Ep:65 WHAT'S THE SKINNY ON ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS & SUGAR SUBSTITUTES
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I feel validated. I am obese type 2 diabetic and was a sugar addict. I have complex-PTSD and one of my coping mechanisms was sugar and carbs. I am on keto and use sugar substitute. It hasn't caused me to crave "real" sugar. It's helped me manage consuming no additional sugar and total carbs below 40 grams a day. Maybe one day I'll work on cutting back the sugar substitute but right now, it's helping me stop consuming sugar.
Me too
Me too
I should have figured this out myself, I lost 222 Eating sugar substitutes. And have been torturing myself TRYING TO STOP THEM even though I LOST ALL MY WEIGHT using them. Thank you Doctor.
Have you tried EMDR therapy for your PTSD?
I just can't stand the flavor of most of them Allulose and Monk Fruit are the two that I can use, they have a subtle sweetness without the metallic aftertaste of the chemical substitutes.
@@marim1314 I have PTSD from the military, Ketamine therapy did it for me, I am much better now, anxiety is gone.
Dankie Dr Cywes. Ek bly eerder weg van kunsmatige versoeters want dan neig ek om weer soetgoed te eet. Ek geniet U videos baie dankie
Thanks thumbs up and subscribed. I like you are straight to the point and tell people what they need to hear, not necessarily what they want to hear.
Great advice it’s refreshing to hear
The problem with fake sweeteners is that they prolong the cravings and contribute to cravings. I started with not eating any of it. I didn’t do keto treats until holidays. I decided I didn’t even like them. I do think it is a progress staller for most people. Keep in mind the carb content in the artificial sugar is pretty high. It may not raise glucose in you but it could raise insulin. I do understand why you are recommending it to obese patients. I think fake sweeteners prolong the addiction to sugar though and the sooner you give up sweetness in your mouth, the sooner you will be free of the need for sweetness at all. I don’t crave it at all anymore.
Great info as usual! I know that artificial sweeteners do not raise your blood sugars but I’ve often wondered if they spike your insulin and slow down your weight loss. Does anyone know? I suppose that, in the end, it doesn’t matter as eventually all the weight comes off easily...if perhaps a bit slower.
For most people,sweeteners will spike your insulin. I drink diet coke,just like the doc said but then I do 18hrs of fasting daily. It's the fasting that helps with weight loss and I can enjoy my diet coke.
Helena Bell ... Fasting is definitely the way to go. Also, I have recently decided to drink any beverages that have sweetener during my eating window only. It seems to make sense to only incur any possible insulin spikes during this time in order to maximize my weight loss. Don’t know if it’s true but that’s what I’m trying.
@@helenabell5616 how do you know that? People are not testing their insulin levels at home and there are very few studies showing that they do spike insulin. We should try not to generalize that something does something to most people.
I love your common sense, realist approach and advice! I find it comforting and much appreciated :)
Me too, in other videos he reiterates not going for perfection.
LOVE the realness of this. I'm a firm believer in taking small steps toward getting healthier. The purists make it seem impossible for those that truly need the help! Glad to see more movement towards being better, not perfect!
Don't linger too long in the small steps e'er you get caught in the swampy center - high fat and high carb. It's a good metaphor; water coming in but it can't flow out.
Love my artificial sweeteners.
Dropped 100 pounds keto.
Very fit now. Maintained for years. Do what you gotta do.
Been clean and sober for years.
So happy to see that you had posted. You are absolutely 100% correct. Not controversial to me. As a drug addiction specialist, I know what a drug addict will do to get their fix. I never correlated my illegal drug addicts with my own carb addiction. You are brilliant! Thank you.
Zero Connie so does this mean we have to treat carbs like a drug addict treats drugs? We can NEVER have them again? Oh Lord...
@@crishamilton6678 Dr. Cywes is speaking primarily to those who have already gone off the rails and have attempted to recover from obesity or full blown type 2 diabetes. If that hasn't happened to you, then you have more freedom to experiment. Determine if you are triggered to binge, and what caused it.
