Erythritol Linked to Heart Attacks and Strokes, Really?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A new study on erythritol and heart attacks has been in the news and found its way to social media—let’s talk about it.

This study correlates erythritol in your blood to higher incidents of heart attacks and strokes. However, I see some serious problems with this study.

Here are four key points about this study:

1. Correlation does not mean causation.

2. This study was based on endogenous erythritol and did not measure dietary erythritol. The body makes endogenous erythritol.

3. The body produces erythritol when you metabolize sugar, have oxidative stress or belly fat, or consume alcohol. The great majority of people in this study were in poor health, so how do we know erythritol was the problem?

4. Other research has linked erythritol to many different health benefits.

Could it be that erythritol is increasing in the body to counter the bad effects of sugar? It seems to me that erythritol is something that’s trying to help you and not hurt you.

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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0:00.0	Oh man, now RetroTall is causing heart attacks and strokes.
0:03.8	Now I'm going to have to change all my videos.
0:06.0	I've been promoting a RetroTall for years.
0:08.3	Now I got to redo all these darn videos.
0:11.3	Darn it.
0:12.3	All right.
0:13.3	On a serious note, I'm just being sarcastic, okay?
0:16.4	Let's talk about this fast and editing study that was just released.
0:19.9	It's all over the news.
0:20.9	It's all over social media that RetroTall in your blood is now correlated to higher incidents
0:26.2	of heart attacks and strokes.
0:28.4	Now when I see something like this, all over the news, right?
0:31.0	Just out of the blue.
0:32.1	I want to know the source of the study.
0:35.5	Who's funding the study?
0:36.5	And I'm going to put some links down below on that topic.
0:39.3	And if you actually read the study, there are some really interesting, not just red flags,
0:46.6	but serious omissions, okay?
0:49.2	And I want to talk about them.
0:50.3	There's actually four points about the study.
0:52.2	I'm going to make it really simple.
0:53.2	I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of all the details of the study.
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