India, Oct. 16 -- Gut bacteria play a very crucial role in determining your blood sugar levels. This is why one needs to eat gut-friendly foods, not just to support good gut health but also to stabilise blood sugar levels. Addressing how sugar levels are impacted by the gut, Dr Debojyoti Dhar, Co-Founder and Director at Leucine Rich Bio Pvt Ltd, told HT Lifestyle that an imbalance in gut microbes can actually interfere with insulin sensitivity, affect inflammation and disturb glucose metabolism. Particularly for type 2 diabetes, gut health has a major influence.

Explaining how gut microbiota plays a role, Dr Dhar elaborated, "Diabetic patients' disrupted gut microbiomes are characterised by a scarcity of SCFA-producing, beneficial microb...