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I went whole food plant based 6yrs ago, gave up everything unhealthy, been using stevia liquid for all that time, no longer tastes bitter to me, so far, nothing has fallen off.
I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 36 years old, l took medication for 10 years, I reversed it, I am 67 years old now and haven’t taken any medication for 20 years. I did by learning and a lot of discipline, lifestyle, diet and exercise. Like all humans I have a sweet tooth and occasionally I eat some sweets, but I mainly stick to berries and I love them, like I said discipline. I use monk fruit and maple syrup very seldom, nobody is perfect, but I stick to my healthy lifestyle because at the end, it’s worth it. Thanks for the valuable information, I love your channel, I always learn something.
Most informative. I watched 1000s of videos to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and obesity without toxic medications. Unaware of deadly consequences narrated here, I had consumed diet drinks and low sugar foods loaded with aspartame and sucralose for decades. None of my docs could diagnose what caused my tinnitus, poor digestion, fatty liver, terrible metabolic syndrome .. neuropathy and extreme T2D. Modern medicine is so horrific that they don't teach about diet, environment, stress, sleep are at the root of every metabolic disease. FDA should be shut down. Consuming only whole organic foods (keto diet) at home and intermittent fasting for the last five years has miraculously cured all that was ailing me. I am off all prescription drugs, much to the surprise of my docs. I do use Stevia and Monk Fruit extracts in very limited amounts. There so much hype against cholesterol and saturated fats, when in fact all organs fail because of insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress caused by highly refined, chemically altered and processed foods .. refined carbohydrates, refined and artificial sugars, refined vegetable oils, refined flour and so on.
I use "Pure Sweet" brand of white stevia powder. About 1/2 heaping teaspoon to a gallon of tea (even less for coffee). Tea and coffee is the only thing I sweeten though so I don;t know about using large amounts of it. Have used it for years when I switched to Ketovore and lost 40# and lost my life long high blood pressure :-0)
"Aspartame consumption is associated with neurobehavioral changes including anxiety-like behavior and learning and memory deficits". I explained this to my mom who is very afraid of developing Alzheimer's or dementia, and it was the one thing that got her to quit her diet coke addiction.
The best thing to do is curb your sugar intake, I do no more than 25 grams a day of added sugar. My tastes changed I do not crave sweet anymore. Things like pop tarts are horrible to me now. I get my sweet from fruit mostly. I have a little all natural ice cream on occasion and go over the limit on the holidays lol. I do have a small bag of monk fruit in the raw for the occasional cup of tea. I thought I would be using it more but I just don't crave sweet like I used to. No pops no juices no alcohol and no highly/ultra processed food. You will feel like a new person If you do this.
Since I don't have diabetes or obesity, I just continue using real sugar & sometimes real maple syrup. I have cut back significantly & really try to avoid HFCS, but can't stand any artificial sweeteners & they all aggravate my IBS immediately. Sugar doesn't do that. So, sugar it is 🤷♀️
You might want to research the carnivore way of eating. Hundreds, if not thousands, have resolved their bowel diseases by following it. I had bowel issues all my life which were resolved after a few weeks on it. I now have no more problems with bloating and painful gas and constipation.
Geez, scared to eat anything. I'll need to carry a notebook around with me anytime I go to buy or eat anything with this list. Our gov't is full of greed. You have to be your own advocate. Even your doctor is may not be looking out for you. Thank you for the information. Subbed.
***sigh*** ok so fruit is good for me. It imoroves: insulin resistance, belly fat... And to sweeten, I can have stevia, erythritol (no more than 1 Tbsp per day; 4 Tbsp u may have issues), monkfruit, agave, or honey, but keep it to a minimum. Stay away from aspartame sucralose & saccharin. I suppose I should watch the vid again.
My new Rx uses sucralose!!! It's so nasty tasting. This stuff retails for $20,000. PER MONTH!! Why are they using this non- food chemical in medicine???
@Mary_QQQ I'm on the fence with this b/c some say it's good & others say it's bad. Why should I believe the naysayers? And the naysayers are the ones who once promoted it. How do we know if it's not one of the competitors that put this news out? Just like flouride. Flouride is naturally present in foods, but some say it's soooo bad. Maybe they are just repeating what a salesman of water purifiers, told them, but it's actually NOT true. I know some people who drink tap water & they are way healthier than people who drink purified water.
You should definitely not have erythritol. Read the ingredients in the Stevia… they vary a lot. I believe erythritol is linked to / can cause serious heart issues.
So annoyed… we are just Guinea pigs for each generation 😡 when I was in my 20’s .. SweetNLow was the number 1 sweetener I used to control my sugar intake. Never was there any information telling us it was bad… we just used and used and were slowly poisoning ourselves. Tried to keep healthy and now find out I was poisoning myself 😢 Thanks Doc for all your valuable information 👍❤️
When I was preteen, mom was Weight Watchers, we drank cases of Diet Fanta and colas sweet by Cyclamates. Carcinogen!!! And the manufacturer are still ar it 😡🤬
Xylitol is excellent for dental health. So much so that in Finland, it's recommenend for every day use in a pastille or gum form for both children and adults. Outside the laxative effect from over consumption, there are no negative effects for your health.
Sugar alcohols are being implicated in heart attack and stroke. More information/study is needed, it is early days yet, but be aware of the possibility. I don't care if my teeth fall out as long as my heart keeps beating. Source - Cleveland Clinic study.
@@kitkakitteh for dental health, one pastille in the morining of chewing a piece of a 100% Xylitol gum after a meal is enough. For xylitol to cause any gastric discomfort, you'd have to eat handfuls at a time.
Did I miss a video or did you cover maple syrup somewhere? I put 100% pure from USA & Canadian trees (do I trust the label?) in my coffee. Would love to hear how the body accepts that. Thanks so much for your videos, Looking forward to the next one!
I went full keto in 2020 at age 58. My health has improved dramatically in multiple dimensions. I use a mix of Stevia in the Raw, monk fruit and erythritol to sweeten the few things I need to sweeten like unflavored Greek yogurt, unflavored whey powder (for after weight lifting workout), and a few other foods and so far so good. I use maybe 3 tablespoons per day. I avoid sucralose and aspartame. However, I’ve finally learned that I’m better off simply continuing to wean myself off “sweetness” in general.
Xylitol is great for preventing cavities, promoting gum health and the nasal spray helps me with my sinus problems. Other than that, it’s off the menu.
I just started chewing xylitol gum this week for my inflamed gums and it's been helping. after watching this video I was heartbroken because I have so many kidney stones. It's a good thing I saw this because I can protect my kidneys but now I have to fund something else to kill the bacteria in my mouth. maybe if I chew it for a little bit and then spit it out over time like chewing tobacco I can prevent kidney stones
You gave almost no information about monk fruit and didn't explain about honey expiring because of botulism. I think you gave way too much information on some products and not nearly enough on others.
She didn`t research the side effects of allulose. One of it`s side effects is recurring UTI`s. If you don`t have a problem with that,,then OK. But I`m 76 years old and never had a UTI before I used Allulose. Then I went through four antibiotic regimens before it finally went away. Take heed.
@@patwalkins2061 Side effects do not hit everyone. But when this one hits,it`s not worth the gamble. I know. Use monk fruit. It`s cheaper and safe and Winco has it in bulk. It`s Just like sugar.
