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The consumption of soft drinks, supplemented with white sugar, alters the DNA of gut bacteria and affects the host immune system. The good news? These effects are reversible.
Findings by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology—Professor Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Ph.D. student Noa Gal-Mandelbaum and other members of the Geva-Zatorsky team—were recently published in Nature Communications. Tamar Ziv and the Smoler Proteomics Center at the Technion assisted with the research.
Gut bacteria are important members of the microbial community within the human body, i.e., the microbiome. These bacteria, which have co-evolved with humans for generations, are so essential to human health and the development of the immune system that human beings cannot function without them.