The Columbia Center For Integrative Medicine

Diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol #statin drugs work together to mess with your gut #Microbiome and make you sicker. Consuming these three different types of drugs lead to depletion of butyrate-producing bacteria.

As noted by nutritional researcher Zoe Harcombe, a researcher in dietary fat who has a Ph.D. in public health nutrition, "It is virtually impossible to explain how vital cholesterol is to the human body. If you had no cholesterol in your body you would be dead."

High-Fiber Diet Tied to Lower CV Risk in Diabetes, Hypertension

Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
October 10, 2019

High-fiber diets can improve blood pressure, cholesterol level, and fasting glucose in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), a new study suggests.
Researchers studied 200 adults with T2DM and hypertension who increased their dietary intake of fiber over a 6-month period from the recommended dietary allowance for dietary fiber by 20% to 25%. Participants also adhered to a low-glycemic diet.
Those adhering to the dietary changes had a significant improvement in brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), systolic and diastolic hypertension, serum cholesterol, low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol, and fasting glucose.
"This study shall help clinicians all around the world to learn three important things," lead author Rohit Kapoor, MD, medical director, Care Well Heart and Super Specialty Hospital, Amritsar, India, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
"A high-fiber diet is important to be prescribed in cases of diabetes and hypertension for future cardiovascular disease prevention, and this type of diet, in combination with medical treatment, can improve dyslipidemia, pulse wave velocity, waist-to-hip ratio, and hypertension," he said.
Moreover, he added, "medical nutrition therapy and regular counseling sessions also hold a great importance in treating and preventing diabetes and hypertension."
The researchers' results were presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Middle East Conference 2019 and the 10th Emirates Cardiac Society Conference.

Diet is a critical determinant of variation in gut microbial structure and function, outweighing even host genetics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0569-4

Havoc wrecked by #antibiotics on your immune system is measurable and shouldn't be underestimated

https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/4/40/eaaz6074.long