Dispelling the Fear: Erythritol and Cardiovascular Risk
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A discussion of the scientific article published yesterday.
The research title:
The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk
Summary: this was a poorly designed study with the authors extrapolating beyond the data.
This research study investigates the long-term effects of erythritol, a commonly used artificial sweetener, on cardiovascular disease risk. It explains that although artificial sweeteners are generally considered safe, little is known about their potential long-term health effects. The study found that erythritol, when consumed at physiological levels, enhances platelet reactivity and thrombosis formation. The video provides an overview of the study's methods and findings, including the association between circulating levels of erythritol and the risk for major adverse cardiovascular events. It also discusses the potential implications of the study's findings and the need for further research to assess the long-term safety of erythritol.
#stroke #erythritol #heartattack #artificialsweeteners
sugar doesnt want competition.
They really want us to be addicted to traditional sugar.
People make themselves addicted to anything, cigarettes, marihuana, sodas, sugars, porn, gaming. Nobody force you, you lack of control over yourself. I’m surrounded by all these things but i don’t use them. I’m in control.
@@footballfans3159I think maybe you missed the point of that comment, although you are right as well.
Thanks be to God for giving some physicians wisdom knowledge discernment and revelation that can stop stupid revelations from doctors who do NOT do research in detail!
God bless you doctors who pay attention!! ❤🙏❤
This is exactly why studies need to be peer reviewed. I have listened to a handful of RUclips experts with a variety of opinions on the subject. This is the first review that is actually showing and explaining the findings of the study. It is so frustrating when you want to do the right thing and consume safe foods. Perhaps a proper study will be conducted in the near future.
Unless the details of studies are not discussed there is no way to say that a given study is valid. Thank you
@@TheBrainDocsYou explained it perfectly. Thank you!
Dr Gil of Nutrition Made Simple also caught and reported on the faulty conclusions made in the media.
Don't fool yourself, peer-review isn't that all what it used to be. It's absolutely been hijacked just as everything else has been. It is not the golden stamp of approval that it once was. Practically anything that It's on The Fringe is automatically thrown in the garbage. And people who just have a name behind them are often put through. There's been groups of people that have written up bogas studies just to show that peer review is bullshit. Studies such as claiming that dog parks condone and perpetuate rape culture.... Along with countless other ridiculous things. They all got peer-reviewed and put through... Because they all pandered to some type of Hot topic talking point
Your comment might be misleading. I doubt the article mentioned wasn't peer reviewed, afaik that's the standard for any scientific institution that publishes in major scientific magazines.
But peer review isn't exactly bullet proof, rather far from it.
Safety rules never guarantee safety, it's that simple.
Thank you for clearing this up. I was very concerned when I read about the study. Didn’t think it was right but you cleared it up.
Study brought to you by International Sugar!
Exactly 💯
@@jamescalifornia2964 sugar companies own mass produced synthetic sweetener erythritol too...they use it as a bulk ingredient because it's so cheap (made mostly from gmo corn and 95% is processed and manufactured in China) I think both sugar and erythritol are bad
Sugar lobby goonies trying to get their profits back!
@@longbeach225 sugar substitute manufactures/companies are huge part of "Big Food" too...they're all bad...avoid mass produced synthetic products and then we win against them (95% of erythritol is produced in China and mostly from GMO corn..not a health food either, it may even have worse side effects)
Seriously someone needs to follow the money on this one.
The data was obtained from a ONE-DAY food questionnaire. That's about as WEAK as it gets regarding credible scientific validation.
Still everything in moderation 👍🏼 Thank you !
Much better get rid of sugars of any kind
Thanks I feel better now. I have been using erythritol for years in moderation for occasional sweet desserts on my keto
How do you use it in daily life and which one is it?
I started baking keto sweets using erythritol and almond flour for my sweet-toothed diabetic husband. It bakes well and the sweets (scones, muffins, cakes) are very tasty.
Thank you for this very helpful explanation of the actual studies that were conducted.
Thanks so much this video. As a type 2 diabetic trying to make lifestyle changes, your analysis was greatly appreciated in the midst of this information/misinformation overload I'm dealing with.
This put me more at ease. I saw an alarming article on this literally after I just got done making a cheesecake with erythritol in it. Thank you doctor!
The fact mainstream media is saying it's harmful makes me believe it's better than usual sweetners..like aspartame to name one. Thanks Doc!
Mainstream media has nothing to do with it. Studies (actual valid, peer-reviewed and replicated studies) show it MAY be harmful. It has not been studied long enough to come to a hard conclusion. However, conversely, it has not been studied long enough to prove it ISN'T harmful.
