Does the consumption of MEAT cause INFLAMMATION and how? . . CHOLINE which comes from eggs, and CARNITINE which comes from meat, get converted to a molecule called TMA by the gut microbiome in the intestines. Those bugs causing disease 🥴 TMA gets converted to TMAO in the liver, then circulates in the vasculature and causes INFLAMMATION 🔥 . . The downstream effects include vascular heart disease, heart failure, kidneys disease, peripheral vascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and platelet aggregation which leads to stroke. . . So does meat cause inflammation? A big YES IT DOES. Does one need to consume meat products to get nutrients otherwise deficient in a plant-based diet? Not at all. There is no medical necessity for the consumption of meat 🍖 In fact, the consumption of meat and other cholesterol rich foods can raise your blood cholesterol, lead to the production of TMAO, causes endothelial cell activation, and accumulation of cholesterol plaques in the arterial wall, a process called atherosclerosis. This leads to heart attack and stroke among other things. . . So why do people eat meat? Some think they need to eat meat to get PROTEIN, but protein is plentiful in a plant-based diet. Some think they need to eat meat to get IRON, but that can’t be further from the truth. A plant based diet is plentiful in iron. If you have iron deficiency anemia, find out where you have a “leakage” of blood. Maybe you’re having heavy periods or bleeding into your GI tract! This problem needs a workup! Eating meat won’t solve your problem. #plantbaseddoctor #highfiber #tmao #gutmicrobiome #heartdisease (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZLZQQJgse/?igshid=fjllja29vsez
