Healthy sugars

Healthy sugars

Sugar is not always bad for you, as glucose is essential for our body as fuel. Christian Büll is creating a collection of sugar molecules in the lab to study their beneficial effects on the immune system and gut microbiota.

Suiker is niet altijd slecht voor je, want glucose is essentieel voor ons lichaam als brandstof. Christian Büll maakt in het laboratorium een verzameling suikermoleculen om hun positieve effecten te bestuderen op het immuunsysteem en de darmflora.

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