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Why would a significant part of the population have dead bacteria circulating throughout their bloodstream? Bacteria live and die in the gut regularly, so it se
by Citizen8396 1y ago
Why would a significant part of the population have dead bacteria circulating throughout their bloodstream? Bacteria live and die in the gut regularly, so it seems exceptional that parts of it would enter circulation and somehow avoid metabolism.
This also doesn't seem to consider how many people have altered cholesterol status due to genetics. An interesting theory, but if it were proven true, I imagine its effect on public health would be limited to a narrow subset of individuals.
- nevertoolate 1y agoBacteria entering bloodstream is quite common it seems, gut is not perfectly sealed and less sealed because of bad lifestyle choices. I think the article points out that treating cholesterol doesn’t treat the root cause and possibly! ineffective in itself to lower heart disease risk as something else is causing direct health threatening problems.
- array_key_first 1y agoThis is all just a hypothesis, and a very new one. We know almost definitively that high cholesterol causes heart disease and lowering cholesterol lowers your risk of a heart attack.
- incomingpain 1y agoAlcohol, NSAIDs, stress, obesity, or chronic inflammation Which given all of these factors are high in society. It's not exactly a surprise. The liver typically gets overloaded and unable to help as well. This theory as well explains autoimmune and a myriad of other diseases that medicine "dont understand" but that's mainly because this theory is censored. You wont be able to read a page about it on wiki.