@@andreah6379, you mean has the same effect as regular FRUCTOSE on your body... Because fructose metabolizes entirely differently from all the other sugars. Fructose is also a net negative for cellular energy and negatively affects your mitochondria
Good Lord, these videos are SO GOOD. It is hard to believe how knowledgeable Dr. Liu is, and how fortunate we all are that she is willing to share all this on youtube. I send links to some of these videos to my nutritionist that I work with. Being on a Whole Foods Plant Based diet for the last 6 years has completely changed my life. My cholesterol is at a healthy level, my heart afib has disappeared, my sleep apnea has disappeared, my IBS has disappeared, I've lost 85 lbs, and even my asthma has largely disappeared. Adding to my WFPB lifestyle with this kind of understanding is invaluable. I am going to throw out my jug of agave nectar LOL! THANK YOU DR. LIU!!!! Diet and activity go hand in hand, and are deeply essential to our health. Dr. Liu is helping to make that point in such a profound way. This is by far the best health channel on youtube.
I did not know that aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde! I know formaldehyde is in some medications and shampoos as a preservative, breast implants and vaccines. Shocking the FDA says it’s completely fine. Thanks for sharing good doc
This is why you can get a "bad batch" of diet soda sometimes. At least, when it was first put in soda that was true. If the soda got too warm, the sucralose would break down and wasn't sweet anymore. I don't know if this still happens because I don't drink soda anymore and quit drinking diet soda decades ago.
Thank you so much for the effort put into these videos. I have come to all this very late and your detailed, informative and personal explanations are a welcome relief from the UA-cam ocean of opinion and hype. I think all your peers around the country should be aware of the great job you do educating their patients. My doc’s certainly don’t get the time for this kind of education which is critical for people seriously wanting to change their diets and lifestyle. I let them know you’re out there! Keep up the great work!
Dr., I come here often to listen. You give me information that drives my desire and need to change my diet. It’s a full time struggle, but I persist! (As women do..)
Could you please add real maple syrup to this list? I'd love your analysis. I enjoy pure date syrup to sweeten my oatmeal.👍🏼 Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative video.✌️🩵💙💚
Now foods organic monkfruit liquid is my choice for rarely needed sweetening of things like iced tea and plain yogurt with strawberries. That's about all I use it for but if you sweeten your coffee this would also be perfect.
Here is my question about stevia that no one has been able to answer. When you buy fruit, and see that a bug might have chewed a little on some of the fruit, that is a good thing as it is usually a sign that the fruit is organic. But with stevia, I have been growing it for years, no bugs ever chew on the leaves. Why not? If the bugs don’t want it, should I be using it? So, for that reason, I haven’t grown it for two years. Also, the stevia in the stores, even when it says that it is raw….isn’t. It is green. It’s a leaf. But the store stevia is always white. Nope, that’s not right. Plus, what you buy in the store doesn’t even taste like stevia.
It doesn’t matter what a bug want, bugs don’t want a lot of things whether it’s organic or not, organic doesn’t mean much even on organic food you will find pesticides. Bugs eat feces, are you going to go out and eat feces next, no.
I think you're thinking about that one that says "In the Raw" in big letters across their box. That's just their brand name. None of the other major brands I've seen claim they're 'raw'... And they're all predominantly erythritol anyways
So which is it? You said aspartame is considered safe up to 50 mg, which would be several Diet Cokes a day plus over 200 pieces of sugar free gum. Then you say how say how dangerous it is and if you drink just have a can a day it’s dangerous. It can’t be both
@@Emmuzka plus in another video she says about the shape of the pasta effecting how fast the glucose response but I don’t know about everyone else but I chew all of my food.
She said that she uses manuka honey for wound healing........but her answer for this video comes at the very end of this video, she said that eating whole fruit is the best sweetener.
I use Monk Fruit Drops, 100% monk fruit extract is the only ingredient. I fist bought the powder & erythritol was the first ingredient listed, so you know whatever is listed first, it has more of that ingredient than anything else. I didn't like the after taste, so l stopped using the powder & bouth the liquid with monk fruit as the only ingredient. Very small container, 1.7oz. It last me about 3 1/2 - 4 months. Only use in coffee. I quit sugar & can't drink bullet coffee.
This is very confusing information. What is the healthiest sweetener? Saying eating fruit is the healthiest may be true but are you suggesting that cake or other deserts should have nothing sweet except fruit? The title seems to be click bait.
surprising. There is a difference between nectar and honey. If honey is a disinfectant how can it contain botulism spores. Excess moisture in honey can cause fermentation That’s the only potentially negative aspect of honey. unless you’re making wine. if there is local bee pollen in raw local honey. It certainly helps with allergies. Proven. Maybe just do a video about the bag of Truvia you are holding up in the click bait part of your video. Your video was very incomplete and misleading
No sweetener is the best. Once you stop sugar (anyway), reduce on stevia, Monkfruit, Erythritol Etc… until ZERO After some time you will start to taste the natural sweetness of food. Even normal water starts to taste sweet….
Unfortunately, I can't put whole fruit in my coffee to sweeten it, so I will rotate a tsp of stevia, honey and raw sugar. Sounds like we should avoid all sweeteners in high amounts and limits use to small amounts if needed. Lol! Thanks for this valuable info.
I switched to tea from my daily moka that included hot chocolate. Many more interesting flavors that don’t give you sugar highs and lows. I’m loving tea.
Most informative. I watched 1000s of videos to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and obesity without toxic medications. Unaware of deadly consequences narrated here, I had consumed diet drinks and low sugar foods loaded with aspartame and sucralose for decades. None of my docs could diagnose what caused my tinnitus, poor digestion, fatty liver, terrible metabolic syndrome .. neuropathy and extreme T2D. Modern medicine is so horrific that they don't teach about diet, environment, stress, sleep are at the root of every metabolic disease. FDA should be shut down. Consuming only whole organic foods (keto diet) at home and intermittent fasting for the last five years has miraculously cured all that was ailing me. I am off all prescription drugs, much to the surprise of my docs. I do use Stevia and Monk Fruit extracts in very limited amounts. There so much hype against cholesterol and saturated fats, when in fact all organs fail because of insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress caused by highly refined, chemically altered and processed foods .. refined carbohydrates, refined and artificial sugars, refined vegetable oils, refined flour and so on.
You are so absolutely correct!! I’ve been following the carnivore way of eating for the last two years and have totally reversed my sugar addiction and other health concerns, including getting off my three blood pressure meds. I had to go all the way to carnivore to get rid of the sugar cravings. Low carb and keto just weren’t enough.
My great-grandmother was overweight for the last several decades of her life. She ate white flour, white sugar, and lots of animal fat every single day because she was a farm wife. She lived well into her 80s and when she died she had no diseases.
There is a video on here that explains how nitrates bacon actually cleanse the blood. So farm life has its loopholes maybe. You see a lot of farm families living to old age. Hard work is probably key.
Maple sugar is regular sugar as far as it's effects. If you prefer the taste, that's why you would use it. Anybody who claims it's healthier for you is wrong. Basically zero nutrients--only carbohydrates.
I can’t so consume any aspartame, it causes me to have migraines, and sucralose is the isomer (mirror image) of the sugar molecule. Not sure how accurate she is on that subject.
My "healthy" sweetener of choice is monk fruit erythritol blend, in which I usually add a couple of teaspoon into my coffee. I rarely add any form of sweeteners to my dishes/meals (unless it's hidden in premade seasoning mixes, or things like sausages). But, should I use sweeteners for cooking/baking, I'll aim for fruits, raw organic cane sugar (unprocessed raw form), honey, and/or maple syrup. Much simpler, and more natural whole food. Thanks to this video, I'll add sucralose to the no-no "red flag" list like other sugar alcohols I can name from the top of my head (maltitol, dextrose, maltodextrin, sorbitol...).
@@deedee2218 I usually go with Lakanto when it's on sale. Otherwise, I go with whatever is cheaper. Have to check the ingredients list and see whether it's organic or not first before buying. I don't consume it a lot.
