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The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners
Video taken from the channel: drnorthrup
Is Sweetener Good For Patients Living With Diabetes?
Video taken from the channel: health yourself
Is there a link between diabetes and artificial sweeteners?
Video taken from the channel: CBS This Morning
Artificial Sweeteners and Insulin (Do Artificial Sweeteners Raise Insulin Levels?)
Video taken from the channel: James Schultz, Ph.D.
Should diabetics use artificial sweeteners?
Video taken from the channel: Hindustan Times
2018 Demystifying Medicine: Diabetes and Artificial Sweeteners
Video taken from the channel: NIH VideoCast
Are sugar substitutes healthy?
Video taken from the channel: DrLarrySantora
Artificial sweeteners are non-nutritive sweeteners. They don’t affect blood sugar or insulin levels, so many diabetics find them helpful for satisfying their cravings for sweet foods. These sweeteners aren’t ideal for everyone.
It should show any added sweeteners, whether they are sugars, sugar alcohols, or artificial. By understanding more about artificial sweeteners and diabetes, you will be able to make better food.For people with diabetes looking to manage their weight or sugar intake, artificial sweeteners may not be a good substitute.
Being overweight or obese can.Pearlman says the use of artificial sweeteners has grown along with the obesity epidemic. Michelle Pearlman, M.D., a gastroenterologist with the University of.So what are the best sweeteners for people with diabetes? In general, there is no reason not to choose one of the natural sweeteners that don’t affect blood sugar – Stevia or monk fruit.
They are both great for people with diabetes and you can choose whichever one you think tastes the best.In fact, most artificial sweeteners are considered “free foods” — foods containing less than 20 calories and 5 grams or less of carbohydrates — because they don’t count as calories or carbohydrates on a diabetes exchange.Some types of artificial sweeteners can allow diabetics to enjoy an occasional sweet treat without concern for its impact on blood glucose levels, but other artificial sweeteners create unpredictable glucose results.
Over-reliance on artificial sweeteners can have many bad health effects, including leading to unhealthy eating patterns.While earlier research considered artificial sweeteners to be considered generally safe, more recent research has shown that using these substitutes may actually contribute to diabetes and obesity, as they can change how your body metabolizes fat and energy, and may also alter your gut microbiome (the bacteria colonizing your intestinal tract that can affect your metabolism, immune system, growth, and.Artificial sweeteners, also called sugar substitutes, were originally created to help people lose weight and manage diabetes.
They were thought to be a great alternative. Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener, accidentally discovered by scientists at John’s Hopkins.Although research results have not been unanimous, the current evidence is generally in favor of artificial sweetener use among those with diabetes. Still, more research is.
Some people avoid artificial sweeteners entirely after learning about their drawbacks. Others cut down on consumption of them. Some people focus on the advantages of artificial sweeteners and use them instead of sugar whenever they can. Others increase consumption of artificial sweeteners but don’t stop using real sugar occasionally.Low-calorie sweeteners can be used by people with diabetes and obesity to lose weight.
But, do they increase blood sugar or affect the microbiome?For a long time, people with diabetes were advised to use artificial sweeteners. However, new research shows that this might be wrong. Artificial sweeteners may not be the healthier option.
So let’s take a quick look at some of the pros and cons of using artificial sweeteners. The Benefits of Artificial Sweeteners.Without carbohydrates and no calories, artificial sweeteners do not raise levels of blood sugar. According to the experts, weight loss can be achieved by lessening calories through eating healthy meals and increasing the output of energy with sufficient exercises.
It’s a personal choice whether you decide to use sweeteners or not. If you decide to use sweeteners, but you’re unsure, speak to your diabetes healthcare team for individual advice, and check labels and ingredients on food packaging, as this can help you to make informed choices.
List of related literature:
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from Type 2 Diabetes: Principles and Practice, Second Edition | |
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from Keto Diet For Dummies | |
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from Clinical Engineering Handbook | |
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from Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk | |
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from The Brain Warrior’s Way: Ignite Your Energy and Focus, Attack Illness and Aging, Transform Pain into Purpose | |
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from Brunner & Suddarth’s Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing | |
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from Textbook of Diabetes | |
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from Williams’ Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy E-Book | |
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from Watson’s Clinical Nursing and Related Sciences E-Book | |
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from Endocrine Secrets E-book |
67 comments
You’re also in shape and a coffee with 3 splendas is pretty much an energy drink without all the added goodies like milk thistle, b’s, and l carnitine. You’d have to drink sugar free energy drinks daily for at least a month to notice the negative effects.
