Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome back at the Jeremy Scott Finns podcast.

We'll come into you on this Friday evening here with a heavily requested episode by many of you over probably the last year or two.

We would see a handful of these trickle in and I would look at them and I just kind of put it on the back burner. And then eventually I figured I'd crack and dive deep into this one.

And I wanted to get enough documentation, enough analysis, enough research.

So people don't go crazy and lose their minds when I say, what I'm about to say here.

And the title of today's podcast, we were talking about

diet sodas, fake sweeteners, are they safe? Can you use them? Should you use them? Can we kind of go into

detail? And we'll go as deep down in the rabbit hole here as you guys are willing to follow me.

And that's what I'm going to kick off with and so first off

I'm going to say this like most things in life you know cookies cupcakes beer wine hard alcohol

I think a lot of things are okay in moderation for certain people obviously I think there is extenuating circumstances for a

handful of people where there are all or nothing type person, where they have addictive

personalities, whether it be from experience, environment, family history, genetic predispositions.

I'm not talking about those people. Those are the outliers. But for the average person, the average Joe, who their blood work is typical, they live a pretty balanced life overall.

They're not necessarily unhealthy.

They're not crazy, you know, on the health spectrum.

They're just kind of right in that, you know, Mendoza line, the vanilla in the middle.

I think most things in moderation are okay

for most people. Full disclosure here, I drink diet soda every now and then for sure.

And I don't really have a major issue with you guys if you do as well. So if you want to cut the

podcast off right now, you can kind of go along your way.

I give it the okay. If you want me to go into detail, I'm going to go super deep into it here. But we tend to keep some diet sodas in our home. I tend to keep, you know, Powerid zeros around, Gatorid zeros around. In fact, if you guys are watching on YouTube, here's my power at zero right here I don't know if that one has that one's clear I don't know

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