Posted on 09/19/2023 9:48:32 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Ongoing work by researchers into how aspartame affects the brain has linked the artificial sweetener with learning and memory deficits in mice.
The offspring of male mice that consumed aspartame at levels equivalent to much lower doses than those deemed safe by the U.S. FDA demonstrated spatial learning and memory deficits over the course of a controlled 16-week exposure.
The most recent research is an extension of a study which linked aspartame consumption to anxiety in mice, with effects extending up to two generations.
"The thing we noticed here, unlike the anxiety (research), this went only one generation. It was not seen in the grandchildren, only in the children [of the male mice], which is another line of support that these kinds of transmissions occur due to epigenetic changes in the sperm."
Over the course of 16 weeks, the mouse models were separated into three groups: a control group that consumed only water, a group that ingested 7% of the FDA's recommended maximum intake of aspartame—equivalent to two 8-ounce diet sodas daily—in its water, and a group that ingested 15% aspartame (four 8-ounce diet sodas daily) in its water.
All of the mouse models were tested at four-, eight- and 12-week intervals in a Y-maze, and again at 12 weeks in a Barnes maze. In the latter, the mice learn to find a "safe" escape box out of 40 possible choices arranged in a circular arena.
The mice in the aspartame-free control group found the "safe" box quickly. Those that ingested aspartame took much longer to learn the task.
"We're seeing they use a different strategy, but they do find the escape box," said co-author Deirdre McCarthy. "They compensate in some sort of way."
The compensation to overcome learning and memory deficits is significant, according to Bhide.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
God made our food.
Humanity corrupted it.
Eat as much organic as possible.
God made our food.
Humanity corrupted it.
Eat as much organic as possible.
Interesting!
Now where the heck did I set my diet Coke?
I have 3-4-5 a day and haven’t permanently lost my house keys or wallet yet!
I don’t use aspartame, but mice are not people.
This research doesn’t look useful to me.
The sugar xylitol is good for humans but fatal for dogs.
I’ve been drinking diet soda since for over 50 years.
The only thing I ever forget is where I put my damn car keys...
BTW, I do not like the taste of most things sugared...
“The sugar xylitol is good for humans but fatal for dogs”.
Antifreeze is also fatal to dogs. Isn’t xylitol in the family of compounds related to antifreeze?
Keep those Grant’s coming...suckers.
Many years ago I heard one single, solitary radio report that aspartame caused memory loss in children before that report got buried in deep hole somewhere, never to be repeated. Just like nicotine causing cancer, and cigarettes being addictive. The soft drink industry will pay.
Thank God Dad was a drunk.
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