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Luckily I find the taste of aspartame very off-putting. Please don’t take my sucralose.
I love being a human lab rat for capitalist America 🙆🏻♂️
America: nuh uh in fact aspartame gives you a 6 pack we just discovered
In other news, blood Is red. Jk. In all seriousness we have known aspartame causes issues for awhile now
wtf I literally had a diet coke for the first time in my life the other day, and this comes up? Am I gonna get cancer now???
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Looks over at his Sweet N Low packets 😬
(I know, saccharin vs aspartame)
I had thought there was recently some bad news about saccharin as well. Had a conversation with a friend the other day where we were making the opposite distinction and talking about how aspartame was the safe one.
At this rate I'll go back to sugar and find out it's also carcinogenic.
I'm not sure because I think more studies need to be done.
What I do know is I never liked diet coke or anything with artificial sweeteners. Never drank them. But when I got cancer I craved it. During chemo it was the only thing I could drink without issue. So there's that.
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Causes it, or possibly causes it? Seems like they should get their ducks in a row and find out conclusively?
There is no "conclusively".
What do you mean by "causes cancer"? Do you mean "any quantity at all causes immediate cancer in all people"? Because nothing does. Do you mean "some quantity over any time period causes cancer in some people?" Because almost everything does (just ask California).
The latter is probably closer to what they mean. But we don't consume gallons of aspartame daily for 50 years.
So the real question is "what is the risk when consumed in realistic quantities?" And it turns out there is almost no risk.
I am curious whether this will actually impact what is considered safe to consume on a daily basis.
Again, many things are unhealthy and carcinogenic in large quantities. The infamos study showed that Aspartame was causing cancer in mice but the amounts they were given would be like humans eating bags of it every day.
This post might get buried, but I feel it needs to be said.
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor agonists cause excitoxity, resulting in neuronal death:
NMDA and Glutamate Evoke Excitotoxicity at Distinct Cellular Locations in Rat Cortical Neurons In Vitro / "We hypothesized that exogenous glutamate is toxic neu- rons under these circumstances by activating somatic receptors exclusively (Speliotes et al., 1994). In the present study, we provide experimental evidence that directly supports this hypothesis."
Asparatame binds to NMDA sites:
Effect of aspartame on N-methyl-D-aspartate-sensitive L-[3H]glutamate binding sites in rat brain synaptic membranes "These in vitro findings suggested that aspartame may act directly on the N-methyl-D-aspartate-sensitive glutamate recognition sites in the brain synaptic membranes."
There are many sources which indicate that aspartame also compromises the blood-brain barrier, which is not exactly a good thing (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5617129/)
Make of this what you will, but our brains produce as much glutamate as we need. In case of head trauma such as stroke, it produces too much, which results in cell death and probably a lot of the disability following a stroke.
I don't think we need any extra NMDA agonists in our diet, but then again I'm just a layman in this area.
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