So I was wondering, since the fasting process can be interrupted by artificial sweeteners,due to increasing your insulin levels, does the artificial sweetener from your toothpaste increase the insulin levels as well?
This is a similar question to the sugar free gum, but in this case with something that actually most of us do in a daily basis, in my case I use Colgate Max White Charcoal, which has a lot of chemicals, and I believe some of these might be sweeteners.
I usually brush my teeth 3 times a day when fasting for days, since I also drink a lot of coffee, but might it be sufficient to affect my fast?
Obviously I do not swallow the toothpaste, but it indeed gives a sugar taste in the mouth afterwards, so this is just out of curiosity.
Dentist here! Don’t eat your toothpaste and you should be good. Some negligible amount of sweetener could theoretically be absorbed sublingually, but usually you’re not holding piles of toothpaste under there. And if you’re eating enough toothpaste that you’re digesting the sweetener, you’re definitely eating too much fluoride in your toothpaste. Which brings us back to the original headline: don’t eat your toothpaste!
perhaps, but the cost of not brushing your teeth is too great. Bacteria build up faster when you don’t brush them away. You can look for sugar free sweeteners but the amount used is honestly negligible.
I heard Dr. Fung address this in an interview one time and he said that it could raise insulin, just like many things can during the day, but it doesn’t have nearly the same effect as eating does and it doesn’t break a fast.