What you did is the same thing as having a diabetic eat healthy for one day and say, “Does eating healthy fight diabetes.” Check sugar at the end of the day and it’s still high and say, “I guess not.”
Things happen over time, and as a stroke patient, I’m doing a ton of studying. Caffeine raises cortisol, cortisol raises insulin. Too much insulin, without glucose to break down, can cause insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can causes a stroke and/or heart attack.
Btw, I love your back wall sign.
First study in and she’s already disagreeing with the researchers.
“diet soda intake was not associated with measures of fatty liver disease.”
Read the study for yourself: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26055949/
This has about as much validity as snake oil sales. Cortisol levels naturally rise some with awakening and they impact BG so also as you mentioned BG meter accuracy is more than variable enough to compensate for any differences and need we mention that a sample size of one is??? absolutely not translateable to any general conclusion.
More Studies have concluded that the body reacts to anything sweet just the same as it reacts to sugar. If that was not the case, we would not have an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the western world. These sweeteners have been around for decades and yet obesity and diabetes are still climbing out of sight. Even if you believe the jury is still out on this topic, it would be better to err on the side of safety.
That is a lot of diet pepsi you drank! Personally, I cut down drinking fizzy drinks as its not good. Really good test dr! ☺
My knowledge bit expand after see this. Can you do some more for testing how blood sugar increase after consume whey protein?
Salute from Indonesia dr. James
What the heck!? Listen to you everyday on tastytrade. Lol. Small internet.
But does the sweetness cause an insulin release is the question.
Your blood sugar went up slightly, which indicates that there was no insulin response from these drinks. Insulin would’ve tanked your blood sugar, not raised it. And there is only a tiny amount of calories in the sweeteners so its unlikely the sweeteners themselves raised your blood sugar.
Loved the video. Entertaining and informative although I don’t drink sodas or add sugar to my coffee!
Such an interesting topic… i was just watching bunch of videos about artificial sweeteners and insulin.. good timing:D
I love and use Stevia, xylitol and monk fruit. That’s great to know this. Thank you so much Dr. Northrup!
Dr Northrop. I quit Splenda, stevia, monk fruit, and erythrtol. I used these in my daily coffee, iced teas and evening snack. I kept my diet the same. Even had a cheat day for my 36 wedding anniversary and had a large slice of cheesecake and still lost 2.5 pounds in just week!! I felt so much better without any cravings for sweets immediately. I was so addicted to having something sweet. My stomach is not as puffy and swollen. Yikes!! Thank you for your information. And BTW. I love your fuchsia blouse/dress. It’s your color.
1:12:08 Quote “AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT. SO HERE AGAIN, YOU DON’T SEE IMPRESSIVE RESULTS IN ANIMALS THAT HAVE AN ESTABLISH TD MICROBIOME BUT YOU SEE A BIG RESULT IN THE PUPS.” enquote. (sorry for caps. I copy pasted subtitles). This implies that they may be safe (except after antibiotics). Eating behaviors such as meal time can impact the microbiome; it’s entirely possible that the sweeteners have an indirect effect.
What about natural sweeteners like stevia or monk fruit….these do not spike your insulin levels
This was really interesting! I’ve always wondered about this. Plus… you totally crack me up! Lol!
Doctor u have lost ur marriage due to your opinion it was energy vampirism. Are You in new stable relationship based on Your current approach?
And what about insulin dude. If insulin was raised and glucose remained the same you would none the wiser because insulin would have kept it even.
Loved this, actually learned a few things! Thanks for sharing!!
I like your video, but I am not buying into the teachings of “Law of Attraction”/ The Secret.
I wish there were more studies on xylitol ; apparently, it increases bone density:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21271323
Hi! May I please share your knowledge on artificial sweeteners on my channel Kamaria Speaks? I will give credit to your channel and make a note for people to subscribe,
no reasoning behind this. also u didnt mention types of sugar or if spike your insulin levels
As of a 2017 study they said that u can’t get cancer from sweaters
The amount of enlightenment in this vid!!!A million thanks doc ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Very entertaining video Love your energy on camera! How much time past? Could your liver be putting our glucose as well if you were fasting on the am besides the diet pop?
The title makes it seem as though you are testing your insulin levels but you’re actually just testing blood glucose?