The natural design of a human shows that we are meant to be able to process carbohydrates quite effectively and efficiently. But this ability needs to handled with conscientiousness in today's world of temptation. Get on top of fatty liver by keto or carnivore diet. Your liver can't buffer very much carb intake at once, but it can handle some. Exercise your muscles to drain the glucose stores so that they can help buffer your carbs. Intermittent fasting is also effective for this. Typically, I make more of an effort to do a longer intermittent fast if I am taking on some carbs. For me, some starchy vegetables are more satiating than they used to be before I went keto. As some have said, you become more sensitive to milder sweetness when you stop mainlining carbs.
Most of all, I think is to take in a high percentage of fat early in the feeding cycle to get satiety working for you. It is MUCH easier to control carb intake when your hunger is subdued. I use a tablespoon sized 'fat bomb' as a hunger killer, not an in-between meal snack. Fat bombs are typically sweetened artificially, because cacao or cocoa powder is on the bitter side.
Put butter or olive oil or coconut or MCT oil on everything. Get fats working for you. That's where satiety comes from.
My goto dessert is a sugar free naked cheese cake (almond flour or chopped nut base) and sugar free whipped cream. Portion size is still small, unlike what they'd serve you at Olive Garden. Their portion size is essentially about 8 times the size it should be, but of course theirs is loaded with sugar. Cheese cake toppings can be a sugar free pudding, or some cooked berries sweetened artificially. This is not low carb particularly, but it is much reduced from regular cheesecakes. If a small piece is not enough, then you didn't fat load sufficiently beforehand. Fat, fat, fat. Get enough fat.
There's a great book called 7 Weeks to Sobriety that talks about nutrients to help addictions. Also, American Indians have one less enzyme in their liver that helps regulate alcohol. Thats one reason why the alcoholism is higher among natives.
I am not trained in that area like you are. But I published a Native newspaper and did many articles about it.
@@LizfollowsHIM Interesting. If they have an enzyme that regulates alcohol how does that increase the likelihood of alcoholism? I would think just the opposite?
@@jrowlove7328 they are lacking the enzyme. They have one less...
I am triggered as much by artificial sweetener as I am by sugar... and sugar alcohols, wow, if I want to destroy my guts then that’s what I’ll eat.
I've been off sugar and sweeteners for a good number of years. Had to do it cold turkey, but even the sweet taste of some cooked veggies still made me crave "more", so I had to give those up too. Went carnivore three years ago. No more cravings. No more weight fluctuation (as in up and down 20+ lbs). BTW: I weighed more at age 16 than I do now. Go figure.
At age 66, I am back at my high school weight of 145. Family and friends tell me I am too skinny. I don't care. I feel better ( mentally and physically) where I am than where I was.
@@dirkmoore4224 well done ✅
I like this advice, be as dogmatic as you want with yourself, but be forgiving to others.
This! I am so sick of the extremists. Be kind folks.
Withdrawal from Diet Coke was three days of pure hell but I'm glad I did it. It was a great stepping stone to get off regular Coke.
Congrats, Rich!
Lol that’s crazy
Agree 100% I drank a bottle of Cabernet EVERY night for 15+ years. After quitting 2-years ago I switched my drug of choice to sweets. Artificial sugars have been extremely helpful with the exception of Splenda due to digestive issues 😬
I can tell you that Stevia powder sweetener was my go to for my coffee and other foods when I went Keto. after 3 years of beating diabetes and thought I was smooth sailing I had a stroke, in great health and weight with regular exercise. then I had a stoke. After a year of tests and checkups it was determined that the powdered stevia contained erythritol and caused the stroke. I now use liquid Stevia and have no issues. Liquid Stevia is made of natural ingredients powdered stevia is of Erythritol and know to cause blood clotting and resulting in strokes.
Agreed. But to play devils advocate. You mentioned not using eating keto substitute foods like pizzas for example because of the almond flour. BUt isn't that same thing? It'sbetter to eat the keto version of anythingin then go and eat the carb version. Sometimes you need to shut your demons up. And someone's they want pizza. BTW love the addiction model. Been drug free for 12 years. And that thinking for me off if carbs. Thanks.
Been using stevia for 15 years in my coffee with 35% cream. No problem. But if no Stevia or cream available then I'll pass on the coffee entirely. But I've never tried just cream and stevia in a cup.
