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For popular foods that absolutely destroy your gut, and you've heard me say it before, all disease begins in the gut, which is why caring for your gut is one of the most important things you can do for your health.

So today I'm going to share four widely used foods that could actually be eating habit on your gut microbiome and the wall of your gut especially if it's consumed in large amounts.

So let's get started. First off, artificial sweeteners. Almost all products with a label reading sugar-free or light-contained artificial sweeteners like saccharin and aspartane sucralos, which are practically poison.

You know them by brand names like sweet and low equal and splendent. The problem is that these sweeteners actually kill gut bacteria.

A Duke University study in 2007 showed that one packet of splendent and it is sucralos to kill about 50% of your gut bacteria.

This can lead to incredibly bad things happening to you and your gut microbiome every time you do it.

I did an experiment showing exactly how it works. You can actually check it out right here on my YouTube page.

When you kill off good bacteria, you populate your gut with more and more gang members of bad bacteria.

These guys actually hijack your brain and your taste buds and actually make you look for high calorie, high sugar, high fat foods.

And they're remarkably weird thing about these bad bacteria is they actually extract more calories from the food you eat and deliver it directly to you.

What you want to talk about is you want gut bacteria in that actually extract the food that you eat for themselves so that you can actually eat more food and actually lose weight.

That sounds pretty good.

So when you're looking for sweet, look for healthy sugar substitutes like aliolose, which is my favorite non-G amount of aliolose and monk fruit.

If you want to use EVA, that's fine. But again, aliolose is now my new favorite.

More and more products using Rithertoel are safe, but use it in small amounts.

A lot of my patients, Rithertoel, really gives them some GI offsets.

And while it used to be one of the better ones, there's so much better ones on the market now, like aliolose, one stearier towards them.

Alright, popular oils like corn and peanut oil.

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