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#610 - Artificial Sweeteners, A Scientific Look

Ben Coomber Radio

Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Artificial Sweeteners have a lot of controversy around them, some saying things like "they're toxic", and "they're like poison for your brain". But what is the truth, and where have the fears around sweeteners come from? This podcast will explore the history of sweeteners, the different types, how we understand and interpret the science on them, what we should consider before consuming them, and how to essentially be informed around their use, and wade through the various claims made about them online.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Bank of the Radio, episode 610, absolutely flying into 2021.

0:07.9

Now I hope you're doing awesome, something a little bit different for today.

0:12.7

Now a couple of weeks ago, myself and Tom, my co-host spoke about sugar addiction, and

0:18.7

in that it came up naturally.

0:21.8

The topic around sweetness and sweetness roll in maybe avoiding some sweet foods or replacing

0:28.8

sugary foods of sweetened foods.

0:30.9

And of course that then opens a big can of worms around sweetness, their sort of health

0:37.6

promoting or negating effects or the different sweeteners on the market, their proposed implications

0:44.9

for sweeteners on the brain, the gut and maybe some other physiological systems.

0:51.5

And what we said at the end of this podcast is we were going to be doing a webinar.

0:55.6

We did that webinar, or Tom did more specifically, and it seemed to have gone down really, really

1:02.1

well.

1:03.1

It's one of our most watched webinars today.

1:05.1

Now, if you attended that webinar, this podcast will not be of interest to you.

1:09.8

And what we've done is we've taken the audio from this webinar and we're now posting it

1:15.8

on the podcast.

1:17.1

You will be able to get literally 98% of this benefit from this webinar, from just listening

1:25.2

to the audio because we like to teach with just using the slides that we use on a webinar

1:30.8

to prompt our thought process.

1:32.6

So if you are sitting there thinking, yeah, I would like to understand the science around

1:37.6

sweeteners.

1:38.6

I'd like to understand the history of where some of the fears around sweeteners have come

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