Re:Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk
by heavyset_go on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:01AM
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The dose people use for sweetener can be 1,000x - 10,000x the amount you'd find in fruit. There's micro to milligrams of it in some foods, people eat anywhere between 3g to 20g+ if they're eating goods baked with it as a sugar replacement.
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Re:Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk
by esperent on Sunday July 20, 2025 @05:56AM
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Erithritol is also produced endogenously from glucose in the lower intestine of humans.
I'm struggling to find a good source on this right now but I remember reading that it could be as high as 10% of all glucose is converted this way.
Re:Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk
by jcynix on Sunday July 20, 2025 @10:14AM
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>We report a previously unrecognized metabolism of glucose to erythritol, and given the association between erythritol and weight gain, research is needed to understand whether and how this pathway contributes to weight gain risk.
Erythritol is a pentose-phosphate pathway metabolite and associated with adiposity gain in young adults | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620079114