NMCD: Eating a soy-rich diet may affect the body's blood pressure by regulating the gut microbiome.

August 7, 2020 // -- A soy-rich diet is often associated with lowering blood pressure and preventing atherosclerosis, but researchers aren't fully aware of the molecular mechanisms behind soy's improved heart health.
picture source: CC0 Public Domain, an international magazine, In a study published in Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases entitled "Soy food intake associates with changes in the metabolome and reduced blood pressure in a gut microbiota manner", scientists from Vanderburg University and other institutions found that ingestion of soybeans may affect the body's blood pressure by regulating the body's gut microbiome, a diverse bacteriological group that lives in the human body's gastrointestinal system. The
researchers said that the levels of two specific bacteria in the body of healthy people with higher soy intake were lower, prevotella and Dialister, and that The Prevotella bacteria were directly associated with increased blood pressure in the body, and that individuals with this type of bacteria tended to have higher BMI values and more inflammatory circulation markers, but only if the bacteria did not exist.
Interestingly, the researchers found that there were no multiple risk factors for heart disease in individuals with these two strains (Pepsi and Bacillus), which may indicate that the gut microbiome may be an important intermediate factor in the interaction between the body's dietary soy intake and systemic metabolism, and that later researchers will continue to delve into the fine-grained relationship between soy food intake, body metabolism, and the gut microbiome to provide new ideas for developing new treatments for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension.
source: Rachana D. Shah et al. Soy intake food associates with changes in the metabolome and reduced blood pressure in a gut microbiota way, Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases (2020). DOI:10.1016/j.numecd.2020.05.001.