Tricarballylate
Microbial overgrowth
- Can include
- benzoate,
- Hippurate,
- Phenylacetate,
- Phenylpropionate,
- cresol,
- Hydroxybenzoate,
- Hydroxyphenylacetate,
- Hydroxyphenylpropionate
- 3,4-dihydroxyphenylpropionate,
- Indican,
- Tricarballylate,
- D-lactate,
- D-arabinitol
Clinical Applications of Urinary Organic Acids. Part 2. Dysbiosis Markers, Richard S. Lord, PhD, and J. Alexander Bralley, PhD, Alternative Medicine Review Volume 13, Number 4 2008
Tricarballylate (tricarb)
- Produced by a strain of aerobic bacteria that quickly repopulates in the gut of germ-free animals
- Contains three carboxylic acid groups that are ionized at physiological pH
- To give a small molecule with three negative charges
- Akin to the structure of the powerful chelating agent EDTA
- Magnesium is bound so tightly by tricarb that magnesium deficiency results from overgrowth of tricarb-producing intestinal bacteria in ruminants
- Condition, known as “grass tetany ”
- Accompanied by lower levels of calcium and zinc
- Can form divalent ion complexes with tricarb.