Maybe if you ever get an actual degree in science you might understand the difference.
@@teridonovan705
Always one 'would be' smart arse! Mainstream science is a thing too you know!
"Trust the science".......where have I heard that before..oh yeah through all the bs convid propaganda!
@@teridonovan705 "Maybe if you ever get an actual degree in science you might understand the difference." - nothing he wrote indicates he doesn't understand the difference. Maybe if you ever learn how to understand what you read properly...........
@@brunonkowalski Maybe if you had a brain you would check and see I have THREE DEGREES in science. And this "study" needs a link to a VALID, PEER-REVIEWED study.
@@teridonovan5588 I have a brain, that's why I couldn't care less about your THREE DEGREES in science. I care about what I see, and I see a guy who doesn't understand what he reads, as evidenced by each of your subsequent responses.
Thank you. So glad to get clarification from a trusted source. Love you guys!
Thank you for this important information!!!! What a flawed study!
Who sponsored the study?
Thank you for the update. We use Orgain protein powder in our smoothies which has erythotol. We have been vegans for over 10 years. Although I don’t use erythotol anymore because it’s made in China.
My first question regarding any such study: Who funded it?
I wonder if the regular table sugar industry funded this study, sounds like a hit piece more than anything else.
there are probably studies that show engine oil is ok to use in salad dressing🤣
I cut off white sugar only 5 months ago.
I am still hesitating to use erythritol because I am scared. The name sounds a little « chemical » to me so I need reassurance from you please.
Is it safe to use it for the whole family, including kids? I don’t bake cakes and cookies every day!
What did you find out? Are you using Erythritol?
Another issue with epidemiological studies like this is that they do not show the direction of causality. Does high consumption of non-caloric sweeteners cause problems like diabetes or obesity...or do people who have diabetes or obesity choose non-caloric sweeteners in order to deal with their diabetes or to lose weight?
The gold standard is human randomized controlled trials, in which what the subjects eat is determined. But even there, problems can damage the study results. For instance, a study might decree a diet that matched calories between test and control groups, by adding in some extra calories elsewhere for the test group using a non-caloric sweetener. Sounds reasonable, right? But that would not tell us what happens in the real-world situation, where people are choosing non-caloric sweeteners in order to reduce their calorie intake. And the fact that extra calories were added with increased amounts of some other food is itself a confounding factor.
There are methods for determining causality even when it is not possible to construct a randomized controlled trial -- these come from the field of econometrics, which deals with human subjects in situations where it would be unethical to randomize, or where blinding wasn't possible (e.g. in a medical treatment study where a placebo was not feasible, such as when the test group was receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy -- patients will know if they are receiving chemo or not, and it is not ethical to give fake chemo that causes deleterious side effects, but has no anti-cancer action), or where people assigned as controls might decide to take actions on their own that mimic the test treatment. Designing such studies is tricky but doable. Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019 for their work applying econometrics to study interventions to alleviate poverty.
Following your channel from now on. This was super helpful, concise, informative and accessible. Much appreciated.
It's an Erythritol outbreak!!! Somebody, gimme a donut!
And a lot of these articles say it’s artificial which it is not.
Thank you Doctor. Excellent review. The first question that came to mind when hearing about this study was how did they account for the fact that this population was already at high risk for cardiac events. The answer seems to be that they didn't. That they didn't even confirm that the population was or was not ingesting high amounts of erythritol seems incredible. What we seem to have is another associative study that doesn't prove causation. Certainly, another example why you must never place a large amount of faith in any one study. Remember the big study that had all the cardiologists prescribing omega 3 fish oil to stem cardiac events. Analysis of follow on studies could not confirm the effectiveness of the omega 3 in reduction of the cardiac events.
ThNk you for the levelheaded clarity,God bless you
Thank you for this excellent critique. Who paid for this study? Why? What are their goals? I'm very suspicious of the sponsor and the study design (which you demolished quite nicely).
Thank you for this info on the study. Also, Monk fruit is a great alcohol sugar that does not increase glycemic index. Great for keto.
In the sixties the government went crazy, and pulled Saccharin off of the shelves, only to be brought back under the name of Aspartame!!!😮
I've listened to enough opinions on this issue, but if Dr Sherzai, a source I trust, states these were poorly designed, overhyped studies, I'll go with that.
Thank you for not oversimplifying for us laymen. I very much appreciate your giving us the true scientific picture!
Shame on the cleveland clinic. 15 minutes of fame, years of regret.
A single pint of keto ice cream has over 30g of erythritol. It was a bit odd how you framed the whole argument how diets weren't looked at... until the last study which did... where everyone who ingested less erythritol than a single pint of ice cream showed increased clotting for days.