We threw away all of our artificial sweeteners and switched to “natural” Stevia ♫
Interesting results. More likely the carbs that spike blood sugar. P.S. To me, cola is as bad as the stuff you have to drink before a colonoscopy! haha
Great video Jim, really interesting. I stay away from artificial sweeteners altogether. Thanks for sharing
So BS 84 @ 6:44a 92 @ 7:52a @ 1:50 How much Diet Coke had you had, how many cans & ounces? So we don’t know what your blood sugar was after how many cans before the Splenda…? Also we don’t know how long it was between your last swallow of sweetener & the BS test.? This was confusing. It can fluctuate for 2 hours after the sweetener. So the Splenda coffee raised it 2 pts? Which is basically nothing. So you were wrong, you thought it would be triple digits or 150… but it was nothing…?
I’m confused. Your BS went up from 84 to 92 and that is significant? I’ve seen black coffee alone make blood sugar go up more than that. Also, your blood sugar fluctuates for many reasons an 8 point swing is pretty much nothing imo. To really get to the bottom of this try a morning with diet sodas and a morning with water only and compare the difference. I’m willing to bet there is a small BS response for diet soda but probably insignificant big picture.
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We witnessed a hypoglycemic incident while on vacation. Just FYI, these are the typical signs and symptoms in case you ever notice someone with them at the gym or wherever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycemia Big coincidence that this incident happened within hours of you posting this video!
Thanks for doing this Dr. Jim! Very interesting and thought provoking, and it illustrated what I’ve thought for a while. Namely that drinking, cold diet soda is that best way to start off your day, and that there is an effect on your blood sugar.
I do have a couple of suggestions if you’re thinking of expanding this study (which I would love to see):
Check your blood sugar upon waking for a week, and maybe throughout the day for a day or two. When you measured your glucose for the first time, I was wondering if that was a typical reading. What if you’re normally at 94 units but that morning you were just low. (I’d like the equivalent of IVR for your glucose.:) )
I’d love to see this done in triplicate. The scientist in me would love to see you do the same experiment two more times to see how the results varied.
How would this compare to ingesting the same amount of real sugar?? Are you getting the taste of sugar for only 10-15% of the effect on your body? Or is it 85-100% of the effect? If it’s the former, that wouldn’t be too bad of a trade off, as long a you realize that there is an effect.
Please don’t take these suggestions as critiques. I really enjoyed the video and I’m reluctantly going to share it with my wife, who decided I was going to stop drinking diet Coke about two years ago. I’m not sure how that worked, but I used to drink a few cans a day, and now it’s only on special occasions.
mmmm…… and you do know that consuming coffee or any other caffeinated drinks actually causes temporary insulin resistance? and that means that the insulin in your body is unable to break down any glucose in your body, so obviously you will have high blood glucose readings……
The problem is insulin is raised independent of blood sugar due to consumption of artificial sweeteners.
Love how you did this video and made it easy for us to all understand. And darn companies for trying to fool us!!
If you constantly drank diet soda, and it raises your insulin, wouldn’t you enter insulin shock? I’ve never seen or heard of a case if that happening, so I’m skeptical diet soda does this. Furthermore, (my biochem is rusty but…) if the body increases insulin, which would then increase the glycogen stores, wouldn’t that cause a suppression of the formation of insulin due to allosteric regulation?
All that pepsi before 8 in the morning! Oh boy, looks healthy! LOL
DrJim, your glasses are as thick as mine! And I also wear contacts during the day. I had the same issue trying to take contact lens solution through an airport as you did! Lol
Thank you for this very informative video. I’m a bit confused about the stevia.
I thought a while back I heard you mention Stevia on hayhouseradio as not beneficial for gut health? Here you mention it as a healthy alternative. Does this problem maybe not apply to all stevia? Or only the drops and is green stevia safe?
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So all this to say NO! Wow just imagine life without liquid stevia I’m sad
So it was 84 then 94, correct? What do those numbers mean? They’re both in a normal range? Or is the increase of 10 significant?
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Unfortunately xylitol will kill a dog, which Dr. N didn’t mention.
Really? I happen to have recently started eating a lot of artificial sweeteners to help me cut calories from my diet while giving up as little food as possible and it’s working wonder I call bs on what this doc is saying. Just count the calories, dummy.
fasting at all can raise your sugars as your liver converts stored glycogen to glucose, so maybe this small rise was because you WEREN’T eating, and your body needed some energy? Interesting experiment!
