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Ep 68// Artificial Sweeteners: Sugar-Free But at What Cost?

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The Effects of Low Calorie Sweeteners on Gut Health

If you are consuming a large amount of artificially sweetened sugar-free products, if you don't have many whole foods in your diet, yes, your gut health is going to suffer. That is not because of a single artificial sweetener killing off your good gut bacteria. These artificial sweeteners are anywhere from 200 to 20,000 times sweeter than sugar. You would need 200 times less or 20,000times less of this artificial sweetener to elicit the same sweetness. Even though it's 2023, data on the effects of low calorie sweeteners on the human gut microbiota are limited. They're extremely limited and they don't provide adequate evidence that they impact gut health at doses relevant

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