Artificial sweeteners: Really Messing with gut bugs

HELLO, really messing with our gut bugs, I don't eat any that I know of,but I guess for years saccharine in toothpaste,

whether that is enough to mess with gut bugs don't know,but suspect messes with oral bacteria.

Cant of course get the whole article.

It is also interesting that colon cells utilize butyric acid first,then glutamine,then glucose.

Multi zillion dollar industry,will be interesting to see where this goes,if anywhere.

Another thought might be,that so far the FT studies have not worked out all that well,could it be the

donors were eating sweeteners,or ate them in the past,or people such as Banana who had a bad reaction

to FT. It might be a good idea to know what your donor eats.

Old Mike

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-artificial-sweeteners-linked-abnormal-glucose.html

but if you go here and click on affiliations you can get full size images of the graphs

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13793.html

here are some of the links

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nature13793_SF8.html

mucinphila are one of our normal mucus eating bacteria

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nature13793_SF7.html

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 9/17/2014 1:34:39 PM (GMT-6)

what about stevia ?

Stevia doesn't cause glucose intolerance like the artificial sweeteners, it actually lowers blood sugar and as an added bonus helps control hypertension.

But I don't think we IBDers can consider it a panacea until we see how stevia affects the composition of gut bacteria. In the meantime honey and natural raw sugar may not be a bad idea.


www.lef.org/magazine/mag2014/feb2014_Sweet-As-Sugar-Health-Benefits-Of-Stevia-And-Xylitol_01.htm?source=search&key=stevia

While stevia has been documented to have medical purposes as an antimicrobial, anti-diarrheal, anti-tumor, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory actions, the scientific evidence is strongest, and its use is most promising for two indications: (1) high blood sugar/insulin resistance and (2) high blood pressure.

Studies have evaluated the effects of stevioside on animal models of both type I and type II diabetes: elevated blood glucose levels were lowered, and less insulin medication was needed for the same effect. This research clearly demonstrates that stevia has the ability to increase cellular insulin sensitivity and help reverse insulin resistance.

My wife drinks like a 12 pack of diet pepsi a week,been doing this for years and years.
I have UC she does not,but she also has been drinking at least 3 cups/day of tea with lemon since about 12. She will also have a frozen waffle uses, high fructose corn syrup junk on them.
Otherwise we eat about the same diet,go figure.

Another point of interest,she quit smoking around 1978,but after my UC son was born.

The next kid was a non smoking baby,no UC.

First kid female,smoking baby no UC.

So she quite smoking and did not get UC,again go figure.
Old Mike

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 9/17/2014 2:59:10 PM (GMT-6)

Dreadsteel, you can find stevia in all sorts of brand names including generic store names but stevia in powder form is not the same as liquid stevia. Powdered stevia almost always has dextrose (a form of sugar) for bulk but the liquid form doesn't. Stevia products have come down in price from when it first came on the market. Our local supermarket sells its own brand of liquid stevia.

Curious: No problem.
Banana: It was just a thought. But do you know if your donor ever ate sweeteners.
Om

AKA: Outer Mucus

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 9/17/2014 3:37:56 PM (GMT-6)

ByeByeUC said...
I've been putting sweet n low in my coffee for the past 20 years. Who knows if it had anything to do with my UC. If it did have something to do with it, it doesn't explain why my sister, uncle and cousin have UC and never touched the stuff. None of this stuff will ever make sense so I still put it in my coffee.

"In a series of experiments in mice and people, the researchers examined the interaction between gut microbes and consumption of the sweeteners aspartame, sucralose and saccharine. Depending on the types of microbes they had in their intestines, some people and mice saw a two- to fourfold increase in blood sugars after consuming the artificial sweeteners for a short time. Over time, high blood sugar levels can lead to diabetes.

"The magnitude of the differences were not just a few percentages. These were actually very dramatic differences we saw both in the mice and in the human settings,"


Whether they know it or not I am certain they have had artificial sweeteners, lol. Have you ever tried to buy something as simple as a pack of gum without it containing one? It's a good challenge. Next time you are in a supermarket line try it. My family didn't think they used a lot of artificial sweeteners either till I took my mom through all her cabinets and showed her ingredients, lol.

Stevia from a health food store is better than a grocery store (my guess) because the health food store version that I buy is pure and not refined/processed like cane sugar for example....Stevia is a natural sweetener and it's known to be up to 400 times sweeter than sugar so it goes a long way and it actually has health benefits compared to refined table sugar (which I avoid completely).

Toothpaste and birth control pills are still highly as well as long time suspected environmental triggers for Crohn's disease.

Remember though, the environmental triggers are very tricky when it comes to IBD in general, researchers agree that each IBDers triggers likely vary and more importantly is each person's combination to trigger their IBD varies as well...a huge reason as to why they are struggling so much to pinpoint and fix the issue we have.