Flashback Friday: Effect of Sucralose (Splenda) on the Microbiome Michael Greger M.D. FACLM

What effect do artificial sweeteners such as sucralose (Splenda), saccharin (Sweet & Low), aspartame (Nutrasweet), and acesulfame K (Sweet One) have on our gut bacteria?

DOCTOR’S NOTE

Can’t get enough of artificial sweeteners? Check out:

• Diet Soda and Preterm Birth
• Aspartame-Induced Fibromyalgia
• Aspartame and the Brain
• Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?
• Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda?

Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant, but there are some caveats for it and other nontoxic, low-calorie sweeteners. See:

• How Diet Soda Can Make Us Gain Weight
• Neurobiology of Artificial Sweeteners
• Unsweetening the Diet

Does it really matter if our gut flora get disrupted? You’re in for a surprise. See:

• Microbiome: The Inside Story
• Microbiome: We Are What They Eat
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden
• How to Reduce Carcinogenic Bile Acid Production
• Putrefying Protein and “Toxifying” Enzymes
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype?
• How to Change Your Enterotype
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces

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