Just because something doesn’t cause cancer, doesn’t mean it’s harmless - that should be pretty obvious for all and sundry. Yet that is often the argument these days people use to promote the use of artificial sweeteners like aspartame. I am no fan of anything that mimics calorie intake yet tricks the brain by not containing calories. This is the baseline of how we learned as babies to count our calories naturally: sweet taste = energy intake.
When we mess with this fine-tuned system, we risk messing with our appetite-hunger switch and spiralling into yo-yo diets.
Apart from that, long-term intake of aspartame has been linked with accelerated aging. So maybe instead of botox, just skip the artificial sweeteners. I recommend using natural maple syrup or real raw honey to sweeten up your life with. Or even small amounts of sugar - the body can recognize it as fuel and burn it off. Yes large amounts of sugar also accelerates aging, but as with anything, the dosage makes the poison. But for synthetics and chemicals, often time the dosage is quite small in order for it to begin to mess with our body. Food dosages typically need to be quite large, before we can talk about toxicity - and for most people unrealistic, unless they are living off restrictive mono-diets or swimming around in sugar all day. Even though I love myself a peanutbutter cup or (let’s be honest) minimum 3, we can’t be swimming around in them all day, that’s just how it is.
Anyway, following studies on accelerated aging and aspartame speak for themselves:
“Long-term aspartame administration resulted in many degenerative changes affecting mainly the myelin sheath, in the form of focal and extensive demyelination; disruption and splitting of myelin lamellae with loss of compact lamellar structure; and excessive enfolding with irregular thickening of myelin sheaths.”
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“These results suggest that long-term consumption of AS might accelerate atherosclerosis and senescence via impairment of function and structure of apoA-I and HDL.”