Promoting healthy gut bacteria, also known as “microbiota,” can help treat or prevent metabolic syndrome, a new study finds.
Metabolic syndrome is a combination of risk factors that steeply increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
The research was conducted by Dr. Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.
Gut bacteria performs key functions in health and its imbalance can promote chronic inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In addition altered gut bacteria also promotes inflammation that leads to metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is a serious health condition that affects 34 percent of American adults. People with it have three or more of these risk factors; a large waistline, high triglyceride (type of fat found in the blood) level, low HDL cholesterol level, high blood pressure, and high fasting blood sugar.
Many people take probiotic supplements in an effort to cultivate healthy gut bacteria.
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