Dangers and Benefits of Erythritol
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Do the benefits of erythritol outweigh the dangers? Find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the dangers and benefits of erythritol. |
| 0:19.5 | Now what is erythritol? |
| 0:20.5 | It's a sugar alcohol. |
| 0:22.4 | It has nothing to do with alcohol. |
| 0:24.7 | You're not going to get drunk by consuming erythritol. |
| 0:28.6 | It's an alternative sweetener and it's 60 to 70% as sweet as sugar. |
| 0:35.8 | So it's not exactly as sweet as sugar. |
| 0:37.5 | It's a little less and it does have a kind of a cooling effect when you consume it. |
| 0:43.9 | As far as the calories go, it has less than 25% of one calorie per gram. |
| 0:51.0 | Like sugar has four calories per gram. |
| 0:53.7 | Protein has four calories per gram. |
| 0:55.4 | Fat has nine calories per gram. |
| 0:58.3 | Erythritol has point to four calories. |
| 1:01.6 | So it's barely a fourth of one calorie per gram. |
| 1:07.1 | Very insignificant. |
| 1:08.4 | So in a thumbnail sketch, it's 95% less calories than sugar. |
| 1:12.9 | It gets absorbed in the small intestine, it gets in the blood, but it gets excreted |
| 1:18.6 | by the kidney unchanged. |
| 1:21.6 | So the microbes don't like to eat it, so you really don't have many negative effects |
| 1:25.8 | with erythritol. |
| 1:27.0 | It has zero effect on insulin. |
| 1:29.2 | It's zero on the glycemic index. |
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