Correct. You stole 5 minutes of my life, but I don’t drink soda. I think you need to change the title, it should have been about Diet Drinks and Blood Sugar… not Artificial Sweeteners and Insulin…
Sweatners like stevia don’t raise insulin levels by much blood sugar its different ok sorry doc you’re mixing things up and this video is misleading this doesn’t mean you should load yourself with stevia it has an effect on the liver but not much on insulin levels
the question is not if artificial sweetners raise blood sugars for most don’t. The question is do they raise insulin levels which will make you gain weight and cause other issues like insulin
resistance
I wouldn’t take anything less than a 20 point change as meaning anything. I didn’t see these big changes even from going from a keto type meal to water fasting for six or so hours. I didn’t measure soda intake, but if food won’t spike it would a few diet sodas mater? In my tests I went all the way from 125 to 75 (over seven different tests). I’d certainly do more tests if someone would pay for the strips. IO like the fact that you’re testing yourself and not pulling out the same two tired studies (maybe done on rats) that everyone else is regurgitating.
could anyone direct me to if formaldehyde is created from when artificial sugar Acesulfame-K is left for a few days. I have noticed that it smells very strong of some type of paint thinners like acetone of some sort. I read that in Gulf war the Coke turned to formaldehyde under the tarps in the hot sun. So I am guessing similar mightt be occurring.I find this occurs in any juice concentrate that has Acesulfame-Kin it. Like Ribeana etc
I missed any talk of pure Stevia, can anyone summarize or reference a time stamp?
Interesting experiment! I cut out artificial sweeteners for a while and then had a diet coke. I have never wanted sugar so badly as I did a little while after I drank it. I’m on the “natural” sweeteners now: monk fruit, stevia, erythritol, etc. They don’t taste as good but they also don’t make me crave sugar.
Dr Northrop. After quitting artificial sweeteners, do we need to detox? How long do they stay in the system?
The human microbiome is made up of between 40-100 trillion micro organisms – which include bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and other organisms; Our microbiome contains hundreds of different bacterial species – and over 3 million genes. our gut microbiome has 150 times more genes than the human body does. SOURCE: thegoodgut.org
Sucralose was approved by the FDA as a tabletop sweetener in 1998, followed by approval as a general purpose sweetener in 1999. SOURCE: sucralose.org
In 2015, an estimated 1.3% of US adults (3 million) reported being diagnosed with IBD (either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis).1 This was a large increase from 1999 (0.9% or 2 million adults). SOURCE: CDC
It is not unreasonable to suspect that some of the Hundreds of Different organisms in our Gut Biome may have the Enzymatic and Fermentation ability needed to break the bond of the Chlorine Atoms from the Sugar Molecules, releasing the Sugar for them to consume, and releasing the Chlorine into the Sucralose Consumers Bowel.
Every word of this video is important.
When I was a young teen, I was introduced to diet coke.
I liked it because it tasted less sweet than coke.
So drank that.
I don’t drink it anymore but to this day, 20 years after stopping, I am stil addicted.
I love the stuff.
If it’s in the house, I drink it.
So I only buy it for rare guests who still drink that junk.
Such an interesting study. How many diet Pepsi’s did you drink?
Diet POP is bad for you. Diet pop is evil. Artificial sweeteners are poison. Diet Coke is WEIGHT GAIN Coke. Once you allow the trash into the food chain, embryos and fetuses are exposed to this trash. So sad. So sad. All for profit. Buyer beware. 1:08:01 Sadly it is in breast milk. You have been fooled. Artificial sweetener producers / sellers should be sent to jail for decades or to a nice island with nothing but artificial sweeteners to eat.
I had a friend who was type 1 Diabetic, incredibly addicted to Diet Coke (He would drink 2 large bottles a day of the stuff 4 LITRES a day). He would drink this instead of water. He got Hodgkins Lymphoma (TWICE), and the Doctors even told him that he had to stop the Diet Coke as it may have caused or triggered his cancer to come back…. he never gave it up. I don’t talk to him anymore so I don’t know what happened to him.
I thought you’re a real doctor. But you can’t differentiate insulin and blood glucose?
Ahhh so helpful❤️I was wondering if monk fruit is safe and same with coconut sugar
No thx to Don Rumsfeld for aspartame.:(
Thx to Dr. Northrup for another good video and without the loud background music. <3
i gave up diet sodas after reading about the dangers of artificial sweeteners. Then after a month or so without diet soda, it was really hot and I was thirsty so I had one. First, I could taste the formaldehyde, which I never noticed before. That night my RLS went into overdrive. It felt like my legs were on fire. (I had the same reaction from MSG). They both are neuroexciters, so yeah, they are going to affect your brain. Now I take very cold sparkling mineral water, mix it with a little stevia and a splash of lemon juice to make a sparkling lemonade. It’s delicious and you won’t miss soda at all. Your outfit is gorgeous, btw.