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