I can't get allulose, as it's banned in the UK, for some mysterious reason. I tried stevia for the first time recently ... it's absolutely vile! Erythritol tastes OK (you get used to the mintiness eventually, and the laxative effect), but it's ridiculously expensive, as are pretty much all sweeteners, frankly. Ultimately I just went back to using honey, but I limit my intake to 3 teaspoons max per day. The cheap white label stuff, that's literally made in China, is not honey, it's fake, basically just honey-flavoured corn syrup, but still fraudulently labelled as "honey". However, there's really cheap Polish stuff in huge jars that really is raw honey. It's a bit grainy, but perfect for tea/coffee. I'm not going back to weird tasting sweeteners.
So in other words you either accept a whole bunch of problems for you body and eat sweet food or you don't and your food becomes monotone and boring but healthy..
@@PlantBasedPrimary Yes, that's for sure but very expensive. I like buying the whole Daglet Noor dates, sold everywhere. (I don't care for them to eat on their own like a Medjool) and half the price pretty much of Medjool. But ... take the pitted Daglets and mince them in a blender, a sticky and unpleasant job, but rewarding. The goal is to fill wide mouth pint canning jar full and well tamped down (get a god tamping tool for this job and you will have about 1.5 kilo, the heaviest pint jar you are likely to hold) They seem to increase in sweetness and flavor after sitting for a week or so in the jar in their crushed and compacted state. I think they would last a long time, (without refrigeration of course) and actually improve with storage up to say a year. Of course something so good is unlikely to stay around that long, but no one can claim they are not the healthiest sweetener, and most flavorful too.
Do you have any advice for people suffering from interstitial cystitis? Also, if I were working with a coal tar derivative in a laboratory, I would NOT be licking my hands. Ha ha.
Research the carnivore way of eating. Hundreds, if not thousands, have reversed their T2D eating that way. Although I don’t have it, I’ve seen great health results for myself by following it for the last two years. My sugar addiction has resolved and I no longer have any cravings for sweetness. It’s such a great feeling of relief!!
I recently discovered that Xylitol is good for your teeth. Can you offer an opinion regarding on products such as gum, mints of toothpaste containing Xylitol?
Correlation does not imply causation. This video assumes that it does. I stopped watching after she correlated and implied Roosevelt’s earlier death was due to his artificial sweetener consumption. An anecdotal case study of one. How scientific. And no, I don’t eat artificial sweetener. I don’t work for “big sugar”. I am just a person who understands science communication and this video is far from an unbiased presentation.
As good as this information is, it really doesn't provide the answer it promises. So, in the end it's clickbait. Saying that whole fruit is the healthiest prompts a "duh" response, but doesn't exactly help when a recipe calls for a sweetener. Assuming it's not black and white, it would more helpful to provide best case sweeteners for a variety of uses. The best piece of information from this post are the max temps for a few of the options.
There are so many issues with stevia. I’ll mention just one: it causes unwanted cell death, not a regenerative outcome but apoptosis, including brain cell death. In this way it is worse than sucralose and aspartame. We have taken MANY patients off stevia (yes all versions of stevia) and within about 3 months they have greatly noticeable improvement in cognition.
@@silviamonz2062 what are the reactions, if any, you have or you have seen with others when using stevia or any sugar substitues? What do you use in your diet, honey? Aspartame? Sucralose? Maple syrup? Allulose? Monkfruit? Agave? Coconut? Saccharin? Erythritol? Corn syrup? Maltitol? Molasses? Sorbitol? Date? Xylitol? Rice? Dextrose/Glucose? Sucrose? Barley? Fruit juice? Fruit? Cane? Fructose? Lactose? Why would one not use honey and cane sugar instead of substitutes? Can a diabetic eat honey? If yes, how much can they eat daily? Have you used stevia (any type) and then stopped for 3 months? If yes, what happened? How many patients have you treated for dietary and nutritional issues and for how many years? How familiar are you with research on apoptosis due to various sugars and sugar substitutes, including stevia? Is stevia not only a natural plant but is it a natural sugar, including whole leaf? Is it a substance like cane sugar to be replaced or is it a replacement for sugar? Do we burn sugar for fuel? What purpose does sugar serve if any in the body? Does stevia have any nutrition? If yes, what nutrients? What are the possible risks in using stevia besides apoptosis, brain cell death, memory loss and overall cognitive decline? Bladder issues? Cancer? Heart attack? Stroke? What does no calories mean? Once you respond to the above, I’ll offer some more of my time to you.
@@ToddDouglasFox If I have in any way offended you with my reaction and marvel at your original comment I sincerely apologise I was fascinated to find someone to shed a more critical light on stevia, where I live neither Allulose nor Monkfruit are available ,so I rely on Erythrol, Xylitol or Stevia if any ,I tend to generally avoid sugar wherever possible ,one thing the video didn't discuss was yacon I regret that but anyway, don't let me keep you,have a good one
@@silviamonz2062 Silvia Monz, if I know more about your health and thus why you make your sweetener choices, I can offer more input. It’s not about feelings, it’s about health and the ways in which we arrive at health. For example, what is the problem with raw, organic honey for you? That is available everywhere. Are you obese? Diabetic? Elderly? Fit? How do you burn sugar? Do you eat foods that are high in potassium and healthy sodium? Often those with water weight gain, for example, are not getting good potassium/sodium pump action on the outside and inside of the cells. There is much to health. I cannot more strongly recommend against using stevia. I think this is the impetus of your querying my initial comment. Of note: we don’t recommend sugar alcohols either. Yacon can be grown and extracted yourself. But again, why not use honey?
@@ToddDouglasFox I am a vegan ,after bein a vegetarian for over 30 years, lately I noticed being tired in the middle of the day and had a look at the glucose goddess book as well as a ketogenic approach to food ,long story short,I never was a mayor sugar eater,candies,cakes etc. so cutting those out was easy,to cut out pasta and bread I had to bring out the good old discipline but then....how do you make a hemp protein shake with zero sweetness to it ? And here is where we come to fructose fruit AND honey have heaps of it I eat berries in the afternoon but I need a small dose of sweetness in the shake( yet) keto had the side effect that I lost some weight which was not what I was aiming for but wasn't unpleasant either,I have pain in my hands for some years now and I am pretty sure this is not carpal tunnel syndrome even if the doctor says so I am trying to look after the gut and the liver because there must be some inflammation going on and sugar seems to be one player at this now when we say honey,ist there really a mayor difference between conventional and raw? Stevia is not an option from what I hear from you ,I'll stick to that, believe me, I am so grateful,that I found you mentioning it
These are great videos, super intense, because of all the information, but great, if you pause it frequently to allow your brain to process it all. My first takeaway from this is that none of these sweetners are good, but some are decidedly worse. The one thing I wish you had added was to categorize these sweeteners into groups. My takeaway is that some, such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame should be avoided at all times. Some of the others, such as stevia, sugar, erythritol, and monk fruit extract are ok, so long as you keep the quantities small. Personally, I eat very little sugar, and have a healthy body weight, but I have a friend who is seriously overweight, and I'm trying to help him. I have concluded that his biggest problem is that he works construction, and drinks about 6 bottles of Gatorade a day, which are very high in sugar. I was trying to find an alternative for him, but rejected all the zero calorie ones because of the sucralose. This video confirms that my current recommendation is probably OK, one that has 1/4 the sugar, plus a little monk fruit extract. I found another that contains stevia, and I may recommend that he drinks 3 plain water, 2 of the sugar/monk fruit, and 1 of the stevia a day. That will give him 1/12 as much sugar as he was getting, but will still give him the minerals he needs to work in the sun, plus not too much of any one sweetner. Thank you for these fine, very, very informative videos.
