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gmdodaro wrote:I haven't been following this forum for a couple of years, because the vitamin C/lysine/proline protocol didn't seem to help in my case. My coronary calcium score has been increasing by about 100 points per year since 2011. I've been a Pauling and vitamin C enthusiast for more than thirty years. After taking 4-5 grams per day of vitamin C for so long, by this theory, I shouldn't have heart disease.
gmdodaro wrote:... he is the friend who suggested my CAC score dropped in 2018 because being a vegetarian improved my microbiome.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/whats-in-your-gut
Big data dump from the world’s largest citizen science microbiome project reveals how factors such as diet, antibiotics and mental health status can influence the microbial and molecular makeup of your gut
Emerging trends
All of the data collected by the American Gut Project are publicly available, without participants’ identifying information. This open access approach allows researchers around the world to mine the data for meaningful associations between factors such as diet, exercise, lifestyle, microbial makeup and health. Here are a few observations that have emerged so far:
Diet. The number of plant types in a person’s diet plays a role in the diversity of his or her gut microbiome—the number of different types of bacteria living there. No matter the diet they prescribed to (vegetarian, vegan, etc.), participants who ate more than 30 different plant types per week (41 people) had gut microbiomes that were more diverse than those who ate 10 or fewer types of plants per week (44 people). The gut samples of these two groups also differed in the types of molecules present.
Antibiotics. The gut microbiomes of American Gut Project participants who reported that they took antibiotics in the past month (139 people) were, as predicted, less diverse than people who reported that they had not taken antibiotics in the last year (117 people). But, paradoxically, people who had taken antibiotics recently had significantly greater diversity in the types of chemicals in their gut samples than those who had not taken antibiotics in the past year.
The participants who ate more than 30 plants per week also had fewer antibiotic resistance genes in their gut microbiomes than people who ate 10 or fewer plants. In other words, the bacteria living in the guts of the plant-lovers had fewer genes that encode the molecular pumps that help the bacteria avoid antibiotics. This study didn’t address why this might be the case, but the researchers think it could be because people who eat fewer plants may instead be eating more meat from antibiotic-treated animals or processed foods with antibiotics added as a preservative, which may favor the survival of antibiotic-resistant bacteria..
My present cardiologist also says CAC score is not a critical indicator.
After taking 4-5 grams per day of vitamin C for so long, by this theory, I shouldn't have heart disease.
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