Hello and welcome to the consistency project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with my friend E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the science of nutrition, health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello, and how are you, E.C. Wonderful. How are you? Fantastic. we are going to talk about something somewhat controversial.

We're going to talk about artificial and natural sweeteners. We're going to examine their safety

regulation and effects on health. We're going to talk about the approval process in the U.S.

and Europe, bust some common myths about sweetener safety, and specifically address concerns

about gut health impacts. Excited to get into this. Before we do, I mentioned this in our last episode, but I was all by myself when I did it because it was just a quick intro to our coaching call. But I wanted to mention one more time. I came out with a kid's book. It's called The ABCs of Being Happy and Healthy 26 Little Lessons for Kids who want to grow up to be super wonderful. I want to put

one more reminder out there for folks. Maybe a nice little Christmas present for friends of yours who

have kids. Yeah, it's so beautiful. I love it. I, uh, so Patrick told me that he wrote this book.

And I was like, oh my gosh, awesome, have to get it. It's a relatively busy time of year. I mean, everybody's busy, but got some cool stuff coming out in the new year. So a little distracted, a lot of things going on. And you were also traveling. You went out to Rogue. I was also, yeah, I was also in Scotland. So I knew that we wanted to chat about the book a little bit, but I literally

had this thought when I was ordering it of, oh my God, I do not have time to read this and review

it by the time that we need to. My favorite part is just the thought of reviewing it came to

your mind. Like, I think that would. I mean, people have watched on Instagram or know, you know, when I

review these books, I try to do a lot of the reference deep dive and cross-reference and double

back and take notes. And so when Patrick's like, I wrote this kid's book, I'm like, I don't have

time, Patrick. It turns out, I haven't read a kid's book in a while.

Yeah, it's 32 pages.

And I was able to get through it before dinner.

It was fun.

It was amazing.

I got it. So I had the thought, you know, I ordered it.

And then when it came in the mail, I was like, oh, I got this.

I could do this. This sounds right up here, Alan. All right. Well, thank you for reading it. Thank you for getting it. Again, it's called the ABCs of Being Happy and Healthy. You can get it on Amazon now. And I thank you in advance for doing so or for considering it. All right, let's get to the heart of the matter here, artificial and natural sweeteners.

What the heck are we gonna talk about?

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