Artificial Sweeteners and Gut Microbiome

Can I actually make the story a little bit worse than that actually? Yeah, bring it on. Because a lot of branching mastids are artificially sweetened, aren't they? Yeah. I did a paper the week, I recorded it a couple of days ago. We talked about a paper from Nature 2014 where they took the artificial sweeteners. you give it to animal studies and humans, and it changes the gut microbiome, which independently, without the branch amino acids, causes insulin resistance on its own. And they gave, you know, they've given rats, for example, changed their microbiome, and they've changed it back by giving them an antibiotic, a polyabsorbent like vancomycin. And that kills the microbes in the gut, and their insulin resistance goes back to normal after, you know, an ingestion of sweeteners. So that's really interesting. that the sweetness and the branch stains cause insulin resistance. There's a really important point you've got to add on to that, though, for the Facebook haters. Oh, what? Because, remember in that study, but remember in the study, okay, so you know on Facebook, I've seen it in the forums, you mention sweetener and the whole world goes mad. Like you just said, I hate your mum. And these people go, like, man. I will defend my other people from sweetener to the death. Yeah, I know, I know. It's science. And that's the one thing that people go nutso over. And I guess I just really want everyone to know, good on you you're all actually correct because what this study shows some humans when they had the sweeteners with their particular microbiome did not get insulin resistance so when they had sweeteners part of their comprep and in their body they did not get these weird insulin effects some other people did yeah so when you see someone on facebook and that or on a forum or whatever saying i personally feel bad you know i get a bad reaction on sweeteners it has an insulin effect and my customers and my clients, I tell them not to use artificial sweeteners because I suspect there's a problem. They're right. If you're one of those people that goes on and says, oh, I can have sweeteners all the time and look at me, I'm shredded and I'm awesome and all my customers have it too because they don't like water and they're right as well. But just got to understand that some people react, some people don't. The crazy thing is people are different and their microbiomes are even more different. So just accept the fact that there's differences out there. Don't go hating on people because your body responds differently to their body. It's like, okay, two people smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. One lives to 105, the other one dies at 30 of cancer. You know, I mean, again, you say all things are equal, but you can tell some people's resilience, some people's makeup, their microbiome, which we're learning a lot about now, is as different as a fingerprint. Some people have got an incredibly hard constitution. Other people have got a weak one. So therefore, some of those things that people put in, I don't like artificial sweetness for a whole host of reasons, not just the way that it affects the microbiome for other things that it can do. And some are worse than others, which we did a podcast on. And some of them are actually cool. Non-nutritive sweeteners can be actually quite beneficial, like erythritol. It's actually got some great benefits for the gut. But you're right. We're all individuals. And again, so long as you can work things out. Sometimes you can't paint everyone with the same brush. But there are standards, I guess, that you can look at and work out. Is that affecting me? And then you can rule it in or rule it out. Exactly. And foods are different and people are different. You know, I drive up here with Mick from time to time, Mick Daly, who's Superman. Let's call him Superman. Mr. Southport. Yeah, he is too. And seven times Mr. Australia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But forget that. Mr. Southport. And, you know, his eating is questionable. Okay.

let's face it, and he still looks great. So he can have this beautiful resistance against bad food. And yet if someone else had that, that'd be huge. And this is a frustration, I think, a lot of time when people are doing the right thing. They're eating well, they're training well and all the rest of it, but yet they're not seeing the results of somebody who's putting in half the effort with half the interest in diet. And then they assume they're lying. That's right. You're not getting the results that I expect. You liar. You're cheating. You're stealing bickies. Yes. That sort of thing. Life's not fair. yeah you said it was supposed to be it's not supposed to be you know if you didn't pick the right parents then you're you're screwed you know so but the nice thing is you can always you can always take control over your own health that's the nice thing about i mean you don't have control of your genetics but you have control of the epigenetics to a certain point you can control the environment and a lot of people they don't control the environment enough and they think that after three weeks of dieting they should be seeing something but it's like you know it could take you it could take you a year to get better and a lot of the people i see are the physique athletes that mess themselves up doing really dumb shit. And I get girls coming to me that are training 21 hours a week. They're, they're eating like seven to 900 calories a day. Then they end up getting injured. They put on 20 kilos in a couple of months and they, they're like, they come to me and I say, listen, it's going to take at least probably 90 to 120 days just to get you feeling better. And you've got about a 12 to 18 month recovery. And they're like, well, I did it in 12 weeks before. And I go, yeah. And that's why you're in the position you're in now. somebody can screw you up in 12 weeks it may take me 12 months to get you even even halfway there