Doc, could you please do a short video covering ALLULOSE? --supposedly a slight alternate form of fructose that doesn't do the damage that fructose does but tastes so delightfully like sugar. It seems to be the perfect substitute and would love to hear your opinion on it !!!
Thank u for this video and your views on artificial sweeteners. I found myself on tons of keto groups on Facebook and got yelled at for using the sweeteners. So I was a bad person for using them. So I went cold turkey on all of it. Then I felt I could have sold my soul to the devil for just one Ding Dong! I just went and bought them and binged. Oh boy I felt sick. I did eventually find out that no, I'm not a bad person but I do have addictive behavior. Now I put a wee tiny little bit of stevia in my coffee with ginger and cinnamon. Cravings gone! I carry forward. Also all those fb groups? Yah, gone as well!
I left the groups as well. Too many ketovangelists.
Stevia is a better friend (serotonin activator) than all the others. I keep very little bad company after 15 years of low-carb. So many things are never ever a risk. Better friends is the key, like Dr. Cywes says.
@@Frederer59 u bet! Thank u! And 15 years? So we can actually do keto long term? I love it! I feel so much better I really do!
Thank you so much for talking about this from the addiction model and harm reduction angle. Your videos ring so true for my own lived experience. I keep coming back to the experience that when I'm off sugar or starchy foods entirely, I'm like a 'normal' person. When I'm off sugar, starch, and grain I have no cravings and I'm not a fiend. When the carb count goes up, the energy peaks and valleys start and the binging on ice cream follows. It's very black and white for me. I do use liquid stevia in my coffee, but have been thinking that this too is a "crutch". If I buy Keto ice cream, I'll eat all the bars in the box. BUT, while I'm off sugar I can actually not buy them in the first place! That's not the case when I'm in high carb eating/addiction mode. I was JUST at the grocery and forced to stand waiting and the line was in the ice cream isle. I looked at the low carb/ice cream bars and said to myself "yeah, no, that's just not a good idea for me". That's alone is revolutionary. I've been on the yo-yo. I've done the relapse. I've been through this before. It's black and white. In one mode, I'm a junkie, and in the other I have the modicum of self control the "normal" people seem to have. So that's my truth. I'm not an alcoholic, but I'm a carboholic. But I could shrug my shoulders and not bother with the low carb ice cream bars tonight BECAUSE I'm eating non starchy raw vegetables (ie salad) every day with lots of healthy fat and protein. And that it. My idea of a binge tonight is basket of raspberries (and I don't don't do this every week), but I know Dr. Cywes, that's the junkie in me doing that. Thank you for helping all of us recognize this for what it is. If I binge on raspberries once in awhile, it's better than the half gallon of ice cream that pulls me into a two week bender. But a fix is still a fix.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m a carboholic too I’ve been almost keto now for 6 months and it’s almost keto because I have a crutch too and it’s frozen grapes. I’d rather binge eat grapes than doughnuts and I do take pride in my resistance but a binge is a binge and I’m not loving the fact that it’s still a problem. I don’t do the fakes as it starts me on a slope and I can slide pretty quickly. But the Doc is right i don’t need to be a crusader
So very true, sounds much like myself!
I limit myself to one fruit a day, (some days i dont even feel for it), either a small apple, a banana or a handful of grapes,. I'm transitioning into omad so the fruit would come at the end of the meal but after that im good for the day. Have gone from 251 to 234 in 3 1/2 weeks and feeling great.
Hmm, you lost me when you advocated harm reduction with sweeteners and in the same breath condemned vaping, and using the moronic ‘but the children’ argument.
You hit this spot on. I agree with you 100%!
I used to think they were so terrible, but after wearing a CGM for a couple of months, they never spiked my numbers. But they help tremendously. Thank you!
Moved from sugar to the pink or yellow stuff. Then I am off those and now use stevia only once in a while. 😉
Great advice. I do the same, after 50 years of diet pepsi I actually prefer carbonated water with natural essence, but in my coffee I still add a little Stevia. It works for me and I’m a genuine carb addict that went Keto (Atkins Phase 1, Jan 2006) to less and less carbs to Carnivore.
I lost 111 lbs, and am a healthy 63 year old. It breaks my heart when people believe the nutritional lies and suffer because of them.
Eat Meat!
I just watched one of your vids saying dessert is essential after a meal as it stimulates relaxation and melatonin.. I'm confused.
