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Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk

medicalxpress.com Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases oxidative stress, disrupts nitric oxide signaling, raises vasoconstrictive peptide production, and d...

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Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

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It seems to not effect my coke zeros lol, think thats the only thing I use with a sugar sub but I def abuse it. Still gotta be better than the calories I used to consume.
- After reading this text, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.
  
  The sweetener in question is erythritol. Coke Zero uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
  Aspartame has shown evidence that it can potentially damage your liver, though.
  
  Sorry I don't speak in a robotic pedantic manner online, I will have chat gpt reframe everything I say from now on.
  Apologies for any informal tone—moving forward, I’ll rephrase my messages through ChatGPT to ensure clearer, more structured communication.
  
  @3dmvr @zr0 gosh chat gpt is so trash
  
  get over yourself

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