
But what happens when you consume artificial sweeteners? Similarly to sugar, artificial sweeteners activate taste receptors in your gut, causing the release of incretins and insulin. So, your body initially responds to artificial sweeteners the same way it would to sugar. However, artificial sweeteners do not actually deliver on their promise of calories because they are, for the most part, not absorbed into the bloodstream. At least in animal studies, the consumption of artificially sweetened diets has been shown to increase adiposity (fat deposition), drive hyperinsulinemia (insulin spikes) and cause insulin resistance during diet-induce…
A famous, old quote by the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus says: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” In other words, we live in a universe of change: matter changes, the mind changes, and the interact…