While this definitely needs more study, the industry's reaction to this being nothing seems very flippant.
Study is flawed because of selection bias. What group of people are most likely to be consuming "sugar-free" sweets? Overweight people who by definition will be at a higher risk of adverse cardiac events. So no big surprise to find a correlation between people ingesting erythritol and cardiac events. That said, I am a bit concerned that unlike other artificial sweeteners that pass through your GI tract, 90% or erythritol gets absorbed into your blood stream and ends up in your urine via the kidneys.
Thank you for your video. Short, informative and easy to understand.
Honestly we are not doctors - you just spoke in riddles, can you just speak normal layman language and tell us in simple sentences. Dont understand one word you said. Is it good or bad ?
Thanks, this is in my monster zero sugar energy drinks. I feel better now.
Thank you. I feel so much better. I used in my morning coffee 2 tsp day. The sensational press was alarming. Much appreciated 🙏
To me it tastes terrible and upsets my stomach….y’all are welcome to it, I’ll pass.
Have you updated this discussion? Do you have any info on the recent xylitol study?
Sadly, the damage has apparently been done. Purecane, the best tasting sweetener on the market, has just announced they are shutting down. As a sweet tea junkie, it has been instrumental in lowering my A1c to normal range and keeping it there for 3 years. Since sweet tea is my last remaining indulgence and cutting it is off the table, guess I'll be needing to find an Endocrinologist now.
Can you please make a video about the 2024 study that came out?
Bet it was study was sponsored by the sugar industry.
the reason it causes heart attacks is because it happens to people with problems already. when i have this sweetener i get really low blood pressure, and it makes me feel drowsy as if i just came out of a very hot bath.
And ...No recalls from stores with products that have erythritol in them..hmmm
Doubt they’d ever recall it (they know cigarettes cause cancer and they’re still being sold). However I’ve seen some monk fruit on the shelves with “erythritol free” on the packaging recently
@@leahrezendes977 I did see Monk fruit at a Walmart.. however it had erythritol in it
They say the same about xylitol now 😂😂😂😂 funny isn’t it?
"What else can we blame the heart attacks and blood clots on?"
Thank you so much for this info!! I was so bummed when I watched Dr Gregor’s video yesterday. Great clarification from you! Of course it’s the food!!
Thank you for your time prepping this and informing us!
A 0 cal sugar helps loose weight? Gaso who knew
Thank you for this analysis! It is very helpful
Thank you SO much for this!! So helpful! ❤️
Bad science seems to be the norm now
Brody Throughway
Any consensus on a daily recommended dose for those with normal metabolic rates? Bubblr has 7 grams. Just curious how many I can have a day.
Am I missing the link to the actual study? Or did they (conveniently) not provide it?
Thanks for helping my think more critically about this study, and also potentially others coming around. I will refer to this channel in order to gather more info on gratuitously released studies whose findings may be misleading! Thanks again brain Docs!!
I think many injections need to be reviewed for the safety. I would not worry too much about erythritol.
Interesting, I watched one video where the Dr. surmised that the high amounts of erythritol in the patients for this study was not due to ingesting it but rather a body's physical response to a poor diet to begin with--and the response itself was to help the body deal with high sugars, bad fats, etc. I agree more studies need to be done.
Hi Doc, thank you for this video. However, when I read the article, Dr Hazen said that the discovery between erythritol and cardiovascular issues were purely accidental, but I like your point that they did not look at the diets of the people imvolved in the study. I will continue to read more on this...the info is an eye-opener.
It is not pulled from the market in the EU, and the EU is very strict on food safety.
Thank you, Doc, for explaining this.
I am not diabetic I’m just trying to find a sugar that doesn’t put calories into your body
Doesn't the study still prove that there is higher risk of cardiovascular issues if a person has higher levels of Erythritol though? So if that's the case, increasing those levels by eating food with Erythritol in it would make those levels go up then though right? Meaning, if you had a diet with Erythritol in it you're increasing your risk of cardiovascular issues then? I guess I'm not understanding what was misrepresented, I apologize I'm dumb
Not at all. Erythritol is produced by your body when you consume glucose it is also produced when there's oxidative stress in your body caused for example by alcohol. High amount of Erythritol in your body can be an effect of something bad happening not the cause of it.
Good job and thanks for this valuable information.
Also, and most importantly, the body produces Erythritol!
She mentioned that
body produce carbon dioxide too but too much will kill you
it cause plt agreggation
It’s all sweeteners had that in it
Beautiful review
Thank you!!
i just had stoke and drank a lot coke zero
Thank you so much ❤️
Very helpful. Thank you.