@@PapaA7145 It was a brand called "Hydrant". It does contain some sugar, but only 4g per serving, much less than Gatorade. I found it to be very acidic, however, and it was irritating my gums, so I add about 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda to partially neutralize it, and it is fine. The one with stevia was LMNT, which contains no sugar, but a lot of salt. I bought both on Amazon.
I don‘t think this is a good video because you take absolutely no regard to the dosage used in the cited studies, making any general statement basically useless. Minimising sugar and sweeteners needs like two minutes to state.
I thought honey and monkfruit sugar were healthy. I take honey very morning in an empty stomach according to the advise of a naturopath. I've changed all my sugar to monkfruit sugar. Am I putting my health in danger?
Depends on what your metabolic blood panel looks like. Get testing for your fasting insulin, fasting blood glucose, A1c, and c-peptide and see how metabolically fit you are. Taking all sweetness out of your diet would be best.
Allulose is terrible when it comes to gas and bloating. 100% monk fruit extract works great if you're good with mildly sweetened food or drinks. It tastes bitter when you use too much.
Hi Doc, Equal was my choice of sweetener and then I switched to Spenda when introduced. I'm 74, 5'10" and 158 lbs. I was told years ago to cut my sugar intake as I was close to pre-diabetes. So I carefully watched my diet. But, I refuse to drink my morning coffee without a sweetener. My cup is actually about 13 ounces and I use 1 1/2 packets of Splenda. That equates to 1 tbsp of sugar. Since I can't add fruit to my coffee I only have two choices. Actually three if your advice is to get use to coffee without sugar which is not going to happen. No wait, there is another choice. Reduce the amount of whatever sweetener I use in my coffee. I'll try that. At most I have two coffees/day. Now, should it be sugar or a sweetener? Just found your channel and I have subscribed. Not only do I like your content, I like your delivery. You are easy and enjoyable to listen to. Thanks, James
You can always slow the video down. I’ve done that on occasion. I’ve also sped up videos- just depends on the channel, and sometimes each individual video.
Thank you for the information. I will start using fruit in my recipes when possible and eat whole fruits for dessert. I never tried stevia until recently. I think it’s sweeter than table sugar, so I will only use a small amount. I subscribed to your channel today, and I am happy you are sharing your knowledge. Thank you again.
@altagroenewald9094 I don't think anyone would disagree with you, that honey has been consumed forever and it is natural. The video states that it raises glucose levels which can be unhealthy. My husband has it every day and he's fine. 😊
Cleveland clinic updated their erythritol study with healthy test subjects in August 2024. Does this change your mind? The study found that healthy participants who drank water sweetened with 30 grams of erythritol, a common zero-calorie sweetener, had higher levels of proteins associated with blood clotting than those who drank water sweetened with 30 grams of sugar.
Neither Ingesting 30 grams of erythritol nor 30 grams of added pure sugar or any other sweetener is a good idea. I don’t believe I ever said that in the video. My point is erythritol is made by your body and will increase with stress. It is also naturally found in foods at low levels. Added sugars and sugar substitutes should be kept at low levels.
you weren't paying attention... No 3 on the list... Sucralose (Splenda) Splenda is made of a combination of dextrose, maltodextrin, and sucralose: Dextrose: Also known as D-glucose, this is a sugar that the body can easily metabolize. Splenda typically contains 95% dextrose by volume. Maltodextrin: Splenda also contains maltodextrin by volume. Sucralose: This is a zero-calorie, high-intensity sweetener that's 600 times sweeter than sugar. It's made by replacing three hydrogen-oxygen groups on sucrose (table sugar) molecules with chlorine atoms.
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At the end.... Whole fruit. Your welcome
The only fruit my skinny diabetic hubbie can eat is berries; strawberries and blueberries
@@lokipokey can or will?
@@lokipokey Won’t or can’t eat anything else though? Don’t want to sound rude sorry
@@108lukas can. Other fruits he's tried raise house blood sugar too much. He will eat am occasional bite sized piece of pineapple, or apple
Thanks! 😅
So thankful for this woman 🙏
I went whole food plant based 6yrs ago, gave up everything unhealthy, been using stevia liquid for all that time, no longer tastes bitter to me, so far, nothing has fallen off.
The healthiest sweetener is training yourself not to eat sweets.
I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 36 years old, l took medication for 10 years, I reversed it, I am 67 years old now and haven’t taken any medication for 20 years. I did by learning and a lot of discipline, lifestyle, diet and exercise. Like all humans I have a sweet tooth and occasionally I eat some sweets, but I mainly stick to berries and I love them, like I said discipline. I use monk fruit and maple syrup very seldom, nobody is perfect, but I stick to my healthy lifestyle because at the end, it’s worth it. Thanks for the valuable information, I love your channel, I always learn something.
Way to go 👍 All these substitutes are a scam. Better to find sweetness in fruits and learn to crave savory foods that don’t mess up your body.
Most informative. I watched 1000s of videos to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and obesity without toxic medications. Unaware of deadly consequences narrated here, I had consumed diet drinks and low sugar foods loaded with aspartame and sucralose for decades. None of my docs could diagnose what caused my tinnitus, poor digestion, fatty liver, terrible metabolic syndrome .. neuropathy and extreme T2D. Modern medicine is so horrific that they don't teach about diet, environment, stress, sleep are at the root of every metabolic disease. FDA should be shut down. Consuming only whole organic foods (keto diet) at home and intermittent fasting for the last five years has miraculously cured all that was ailing me. I am off all prescription drugs, much to the surprise of my docs. I do use Stevia and Monk Fruit extracts in very limited amounts. There so much hype against cholesterol and saturated fats, when in fact all organs fail because of insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress caused by highly refined, chemically altered and processed foods .. refined carbohydrates, refined and artificial sugars, refined vegetable oils, refined flour and so on.
You’re awesome!
I use "Pure Sweet" brand of white stevia powder.
About 1/2 heaping teaspoon to a gallon of tea (even less for coffee).
Tea and coffee is the only thing I sweeten though so I don;t know about using large amounts of it. Have used it for years when I switched to Ketovore and lost 40# and lost my life long high blood pressure :-0)
Well Type 2 is Easy Street. Watching what you eat and getting exercise is so easy. Try living with Type 1, that's a real challenge!
None of us is getting out of here alive.
😂😂😂
"Aspartame consumption is associated with neurobehavioral changes including anxiety-like behavior and learning and memory deficits". I explained this to my mom who is very afraid of developing Alzheimer's or dementia, and it was the one thing that got her to quit her diet coke addiction.
Aspartame gives me migraines.
👏👏👏. Fantastic
Coke Zero is very popular now, and it has Asparame in it. Wow
The best thing to do is curb your sugar intake, I do no more than 25 grams a day of added sugar. My tastes changed I do not crave sweet anymore. Things like pop tarts are horrible to me now. I get my sweet from fruit mostly. I have a little all natural ice cream on occasion and go over the limit on the holidays lol. I do have a small bag of monk fruit in the raw for the occasional cup of tea. I thought I would be using it more but I just don't crave sweet like I used to. No pops no juices no alcohol and no highly/ultra processed food. You will feel like a new person If you do this.
Since I don't have diabetes or obesity, I just continue using real sugar & sometimes real maple syrup. I have cut back significantly & really try to avoid HFCS, but can't stand any artificial sweeteners & they all aggravate my IBS immediately. Sugar doesn't do that. So, sugar it is 🤷♀️
You might want to research the carnivore way of eating. Hundreds, if not thousands, have resolved their bowel diseases by following it. I had bowel issues all my life which were resolved after a few weeks on it. I now have no more problems with bloating and painful gas and constipation.
Geez, scared to eat anything. I'll need to carry a notebook around with me anytime I go to buy or eat anything with this list. Our gov't is full of greed. You have to be your own advocate. Even your doctor is may not be looking out for you. Thank you for the information. Subbed.
