2/11/25 for The Heart-Microbiome Connection: Key Nutrients for Cardiovascular Health with Maureen Pickle

Watch the recording for The Heart-Microbiome Connection: Key Nutrients for Cardiovascular Health with Maureen Pickle and Shivan Sarna

What we will cover:

• Discover how a healthy microbiome supports cardiovascular health by digesting nutrients and producing essential vitamins and hormones.
• Examine the role of key nutrients like Fiber, Calcium, Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in maintaining heart health.
• Understand how microbiome dysbiosis and chronic inflammation can disrupt cardiovascular health—and what you can do to restore balance.

Here are the 5 key nutrients that your heart can’t thrive without: 

1. Fiber: The Most Powerful (and Most Ignored) Heart-Health Nutrient

Fiber is often associated with food and digestion, but research shows it’s also essential for reducing cholesterol, lowering inflammation, and stabilizing blood sugar—all of which are major risk factors for heart disease.

How Fiber Helps Your Heart: Fiber helps lower bad cholesterol by carrying it out of your body, reduces inflammation to keep your arteries flexible, and balances blood sugar to protect against high blood pressure.

Why Gut Health Matters for Fiber Absorption: Your gut bacteria turn fiber into helpful compounds that lower blood pressure and keep your arteries healthy, but if your gut is out of balance, you make less of these heart-protecting compounds.

2. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: The Anti-Inflammatory Powerhouse

Omega-3 fatty acids are well known for reducing triglycerides, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing inflammation—but gut health plays a major role in how well your body absorbs and utilizes them.

How Omega-3s Support Heart Health: Omega-3s help prevent blood clots, reduce inflammation, and improve how your heart responds to stress.

Why Gut Health Matters for Omega-3 Absorption: A healthy gut helps your body absorb and use omega-3s better, but an imbalanced gut can make it harder to get their full heart benefits.

How to Optimize Omega-3 Absorption:

Include gut-supporting probiotics alongside high-quality omega-3 supplements like MegaMarine™.

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3. Vitamin D3: The Blood Pressure Regulator

Vitamin D3 is essential for heart health – this is well-known. But how?

How Vitamin D3 Supports Heart Health: Vitamin D3 helps control blood pressure, keeps calcium from building up in your arteries, and lowers inflammation to protect against heart disease.

Why Gut Health Matters for Vitamin D3 Absorption: Healthy gut bacteria help activate vitamin D, but if your gut is inflamed, your body struggles to use it properly, increasing heart disease risk.

Best Way to Supplement Vitamin D3?
Combine Vitamin D3 and K2 for optimal calcium metabolism and heart protection—which is why I recommend MegaQuinD3™.

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4. Vitamin K2: The Nutrient That Keeps Calcium Out of Your Arteries

Vitamin K2 is one of the most important yet overlooked nutrients for cardiovascular health.

How Vitamin K2 Protects Your Heart: Vitamin K2 helps keep calcium out of your arteries and in your bones, supports normal blood clotting, and keeps arteries flexible to lower blood pressure risk.

Why Gut Health Matters for Vitamin K2 Absorption: Some gut bacteria make Vitamin K2, but if your gut is imbalanced, you produce less and absorb less from foods like cheese, eggs, and fermented foods.

The best way to ensure optimal Vitamin K2 absorption is by pairing it with Vitamin D3. That’s why MegaQuinD3™ combines these two essential nutrients to keep calcium where it belongs—out of arteries and in bones.

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5. Calcium: Essential for Heart Function (When Absorbed Correctly)

Calcium is a double-edged sword—it’s essential for muscle contractions, nerve signaling, and blood vessel function, but when it’s not properly regulated, it can contribute to arterial plaque buildup.

How Calcium Affects Cardiovascular Health: Calcium helps your heart beat properly, keeps blood vessels flexible, and can cause artery buildup if not absorbed correctly.

Why Gut Health Matters for Calcium Absorption: A healthy gut helps your body absorb and use calcium for bones, while an imbalanced gut can send calcium to the wrong places, like your arteries.

You can eat all the right foods, take the best supplements, and follow every piece of heart health advice out there—but if your gut isn’t absorbing the key nutrients your heart relies on, you’re still at risk.

Omega-3s, Vitamin D3, and Vitamin K2 are some of the most powerful heart-protective nutrients, but they’re only effective if they’re properly metabolized and delivered where they’re needed. That’s where gut health comes in.

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// About The Speaker

Maureen Pickle PA, MPH is an experienced NCCPA certified physician assistant that combines conventional medical training with nutritional and functional medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University, a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Michigan, and a Physician Assistant degree from Miami Dade College.

In addition to her training, Maureen was an integral member of one of South Florida's premier wellness centers before returning to Michigan where she served as a Physician Assistant at the University of Michigan and more recently joining Novonesis. Maureen specializes in preventative comprehensive women's health care throughout all life-stages.

// About the host

Shivan Sarna is the author of Healing SIBO, TV host, and the creator of the SIBO SOS® Summits and Community, the Digestion SOS® documentary series, the Gut & Microbiome Rescue Summit, the Lymphatic Rescue Summit, the Dental-Health Connection Summit, and Chronic Condition Research, a 501(c) 3 non-profit to further research under-funded medical conditions. After a lifetime of struggling with health issues, Shivan made it her mission to demystify her own health struggles - and to share that information with others who were struggling. Her special skill is finding and connecting with the leading expert doctors and connecting those experts with the people who need their help. Her personal mantra is SOS: Save Our Selves, and that's what she has helped thousands of people do! 

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