Best non calorie sweeteners Which ones are they? Let me explain. Hey I am doctor Ekberg
with Wellness For Life and if you like to truly master health by understanding
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bell so that you don't miss anything there's a lot of confusion about
sweeteners and often I get the question so which one of the artificial
sweeteners is okay and what people usually mean is stevia which is not an
artificial sweetener so let me clear some things up here so from worst to
best the artificial sweeteners which are sucralose aspartame
and saccharine also a popular one that's not sold by itself so much is acesulfame
potassium all of those are poison they are very very neurotoxic chemicals you
should under no circumstance eat any of those ever I've done a separate video on
those that you can check out which is explains a little bit more about why
they are so bad so just don't go there but then why do we want an on calorie
sweetener because sugar is the root of all evil because sugar raises blood
sugar and it triggers insulin and insulin has been linked to every
degenerative disease ever so watch some more videos on on sugar and white sugar
kills and virtually every video that we do have something to do with why sugar
is not a good idea so then we get to some that are almost okay and that's the
sugar alcohols they're called xylitol maltitol
erythritol the way you can tell it's an alcohol is it ends in O L and these can
be pretty much okay I wouldn't recommend them for most people but once in a while
just a little bit is probably alright for most people the problem is that once
you eat a lot of it these should
alcohol's feed your gut flora selectively they tend to favor they tend
to feed the pathogenic bacteria primarily and as such they upset your
flora they leave to bloating and gas eNOS and so forth and of course it's not
just the bloating it's not just the discomfort of that but it's the fact
that it's an indication of an unbalanced gut flora and if you have an unbalanced
and gut flora that's gonna affect pretty much everything in your body so if you
have a very very sensitive gut then you want to avoid these very very carefully
if you don't notice so much upset from eating them then it might be alright to
have a little bit once in a while just don't overdo it but then we get to the
good ones in my opinion and that would be stevia monk fruit extract and chicory
root and these are all natural they're plant extracts they're derived from
nature and you want to try to get these in their purest form so stevia is sold
in a thousand different forms but you want to try the ones that is a pure
stevia powder most of the brands that you find on the market they're gonna be
mixed up with one of these sugar alcohols to enhance the flavor or just
simply make them mix better or easier to measure but again if you're very
sensitive you do better to stay away from these so try to get the pure stevia
same thing with monk fruit extract the purest version is the best and it's
often mixed up with other things stevia is a couple of hundred times sweeter
than sugar so it just takes a tiny tiny little bit and monk fruit extract is
even a little bit sweeter chicory root is a little bit different because it is
it's more of a bulky powder it is about 96% fiber so if you're baking cookies
for example now you're adding a lot of good fiber to those cookies and it also
has some baking properties that you're not going to get from stevia or
fruit so out of these I use these for different things
I think stevia and monk fruit works great with sour things like yogurt or
berry smoothies I don't like them so much with coffee and tea but everyone's
different some people love them for that as well
and for baking and other things where I don't prefer the stevia so much I like
the chicory root that was a little bit harder to find because it's a relatively
new product the brand name is called just like sugar and if you just do an
internet search I'm sure that you'll find some some ways to get that one as
well let me know about your experience with these or if you have some great
recipes for baking for fudge or cookies or something let me know and I'd love to
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