Best Non Calorie Sweeteners

Best non calorie sweeteners Which ones are they? Let me explain. Hey I am doctor Ekberg

with Wellness For Life and if you like to truly master health by understanding

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bell so that you don't miss anything there's a lot of confusion about

sweeteners and often I get the question so which one of the artificial

sweeteners is okay and what people usually mean is stevia which is not an

artificial sweetener so let me clear some things up here so from worst to

best the artificial sweeteners which are sucralose aspartame

and saccharine also a popular one that's not sold by itself so much is acesulfame

potassium all of those are poison they are very very neurotoxic chemicals you

should under no circumstance eat any of those ever I've done a separate video on

those that you can check out which is explains a little bit more about why

they are so bad so just don't go there but then why do we want an on calorie

sweetener because sugar is the root of all evil because sugar raises blood

sugar and it triggers insulin and insulin has been linked to every

degenerative disease ever so watch some more videos on on sugar and white sugar

kills and virtually every video that we do have something to do with why sugar

is not a good idea so then we get to some that are almost okay and that's the

sugar alcohols they're called xylitol maltitol

erythritol the way you can tell it's an alcohol is it ends in O L and these can

be pretty much okay I wouldn't recommend them for most people but once in a while

just a little bit is probably alright for most people the problem is that once

you eat a lot of it these should

alcohol's feed your gut flora selectively they tend to favor they tend

to feed the pathogenic bacteria primarily and as such they upset your

flora they leave to bloating and gas eNOS and so forth and of course it's not

just the bloating it's not just the discomfort of that but it's the fact

that it's an indication of an unbalanced gut flora and if you have an unbalanced

and gut flora that's gonna affect pretty much everything in your body so if you

have a very very sensitive gut then you want to avoid these very very carefully

if you don't notice so much upset from eating them then it might be alright to

have a little bit once in a while just don't overdo it but then we get to the

good ones in my opinion and that would be stevia monk fruit extract and chicory

root and these are all natural they're plant extracts they're derived from

nature and you want to try to get these in their purest form so stevia is sold

in a thousand different forms but you want to try the ones that is a pure

stevia powder most of the brands that you find on the market they're gonna be

mixed up with one of these sugar alcohols to enhance the flavor or just

simply make them mix better or easier to measure but again if you're very

sensitive you do better to stay away from these so try to get the pure stevia

same thing with monk fruit extract the purest version is the best and it's

often mixed up with other things stevia is a couple of hundred times sweeter

than sugar so it just takes a tiny tiny little bit and monk fruit extract is

even a little bit sweeter chicory root is a little bit different because it is

it's more of a bulky powder it is about 96% fiber so if you're baking cookies

for example now you're adding a lot of good fiber to those cookies and it also

has some baking properties that you're not going to get from stevia or

fruit so out of these I use these for different things

I think stevia and monk fruit works great with sour things like yogurt or

berry smoothies I don't like them so much with coffee and tea but everyone's

different some people love them for that as well

and for baking and other things where I don't prefer the stevia so much I like

the chicory root that was a little bit harder to find because it's a relatively

new product the brand name is called just like sugar and if you just do an

internet search I'm sure that you'll find some some ways to get that one as

well let me know about your experience with these or if you have some great

recipes for baking for fudge or cookies or something let me know and I'd love to

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