From Healthline: “Artificial sweeteners won’t raise your blood sugar levels in the short term. So, drinking a can of Diet Coke, for example, won’t cause a rise in blood sugar.
However, in a 2014 studyTrusted Source, researchers fed mice artificial sweeteners for 11 weeks. This led to negative changes in gut bacteria that increased blood sugar levels.
Researchers implanted the bacteria from these mice into germ-free mice and found that their blood sugar levels also increased.
Interestingly, the scientists were able to reverse the increase in blood sugar levels by changing the gut bacteria back to its previous state.
It’s theoretically possible that artificial sweeteners can raise blood sugar levels by negatively affecting gut bacteria, but these results haven’t been tested or replicated in humans.”
When you smell food, your body can start to salivate and prepare itself for the thought of eating said food. So if your body has Chemical reactions just by the smell of food, thus by ingesting or tasting something sweet like an artificial sweetener, it will prepare itself to absorb something sweet.
Normally when you eat sugar, the body does things. It releases a hormone called insulin that helps the body take care of that extra sugar. When the sugar is in or just leaving the stomach, it already tells the body to start getting insulin ready.
This is a theory I heard. Artificial sweeteners can do the same thing cause that part of the body doesn’t know the difference. So now you have all this insulin and less sugar for it to handle. Over time the body might compensate by releasing less insulin. Which means when you eat real sugar, it’s going to stay in your blood for longer
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From Healthline: “Artificial sweeteners won’t raise your blood sugar levels in the short term. So, drinking a can of Diet Coke, for example, won’t cause a rise in blood sugar.
However, in a 2014 studyTrusted Source, researchers fed mice artificial sweeteners for 11 weeks. This led to negative changes in gut bacteria that increased blood sugar levels.
Researchers implanted the bacteria from these mice into germ-free mice and found that their blood sugar levels also increased.
Interestingly, the scientists were able to reverse the increase in blood sugar levels by changing the gut bacteria back to its previous state.
It’s theoretically possible that artificial sweeteners can raise blood sugar levels by negatively affecting gut bacteria, but these results haven’t been tested or replicated in humans.”
When you smell food, your body can start to salivate and prepare itself for the thought of eating said food. So if your body has Chemical reactions just by the smell of food, thus by ingesting or tasting something sweet like an artificial sweetener, it will prepare itself to absorb something sweet.
Normally when you eat sugar, the body does things. It releases a hormone called insulin that helps the body take care of that extra sugar. When the sugar is in or just leaving the stomach, it already tells the body to start getting insulin ready.
This is a theory I heard. Artificial sweeteners can do the same thing cause that part of the body doesn’t know the difference. So now you have all this insulin and less sugar for it to handle. Over time the body might compensate by releasing less insulin. Which means when you eat real sugar, it’s going to stay in your blood for longer