***sigh*** ok so fruit is good for me. It imoroves: insulin resistance, belly fat...
And to sweeten, I can have stevia, erythritol (no more than 1 Tbsp per day; 4 Tbsp u may have issues), monkfruit, agave, or honey, but keep it to a minimum.
Stay away from aspartame sucralose & saccharin.
I suppose I should watch the vid again.
My new Rx uses sucralose!!! It's so nasty tasting. This stuff retails for $20,000. PER MONTH!! Why are they using this non- food chemical in medicine???
@@meman6964I swear Pharma wants us to stay sick so we keep buying their meds
Erythritol is now considered dangerous
@Mary_QQQ I'm on the fence with this b/c some say it's good & others say it's bad. Why should I believe the naysayers? And the naysayers are the ones who once promoted it. How do we know if it's not one of the competitors that put this news out?
Just like flouride. Flouride is naturally present in foods, but some say it's soooo bad. Maybe they are just repeating what a salesman of water purifiers, told them, but it's actually NOT true. I know some people who drink tap water & they are way healthier than people who drink purified water.
You should definitely not have erythritol. Read the ingredients in the Stevia… they vary a lot. I believe erythritol is linked to / can cause serious heart issues.
So annoyed… we are just Guinea pigs for each generation 😡 when I was in my 20’s .. SweetNLow was the number 1 sweetener I used to control my sugar intake. Never was there any information telling us it was bad… we just used and used and were slowly poisoning ourselves. Tried to keep healthy and now find out I was poisoning myself 😢
Thanks Doc for all your valuable information 👍❤️
When I was preteen, mom was Weight Watchers, we drank cases of Diet Fanta and colas sweet by Cyclamates. Carcinogen!!! And the manufacturer are still ar it 😡🤬
Xylitol is excellent for dental health. So much so that in Finland, it's recommenend for every day use in a pastille or gum form for both children and adults. Outside the laxative effect from over consumption, there are no negative effects for your health.
Xylitol is a deadly poison to pets in even small amounts. I won't have the stuff in my house.
It is fatal to dogs, so if you have a dog, take heed.
she said it can cause kidney stones
@@ExpressionsofAwakening It doesn't. With her claims, she really should link sources, don't you think?
Sugar alcohols are being implicated in heart attack and stroke. More information/study is needed, it is early days yet, but be aware of the possibility. I don't care if my teeth fall out as long as my heart keeps beating. Source - Cleveland Clinic study.
Did anyone hear her say what wrong with stevia ? She said she was going to say how it raised insulin towards the end of video but I can’t find it .
Xylitol is more of a dental treatment than a food.
A diarrheic.
@@kitkakitteh for dental health, one pastille in the morining of chewing a piece of a 100% Xylitol gum after a meal is enough. For xylitol to cause any gastric discomfort, you'd have to eat handfuls at a time.
Did I miss a video or did you cover maple syrup somewhere? I put 100% pure from USA & Canadian trees (do I trust the label?) in my coffee. Would love to hear how the body accepts that. Thanks so much for your videos, Looking forward to the next one!
It’s still sugar, like honey
I went full keto in 2020 at age 58. My health has improved dramatically in multiple dimensions.
I use a mix of Stevia in the Raw, monk fruit and erythritol to sweeten the few things I need to sweeten like unflavored Greek yogurt, unflavored whey powder (for after weight lifting workout), and a few other foods and so far so good. I use maybe 3 tablespoons per day. I avoid sucralose and aspartame.
However, I’ve finally learned that I’m better off simply continuing to wean myself off “sweetness” in general.
Xylitol is great for preventing cavities, promoting gum health and the nasal spray helps me with my sinus problems. Other than that, it’s off the menu.
I just started chewing xylitol gum this week for my inflamed gums and it's been helping. after watching this video I was heartbroken because I have so many kidney stones. It's a good thing I saw this because I can protect my kidneys but now I have to fund something else to kill the bacteria in my mouth. maybe if I chew it for a little bit and then spit it out over time like chewing tobacco I can prevent kidney stones
I tried them all, finally just stopped using any of them
You gave almost no information about monk fruit and didn't explain about honey expiring because of botulism. I think you gave way too much information on some products and not nearly enough on others.
She didn`t research the side effects of allulose. One of it`s side effects is recurring UTI`s. If you don`t have a problem with that,,then OK. But I`m 76 years old and never had a UTI before I used Allulose. Then I went through four antibiotic regimens before it finally went away. Take heed.
I have been using Allulose as a sugar substitute when I make pickles , stew chicken and bake a cake now and then and so far I’ve had no problems .
@@patwalkins2061 Side effects do not hit everyone. But when this one hits,it`s not worth the gamble. I know. Use monk fruit. It`s cheaper and safe and Winco has it in bulk. It`s Just like sugar.
I use allulose in my coffee every day. No problems here.
Thanx for this…I Will take that into consideration ❤
I've never heard of allulose.
Would be curious to know your thoughts on PURE Maple Syrup, Dates, and date powder for sweetening.
Maple syrup is just sugar as are dates they are just high in calories and sugar and will raise your blood sugar just like refined sugar does.
@@pattycarljackson thanks for the info. I am not diabetic and prefer to use maple syrup and dates and date powder. Personal preference.
Date sugar = fructose. Has the same effects as regular sugar in your body.
@@andreah6379, you mean has the same effect as regular FRUCTOSE on your body... Because fructose metabolizes entirely differently from all the other sugars. Fructose is also a net negative for cellular energy and negatively affects your mitochondria
I love Allulose. I don’t use much. Maybe 1-2 tsp a week. No GI upset or issues. I wish soda companies would start using it.
i guess we got to get a masters or every degree there is to get just to eat a meal 🤣😖
Or you can go carnivore. It’s very simple and healing.
Good Lord, these videos are SO GOOD. It is hard to believe how knowledgeable Dr. Liu is, and how fortunate we all are that she is willing to share all this on youtube. I send links to some of these videos to my nutritionist that I work with. Being on a Whole Foods Plant Based diet for the last 6 years has completely changed my life. My cholesterol is at a healthy level, my heart afib has disappeared, my sleep apnea has disappeared, my IBS has disappeared, I've lost 85 lbs, and even my asthma has largely disappeared. Adding to my WFPB lifestyle with this kind of understanding is invaluable. I am going to throw out my jug of agave nectar LOL! THANK YOU DR. LIU!!!! Diet and activity go hand in hand, and are deeply essential to our health. Dr. Liu is helping to make that point in such a profound way. This is by far the best health channel on youtube.
The best cholesterol level is 220 to 240...
@@ActivateMission2ThisTimelinewhy do they say anything over 100 is high then. Honest question.
I did not know that aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde! I know formaldehyde is in some medications and shampoos as a preservative, breast implants and vaccines. Shocking the FDA says it’s completely fine. Thanks for sharing good doc
She also said that suclarose would modify our genes (It doesn't), so this video should be taken with a grain of salt.
This is why you can get a "bad batch" of diet soda sometimes. At least, when it was first put in soda that was true. If the soda got too warm, the sucralose would break down and wasn't sweet anymore. I don't know if this still happens because I don't drink soda anymore and quit drinking diet soda decades ago.
Anything is better that High Fructose Corn Syrup. I avoid anything that has HFCS.
Thank you so much for the effort put into these videos. I have come to all this very late and your detailed, informative and personal explanations are a welcome relief from the UA-cam ocean of opinion and hype. I think all your peers around the country should be aware of the great job you do educating their patients. My doc’s certainly don’t get the time for this kind of education which is critical for people seriously wanting to change their diets and lifestyle. I let them know you’re out there! Keep up the great work!
Wow! Sucrolose is scary! Thanks for breaking down this this toxic sweetener! Great video as usual! 💗💗💗💗
With all due respect, it''s Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins.