As a totally healthy individual, I was hospitalized for clotting of the coronary vessels due to intake of ERYTHRITOL for the past few months.
My wife suffered from severe headaches when she first started using this sweetener it was soon recognize from her blood test this was the cause 👍👍
Was the intake of this definitively contributory to your condition?
Thank you
Did you take the clot shot?
@@mbwilson8592💯
How many boosters have you got already?
erthitol is not safe i was suffering from constant lums under armpits i stopped using erthitol now am totally fine
She really threw the researchers under the bus by saying they thought "this is so cool" and this was a weird/strange study. Have some more respect for your peers. She also said it was poor quality evidence then ended the video with a bunch of assumptions also not based on high quality evidence. Sorry if you are going to be critical i can do the same to you.
I was for about a year, adding three (3) packs per day of the yellow Splenda to my daily Greek yogurt concoction when I learned about the possible (negative) effects it may have on cardiovascular issues. Since my family has some history of high cholesterol issues, I decided to look into something else, and switched to Splenda's Monk Fruit product. Literally one day after the switch, I learned that it had Erythritol in it, and when I researched that and immediately found the press reports on this study, I thought, "Oh damn! I went from maybe killing myself with artificial sweeteners, to absolutely killing myself with them!" 😱
I read several alternate opinions of the study, and many/most of them offered the same questions you do in this video-- basically questioning the voracity of the study. So this is a looong winded way of saying, "Thank you." Maybe you can do a video offering your opinion about the class of sweetners that fall into the category of sugar alcohols-- that seems to be another area of general controversy/disagreement.
The big soda companies are implementing their biased findings
After having shortness of breath and no other symptoms they sent me to a cardiologist and gave me a stent with only a 40% occlusion then sent me home, after weeks with issues and more testing they said it was in my head . After another month of issues I was a zombie and couldn't remember anything and was a lost soul. They sent me for a brain scan and told me I had a stroke . After 2 months of nuclear tests, blood test, stress,..... they said there was nothing wrong with my heart . I did a lot of research and narrowed it down to Stevia sweetener with erythritol that I use in my 4 cups of coffee a day. It is now Jan 2024 and after 3 weeks all symptoms are dissipating . I am a keto dieter and only have coffee in the morning , may be a factor . All in all None of the 8 or so doctors of medical facilities could find this . I am very happy to find this is my problem and will use Stevia without Erythritol. Hope this helps .
Sponsored don’t trust this.
I don't like the condescending attitude in this review. I don't think any "Doc" should encourage or imply that there followers should not pay attention or dismiss this study. I feel like a lot of people on RUclips want to act like they're smarter than the scientists performing the study. The study is not flawed it's simply ongoing. The fact is the study is not complete and more important relevant trials are taking place now. First there was a "starting point" which showed very strong corellation. Then a "pilot study" w/ingesting erythritol. This is how good studies progress. They never said they proved causation. What they did say is that normally they don't warn people (sound the alarm) this early on but the results were so alarming, that they thought it would be in peoples best interest to give a warning of potential dangers now. I know I'm glad they did, because I will throw this garbage mass produced synthetic sweetener in the trash (regardless of the final outcome.) I never realized what I was putting into my body. Erythritol is made mostly from gmo corn and 95% is manufactured in China. It's so cheap they use it as a "bulking agent" and sneak it into junk foods and other better quality natural sugar substitutes. I have seen many opinions on this study and the responsible people are at least warning people with pre-existing conditions to either avoid or cut back on consumption for now. Why make a statement that this was a poorly constructed, strange study ..this is only your opinion and encourages people to ignore any warnings. While the study is still ongoing and the verdict is not determind yet? What if some of your followers have pre-existing conditions like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes. Also if your body produces it as a response to health problems , then why would we want to eat a synthetic form of it? (Look at how many unhealthy products remain on the market today...it takes forever for the truth to come out... no one needs to eat it, why put yourself at risk..just use something else )
---Bottom line erythriltol may turn out to pose a health danger, studies are leaning this way and no one knows what the ongoing trials will show definitively...
Hmm I really wanted to like erythritol as aspartame, sucrose/sucralose, and saccharin all damage the gut biome among other problems. And I know Stevia is insanely sweet so they dumb it down with erythritol. What higher quality sweeteners can you recommend?
@@thomasnunya1438 I use pure organinc stevia powder or monk pure monk fruit drops (haven't heard too much bad about them yet LOL)
@@leahrezendes977same
Can it cause burning of the lips 👄
A complete garbage "study", that had a preconceived outcome, and was designed to give the desired results.