What's the issue with aspartame? | The Right Chemistry

[nunyabidness]

I literally did this search because I have been drinking a soda called Fresca that contains aspartame...and I coincidentally pull up a video where there is a can of Fresca on the desk. The universe has impeccable timing!

[chloejones]

Excellent demonstration! Good questions! I am doing a study on this.

[debcoles]

Dr Joe Would you also like to shine some light on Monk Fruit Sugar/erythritol being recently reported as linked to heart attack/stroke.

[wendyleeconnelly]

Aspartame could give you an actual headache.

[thelogician]

It seems to cause me nerves problems in eyes and central.

[MATT-]

Im drinking a diet coke while watching this video. I realized years ago the less coca cola i drink the more i enjoy the taste. Also drinking water cleanses palet of the taste of the cola. So the first week of every month i drink water for 7 days. I do this for the taste i never try to be healthy it just happens by accident. I got bored of fast food and junk food so i eat alot vegetables. I stopped using butter and salt. If the food can't taste good on it's own i don't eat it. I don't like cauliflower but enjoy broccoli. Most problems in the world come down to choice. There is always a trade off but people always want an exception.

[Corey-iwot]

Yes but meat and eggs have all the essential amino acids not just 2 isolated

[joeg]

If you drink one once a week like I do, shouldn't be a big deal, some people especially in America and Mexico seem to have addictions and drink liters a day.

[concernednewfie]

Are you seriously telling me that stockpiling around 55 cases of diet pops each November before first snow is wrong? Usually they are done before their expiry date. Only around 20 cases right now as its summer and I can use my cart.

[IlyasEsmatLarawai]

I know from my personal experience that after drinking one beverage with artificial sweeteners, I am sick with headaches, stomach issues body ache etc. for three days

[noanyobiseniss]

Nobody ever mentions moderation as in all things.

[thomasmacdiarmid]

You mention that methane is toxic, and I have no doubt it is in 'large enough' doses. But it seems likely to me that the body in processing carbon-chain compounds would fairly frequently produce methane pieces as biproducts, and would have a mechanism for dealing with them, just as the body can handle a little bit of formaldehyde and other simple compounds toxic in large doses. Kind of like with the alcohols - we have lots of -OH groups around the cells, and we know the body can process out ethanol and methanol and other simple alcohols.

[bobbyadkins]

Do enough studies and there will those who says everything is bad for you.

[CalabusDabus]

I've been saying this for years, aspartame is safe. It makes no sense how it could be a carcinogen.

[jerryhall]

I don't like the taste of aspartame.

[HorseyWorsey]

Wow you have a lot of ducks! Thanks for the info.

[DDDhorus]

My uncle drank diet Coke every day for years and is fine

[stevegold]

Hard taking advice, from someone with so many plastic ducks in his office

[Corey-iwot]

Just like taking high level creatine can mess your kidneys