A Popular Sweetener Was Linked to Increased Anxiety in Generations of Mice

The sweetener is aspartame

1, it's aspartame

2, Mice aren't humans, and routinely, things that happen in mice do not happen in humans. It is not at all indicative of anything and can really only be used as a hint better than nothing for looking into similar effects in humans.

You don't need to change your diet, and you certainly don't need to replace it with sugar.

Oh, good! I thought it was the rapidly declining state of the world.

Sugar shills and don't touch my diet coke ppl in this thread doing Spidermanpointing.jpg

Stevia crew represent.

The control was plain water. That seems like the sort of methodological flaw that would preclude a study from publication in a journal like PNAS.

So my problems are because my mom is addicted to diet coke? It's all adding up!

Wow, lots of astroturfed opinions defending aspartame.

In my research to find a substitute for mom's sugar intake, Stevia came down to being the safest and most reliable, albeit not the best flavor substitute, necessarily.

And avoid Erythritol above all else.

When a sample of mice were given free access to water dosed with aspartame equivalent to 15 percent of the FDA's recommended maximum daily amount for humans, they generally displayed more anxious behavior in specially designed mood tests.

What's truly surprising is the effects could be seen in the animals' offspring, for up to two generations.

We know that when it's consumed, aspartame splits into aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol, which can all affect the central nervous system. There have already been question marks over potentially adverse reactions to the sweetener in some people.

Ah, another one of the "we found something in mice and that totally means it happens in humans" pseudoscience studies. Though we can probably blame the press for making such claims that the studies do not, unless this is one of those studies made by the known pseudoscience "scientists" like Seneff.

Well, shit.

Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame

Edit: I think he came back from the dead to downvote this.

And it still is too.

I wonder if the inherited anxious behaviour is through epigenetics or learned from the parents?

As bad as all the sugar substitutes taste I honestly don't get how they ever caught on, starting at saccharine and on down the line. Stevia, aspartame, just taste... wrong. Minimally refined cane sugar or honey are the only way to go.

Need a doi. This sounds like cherry picking.

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Stop putting artificial things in your body.
Except dildos, those are still ok.