Nutrition & Healing · ScienceDaily Nutrition · September 28, 2026

Pomegranate compound improves heart function by up to 80% in study

A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Urolithin A helped stiff heart tissue relax and reduced scarring and abnormal enlargement. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue.

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