As always, great advice Dr. Cywes. Like with so many things in life, whether to use artificial sweeteners or not, is a highly individual decision. For some, relying on artificial sweeteners maybe the crutch they need to get over for sugar addiction. For others, it maybe a gateway that makes them revert back to their old sugar eating habits. I belong to the latter category. Whether it is straight sugar or a sugar substitute, a little taste of something sweet puts me on the road to recidivism. So, while I am not a religious man, I do heed the statement made by St. Augustine: " To many, complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation". Even a man who lived nearly 1700 years ago understood the nature of addiction, and how it exists on a spectrum. Hence, that is why he qualified his quote with "To many", indicating that this admonishment does not apply to all people. The purists within the dietary community, regardless of what side of the artificial sweetener debate they fall on, could learn a lesson from that.
Absolutely true.
Well said. I’m the same way.
Smart way to look at this. Also, it just feels better to drink mostly water. You can get some satisfaction from flavored sparkling waters too
just from the bubbles and hint of flavors.
I am also one who can't do Pepsi Max etc, as soon as I taste sweet, I'm struggling. Plain carbonated water gives me the fizzy burn in my throat my body was really missing from not drinking diet drinks. I cannot do perfect moderation,p...so, Hi, I'm Melissa and I'm a carb addict, lol.
May be and maybe are not interchangeable.
Now I want to try a margarita with Crystal Light! Thanks, doc! 😄
Haha! :)
Me too!! Great idea!
To parody the old Crystal Light ads, “I believe in Crystal Light! I don’t believe in me-ee!”
how about a margarita with crystal meth
The biggest thing I took from this video!! Love margaritas!!
In the process of losing those last 15 pounds (after having lost over 40). You are so right about the sweeteners! You have taught me 2 things that have helped me so much: 1. I must hate being fat more than I love eating carbs! 2. Sequential eating-so simple, but exceedingly effective! Thank you!
Yes! Sequential eating is one of the best things I have learned here.
What does sequential eating mean? I haven't watched enough of his videos yet
You have really helped me. 0 carb since 12/22/2019.
No snacks. Freedom!
Wow! You went zero carb just before Christmas & New Year!
@@resourcedragon Yes...no regrets!
Congrats!!!! What do you usually eat?
@@resourcedragon On my 3rd. day of absolutely zero carbs, already feeling sooooo much better.
Been having one Zevia soft drink per day. As a treat, and I understand its an emotional situation.
Why would diet soda, or crystal light be any better than a sugar-free dessert? (honest question)
Also, isn't it true that while artificial sweeteners won't spike your blood sugar, they can cause an unwanted insulin response?
Its a drink, not seen as a food, like a dessert is...
Great video , but at the end don't play the numbers game with studies. It's not the quantity of studies bt the quality of studies.
My experience only. Sucralose makes my hands and feet itch and make my insulin go up a little. I have found monk fruit and stevia in small quantities works well for me. The longer I am off sugar the less sweetner I need. Erythritol gives me stomach upset and raises my insulin a bit. I like the sparkling water with light flavor 0 calorie. However it has taken me a long time to get to a point where I don't like sweet stuff that much. If I do eat something with sugar the craving will start to return. There is also a lot of psychology connected with food. If I eat one thing with sugar I acknowledge it, enjoy it and don't worry or guilt myself about it. That kind of takes the power out of the sugary food in my mind so I don't binge and can move on.
It did help. It's funny that when I was baking the look alikes, I relapsed repeatedly. Once I stopped, it has been easier to stay on track.
The only thing I do make, once a week and one serving only, is icecream. Whole, real cream with tagatose and a bit of flavoring like maple extract or vanilla. That is my Sunday dessert. It isn't hurting me and it has not yet triggered me, so I will continue.
Even though the tagatose has some carbs it has a nice taste and I don't think a few teaspoons a week on an otherwise carnivore diet is going to cause problems.