Tip to help you with pronouncing erithrytol/and not “your rith ri tol”…imagine you are saying, “air ryth ri tol” …thank you for your content.
Dr., I come here often to listen. You give me information that drives my desire and need to change my diet. It’s a full time struggle, but I persist! (As women do..)
They rate these "sugars" as being sweeter than sugar itself. I can't be the only one that doesn't find them to be sweet?
I really hate them, they taste bitter to me.
Never liked or desired to make these a viable substitute
Could you please add real maple syrup to this list? I'd love your analysis. I enjoy pure date syrup to sweeten my oatmeal.👍🏼 Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative video.✌️🩵💙💚
Bothe are just sugar water. I.e., sucrose. Table sugar. No analysis needed
Now foods organic monkfruit liquid is my choice for rarely needed sweetening of things like iced tea and plain yogurt with strawberries. That's about all I use it for but if you sweeten your coffee this would also be perfect.
Me too
Why would you sweeten yogurt with strawberries? Isn't that enough?
@@frequentlycynical642 Your name checks out.
Here is my question about stevia that no one has been able to answer. When you buy fruit, and see that a bug might have chewed a little on some of the fruit, that is a good thing as it is usually a sign that the fruit is organic. But with stevia, I have been growing it for years, no bugs ever chew on the leaves. Why not? If the bugs don’t want it, should I be using it? So, for that reason, I haven’t grown it for two years. Also, the stevia in the stores, even when it says that it is raw….isn’t. It is green. It’s a leaf. But the store stevia is always white. Nope, that’s not right. Plus, what you buy in the store doesn’t even taste like stevia.
It doesn’t matter what a bug want, bugs don’t want a lot of things whether it’s organic or not, organic doesn’t mean much even on organic food you will find pesticides. Bugs eat feces, are you going to go out and eat feces next, no.
I think you're thinking about that one that says "In the Raw" in big letters across their box. That's just their brand name. None of the other major brands I've seen claim they're 'raw'... And they're all predominantly erythritol anyways
Oh mi god. Bugs eat organic fruit but not non-organic? You really need a brain cleanse
Allulose make more AGEs than what? Sugar?
So which is it? You said aspartame is considered safe up to 50 mg, which would be several Diet Cokes a day plus over 200 pieces of sugar free gum. Then you say how say how dangerous it is and if you drink just have a can a day it’s dangerous. It can’t be both
She also says that suclarose alters our genes, so I would take anything she says with a grain of salt.
@@Emmuzka plus in another video she says about the shape of the pasta effecting how fast the glucose response but I don’t know about everyone else but I chew all of my food.
@@Rachelle-l4m😂😂😂
She said that she uses manuka honey for wound healing........but her answer for this video comes at the very end of this video, she said that eating whole fruit is the best sweetener.
Thank you for your best advice information 👍
As a diabetic I replaced the sugar in my steel cut oatmeal with splenda years ago.
I guess I should go back to brown sugar.
She didn't say anything negative about monk fruit
@@Joe_C.Brown sugar is same as refined white sugar...
You should also check out the glucose godess and ask yourself if oatmeal is good for your as a diabetic.....
I use Monk Fruit Drops, 100% monk fruit extract is the only ingredient. I fist bought the powder & erythritol was the first ingredient listed, so you know whatever is listed first, it has more of that ingredient than anything else. I didn't like the after taste, so l stopped using the powder & bouth the liquid with monk fruit as the only ingredient. Very small container, 1.7oz. It last me about 3 1/2 - 4 months. Only use in coffee. I quit sugar & can't drink bullet coffee.
Monk fruit is a rare sugar. I really hope she does a video on that
This is very confusing information. What is the healthiest sweetener? Saying eating fruit is the healthiest may be true but are you suggesting that cake or other deserts should have nothing sweet except fruit? The title seems to be click bait.
That's why her title mentions, "it's not what you think"!!!!
In my research I have found that rare sugars are definitely the lesser of the evils. She talks about two of them which is stevia, and allulose.
surprising. There is a difference between nectar and honey. If honey is a disinfectant how can it contain botulism spores. Excess moisture in honey can cause fermentation
That’s the only potentially negative aspect of honey. unless you’re making wine. if there is local bee pollen in raw local honey. It certainly helps with allergies. Proven. Maybe just do a video about the bag of Truvia you are holding up in the click bait part of your video. Your video was very incomplete and misleading
No sweetener is the best.
Once you stop sugar (anyway), reduce on stevia, Monkfruit, Erythritol Etc… until ZERO
After some time you will start to taste the natural sweetness of food. Even normal water starts to taste sweet….
I'm doing a happy dance that you did this video on sweeteners. I hope you will talk more about the rare sugars! Especially how they affect the liver.
Unfortunately, I can't put whole fruit in my coffee to sweeten it, so I will rotate a tsp of stevia, honey and raw sugar. Sounds like we should avoid all sweeteners in high amounts and limits use to small amounts if needed. Lol! Thanks for this valuable info.
I switched to tea from my daily moka that included hot chocolate. Many more interesting flavors that don’t give you sugar highs and lows. I’m loving tea.
Most informative. I watched 1000s of videos to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and obesity without toxic medications. Unaware of deadly consequences narrated here, I had consumed diet drinks and low sugar foods loaded with aspartame and sucralose for decades. None of my docs could diagnose what caused my tinnitus, poor digestion, fatty liver, terrible metabolic syndrome .. neuropathy and extreme T2D. Modern medicine is so horrific that they don't teach about diet, environment, stress, sleep are at the root of every metabolic disease. FDA should be shut down. Consuming only whole organic foods (keto diet) at home and intermittent fasting for the last five years has miraculously cured all that was ailing me. I am off all prescription drugs, much to the surprise of my docs. I do use Stevia and Monk Fruit extracts in very limited amounts. There so much hype against cholesterol and saturated fats, when in fact all organs fail because of insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress caused by highly refined, chemically altered and processed foods .. refined carbohydrates, refined and artificial sugars, refined vegetable oils, refined flour and so on.
You are so absolutely correct!! I’ve been following the carnivore way of eating for the last two years and have totally reversed my sugar addiction and other health concerns, including getting off my three blood pressure meds. I had to go all the way to carnivore to get rid of the sugar cravings. Low carb and keto just weren’t enough.
You are soooo wrong! Whole fruits are artificially breed. We've made them into candy. They are loaded with the same sugar in your sugar bowl! Wow!
So true!! The best thing to do is get rid of all sweetness and go low carb, keto, or carnivore!!
My great-grandmother was overweight for the last several decades of her life. She ate white flour, white sugar, and lots of animal fat every single day because she was a farm wife. She lived well into her 80s and when she died she had no diseases.
@@ad6417 I hope you have that good DNA also
Well, billions of other people don't. So what's your point? She played russian roulette and made it quite far.
There is a video on here that explains how nitrates bacon actually cleanse the blood. So farm life has its loopholes maybe. You see a lot of farm families living to old age. Hard work is probably key.
Right on topic. /s NOT!
How do you feel about maple syrup?
Maple sugar is regular sugar as far as it's effects. If you prefer the taste, that's why you would use it. Anybody who claims it's healthier for you is wrong. Basically zero nutrients--only carbohydrates.
@@andreah6379same way all grains actually motabolize as glucose and no one wants to talk about it.
Here we are, born with tastebuds not knowing that "sweet" is meant as a warning, not "OMG THIS IS SO GOOD!!"
❤❤😮😮❤❤😊😊 thanks for your ideas and lessons learned
I bought Monk Fruit without the erythritol on Amazon. She didn’t say anything negative about Monk Fruit, did she?
I can’t so consume any aspartame, it causes me to have migraines, and sucralose is the isomer (mirror image) of the sugar molecule. Not sure how accurate she is on that subject.
