Aspartame: The Surprisingly Interesting Science and History

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Stronger By Science

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4.6 • 950 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 344 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Lyndsey dive into the history, conspiracies, science, and media coverage of aspartame to present a thorough overview of the recent WHO reports linking aspartame and cancer risk. Is this one of the longest "podcast episodes" ever? Probably. But it's packed with fascinating history, relevant research breakdowns and media criticism, and takeaways for interpreting and navigating our society's abundance of health warnings.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Strong By Science Podcast. I'm Greg and I'm Lindsay and we have another
0:16.3	excellent episode for you guys today but before we get into it I just wanted to
0:21.0	express a bit of gratitude and thank everyone for the positive response to the last episode.
0:27.0	We've obviously had a bit of a change in on-air talent.
0:31.0	We were slightly apprehensive about how that was going to go over just to be totally
0:35.6	transparent. But it's been great. The response has been great. All of you guys have been great.
0:41.8	So yeah, just here at the top of the show.
0:44.0	I just wanted to thank you for that.
0:47.6	So yeah, let's get into it.
0:49.6	Lindsay, what's been on your mind recently?
0:52.4	What has been on my mind?
0:53.9	Yeah, have you.
0:54.9	Well, I have a recommendation, does that count?
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.4	Okay.
0:58.0	So, Sturdy Girl Club is my recommendation. This is a BBC stand-up series by a comedian
1:07.6	named Jessica Fosterkew and I've never seen this format before.
1:13.4	It's these short, like 15 minute episodes
1:16.3	presented like stand-up comedy.
1:18.6	It's in front of a live audience,
1:20.7	because there's like laughter going on, but it's kind of a little documentary
1:24.6	style show about lifting and she has four episodes about like different types of
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