Kysleina tartarová - Tartaric acid
Tartaric Acid
- Popular companies: Genova, Great Plains
- What the company says it indicates: Fungal dysbiosis; Aspergillus overgrowth
- Urinary tartaric acid
- Suggested as a biomarker of red wine intake
- Correlated with lower LDL cholesterol
- Genova notes that chocolate intake may increase levels as well.
- No studies to date have provided direct evidence of a fungal origin for tartaric acid
- One study in young athletes
- Reduction in tartaric acid levels paralleled reductions in other purported gut fungal markers
- Positively correlated with the proportion of Firmicutes
- Athletes in this open-label study consumed a fermented soymilk extract and competed in a race event
- Confound the interpretation of these results
- Urinary tartaric acid significantly reduced in children with autism
- Likely indicates wine and other polyphenol consumption
- no direct evidence of fungal origin.
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