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by lambertsimnel 525 days ago
> imagine if some kind of yeast/virus affects humans to eat so much sugar

I think the gut microbiome can indeed do this.

The episode called "Swap Out Sugar" of the BBC podcast Just One Thing explains more - the relevant section is from after 7 minutes to before 12 minutes into the episode:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09by3yy/episodes/downloads...