I can't wait for the day that we finally figure out why meat consumption is generally correlated with cardiovascular disease - in particular, I really hope that it's something we can engineer out of cultured meats!

[–] TheCulturedOtaku@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they may already be onto the root cause, and it's surprising. According to a study published in 2013 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23563705/) and some related heart studies as recently as last year, L-carnitine digestion by the gut microbiome effectively fosters certain gut bacteria that release chemicals in the blood that create conditions for artherosclerosis.

i.e., it might be our gut mocrobiome at work in a negative way, where genes play a role in how our bodies and microbiome react more than others to create these negative conditions.

EDIT: spelling...