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Yes, on that last paragraph: reads to me like maybe erythritol helps to expose underlying condition (diabetes etc), without affecting that condition itself much

• NavinF 3y ago
  Naw even that's too charitable. See the linked paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9 "circulating levels of multiple polyol sweeteners, especially erythritol, were associated with incident (3 year) risk for major adverse cardiovascular events" Wow it's almost like people who are unhealthy know that they are unhealthy and that's why they attempt to reduce their calorie intake. The fact that unhealthy people are 2x as likely to have "adverse cardiovascular events" should not surprise anyone. Articles like this keep trying to find causation where there's only correlation. Trying to control for confounding factors one at a time is a fool's errand: https://gwern.net/everything https://gwern.net/everything