Heart Attack Warning Signs You Might Be Missing: It Starts in Your Gut - AI Podcast

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A specific gut microbiome pattern was found to help predict future heart attacks in coronary heart disease patients, offering a new tool beyond cholesterol and blood pressure monitoring
Researchers identified 10 key bacterial strains tied to heart attack risk and created a scoring system that flags high-risk individuals before symptoms appear
Patients with high-risk gut profiles showed more inflammation, insulin resistance, and higher levels of dangerous compounds like trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and endotoxins
Global research confirms gut bacteria influence heart disease through microbial metabolites like short-chain fatty acids, bile acids, and lipopolysaccharide-related immune responses
Natural interventions like berberine, dietary shifts, and fecal transplants show promise in reshaping gut health and reducing cardiovascular risk

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom.
0:04.0	Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen summaries of our latest articles, perfect for when you're on the go.
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0:14.0	Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, and today we're exploring how your gut bacteria
0:22.6	can reveal your future heart attack risk, sometimes more precisely than cholesterol or blood
0:28.3	pressure checks. Alongside me is Alara Sky. Together, we'll unpack new research showing that a simple
0:35.1	microbial score can flag coronary heart disease patients
0:38.9	who are quietly heading toward another major cardiac event.
0:42.7	Thanks, Ethan.
0:43.7	The headline is striking.
0:45.5	Investigators in the large Cordoprev trial identified 10 specific gut bacterial strains
0:50.8	whose combined presence or absence, accurately predicted which coronary
0:55.9	heart disease patients would later suffer heart attacks or other serious events.
1:00.2	In other words, the microbes living in your intestines may warn of danger years before conventional
1:04.8	tests catch a problem.
1:06.7	Let's drill into that study design.
1:09.2	Researchers followed 679 adults who'd already survived at least one coronary incident.
1:14.9	Every participant was receiving standard medical care, yet the team suspected that some
1:19.6	were still on a silent trajectory toward another event.
1:22.9	They sequenced each person's gut microbiome and built an intestinal microbiota-based risk score
1:29.3	from those 10 key bacterial signatures.
1:32.3	Exactly.
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