Could gut bacteria be the reason behind your sugar cravings? 🤤
Check out this new paper by Zhang et al. linking a gut microbe, a free fatty acid receptor, and sugar intake.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free fatty acid receptor 4 modulates dietary sugar preference via the gut microbiota - Nature Microbiology
Bacteroides vulgatus, a gut bacterium, promotes GLP-1 secretion through its metabolite, pantothenate, inhibiting sugar preference in mice.
