Dr. Tim Spector explains how blood sugar spikes trigger immediate inflammation in your body. Repeated spikes alter your immune system over time through multiple pathways, some involving your gut microbiome and others independent of it. The inflammation is the common thread across all these mechanisms.
we showed that people who get a big spike in their blood sugar or their triglyceride levels also have a short-term spike in their inflammation levels. It's causing a short-term stress on the body and a short-term effect, but it also builds up over time to cause more long-term changes to the immune system. So you've got all these related mechanisms affecting you. You know, some are inside the gut, some of them are just eating a sugary snack, you know, may not have as much to do with the microbes, but the immune system is, is the common denominator here. So it's really important that we start embrace this new science and see how it can affect us all.
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