Killing off gut bacteria may protect your heart

ERADICATING gut bacteria may be a new way to treat heart failure, where the heart becomes damaged after a heart attack and stops pumping efficiently, according to a new study.

Researchers found that immune cells called T cells are activated during heart failure and they move into the heart tissue, causing inflammation and worsening the damage.

A study presented to the American Society for Investigative Pathology showed mice given antibiotics and antifungals to wipe out the microbiome ( the community of microbes that live in the gut) had significantly less heart damage.