Hmmm.. can't break habits ur still doing
What is tagatose? Never heard of this 🤔
Hi Dr Cywes, I was making Keto dessert and had to stop because I wanted them more. I’m so addicted. I was always thinking about them. Thank god for Doctors like you,thinking of other people. God Bless you! Thank you 🙏
I drank Crystal Light Lemonade, in the powder, and Crystal Light Lemonade and Blackberry Lemonade when I first started Keto. I stopped drinking them because the liquids have Acesulfame Potassium and the powders have Maltodextrin in them. Are you saying those two are ok? And they don't affect your blood glucose or are harmful when taken long term? Because before going on Keto all I drank was Crystal Light Lemonade all day and two cups of coffee in the morning.
Thank you for taking the FLAC for us we truly appreciate doctors changing lives like you are
What about the claim that artificial sweeteners cause a surge of insulin? Please, can you address that?
The Dr. posted a video just today addressing the question!
Can you do a video about what the body's insulin response is with different artificial sweeteners? I've tried lightly researching this, and mostly get conflicting or inconclusive data.
You can also check monitoring your blood glucose. If your blood glucose decreases after drinking something with a specific artificial sweetener then the sweetener increased your insulin (and the insulin lowered your blood glucose)
Can artificial sweeteners make insulin rise without raising glucose?
I read that these sugar subs actually raise your insulin but not your blood glucose. Is this true and if so, isnt it almost as bad as sugar?
Exactly
20 years ago I switched Coca Cola to Pepsi Max (zero calories). Within 2 weeks my sugar addiction was gone. My need for cookies and candy was gone. My need for Pepsi Max went down over time. I lost 20 pounds that year. I have never since went back to soda with sugar. I don't like it. I don't like how it coats the tongue. I don't like how it feels in the body. I no longer have a need for candy or anything packed with sugar.
If someone think it's the taste of "sweet" that is the issue, they are simply an idiot. Sugar is an energy packed stimulant that makes you high in a rush. It contributes to obesity which is linked with 11 forms of cancer. A sweetener have no effect.
Thanks. Small doses of Stevia & Erythritol frequent my coffee. I can't drink it otherwise.
What about maltodextrin? It raises my morning glucose level if I drink those zero sugar drink packets, which I love. Was I mistaken to blame the maltodextrin? I was very sad to give them up.
Diet coke causes me to stall on my weight loss if I drink it outside of meals. I have never met a smoker that moved to vaping to not smoking or vaping
I used vaping to get off real cigarettes. I had a 35 year smoking habit and couldn't laugh without nearly choking to death as I coughed. It was gross and embarrassing. I used vaping for about a year, then weaned off it and then was free. I hate the smell of cigarettes now and have no desire to vape. The freedom from dependency keeps me going. All the best to anyone needing to quit for their health and wellbeing. As for artificial sweeteners, I'm trying to keep them out of my life because they stall my weight loss for some reason..
After 20+ years of smoking, I switched to vaping and after 4 months I quit that too. That was 5 years ago.
I'm another long term smoker who used vaping to stop smoking cigarettes. (I had a nicotine-free vape.) I vaped for about 18 months after my last cigarette and then the vaping tailed off. The last cigarette was nearly 6 years ago, and I haven't had any relapses.
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I think it varies between people but for me, the most addictive thing about smoking was the ritual of lighting up and smoking a cigarette and doing things with my hands, and the nicotine just backed that up. Other people may be the other way around.
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Unlike quite a lot of other ex-smokers, I don't mind being around when people are smoking and I don't feel any desire to put on a big song and dance about it.
I was not able to quit sugar until I completely detrained my sweet totth. Sweeteners of any kind make me want sugar. I'm so glad I quit!
Stevia (erythritol), monk fruit, Sweet & low (phenylalanine) are money if you can't cut out sweet entirely. Splenda and equal will trigger an insulin response. No idea why equal does it. Splenda, I assume is because being made from sugar, your body can't tell the difference and responds the same. No response from the first 3 listed. My dad's diabetes was horrifically uncontrolled. I put him on a strict, regulated 10 carbs a day meal plan, but after a week his sugars were still in the mid 150-170's. Then I read sucralose (Splenda) is the sweetener in his flavored water bottles. Removed those, and his fasting/resting sugar came down to under 100 within 48 hours. Splenda is a tricky one, gang. If you see sucralose, drop it. :(
I was always baffled about people who promote the keto/carnivore lifestyle now touting snacks and desserts. Shouldn't they be talking about IF and 2MAD and OMAD as great options?
