What effect do artificial sweeteners such as sucralose (Splenda), saccharin (Sweet & Low), aspartame (Nutrasweet) and acesulfame K (Sweet One) have on our gut bacteria?

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Can’t get enough of artificial sweeteners? Check out
• Diet Soda and Preterm Birth (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-soda-and-preterm-birth/)
• Aspartame Induced Fibromyalgia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspartame-induced-fibromyalgia/)
• Aspartame and the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Aspartame-and-the-Brain)

There are some caveats. See:
• How Diet Soda Can Make Us Gain Weight (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-diet-soda-could-make-us-gain-weight/)
• Neurobiology of Artificial Sweeteners (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/neurobiology-of-artificial-sweeteners/)
• Unsweetening the Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/unsweetening-the-diet/)

Who cares if our gut flora gets disrupted? Wait until you see how important the little puppies are:
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-the-inside-story)
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden)
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype)
• How to Change Your Enterotype (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-change-your-enterotype)
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleopoo-what-we-can-learn-from-fossilized-feces)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/effect-of-sucralose-splenda-on-the-microbiome and he'll try to answer it!

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