood compounds have been altered by drug treatment and are not directly related to heart disease or early stages of disease, such as diabetes or obesity, occurring before heart disease is diagnosed. The rest of the disturbances in the gut microbiome occurred in the early stages of obesity and type 2 diabetes, many years before patients noticed any symptoms of heart disease,” said Professor Oluf Pedersen from the University of Copenhagen.