If everyone on the planet ate a healthy fiber-rich diet which includes vegetables, there wouldn't be as many instances of heart disease.
New research at the Medical University of Warsaw found that low-dose treatment with trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension. The study is published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Elevated levels of TMAO -a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily a vegetarian diet- may reduce hypertension-related heart disease symptoms.
TMAO levels in the blood significantly increase after eating TMAO-rich food such as fish and vegetables. In addition, the liver produces TMAO from trimethylamine (TMA), a substance made by gut bacteria.
According to theindependentbd.com, TMAO treatment proved that the condition of lab rats given the compound was better than expected, even after more than a year of low-dose TMAO treatment.
"A new finding of our study is that [a] four- to five-fold increase in plasma TMAO does not exert negative effects on the circulatory system. In contrast, a low-dose TMAO treatment is associated with reduced cardiac fibrosis and [markers of] failing heart in spontaneously hypertensive rats," the researchers wrote.
