Very exciting findings that gut microbes drive sugar consumption via a FGF21, GLP-1 and FFAR4-mediated mechanism. A potential game changer for nutritional science and diabetes. 🥇
Elisa Hill
Free fatty acid receptor 4 modulates dietary sugar preference via the gut microbiota | @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteroides vulgatus, a gut bacterium, promotes GLP-1 secretion through its metabolite, pantothenate, inhibiting sugar preference in mice.
