I was big on artificial sweeteners (I refuse to eat any sugar), mainly erythritol and monkfruit, but some science(1) says that just their taste profile can trick your body into thinking it's consuming a real sugar with the associated glucose/insulin response and this could be one reason as to why non-nutritive sweeteners can throw your blood and insulin response profiles out of whack, which may be a reason as to why individuals who consume artificial sweeteners suffer the same maladies as those who consume high levels of sugar.
If the science on this issue becomes conclusively affirmative, then it's sort of the nail in the coffin for artificial sweeteners, because it doesn't matter what the compositional makeup of the sweetener is, it's our own bodies own responses to the taste/smell that are giving us the ill effects.
I would definitely like to be dissuaded as to believing this is not the case, though, as it's caused my to ignore my sweet tooth for far too long! :)
For those who are interested in and/or consume artificial sweeteners, I think this link is definitely worth a read:
If the science on this issue becomes conclusively affirmative, then it's sort of the nail in the coffin for artificial sweeteners, because it doesn't matter what the compositional makeup of the sweetener is, it's our own bodies own responses to the taste/smell that are giving us the ill effects.
I would definitely like to be dissuaded as to believing this is not the case, though, as it's caused my to ignore my sweet tooth for far too long! :)
For those who are interested in and/or consume artificial sweeteners, I think this link is definitely worth a read:
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661066/