But it boils down to followers.
I chose to be a ketovore to save mylife, and the best side effect was the elimination of whole food groups from my life. Black and white. Protein, Yes. Fats, Yes. Carbs, No.
Unfortunately I'm now fighting my mental hunger. It's much harder and way more insidious. But I'm not going back.
Dr. Cywes. I feel like I agree with you 100% regarding artificial sweeteners as a transition tool. My only question is this. As we know elevated sugar levels are harmful to the body, we also know that elevated insulin levels are harmful. So, where you may be correct that the artificial sweeteners do not raise glucose levels, do they not however trigger an insulin response, which, is not a desired thing? Seems we would want to discourage things that elevate both.
Elevating insulin isn't inherently bad.it helps you absorb nutrients. It's chronic insulin release that's a problem
I agree with this wholeheartedly, as it aligns with my experience.
My taste buds are super adaptive. Twenty years ago, I decided to stop drinking cola and began drinking diet cola and it took me about a month to acquire the taste. A few months ago, I stopped buying my most favoritest, bestest, drink ever; Diet Pepsi. I loved that tish and used to drink six or more cans a day. I picked up a can of Diet Pepsi on a hot day recently, thinking nothing of it until the liquid passed my lips at which point I recoiled. It tasted Nasty with a capital N. I much prefer a refreshing glass of water now and I'll never touch Aspartame or Ace-K again.
I so loved this. I gave up carbs and sugar but I need my Diet Coke every now and then. Ironically I never had a “real” soft drink. As a chubby kid I was raised on Tab and Fresca.
Thank you!!!! I just can't enjoy my coffee without stevia. I also have a Zevia with stevia occasionally. Now I don't have to feel bad about it.
I’ve been keto/low carb for 5 years with great success! However, throughout the past five years I’ve started to abuse artificial sweeteners and tricked myself into thinking that they were OK to eat constantly because they were “keto “. I am now dealing with a lot of health issues due to aspartame I believe and I’m having to kick all sweeteners cold turkey. After really looking into aspartame, I can’t believe it’s allowed to be sold. Not all artificial sweeteners are a like! I have to stay away from the artificial ones and stick to stevia, monk fruit or more natural in extreme moderation.
I only use erthyritol, stevia, allulose and monkfruit now anyways, have been since November 2018 and even now as a over 2 year carnivore and I have noticed zero issues (only use about a teaspoon a day in my morning coffee or when in kombucha drinks).
I love your practical and sincere advice! I try to fast for 16 hours a day, but really enjoy a tiny dash of cream or a pinch of stevia/eurithritol blend in my coffee ... Does this break my fast?
oh thank God!! a voice of reason!! i love my stevia in my coffee!! thank you so much for this Doctor
Sweet flavors, black unsweetened coffee and tea all trigger a high blood sugar response in me, so none of those for me. The most valuable thing that I ever did on my diet was to start using a blood glucose monitor to see what is increasing MYblood sugar, your mileage may vary. A prescription for a CGM should be required of any doctor recommending a dietary change.so that something that shouldn’t be happening doesn’t stand in the way of your weight loss.
I use a flavor enhancer in my water when I don’t think I’ve drank enough and don’t want to discipline. Sometimes they do satisfy my craving for regular coke. Apple cider vinegar makes water kinda like a beer to me too.
The best no sugar margarita is made with pickle juice and club soda. The sin was the marketing vaping like cigarettes. Like quitting mountain dew by tapering/diluting with seltzer water vaping was the only thing that helped me quit smoking. I made my own vape juice with quality products then over two years reduced the amount of nicotine until the juice no longer had nicotine. Had vaping been marketed as a stop smoking aid instead of a cigarette alternative then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
I don't drink sugary drinks, so for me, it is dessert. I make a keto panna cotta, and just take a little of it every night, and it keeps me away from sugary stuff. I can't completely cut out sweet tastes, I just can't.
If you can go cold turkey, great. If you need to wean off and use crystal light or artificial sweeteners? Keep going and get down to zero sweeteners. Knowing we are addicts puts things in perspective!
This one video brought me to the decision to unsubscribe.
If you aren’t willing to tell people straight out that artificial sweeteners are not the answer to optimal health , and that they are not the harmless answer to getting away from sweets and carbs.
