Artificial sweeteners

I’ve been seeing quite a bit of people mention that they put various artificial sweeteners into their black coffee in the morning Just wanted to give a heads up, that artificial sweeteners are shown to provoke an insulin response. [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/) Those who are hoping to achieve deep autophagy, this can be detrimental to your efforts. Just thought I’d spread the word!

Answer

I used artificial sweeteners a lot, mainly Splenda. Also, I tend to drink coke zero which uses Sucralose I believe.

I used to think that it wouldn’t affect me when I’m dieting since it’s just 0 calories, however, I just listened to a podcast from Dr. Rhonda Patrick that is having me rethink this.

You can find it here: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/eran-elinav and go to the 35 minute mark. He talks about the sweeteners effect on the microbiome, and how indirectly this can cause issues.