Can You Cut Out Too Much Sugar? Going Completely Sugar-Free May Disrupt Gut Health

Can You Cut Out Too Much Sugar? Going Completely Sugar-Free May Disrupt Gut Health

Learn how a preliminary study in mice found that eliminating sugar entirely may harm the gut microbiome, with potentially negative effects on overall health.

Clean eating: why cutting sugar out of your diet might not be as healthy as it sounds – new study

everydayplus/Shutterstock.comCutting all sugar from your diet sounds like the healthy thing to do. But a recent study suggests it may do more harm than good. Instead of improving metabolic health, it appears to make it worse. Before rewriting your shopping list, though, it is important to note that this research was conducted on rodents, tracking an extremely small sample size of just six mice per group. Mice have fundamentally different digesti…

Zero sugar, more problems? Study reveals surprising gut health effects

A study presented at ENDO 2026 suggests that completely eliminating sugar from a low-fat diet may harm gut health and increase inflammation.