{"id":187004,"date":"2024-04-08T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/harvard-and-mit-scientists-discover-cholesterol-busting-microbes-in-the-gut"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:26:24","slug":"harvard-and-mit-scientists-discover-cholesterol-busting-microbes-in-the-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/harvard-and-mit-scientists-discover-cholesterol-busting-microbes-in-the-gut","title":{"rendered":"Harvard and MIT Scientists Discover Cholesterol-Busting Microbes in the Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-and-mit-scientists-discover-cholesterol-busting-microbes-in-the-gut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alterations in the gut microbiome are associated with a range of diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory bowel disease.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/broad-institute\/\">Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/a> along with Massachusetts General Hospital has found that microbes in the gut may affect cardiovascular disease as well. In a study published in <em>Cell<\/em>, the team has identified specific species of bacteria that consume cholesterol in the gut and may help lower cholesterol and heart disease risk in people.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Ramnik Xavier\u2019s lab, Broad\u2019s Metabolomics Platform, and collaborators analyzed metabolites and microbial genomes from more than 1,400 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a decades-long project focused on risk factors for cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alterations in the gut microbiome are associated with a range of diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory bowel disease. Now, a team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard along with Massachusetts General Hospital has found that microbes in the gut may affect cardiovascular disease as well. In a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}