Hello all, and welcome back to the home of hard science.

So today we have to roll up our sleeves and deal with this latest fiasco around Eritothal,

the sweetener, which apparently causes heart attacks.

So I'm going to decode that for you really quickly.

I reviewed the paper.

But first a word from one of my favorite actors, Christoph Waltz.

Ooh, that's a bingo. Well said, Christoph. And you guys have all heard about kind of buzzword bingo.

Well, we're going to do BF Science Bingo. And it doesn't actually take very long running through a paper to find

the logical problems within it that really make it clear whether it's something you can depend

upon or not. And please do share this very brief analysis with people to help them understand

and clarify the reality around this Eritzotol scare that's hit all the media

all around the world simultaneously. The coverage is astonishing, just like the TMAO one a few years ago.

And I'm going to be mentioning that too. So let's get into it. So here we are. Here's the study in nature medicine.

And yeah, Eritrethol causing heart attacks and huge risk. Interesting. So let's dive inside.

Note that Stanley L. Hazen is the key author. And note that it's from Cleveland Clinic and this will become very

relevant shortly so here it is and here's one of the main graphics and you can see the people

who are higher the highest quarter of people in blood levels of a rittertall had a lower rate, i.e. they had more heart attacks.

And this cohort was European in the study, and it was average age 62 of people who were kind

of sugar-sozzled heart disease people, broadly speaking. But you can see the top quartile of

eryterol in the blood, they had a high hazard ratio up around four and a bit.

Right. So that's a pretty high risk ratio.

And then they looked as well at keto friendly prepared foods and beverages.

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