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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

Are Artificial Sweeteners Bad for You?

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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In today’s episode, we’re talking about artificial sweeteners, what we actually know, and giving you an unbiased opinion to what they actually are. We start off by explaining what artificial sweeteners, also referred to as non-nutritive sweeteners, are (1:21) and what the biggest advantage to consuming them is (2:43). Keeping everything we’ve talked about thus far in mind, it’s important to understand the nutritional hierarchy of importance - calories in vs. calories out (3.58).

Since we’ve covered the basics of artificial sweeteners, we go into explaining the three different types. First, we have aspartame (5:56), which is the most common sweetener in diet beverages and is made up of 2 amino acids. The maximum amount that the FDA says can be consumed is 50 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. However, this recommendation is 10x less than what they actually think is the maximum dosage and that is to protect themselves (7:56). Second, we have sucralose (10:15). Sucralose is made to imitate table sugar in its taste and is used in the majority of your protein powders, bars, etc. The FDA recommends no more than 5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day, but keep in mind that “per day” is over the span over a long period of time. And lastly, we have stevia (17:43), which is an extract from the stevia leaf. Stevia is  sweeter than sucralose and the FDA has approved 4 milligrams of killiograms of bodyweight per day.

At the end of the day, your body doesn’t see the various artificial sweeteners differently (21:52). In fact, it has no idea what specific ones you’re consuming so it is okay to have them in moderation (23:33). Now to wrap this episode up, we explain what meta analysis (25:04) is and dive deeper into detail in regards to the studies done on artificial sweeteners, as well as discuss what we know about artificial sweeteners in the microbiome (34:05).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Flexible Diding Lifestyle Podcast.

0:12.0

I'm your host, Zach Rushelow.

0:14.0

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.

0:16.0

And today we are talking about artificial sweeteners.

0:19.0

Oh my gosh, you guys have been asking for this episode

0:22.9

for so long. I'm super excited to give you guys an unbiased understanding of like what are

0:30.0

artificial sweeteners first and foremost. And then also like what does the research actually

0:35.3

say? Like what do we actually know? Instead of the fear mongering associated with them, like what do we actually know instead of the fear mongering

0:38.8

associated with them like what what do we actually know about artificial sweeteners so

0:42.8

i'm super excited about it miguel i'm going to let you take over right now but but but but guys guys

0:50.4

before we begin please take a screenshot posted up it up on your Instagram story, let people

0:55.4

know that you're learning about artificial sweeteners and that they should check this episode

0:59.2

out as well.

1:00.3

And if you have yet, iTunes, five star review or whatever, wherever you're listening to it,

1:04.6

if they have a review ability on there, it just mean the world to us.

1:09.3

You guys are reading those reviews is so freaking cool.

1:12.2

So thank you guys so much.

1:14.1

So let's get into the episode, Miguel.

1:16.3

Before we go into artificial sweeteners,

1:18.6

we need to truly understand what the heck is an artificial sweetener.

1:23.0

So then we can go from there and then create that understanding around it.

1:27.5

So an artificial sweetener is something that's, the most basic definition, it is something that

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