Viertel @nhmrc & @HeartFoundation Fellow & #Hypertension Lab Head @MonashVHI /BDI. Gut microbes, 🐶 lover, #Cancer survivor @Science_Academy Gottschalk🏅she/her
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New Correspondence in @NatMetabolism with @rikeishm
A recent Review assessed the translational potential of short-chain fatty acids — but skipped blood pressure, where the human evidence is arguably strongest
nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
Practical point: sodium butyrate is sold OTC in many countries. The only RCT testing it in untreated hypertension found BP rose
Our call: measure cardiovascular endpoints (ideally ABPM) in SCFA trials across all indications
Otherwise we miss harms, not just benefits
The Review: nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
Our HAMSAB trial: nature.com/articles/s44161-0…
If you are in Australia and interested in supplements for your gut microbes, we would love to hear your opinions and thoughts
Please check out our survey 👇👇👇
redcap.helix.monash.edu/surv…
As Brené Brown says, 'clear is kind, unclear is unkind'
Having clarity of who you are as a team and setting (and holding) boundaries is essential for thriving research cultures
That's a reason why we have a lab manual, just updated 🥳
Check it out 👇
marqueslab.com/manual
📢New paper alert
Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome is officially recognised as a single, multi-organ continuum
Our new review in Gut Microbes points to a critical, overlooked culprit: the gut microbiome
➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Just a week ago, the global medical community recognised these conditions as a single, interconnected multi-organ continuum, publishing the 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Clinical Practice Guidelines for CKM Syndrome in @JACC:
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
Most researchers thought short-chain fatty acids alone were the key to gut-heart health🦠
Our new review in @GutMicrobes suggests we’ve been missing a "messenger": the local pH of your gut.
Congrats to lead author @EvanyDinakis 🧵👇
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
In our Clinical Science paper, we showed that GPR68 is essential for fibre to lower blood pressure
Without this "sensor," the benefits of a high-fibre diet are lost🧬🚫
GPR68 study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4056…
We’ve also been digging into GPR65
Our latest work shows how GPR65 sensing in T-cells is a vital link between gut acidity and systemic inflammation that regulates blood pressure
GPR65 pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
New paper from our team 🧠🦠
After stroke, gut‑derived bacteria can migrate into the brain
Blocking sympathetic tone ↓ gut permeability, ↓ brain bacterial load, and improves motor outcomes—without changing infarct size
Congrats @alexpehCG!
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
