Should You STOP Erythritol? (Erythritol causing Heart Attacks?)

[IroNat]

Erythritol is used as a sugar substitute in many diet and keto processed foods.

Beware!

[The Keto Kid]

Should stop all artificial sweeteners in general, bodybuilders drink diet soda all day, Crystal Light in their water jugs, it's in all pre workout, post workout, greens drinks, fiber supplements,, and protein powders. Just constantly loading up their bodies with this shit, then wonder why they have digestive issues, they have bloating.

[Lartinos]

Sounds like BS.

[Rusty Trombone]

Dafuk is erythritol....

Lots of real sugar ie diabetes causes far more of them, that I am sure.

[beakdoctor]

I read that your body recognizes the sweetness (whether it's a zero calorie/zero carb sugar substitute or real sugar/simple sugar) and associates it with an insulin response and releases insulin anyway.

I don't know that to be 100% correct but in theory seems accurate.

[BlackMetallic]

I read that your body recognizes the sweetness (whether it's a zero calorie/zero carb sugar substitute or real sugar/simple sugar) and associates it with an insulin response and releases insulin anyway.

I don't know that to be 100% correct but in theory seems accurate.

Just had a conversation with a gastroenterologist yesterday who said the same exact thing

[Grape Ape]

Should stop all artificial sweeteners in general, bodybuilders drink diet soda all day, Crystal Light in their water jugs, it's in all pre workout, post workout, greens drinks, fiber supplements,, and protein powders. Just constantly loading up their bodies with this shit, then wonder why they have digestive issues, they have bloating.

Yup.  It's one of the easiest things to cut out.

It's so easy to stick to eating when you go the carnivore/primal/keto route - the foods are delicious.  It's not a chore at all.

[The Keto Kid]

Yup.  It's one of the easiest things to cut out.

It's so easy to stick to eating when you go the carnivore/primal/keto route - the foods are delicious.  It's not a chore at all.

Absolutely, I mean it's just common sense, putting in fake chemical man made artificial sweeteners just can't be good for the human body, none of this shit is found in nature, not sure where this craze started with bodybuilders but it definitely wasn't the 70s.

[YngiweRhoads]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQQXcNoq6Z/

Erythritol is produced endogenously.

Can't pronounce it? It must be bad. Big words bad.

[Rambone]

Everything in moderation my nikkas. (Including poison)

[The Keto Kid]

Why use a concentrated processed chemical sweetener? You want to sweeten something, use raw unfiltered honey, organic maple syrup.

[loco]

Truvia is advertised as Stevia Leaf, but if you look at the ingredients it's mostly Erythritol.

[loco]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQQXcNoq6Z/

Erythritol is produced endogenously.

Can't pronounce it? It must be bad. Big words bad.

So is glucose, yet high levels of it over a long period of time will make you very sick and eventually kill you.

[IroNat]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQQXcNoq6Z/

Erythritol is produced endogenously.

Can't pronounce it? It must be bad. Big words bad.

Watch the video and learn.

[loco]

Should stop all artificial sweeteners in general, bodybuilders drink diet soda all day, Crystal Light in their water jugs, it's in all pre workout, post workout, greens drinks, fiber supplements,, and protein powders. Just constantly loading up their bodies with this shit, then wonder why they have digestive issues, they have bloating.

Agreed.

[IroNat]

Truvia is advertised as Stevia Leaf, but if you look at the ingredients it's mostly Erythritol.

I have a bag of Stevia from Aldi and contains Maltodextrin instead of Erythritol.

Maltodextrin is sugar.

I use about 1 tsp in my shake.

[loco]

I have a bag of Stevia from Aldi and contains Maltodextrin instead of Erythritol.

Maltodextrin is sugar.

Yup, and there is dextrose(a simple sugar) in Splenda, Equal, Sweet'N Low, and some Stevia sweeteners too.  It's the very first ingredient in these.



Dextrose is in iodized salt too.  It all adds up quick if one doesn't pay attention.

[loco]

I never liked Erythritol anyway.  It gives me gas.  On a animal-based keto diet, I rarely have gas and bloating anymore and I love it.  I never want to go back to that.

If I must artificially sweeten something, I prefer pure sucralose in liquid form because it takes only a couple small drops to sweeten a cup of coffee or a glass of seltzer water.

Monk Fruit is supposed to be more natural and healthier, but it takes 20 to 30 drops to do the job.  Same with pure, liquid Stevia.  Stevia is too bitter for my taste too.

[joswift]

I have a bag of Stevia from Aldi and contains Maltodextrin instead of Erythritol.

Maltodextrin is sugar.

I use about 1 tsp in my shake.

Not really

Although maltodextrin is deemed safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Cleveland Clinic researchers found that maltodextrin alters gut bacteria. The additive with the normal digestive process causes the bacteria to adhere to the layers of cells that line the intestines – a characteristic of IBD.

I use sweetners for hot drinks, believe it or not its for the texture and not the taste
Without sugar or sweetners drinks are not "round" enough..

If you know what I mean you know...

[YngiweRhoads]

Watch the video and learn.

Watch the video I posted and learn.

[IroNat]

I never liked Erythritol anyway.  It gives me gas.  On a animal-based keto diet, I rarely have gas and bloating anymore and I love it.  I never want to go back to that.

If I must artificially sweeten something, I prefer pure sucralose in liquid form because it takes only a couple small drops to sweeten a cup of coffee or a glass of seltzer water.

Monk Fruit is supposed to be more natural and healthier, but it takes 20 to 30 drops to do the job.  Same with pure, liquid Stevia.  Stevia is too bitter for my taste too.

Same as far as gas.  Pretty amazing.

[IroNat]

Not really

I use sweetners for hot drinks, believe it or not its for the texture and not the taste
Without sugar or sweetners drinks are not "round" enough..

If you know what I mean you know...

Swifty, my bad. You are correct.

Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide.

A recent study indicates that all the artificial sweeteners alter the gut biome so it's probably best to avoid al of them.

https://www.medicinenet.com/is_maltodextrin_a_sugar/article.htm

https://www.thoughtco.com/polysaccharide-definition-and-functions-4780155

A polysaccharide is a type of carbohydrate. It is a polymer made up of many sugar subunits, called monosaccharides. Polysaccharides may be linear or branched. They may consist of a single type of simple sugar (homopolysaccharides) or two or more sugars (heteropolysaccharides).

[IroNat]

Watch the video I posted and learn.

Not on Instragram unfortunately.

Erythritol is produced by the body and is also present in various foods naturally.

However, it is produced by the body and present naturally in minute amounts.

The amount consumed by people in processed foods and through the use of artificial sweeteners is 1,000 of times these amounts.

One can of diet soda with erythritol has approx. 30 grams which is amount used in the recent study.

Lots of people consume many times that every day.

Erythritol has been shown to make blood sticky and thus more prone to clotting.

[Rambone]

The heavier hitters in nutrition are debunking this garbage.

[The Keto Kid]

The whole concept is absolutely ridiculous, bodybuilders taking thyroid meds, clenbuterol, hgh, steroids...eat rice with every meal, but are terrified of real sugar. You really need to use that Splenda on your oats? You can't just use a tablespoon of raw unfiltered honey? You need to use that sugar free jelly in your cream of rice, you can't use a tablespoon of organic maple syrup? It's laughable.