Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you eliminate the perception of sweet taste in the mouth and you offer people or laboratory animals, water versus some sugar containing solution, you eliminate the preference for the sugary solution.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you eliminate the perception of sweet taste in the mouth and you offer people or laboratory animals, water versus some sugar containing solution, you eliminate the preference for the sugary solution.
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However, in both animal models and in humans, after about 15 minutes, subjects start preferring the sugary water, even though they can't taste that it is sweeter.