In this episode we are going to talk about a topic that is a lot more controversial than I realized: artificial sweeteners.

Artificial sweeteners have been used as an alternative to sugar for decades and over the years various claims have popped up about their safety and potential negative health effects.

Today, we are going to review some of the science examining those  claims and discuss whether these can be a part of a healthy diet or if you should avoid these food additives as much as you can.

Tune in to find out more.

References:

Review Paper 2020 On Health and Microbiome Effects of NNS

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012383621621?via%3Dihub

 

Review Paper on Non-nutritive Sweeteners and Gut Microbiome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363527/#!po=37.5000

 

Meta analysis of randomized trials of NNS on glucose

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0170-6

 

 

Randomized Double Blind Trial on Gut Microbiome

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33171964/

 

Artificial Sweeteners and Gastric Cancer

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33691824/