Dietary sugar lowers immunity and microbiota that protect against metabolic disease.

Fang, Han; Anhê, Fernando F; Schertzer, Jonathan D · Cell Metab · 2022

other · Level V

Where this comes from

Abstract

Diet influences intestinal microbiota, inflammation, and metabolism. Kawano et al. show that dietary sugar engaged upper gut innate lymphoid cells to replace segmented filamentous bacteria with a pathobiont. Added sugar worsened early metabolic disease by lowering protective Th17 immunity, thereby promoting intestinal lipid absorption and obesity in high-fat-diet-fed mice.

Medical subject headings