Then I can’t take you seriously.
And you can’t say that artificial sweeteners are the lesser of two evils AND say they are harmless both.
You say you tell it like it is , so tell it like it is.
The issue is not sugar , it’s insulin spikes , and there are some studies that show artificial sweeteners causing insulin spikes and in some cases even more than sugar.
So as you predicted you’ve gotten your flack.
PS you don’t have to have “massive harm” to have harm.
how is monkfruit sweetener?? It has no glycemic index.
Did You meeasure Insulin level change after using artificial sweeteners? How differs it from sucrose or glucose? Never liked artificial sweeteners, for my taste it feels fake and I preffer no suggar at all vs artificial sweeteners.
Thank you for this! This makes me feel better about the artificial sweetener I use in my coffee.
I just made coconut blueberry muffins and just used less sugar. I use real cane sugar, but just use less. I really don't care for the taste of artificial sweeteners.
Thank you!! As a carnivore of 19 months, I have been able to move beyond sweets, but not so my carnivore husband. He is happy with the occasional sugar-free sweet treats, he craves sweets with his morning coffee. I have stopped using almond and coconut flours. I only use egg white protein powder or nothing but eggs in sugar-free ‘baked goods’. He also likes a diet tonic water on ice as an alcohol substitute.
I was drinking 5+ cans of coke zero a day. The Joe Rogan interview with Rhonda Patrick speaks to the dangers of artificial sugars and their impact on the gut microbiome.
Use them where needed, but do your best to stay away. Simple eating is best.
This video simply re-inforces that idea. Thank you.
Thank you, Im a sugar addict and stevia helps me.
Thank you so much for addressing this topic. My 3 year old brother was diagnosed in the 1970s with diabetes, after almost dying because he’d lost so much weight and was literally almost comatose and his pediatrician kept saying it was viral. Anyway, sweet n low was the only non-sugar sweetener back in the day and our whole family converted. Everyone said we would die. My parents are thin and healthy in their mid 70s. I’m the obese one. But I’ve felt guilty for using it while trying to do no sugar and for me it is a bridge. I don’t fix keto snacks with artificial sweetener but I do like it in my tea or coffee. That’s all. Now I can embrace my bridge!!! Lol!!! Thank you and most of all for your statement about, “no one has died from artificial sweetener”... love that! You are my go to doctor for keto as well!!! So glad for your channel!!!
Thank you for this video! It helped me so much!
I think sugar substitutes maintains an unhealthy mindset of using food as emotional management.
I limit myself to one diet pop a day, a few hours after I've had my one meal. It's amazing how much sweeter it tastes now that I've eliminated sugar/carbs. I'll also put a couple drops of stevia into iced tea, but normally drink it unsweetened. Got rid of the sugar free coffee mate products and now just use heavy cream, maybe with a little salt if I need to reach my daily amount.
I feel like I destroyed my microbiome by using aspartame and sucralose daily for decades. Anybody else notice this?
Yes. And sadly I can't use the keto ones either~just rip up my gut
Hi how to make a cake without artificial sweetners and what about date powder
Right on! Thank you for your video. It was worthwhile, relevant, and so so necessary.
I had to have surgery yesterday & I got a diet soft drink post-op. The nurse was kinda shocked that I didn’t want juice or regular sodas, crackers, etc. I found several things that where low carb to drink afterwards to combat the nausea that I always have post-op when I got home.
Thanks, but on the topic of artificial sweeteners every doctor there is say there's this lymbic reaction to sweet taste (of even artifical sweeteners) that immediately triggers insulin. I know your blood levels keep stable, but how about your insulin level?
In any case the most important take away for me is:
1) artificial sweeteners are actually okay to some extent,
2) artificial sweeteners don't actually raise blood sugar levels.
Thanks again for the video.
It seems to me that if one is wearing a cgm and insulin spiked then the glucose level would drop. If that doesn't happen, it seems that the insulin did not spike. We are all individuals though, so maybe some people do have those spikes.
@@milabulic I thought about that, but Dr Cywes claims to be insuline sensitive, so his body is efficient at correcting blood sugar levels in presence of little insulin. At the end ofthe day it depends on the resolution of the monitor. The answer is it may not be visible, that's why I was asking him because he should know about those details.
