It feels like the actual paper "Gut microbial taxa elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function"[0] is both a better headline, and a better link, than this inaccurate editorial post (playing on the "Sugar and spice and all things nice" song?).
The paper is from March/2021, and there was discussion on HN then: 91pts, 27 comments [1]
[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01309-7 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667037