My "healthy" sweetener of choice is monk fruit erythritol blend, in which I usually add a couple of teaspoon into my coffee. I rarely add any form of sweeteners to my dishes/meals (unless it's hidden in premade seasoning mixes, or things like sausages). But, should I use sweeteners for cooking/baking, I'll aim for fruits, raw organic cane sugar (unprocessed raw form), honey, and/or maple syrup. Much simpler, and more natural whole food.
Thanks to this video, I'll add sucralose to the no-no "red flag" list like other sugar alcohols I can name from the top of my head (maltitol, dextrose, maltodextrin, sorbitol...).
Which brand of monkey fruit w/erythritol is the one you use? Thanks!
@@deedee2218 I usually go with Lakanto when it's on sale. Otherwise, I go with whatever is cheaper. Have to check the ingredients list and see whether it's organic or not first before buying. I don't consume it a lot.
I can't get allulose, as it's banned in the UK, for some mysterious reason. I tried stevia for the first time recently ... it's absolutely vile! Erythritol tastes OK (you get used to the mintiness eventually, and the laxative effect), but it's ridiculously expensive, as are pretty much all sweeteners, frankly.
Ultimately I just went back to using honey, but I limit my intake to 3 teaspoons max per day. The cheap white label stuff, that's literally made in China, is not honey, it's fake, basically just honey-flavoured corn syrup, but still fraudulently labelled as "honey". However, there's really cheap Polish stuff in huge jars that really is raw honey. It's a bit grainy, but perfect for tea/coffee.
I'm not going back to weird tasting sweeteners.
So in other words you either accept a whole bunch of problems for you body and eat sweet food or you don't and your food becomes monotone and boring but healthy..
The palate will change and foods will taste sweeter.
@@jasminealiara3257 fair enough..
Medjool dates are an excellent way to sweeten foods.
@@PlantBasedPrimary Yes, that's for sure but very expensive. I like buying the whole Daglet Noor dates, sold everywhere. (I don't care for them to eat on their own like a Medjool) and half the price pretty much of Medjool. But ... take the pitted Daglets and mince them in a blender, a sticky and unpleasant job, but rewarding. The goal is to fill wide mouth pint canning jar full and well tamped down (get a god tamping tool for this job and you will have about 1.5 kilo, the heaviest pint jar you are likely to hold) They seem to increase in sweetness and flavor after sitting for a week or so in the jar in their crushed and compacted state. I think they would last a long time, (without refrigeration of course) and actually improve with storage up to say a year. Of course something so good is unlikely to stay around that long, but no one can claim they are not the healthiest sweetener, and most flavorful too.
@@PlantBasedPrimary totally agree !
Do you have any advice for people suffering from interstitial cystitis? Also, if I were working with a coal tar derivative in a laboratory, I would NOT be licking my hands. Ha ha.
Allulose, more like a gas maker.
I didn't think I was picky until I tried to use stevia
I tried Allulose, and found out I’m highly allergic to it.
What about brown rice syrup? A vegan cook I follow says it has a low glycemic index. I am diabetic and a retired R.N. and on insulin.
Research the carnivore way of eating. Hundreds, if not thousands, have reversed their T2D eating that way. Although I don’t have it, I’ve seen great health results for myself by following it for the last two years. My sugar addiction has resolved and I no longer have any cravings for sweetness. It’s such a great feeling of relief!!
I recently discovered that Xylitol is good for your teeth. Can you offer an opinion regarding on products such as gum, mints of toothpaste containing Xylitol?
Bit long....belabor info
Correlation does not imply causation. This video assumes that it does. I stopped watching after she correlated and implied Roosevelt’s earlier death was due to his artificial sweetener consumption. An anecdotal case study of one. How scientific.
And no, I don’t eat artificial sweetener. I don’t work for “big sugar”. I am just a person who understands science communication and this video is far from an unbiased presentation.
This "zero sugar" slogan is collecting bodies. I just recently realized all this madness. Love your video. Straight to the point.
Hot nerd alert.....(forgive me, baby jesus, for what i just did)......great channel, many thanks!...❤
Stevea in ALDI (small packets) is perfect for coffe, cocoa. I make them with Irish butter Shugar drops a little right after . No issues with stevea.
As good as this information is, it really doesn't provide the answer it promises. So, in the end it's clickbait. Saying that whole fruit is the healthiest prompts a "duh" response, but doesn't exactly help when a recipe calls for a sweetener. Assuming it's not black and white, it would more helpful to provide best case sweeteners for a variety of uses. The best piece of information from this post are the max temps for a few of the options.
There are so many issues with stevia. I’ll mention just one: it causes unwanted cell death, not a regenerative outcome but apoptosis, including brain cell death. In this way it is worse than sucralose and aspartame. We have taken MANY patients off stevia (yes all versions of stevia) and within about 3 months they have greatly noticeable improvement in cognition.
What???Seriously? What kind of patients have you,what quantities are we talking about??
What, if anything did you replace Stevia with?
@@silviamonz2062 what are the reactions, if any, you have or you have seen with others when using stevia or any sugar substitues? What do you use in your diet, honey? Aspartame? Sucralose? Maple syrup? Allulose? Monkfruit? Agave? Coconut? Saccharin? Erythritol? Corn syrup? Maltitol? Molasses? Sorbitol? Date? Xylitol? Rice? Dextrose/Glucose? Sucrose? Barley? Fruit juice? Fruit? Cane? Fructose? Lactose? Why would one not use honey and cane sugar instead of substitutes? Can a diabetic eat honey? If yes, how much can they eat daily? Have you used stevia (any type) and then stopped for 3 months? If yes, what happened? How many patients have you treated for dietary and nutritional issues and for how many years? How familiar are you with research on apoptosis due to various sugars and sugar substitutes, including stevia? Is stevia not only a natural plant but is it a natural sugar, including whole leaf? Is it a substance like cane sugar to be replaced or is it a replacement for sugar? Do we burn sugar for fuel? What purpose does sugar serve if any in the body? Does stevia have any nutrition? If yes, what nutrients? What are the possible risks in using stevia besides apoptosis, brain cell death, memory loss and overall cognitive decline? Bladder issues? Cancer? Heart attack? Stroke? What does no calories mean? Once you respond to the above, I’ll offer some more of my time to you.
@@ToddDouglasFox If I have in any way offended you with my reaction and marvel at your original comment I sincerely apologise I was fascinated to find someone to shed a more critical light on stevia, where I live neither Allulose nor Monkfruit are available ,so I rely on Erythrol, Xylitol or Stevia if any ,I tend to generally avoid sugar wherever possible ,one thing the video didn't discuss was yacon I regret that but anyway, don't let me keep you,have a good one
@@silviamonz2062 Silvia Monz, if I know more about your health and thus why you make your sweetener choices, I can offer more input. It’s not about feelings, it’s about health and the ways in which we arrive at health. For example, what is the problem with raw, organic honey for you? That is available everywhere. Are you obese? Diabetic? Elderly? Fit? How do you burn sugar? Do you eat foods that are high in potassium and healthy sodium? Often those with water weight gain, for example, are not getting good potassium/sodium pump action on the outside and inside of the cells. There is much to health. I cannot more strongly recommend against using stevia. I think this is the impetus of your querying my initial comment. Of note: we don’t recommend sugar alcohols either. Yacon can be grown and extracted yourself. But again, why not use honey?
