Do You eat Red Meat? You Better take This, Then.

You'll have to forgive me for the, "I told you so," following information.  For two decades, I have been telling patents that it isn't the fat and cholesterol in our diets that are the primary cause for cardiovascular disease.  Finally, researchers are just now getting around to officially (meaning, if it's not published in  "their" kind of journals, it isn't worth considering) acknowledging that fact.

(I need to digress, just a moment.  I would ask that those who only eat egg beaters because of the cholesterol, please take special note of this blog.  Whole organic eggs are a fabulous source of protein and essential fats as well as vitamins.  Cholesterol is NOT the problem in cardiovascular disease...oxidized cholesterol is the problem as well as the bad cholesterol that is circulating in the blood in response to emotional/mental stress.  I have written many articles about this subject, but wanted to include a reminder, here, about that.)

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic have come to the conclusion that it's not the fat and cholesterol in red meat and pork that is shown to have a direct causal relationship to cardiovascular disease...it's a chemical, called carnitine, produced by bacteria in the intestines, that is the culprit.  Simply put, eating red meat causes  "unnamed" bacteria to build up in the intestines.  Those, then, produce carnitine which, in turn, results in the liver converting it into TMAO.  It's the TMAO which appears to cause the inflammation and damage to the heart and its vasculature....i.e. cardiovascular disease.
Interestingly enough, vegans who ate the red meat did NOT produce any of this carnitine.  Why?  Because their gut did not contain any of the bacteria which produces the chemical.  One must conclude that these bacteria are not normally occurring in the intestine.

One has to conclude that red meat is really not something that the body handles at all well.  If foreign bacteria are being produced by eating meat, then, just like an invasive non-native species can destroy native vegetation in our environment, foreign bacteria appear capable of  over-running normally occurring intestinal bacteria (flora) and producing damaging chemicals in response to the presence of "foreign" foods.

The medical researchers concluded that taking antibiotics could destroy the offending bacteria.  I would like to point out that taking these results in the destruction of the good bacteria contained within the intestines, too...resulting in some pretty significant unintended consequences.  My suggestion is that if you or your loved ones insist upon eating red meat, please, please take a full spectrum probiotic on a daily basis. You all know that I recommend only a whole food, organic probiotic.

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