Sugar May Intensify Antibiotic Damage to Gut Bacteria, New Study Finds

Sugar May Intensify Antibiotic Damage to Gut Bacteria, New Study Finds

Researchers tracking more than 9,400 meals among hospitalized cancer patients found that higher sugar consumption before and during antibiotic treatment was associated with greater losses ... The post Sugar May Intensify Antibiotic Damage to Gut Bacteria, New Study Finds first appeared on [your]NEWS.

Study Links Sugar Intake Before Antibiotics to Deeper Gut Damage

A study published in September 2026 in the journal Nature found that sugar intake in the 48 hours before antibiotic treatment was associated with a greater loss of healthy gut bacteria diversity, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health and two major cancer centers. The findings, which also linked sugar consumption during treatment to the spread of a potentially dangerous bacterium, have prompted the study's authors to suggest that patient…