I have a rule. I try to stay away from eating a lot of stuff very few other people eat a lot of. I don't want to be a guinea pig. I do experiment on myself but

I have a rule. I try to stay away from eating a lot of stuff very few other people eat a lot of. I don't want to be a guinea pig. I do experiment on myself but only after I can reasonably assume whatever I am consuming is relatively safe, and this means there is sizeable enough population that eats it at same or larger quantities that I plan to ingest. I use table sugar as sweetener. It really isn't that bad for you. A healthy person should be able to eat sweet dessert from time to time with no ill effects (but not every day and not in large quantities). We have pretty good idea of risks of consuming table sugar vs other sweeteners. I do intermittent keto to build and maintain metabolic flexibility. This means there are longs spans of time with very few carbs and definitely no sweetened stuff which are more than enough to wipe out occasional taste of reasonable amount of sugar. I find it is easier and better to just cut out desserts and sweetened drinks and learn to eat proper things for your diet. This whole idea of pretending you are not really on keto and doing keto pizzas, keto breads, keto sweet drinks, keto cheesecakes and so on only makes it feel like you are forcing yourself to eat something that is less tasty than the original. There really is no substitute for real bread, pizza or cheesecake. Doing keto intermittently (say 2 months of keto, 2 weeks off keto) means you can still eat what you want, just not all the time. And it is apparently healthier option because you exercise your metabolism in various ways rather than be permanently on keto.