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> "You" don't crave stuff

False. We do crave stuff. The microbiome contributes to and influences cravings, but the way you're phrasing it is misleading.

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True, I was kinda trying to allude that it's not the conscious you or your brain that craves things (usually), it's the gut/intestine flora sending the craving signals.
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If this was true, sugar cravings would disappear when taking antibiotics that kill those microbes.

The fact that this doesn’t happen should give you pause about this woo-woo theory of cravings.

The reason you crave sugar and fat and other tasty things is that they taste good. You evolved in a world where feeling rewarded and driven to consume more of these was beneficial to survival when food was scarce.

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Clearly "tasting good" is not the primary driver behind all of this. Good taste is an incentive to satisfy something more primary, similar like sex feels good in order to satisfy procreation
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> Good taste is an incentive to satisfy something more primary,

Covered in my comment above: The more primary drive is that those are high calorie foods. A drive to consume more high calorie foods is beneficial in times of food scarcity, like the past.

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Antibiotics don't kill 100% of the gut biome, if it did so, we'd die.

It does some decimation, but not a full genocide.

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Cutting sugar doesn’t kill 100% of the gut biome either. It doesn’t kill gut biome at all, actually, it just changes some of the proportions. Those parts of the microbiome are most likely still there, just in different ratios.

Antibiotics are a far more powerful and faster modulator of gut biome, therefore if the above was true we’d see similar effects occurring more rapidly with antibiotics than diet.

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Total crackpot theory.
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You’ve heard of The Selfish Gene theory from Richard Dawkins but I’ve started talking about The Sefish Tube. If you think about us another way, we are a tube of GI tract that does everything in its life and with its power to simply be full.
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Heraclitus — 'For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.'
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