Anecdote: something exactly like this seems to have been true for me until recently — but with sugar. I recently had a very strong course of antibiotics for a

Anecdote: something exactly like this seems to have been true for me until recently — but with sugar. I recently had a very strong course of antibiotics for a resistant infection. Completely destroyed my gut flora. Had two weeks of terrible, Chron's-like digestive issues afterward, before things settled down. Whatever grew back is very likely brand-new colonization, not regrowth. Before I got sick, if I didn't have at least a certain amount of sugar per day, I'd start to feel inflamed all over my body—especially in my face and my joints. I drank a lot of soda throughout the day; ate chocolate to "feel better" each night before bed; etc. Any time I was travelling away from access to these foods, and so eating "better", I felt worse. After getting sick + taking the antibiotics + re-seeding my gut, the "demand" my body had for sugar seems to have completely evaporated. Coke/Pepsi, which just tasted "good" to me before, now tastes horribly saccharine-sweet, to the point that I can barely stand it. Less-sweet stuff still tastes fine — sugar isn't inherently gross to me now, it's just suddenly gross in large amounts. And so I find myself consuming a lot less sugar now, to seemingly absolutely no ill effect.