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what's up everybody my name is schuyler diehm i'm a lifestyle fat loss coach we help our clients
simplify the process of losing weight using fasting mindfulness and weight lifting and
today we are diving into aspartame and before diving into it today if you are looking for
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part of our community now that being said i have seen a lot of influencers a lot of people talking
about aspartame now aspartame is the ingredient that's in diet soda particularly the one that
comes to mind is diet coke and if you've been on the internet long enough you may have seen that
there's both sides of the argument one side says if you have one sip of aspartame you're going to
die and the other side says hey aspartame actually isn't bad and so if you've been following my
content you know i'm a very holistic person and you probably can guess i'm not a fan of aspartame
but what you hear a lot of people in the holistic space say is aspartame causes cancer it's terrible
for you and i do agree it's not great for you but the study that showed that astronomy caused cancer
was done on mice and the mice were consuming way more aspartame in a ratio than humans potentially
could in a day so i don't necessarily think that that's a good argument for aspartame but
i do think aspartame is something that should be reduced if not avoided and here's why so i avoid
aspartame at pretty much all costs just because i'm very very intense with my health sucralose
on the other hand which is an artificial sweetener i'll have in my pre-workouts i'll have in protein
bars every now and again it's not something i have consistently it is something i try to
avoid but it's something where if i have it i'm not going to freak out about it i'm not going to
feel bad about it so what inspired this video uh the other day i was browsing instagram and i saw
a fitness influencer who was almost at a million followers do a q a and he was asked is diet coke
bad it should have been avoided you know this guy's at almost a million followers and his
response was something along the lines of you know the research shows that it's not too bad so
have it whenever you want it and while i think a lot of people tend to go on the other side of the
spectrum of like you're gonna die if you consume it i still have a problem with people telling
you that something like diet coke is okay we live in a very fragile state where people rationalize
okay if someone says it's okay and this guy's an influencer and he's in pretty good shape then i
can pretty much have it whenever i want whereas from my experience from some clients i've worked
with and also just hearing this in general and doing the research diet coke and aspartame in
general can be extremely addictive and it can also create some internal health issues along
the way so in my opinion aspartame is something that should be regulated it should be something
that should not be had consistently and here's why so number one let's think about our bodies from an
evolutionary perspective right when your body consumes something with sugar fruit fruit juice
anything along those lines that's a natural food it's gonna come with some other calories it's
going to come with some other fibers it's going to come with all these other things and so from
an evolutionary perspective if we're consuming something that is ultra sweet and we're talking
aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar but we're not getting any calories we're not getting
any energy from it you think there's going to be a disconnect there you think maybe your body's going
to go into overdrive to look for more food so that you can actually get calories from something sweet
and so what i tend to see in with my clients and what i've heard from other people's perspectives
is that when they have diet soda consistently their appetite skyrockets they're always craving
out more food and i believe not only is this because number one it's 200 times sweeter than
sugar so probably alter your taste buds a little bit probably let you enjoy foods with actual real
sugar like fruit even less but then in the process it's also pushing you to crave out more food to
want to eat more in general another thing so there was a study that came out daily diet sodas
increased risk for metabolic syndrome by 34 and there is a 20 increased risk of heart attack now
this is worth saying this is probably correlation not causation meaning it may not be the sodas
themselves but people who are drinking soda are probably more likely to be having other unhealthy
habits in their life so there's probably an increase in that span but it's something to think
about right if the healthiest people on earth are avoiding sodas like these there's probably
a good reason another thing that kind of rubs me the wrong way is aspartame is made by distilling
cheap ingredients like coal tar and methanol down looking at it from perspective it's probably not
a healthy thing to consume those things and if they're distilled down it's potentially even
less healthy and then finally i think the biggest thing that stands out for me is the companies that
are producing foods with these ingredients the coca-cola all the other sodas out there all the
other places that use aspartame in the past they have tended to not be ethical companies in the
past they have tended to use cheaper ingredients at the cost of our health and so why would you
promote a company like that why would you trust the company why would you want to consume their
products if it's very obvious that they do not care about you in the slightest that all they care
about is finances money so in that case if you're craving something sweet why not have something
from a company that cares about you or even better why not have a real food like a fruit or a honey
or something that's actually good for your body and so i'm kind of throwing a lot of you here and
i'm going to wrap this all together in a second but i'd be curious if you could leave me a comment
how often are you consuming artificial sweeteners right now whether it's the aspartame sucralose and
pre-workout anything like that i'd love to hear from you so to wrap this all up couple key things
here number one i see artificial sweeteners as toxins now as the evidence shows they may not
cause cancer directly but we're living in a world where we are literally surrounded by toxins from
the things we cook in the things we store our food in the food itself cleaning products the clothes
we wear literally the more i look around the more i learn about this stuff the more i see how much
toxins there actually are around us and so for not regulating these toxins our body is going to do
its best to push them out but it may not be able to once you hit a certain threshold where you're
consuming too much and if you have that toxic buildup that's when disease is going to be created
that's when things like cancer other potential issues like eczema headaches nausea bloating all
this stuff can become an issue and so if you're living in society which if you're watching this
you probably are you are probably getting hit with a lot of toxins so why would you expose yourself
to another toxin why would you expose yourself to something like aspartame i would rather be okay
with being chill in a couple other areas being okay with consuming toxins in a couple other areas
and do something like soda which can easily be swapped out for other things now that doesn't mean
it's going to be easy itself it's easy to swap it out it's pretty difficult to stay consistent
especially because these ingredients can be so addicting but what i would recommend if you are
currently drinking aspartame is potentially switch back to regular soda see how your body responds
but more importantly start making the swap to better options choose sparkling waters add your
own ingredients like stevia or lemon or apple cider vinegar things that are going to help you
enjoy the drink a little bit more than just having plain water and also fill that hole of that habit
whenever you grab a diet coke there's also healthy alternate sodas out there so mad vine is the one
that i'm aware of i know there's a couple other but mad vine uses completely clean ingredients
and it legit tastes like a coke but whatever you do just start making swaps it doesn't have to be
perfect it doesn't have to be immediately but over time you're looking to improve and that's
a good way to start now if you've been watching my content for a while you know i'm also a
major major fan of fasting fasting can actually alter your taste buds which can make it quicker
to adapt off of things like aspartame and so if you are curious what we do if you're curious how
to use fasting make sure you check the link in the description we've got our beginners fasting guide
there now this guide is going to walk you through everything you need to know to start using fasting
to lose weight to boost your energy to change your taste buds and to just feel incredible
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