In this episode, we're talking about erythritol. High blood erythritol levels increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

This is the latest research from the Cleveland Clinic.

It found that erythritol is associated with an over responsiveness of platelets to clotting.

When participants consumed erythritol-sweetened foods, levels in the blood rose 1000 fold above natural levels in the blood. 

Often erythritol is touted as this great sweetener because it is almost entirely unchanged as it goes from the keto cookie, through your gut, into the blood, throughout your entire body and then out your kidneys and into the toilet.  

Unfortunately, in the process it damages gut bacteria and now we see it leads to overactive platelets and clotting. 

 

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