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Aurornisyesterday at 11:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

If this was true, sugar cravings would disappear when taking antibiotics that kill those microbes.

The fact that this doesn’t happen should give you pause about this woo-woo theory of cravings.

The reason you crave sugar and fat and other tasty things is that they taste good. You evolved in a world where feeling rewarded and driven to consume more of these was beneficial to survival when food was scarce.


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iammjmtoday at 12:23 PM

Clearly "tasting good" is not the primary driver behind all of this. Good taste is an incentive to satisfy something more primary, similar like sex feels good in order to satisfy procreation

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theshrike79today at 7:29 AM

Antibiotics don't kill 100% of the gut biome, if it did so, we'd die.

It does some decimation, but not a full genocide.

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