GoKawiilGut bacterium Bacteroides uniformis found to cut arterial plaque in mice
Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University identified a molecule produced by the gut microbe Bacteroides uniformis that lowered cholesterol and reduced arterial plaque by roughly half in mice, according to a study published in Nature. The compound appears to act through the same biological pathway used by statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs taken by hundreds of millions of people.