Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Bite: Dave Asprey Wants You To Quit Diet Sodas

Episode Date: November 20, 2021

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There's usually a negative synergistic effect. This is true of most toxins. Power Project family, this is a Power Byte. And a Power Byte is a highlight from a full-length episode that we do not want you to miss. Links to the full episode are in the podcast show notes, along with special perks for all of our beautiful listeners. Enjoy. Diet soda makes you fat. We can't get off this podcast without you clarifying what that means, because a lot of people drinking diet sodas are like, what are you talking about?

I drink some diet soda. So do I. Oh, my God. Hold on a second here. You guys gave up coffee, but you drink diet soda. We were talking about that. We were talking about diet soda. I don't really drink diet soda very often, first of all.

That was actually the only stipulation I had with this whole thing. Because Mark had said, no caffeine, no this, no this, no that, no fun, and no diet sodas. I'm like, whoa. I'm like, I need something. So I drink a lot of zero calorie sodas because that's kind of like my main, that's my go-to right now. So I'm curious what you're going to say coming up. But yeah, it really does make me wonder. And does it matter the kind of diet soda hell yeah it matters um what's going on there is if you have a stevia

or monk fruit you're probably fine and i would do that and you have that in your electrolytes whatever go for it there's some little biological effect from stevia in some people, maybe. There's mixed research about that, but it's small. It's NutraSweet or Spartame. And that and sucralose are the two really bad ones. And Ace K is in the middle. So Ace K causes benign nodules to grow on your thyroid. That actually happened to me in the late 90s because when Ace K first came out, I'm like, this stuff is the best sweetener ever. I'm super Atkins, right? And I ate a lot of it. And then the doctor said, Scott, you got weird stuff on your thyroid. I did my research. I quit it. The nodules went away. So I have concerns there that aren't about obesity. You might get

away with ASK, but I don't recommend it. Sucralose is what happens when you chlorinate sugar obsessively, and it turns out your gut bacteria shift dramatically from sucralose and most especially from NutraSweet or Spartan. And there are studies, PubMed studies, that show that NutraSweet causes obesity and metabolic disease despite the intention of limiting caloric intake. The PubMed on that is 253-13461. There's lots of things going on there, and it has to do with your microbiome, because this is the other thing that our calorie friends haven't fully considered, but the guys over at Viome have definitely considered. Viome is a test of what the gut bacteria, what you have but more

importantly what they're doing right and it turns out that if you feed gut bacteria something that makes them produce butyrate well butyrate is a short chain fatty acid that's highly ketogenic and anti-inflammatory so you ate a calorie and it turned into butyrate or you ate a calorie and it turned into something else that didn't have those same things. So a big part of the calories in calories out is it's not you processing them. It's a bunch of bacteria processing them, but NutraSweet changes the balance of bacteria in the gut in a way that is pro obesogenic. We've all heard that to get optimal sleep, you should cool your room down to 68 to 69 degrees. But that's not all you need to do.

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Links to them down in the description below. Let's get back to this video. So I wouldn't do that stuff because you're ruining the balance of gut bacteria. And you can prove it with a Viome test. Don't need any artificial sweeteners for a month and test your poop in your saliva and then do it again it's like 149 or something uh do it again a month later and you'll see a very noticeable difference you know i'm i'm actually curious andrew your thoughts on this too man i know that when i do drink diet soda i know what it does to me when i when i when i like in my gut like i can feel I can feel it, like I can feel like I got, I got the shits a little bit, right. But I have

good habits as far as food is concerned, where it doesn't necessarily affect it. I noticed it doesn't affect anything as far as my body composition over time, because I've been diet soda for a while now. Um, but if, if one has control over that that do you think it's that big of an issue still in the long run do you think there are really any long-term benefits but i'm guessing from for individuals who don't have a handle on their nutrition they don't have a handle on their habits as far as not snacking etc right it'd be a more dangerous idea for them am i kind of on onto something there or no? Yeah, there's a total load of toxins. How many toxins did you get? How many things did you do to disrupt your gut bacteria?

For instance, what's the load of glyphosate, which is very meaningful in terms of what we know about it due to gut bacteria. So you're saying, okay, I didn't have any glyphosate, but I had a lot of aspartame. What's it going to do? The answer is we probably don't know, but together, there's usually a negative synergistic effect. This is true of most toxins. So you break down one pathway, and then you break down another. It's worse than just doing either independently.

So one thing we're not talking about, though, is especially NutraSweet causes or aspartame, it's addictive and it causes substantial sugar cravings, which usually you'll have with another diet soda. And it does this through a mechanism similar to MSG, which also causes food cravings. So, the excitotoxicity is when you have in a synapse, you put out an amino acid neurotransmitter, amino acid or neurotransmitter, that then has to be taken up. So, that's what causes a synapse to fire. When you take either aspartame or MSG, what you're doing is you're causing synapses to fire, which takes calories and energy in the brain. The brain goes, this is a goddamn emergency. I'm firing more than I want to. I need to make electricity. So the mitochondrial shuttle start moving around and it sends out a strong craving to get some glucose in there already because the brain is under under attack, except it's not really an immune attack.

It's just a fire, fire, fire more than it wants to. Right. So then you say, geez, I have a desire for sugar right now. At a restaurant, at MSG, they sell 30% more on their ticket size because you order more drinks and you order more dessert. This is one of the reasons that it's a hidden ingredient in restaurants. Well, artificial sweetener is going to do the same thing. So you have that diet soda and it does all this or you have one with stevia in it

and it doesn't do that. So have the stevia ones and you're good to go.