Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon,

and we are at episode 184 of the podcast. And today kicks off what is going to be one of, hopefully,

a number of episodes that addresses listener questions. Because as many of you will know, I put out a call recently for those of you who listen regularly to the show to submit questions that you would like to hear answered on the podcast.

And for those you unaware, you can go and do that on the Sigma Nutrition website.

So just go to Sigma Nutrition.com slash question.

And there you'll be able to input a question that you can leave that we're hopefully

going to address on the podcast at some stage in the future.

And so I've been collecting a few of these listener questions.

And the idea was to have a Q&A-type episode

every so often to run through as many of these as possible. But one particular question came up,

and has been something that's been mentioned enough times by people that I thought was worth

digging in a bit deeper and having a dedicated episode for that because, of course,

we're talking about artificial sweeteners on today's episode, and it's something that, regardless

of the end conclusion, whether that's someone saying they should be avoided at all costs,

or someone saying that they are safe and don't need to worry about them. Usually there's not a lot

of further discussion put behind those comments. And so when a new news article breaks or

someone brings this up in discussion, sometimes maybe we're left without having a full set of or a full understanding or enough

to base our own conclusions on or at least to understand where someone else is coming from

when they identify with a certain conclusion on this topic. And so today I really wanted to

dive through as much of the research that I've

came across to look at things from both sides to try and remain open to that, to see where

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