Scientific research teams report that Splenda may be damaging our DNA.
By Chris Snellgrove | issued
Years ago, we ridiculed those who warned that diet soda could be just as dangerous in its own right as full-strength soda. Well, many diet sodas and other products appear to be actually dangerous because they contain the artificial sweetener Splenda.according to science alarma research team found that this sweetener can damage the very DNA in our cells after ingestion.
Now, before you panic too much, you should know that Splenda can damage your DNA in a very specific and possibly very slow way.That means you don’t look like that mutated thug. Robocop, that’s good news. The bad news is that people who regularly consume products sweetened with Splenda may be slowly destroying their DNA in a very specific way.
The scientific term for the type of damage Splenda can cause to the body is “genotoxic.” This is a fancy way of saying that a person’s body can undergo mutations thanks to changes made to her DNA. In fancy terms, Splenda’s technical term is “sucralose.” A 2018 study in rats revealed that rats ingested and metabolized sucralose to produce the dangerous compound sucralose-6-acetate. That is, even if it were perfectly safe to consume Splenda alone (which it really isn’t, we’ll get to that in a moment), the genotoxicity produced by ingesting and metabolizing Splenda Compound simply means it’s too dangerous to eat.
One thing the average American should frown on is that Splenda is already being monitored by scientists according to the European Food Safety Authority. And they have determined that “the threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances is 0.15 micrograms per person per day,” which means that no more than this amount should be consumed per day. do. Unfortunately, it’s even worse news for diet soda drinkers. “The trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in daily sucralose-sweetened beverages exceed that threshold.” Sweeteners.
That said, most diet drinks and foods with Splenda can potentially damage our DNA and make our bodies more susceptible to “inflammation, oxidative stress, and cancer.” will be considered dangerous. If that wasn’t scary enough, the researchers found that Splenda could be in the gut and enter the bloodstream with everything from digested food to dangerous toxins. We have found through testing that it can cause a “leaky gut”.
Only time will tell if national regulators will impose tighter restrictions on Splenda, but the research team behind this study avoided direct ingestion of Splenda, rather than products made with Splenda. We encourage everyone to avoid consuming products that are Indeed, this new study seems to contradict previous trials that have shown that Splenda is relatively safe to consume, and we can hope that the prevailing science will lead to a regulatory overhaul. In the meantime, we’re going to be drinking diet soda forever until we have assurance that these DNA changes will give us awesome mutant powers and that he’ll finally be able to join the X-Men.
