Artificial Sweeteners: Which Are Healthy, Which Are Deadly? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A popular zero-calorie sweetener could prove deadly.

Dr. Neal Barnard discusses erythritol and research showing that the cost of saving calories could be your life. He shares research tying the artificial sweetener to increased risk for heart attacks, strokes, and even death when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.

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0:00.0	Can Eurythritol genuinely cause a heart attack like this study is reporting it to do?
0:08.7	I think it can.
0:09.7	At least that's the way the evidence is leading.
0:11.6	So at the Cleveland Clinic, Stan Hayes and who is a terrific researcher and we've been
0:15.7	following his work for many years, he did not set out to try to investigate Eurythritol.
0:21.4	What he was really trying to do was to see why do people die of heart disease?
0:26.2	People who are sick with heart disease, but what ultimately makes them crash and burn?
0:30.5	What leads to a stroke or a heart attack or an early death?
0:34.7	And he was looking for all kinds of compounds in the blood and the one that just jumped
0:37.7	out in the statistics was Eurythritol.
0:47.7	Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:51.7	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll.
0:54.9	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and
0:59.2	in more than 150 countries.
1:01.9	Hi to everyone listening in Fullerton, California, Thornton, Colorado, and Keto, Ecuador.
1:08.5	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:13.5	This is episode 22 of season 6, number 418 overall.
1:20.3	It turns out that a popular artificial sweetener could save you calories, but it could also
1:27.2	cost you your life.
1:29.2	So today we will be putting Eurythritol under the microscope.
1:34.5	Research is now showing that this zero calorie sweetener can put you at a higher risk for
1:40.2	heart problems, including a heart attack and possibly even an early death.
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