Heart Disease Might Start in Your Gut – A Recent Discovery
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Intestinal bacterial overgrowth has been shown to increase the risk of coronary artery disease. The good news is there may be a simple way to protect against this by utilizing probiotics which have anti-bacterial overgrowth effects. Let’s elaborate. https://drruscio.com/heart-disease-might-start-in-gut/
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| 0:57.6 | Hi everyone, this is Dr. Rucho, and let's discuss the heart disease gut connection. |
| 1:04.9 | I want to share with you a study entitled, Association Between Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth |
| 1:10.1 | by glucose, Breath Test, |
| 1:11.7 | and Coronary Artery Disease. |
| 1:14.2 | So small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, also known as CBO, can be one cause of the symptoms |
| 1:20.5 | of IBS, gas, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, and diarrhea being the most notable. And there may be, as this study is suggesting, |
| 1:29.6 | a connection between CBO or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, your gut, and heart disease. |
| 1:35.5 | So let's go through some of the details. A total of 1,059 patients were tested for CBO and via |
| 1:43.2 | coronary artery angiography, so essentially getting |
| 1:46.2 | an assessment of the health of the coronary arteries. |
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