Controlling Sugar Cravings: Role of the Gut
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0:00:5 Normal mouse would drink
0:38 from the sugar bottle.
0:48 during those 48 hours, the mouse learned
00:00:00.000 | So I'm gonna give a mouse now, sugar versus water.
00:00:05.000 | Normal mouse will drink from the sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar,
00:00:09.520 | very little from the water.
00:00:10.900 | Knock out the sweet receptors, eliminate them.
00:00:15.080 | Mouse can no longer tell them apart
00:00:16.960 | and they will drink from both.
00:00:18.460 | But if I keep the mouse in that cage for the next 48 hours,
00:00:26.360 | something extraordinary happens when I come 48 hours later
00:00:30.800 | and I see what the mouse is leaking or drinking from.
00:00:34.600 | That mouse is drinking almost exclusively
00:00:37.720 | from the sugar bottle.
00:00:38.920 | How could this be?
00:00:41.920 | He cannot taste it, doesn't have sweet receptors.
00:00:46.240 | During those 48 hours, the mouse learn
00:00:51.920 | that there is something in that bottle
00:00:54.600 | that makes me feel good.