@@ToddDouglasFox I am a vegan ,after bein a vegetarian for over 30 years, lately I noticed being tired in the middle of the day and had a look at the glucose goddess book as well as a ketogenic approach to food ,long story short,I never was a mayor sugar eater,candies,cakes etc. so cutting those out was easy,to cut out pasta and bread I had to bring out the good old discipline but then....how do you make a hemp protein shake with zero sweetness to it ? And here is where we come to fructose fruit AND honey have heaps of it I eat berries in the afternoon but I need a small dose of sweetness in the shake( yet) keto had the side effect that I lost some weight which was not what I was aiming for but wasn't unpleasant either,I have pain in my hands for some years now and I am pretty sure this is not carpal tunnel syndrome even if the doctor says so I am trying to look after the gut and the liver because there must be some inflammation going on and sugar seems to be one player at this now when we say honey,ist there really a mayor difference between conventional and raw?
Stevia is not an option from what I hear from you ,I'll stick to that, believe me, I am so grateful,that I found you mentioning it
This was a GREAT video. Clear, concise, and well-explained. Thank you!
Plastic in our tap and bottled water, poison in our soda and foods. What are we supposed to drink?
Distill water(or reverse osmosis water) into glass is my only conclusion honestly
These are great videos, super intense, because of all the information, but great, if you pause it frequently to allow your brain to process it all. My first takeaway from this is that none of these sweetners are good, but some are decidedly worse. The one thing I wish you had added was to categorize these sweeteners into groups. My takeaway is that some, such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame should be avoided at all times. Some of the others, such as stevia, sugar, erythritol, and monk fruit extract are ok, so long as you keep the quantities small.
Personally, I eat very little sugar, and have a healthy body weight, but I have a friend who is seriously overweight, and I'm trying to help him. I have concluded that his biggest problem is that he works construction, and drinks about 6 bottles of Gatorade a day, which are very high in sugar. I was trying to find an alternative for him, but rejected all the zero calorie ones because of the sucralose. This video confirms that my current recommendation is probably OK, one that has 1/4 the sugar, plus a little monk fruit extract. I found another that contains stevia, and I may recommend that he drinks 3 plain water, 2 of the sugar/monk fruit, and 1 of the stevia a day. That will give him 1/12 as much sugar as he was getting, but will still give him the minerals he needs to work in the sun, plus not too much of any one sweetner.
Thank you for these fine, very, very informative videos.
What was the Gatorade substitute with monk fruit? We use monk fruit in our coffee but work outside a lot and would like a drink like that.
@@PapaA7145 It was a brand called "Hydrant". It does contain some sugar, but only 4g per serving, much less than Gatorade. I found it to be very acidic, however, and it was irritating my gums, so I add about 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda to partially neutralize it, and it is fine. The one with stevia was LMNT, which contains no sugar, but a lot of salt. I bought both on Amazon.
I eat a ton of erythritol daily. Never affected me negatively. And the dentist said my teeth are better than ever because they stopped eating sugar..
Ethyl alcohol and ethanol are the same thing, aren't they? You speak of them as if they are two different compounds.
great information, very helpful. ,
I don‘t think this is a good video because you take absolutely no regard to the dosage used in the cited studies, making any general statement basically useless. Minimising sugar and sweeteners needs like two minutes to state.
I thought honey and monkfruit sugar were healthy. I take honey very morning in an empty stomach according to the advise of a naturopath. I've changed all my sugar to monkfruit sugar. Am I putting my health in danger?
Depends on what your metabolic blood panel looks like. Get testing for your fasting insulin, fasting blood glucose, A1c, and c-peptide and see how metabolically fit you are. Taking all sweetness out of your diet would be best.
@@luanneneill2877 OK, thanks.
Allulose is terrible when it comes to gas and bloating. 100% monk fruit extract works great if you're good with mildly sweetened food or drinks. It tastes bitter when you use too much.
Hi Doc, Equal was my choice of sweetener and then I switched to Spenda when introduced. I'm 74, 5'10" and 158 lbs. I was told years ago to cut my sugar intake as I was close to pre-diabetes. So I carefully watched my diet. But, I refuse to drink my morning coffee without a sweetener. My cup is actually about 13 ounces and I use 1 1/2 packets of Splenda. That equates to 1 tbsp of sugar. Since I can't add fruit to my coffee I only have two choices. Actually three if your advice is to get use to coffee without sugar which is not going to happen. No wait, there is another choice. Reduce the amount of whatever sweetener I use in my coffee. I'll try that. At most I have two coffees/day. Now, should it be sugar or a sweetener? Just found your channel and I have subscribed. Not only do I like your content, I like your delivery. You are easy and enjoyable to listen to. Thanks, James
I stopped adding sugar to my coffee over 50 years ago because of dental issues. Black is the way to go. Sometimes cream for a different ride.
I'm wondering about date syrup and coconut sugar....
Absolutely incredible video!!
Question. Is it sucralose or the maltodextrin in splenda that is the problem?
That's one lecture session in my organic chemistry class. Thanks, Doc.
Sucralose can destroy you gut microbiome. I learned the hard way from personal experience. 😩
Explains the symptoms please
Very thorough and helpful!👍🏽
How can you talk so fast?
Because she's extremely intelligent
You can always slow the video down. I’ve done that on occasion. I’ve also sped up videos- just depends on the channel, and sometimes each individual video.
I have the issues with erythritol that she says most people have with xylitol. I have no issues with xylitol.
Thank you for the information. I will start using fruit in my recipes when possible and eat whole fruits for dessert. I never tried stevia until recently. I think it’s sweeter than table sugar, so I will only use a small amount. I subscribed to your channel today, and I am happy you are sharing your knowledge. Thank you again.
Great video but I’m still waiting for your update to know the best sweetener yet and hopefully sugar free ❣️
Your videos give us a lot to think about. My eating habits are not perfect, but getting much better. Thank you so much ! 🥰🥰🥰
Very comprehensive, nicely done!
Awesome video, thank you.
Honey is natural
So is maple syrup, which is even better for you.
So is poison ivy.
@@PlantBasedPrimary That just hit me funny!
the people in the previous centuries lived on honey
@altagroenewald9094 I don't think anyone would disagree with you, that honey has been consumed forever and it is natural. The video states that it raises glucose levels which can be unhealthy. My husband has it every day and he's fine. 😊
Everything in moderation
So, just boring old fruit...sigh
I just emptied my diet cokes with aspartame and hope I can find something to sub until I can get off them.
Flavored sparkling water or get some sparkling water and put your favorite fruits in it, let it soak and your fruits will fizz!
Sugar. There you don't need to watch.
Cleveland clinic updated their erythritol study with healthy test subjects in August 2024. Does this change your mind? The study found that healthy participants who drank water sweetened with 30 grams of erythritol, a common zero-calorie sweetener, had higher levels of proteins associated with blood clotting than those who drank water sweetened with 30 grams of sugar.
Neither Ingesting 30 grams of erythritol nor 30 grams of added pure sugar or any other sweetener is a good idea. I don’t believe I ever said that in the video. My point is erythritol is made by your body and will increase with stress. It is also naturally found in foods at low levels. Added sugars and sugar substitutes should be kept at low levels.
@@Healthyimmunedoc thanks. So it shouldn't be used as a sugar substitute but the minimal amounts in whole foods is ok?
I watched this whole vid to find out about Splenda and you never mentioned it, what a damn waist of time!
you weren't paying attention... No 3 on the list... Sucralose (Splenda)
Splenda is made of a combination of dextrose, maltodextrin, and sucralose:
Dextrose: Also known as D-glucose, this is a sugar that the body can easily metabolize. Splenda typically contains 95% dextrose by volume.
Maltodextrin: Splenda also contains maltodextrin by volume.
Sucralose: This is a zero-calorie, high-intensity sweetener that's 600 times sweeter than sugar. It's made by replacing three hydrogen-oxygen groups on sucrose (table sugar) molecules with chlorine atoms.
MONKFRUIT! Not Truvia!
Yet another reason I'm a carnivore.