Artificial sweeteners trigger hunger, and therefore Ghrelin, the hunger hormone.Insulin has NOTHING to do with hunger so is not involved at this early stage as no food has been eaten yet
Insulin is only secreted AFTER food has been eaten, digested, absorbed into the bloodstream. It's job is to send nutrients used by the human body (Glucose NOT artificial sweeteners) out of the blood and into cells that need those nutrients. Any compound foreign to the body (e.g. sucralose, aspartame, splenda, sorbitol, xylitol etc..) will not be taken up by cells (as they don't use ANY of these chemicals), so Insulin is not required. They will be delivered to the Liver, via the bloodstream, for breakdown (if possible) or disposal
There are many hormones, each with very specific roles. Ghrelin triggers eating after a neurological (brain) signal driven by the the 'idea' of eating something yummy and sweet (very specific to the individual and their unique flavour preferences etc..). This has NOTHING to do with Insulin as we are talking about hunger
If the person eats the food, Insulin will only rise IF there are nutrients used by the body (glucose or amino acids)
@@splonkdesplonk Maybe but personally I drink 2L of Coke Zero every day and don't feel less hungry when I drink water only.
It does help. Thank you 😊
I‘m with you on that one. I try not to consume artificial sweeteners as part of my daily diet, but an occasional Diet Coke or such really saves my sanity, when I‘m out and about and have to watch other people eat sweets or drink alcohol. Sugarfree drinks also help me stick to rather eating nothing at all, than something with carbs, when nothing keto approved is available in a given situation.
I definitely can’t handle ‚keto desserts‘ and such, though. I‘ll overeat on them and they are simply too energy dense for that. Healthy or not, simply from a weight management standpoint, they’re a big no-no for me. They totally trigger my addictive behavior with food.
I love Fresca! Wipe the rim of a ice cold glass w/ a lime, dip the rim in salt, pour in some ice, a good silver tequila, squeeze a lime over the ice and top w/ about 4 oz of Fresca. Super refreshing.
This sounds like a great recipe, thanks for sharing!😊
Coke zero is my last hold back 😢
I transferred my addiction to fake sugar and caffeine and it was a beast to break I ended up drinking so much that I think it REALLY hurt my insulin response eventually I am going to avoid aspertame, sucralose and the like and stick with only a little stevia when needed in my electrolyte drink
I used to love sugar in my tea etc.. then I realized how bad it was for my health.. So I went cold turkey.. After a week I was able to transition despitre it not tasting right.. 10 days in and I could begin to taste the sweetness on natural tea.
2 weeks in and any sugar added to my caffeine tasted sickly sweet..
It's crazy how our bodies can adjust.
I felt fantastic after 10 days. Well worth it.
Please come off all those fake sugars, none.of them do you any good.
The best thing you can do is perhaps add cinnamon as this helps lower blood sugar.
Or ground up dates..
Best option is to go cold turkey and switch to something like Greed tea for a more gradual & extended caffeine lift..
I'm still going strong after 10 years. I out pace swimmers half my age!😅
Thanks doc that really helped me because I have been using artificial sweeteners for many years even before my keto journey my mom was a diabetic so I switched to artificial sweetener with her so far no problems.
It is true, been there done that. My wife chewed me out over the artificial sweetener and told me I was still addicted. I knew she was right.
Another great video, Thank you!
Also, Fresca is so amazing.
Does your blood sugar drop when you consume sweeteners? On your CGM. From insulin release from taste. I thought it was proven that sweet taste can cause insulin releases.
I appreciate you so much
Thanks Doc, 57 yrs an addict. you are slowly getting me on the straight and narrow.
You are a God send. Thank you.
Thank you for this message. I have been eating 99% carnivore with 1 keto chow shake per day. I love it. It satisfies my sweet tooth and does not cause me to crave more sugar. I am down 100 lbs in a year and a half. It just makes this way of eating so much more enjoyable.
Crystal light pink lemonade.
I thought alcohol is carb.
P.s. when I get the craving for a soda of which I had lots in my lifetime. I go to stevia soda. Again a transition as you say. Thank you for your videos 😊
Im addicted to Zevia 😋
What about stevia
Very helpful.