Are Artificial Sweeteners Bad for You? Depends Which One Is in Your Hand.
Are artificial sweeteners actually safe? If you’ve been buying sugar-free products, reading labels, and still guessing, this episode gives you the answer the flat line on your glucose monitor can’t. The problem isn’t that sweeteners spike your blood sugar. It’s what they do to your gut microbiome.
I’m Dr. Laurie Marbas, and on this episode of The Habit Healers Podcast I walk through what a randomized trial in 120 healthy adults found when researchers looked past blood sugar readings and sequenced people’s gut bacteria instead. All four sweeteners tested changed what those bacteria were doing…
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