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How Microbiome Affects Happiness: A Gut Feeling | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Live Q&A

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Is This Hungatella Associated With Heart Disease?

Hungatella is from a study that I've talked about before, which was a TMAO study. When they come into contact with carnitine that you find in red meat, TMAO has been associated with increased risk of heart disease and depression. And there was a study a few years ago done in Australia where people who were eating a paleobased diet produced more hungatella. So now we're sort of connecting the dots here. Once again, this is a bacteria that is associated with depression, but also associated with increasedrisk of heart disease.

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