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Artificial sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of aging
- OutOfHere 1y agoStudy: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023 https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023 From the abstract: > Consumption of aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame k, erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol was associated with a faster decline in global cognition, particularly in memory and verbal fluency domains. These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside.
- Terr_ 1y ago> These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside I think it's important to call out the difference between "did not find a correlation" versus "did not look". Tagatose is listed as part of their questionnaire, but not stevia or mogroside. > these are natural sweeteners Xylitol is also a natural sweetener, so it is at best premature to adopt a natural-versus-unnatural framing from these results.
- Centrino 1y agoWhat about sucralose, another widely used artificial sweetener?
- OutOfHere 1y agoAvoid it because it disrupts the gut microbiota to harm immune cell function. Refer to https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-0247 https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-0247