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As a type 1 diabetic, I can confirm that vast quantities of aspartame do not cause my blood sugar to rise.
by friedegg 7y ago
As a type 1 diabetic, I can confirm that vast quantities of aspartame do not cause my blood sugar to rise.
- aidenn0 7y agoGPs claim was that non-aspartame sweeteners cause insulin to rise, not blood-sugar. This would cause non-diabetics to become hypoglycemic, and over a long-term could cause type 2 diabetes.
- abainbridge 7y agoI always assumed that when I taste something sweet, my body starts putting insulin in my blood. Over time it learns how much to put in based on how sweet the food tasted. If that's true, I'd expect too much insulin for food with aspartame, BUT ALSO too little when food has real sugar, because of the long term learning. I'd expect a type 1 diabetic not to see either effect because the system that aspartame wacks out of tune is turned off for them. I appreciate that I have no actual knowledge on the subject, except that I know the body must have control loops for this stuff and they must be kept in calibration by some mechanism. Probably my model is too simple.
- abainbridge 7y agoI can do better than assume. "Tasting sweet food elicits insulin release prior to increasing plasma glucose levels, known as cephalic phase insulin release" https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biomedres/28/2/28_2_79/_pdf https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biomedres/28/2/28_2_79/...