Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Why Artificial Sweeteners Are Worse Than Sugar

27 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video arguing that artificial sweeteners (e.g., Diet Coke) provoke the oral microbiome to trigger insulin release despite absence of glucose, which the speaker claims leads to insulin resistance and diabetes—therefore replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners may harm metabolic health.

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We as humans are really, really stupid. We created something called artificial sweeteners. And when we drink Diet Coke, our oral microbiome tells the body start releasing insulin. Insulin is supposed to digest glucose. There is no glucose in this artificial sweetener. And all this insulin now is in our body. And next thing we know, we become insulin resistance and we develop diabetes. So we drink Diet Coke because we think somehow sugar is bad for us and we are actually harming ourselves by doing it.