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Hello! does erythritol breaks fasting??

I just bought a product that is mixed erythritol with stevia to use on my coffee and i wonder if its breaks fasting

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Thomas DeLauer has a couple of videos where he goes into detail bout the various sweeteners and whether or not they are fasting safe and keto safe. I link them here and I highly recommend checking them out:

What Breaks a Fast

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It can. Some people’s insulin levels don’t respond to artifical or fruit based zero calorie sweetners. Most people’s insulin does spike. Your body associates sweet with calorie dense food so it surges insulin in anticipation of accommodating all those anticipated calories.

If you are fasting for weightloss the insulin spikes are counter productive. Fasting for weightloss is all about keeping glucose low which results in lower insulin levels.

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