Not to alarm any diet soda enthusiasts… But new data out of Sao Paulo Brazil is throwing some pretty heavy shade your way.
Highlighting how the consumption of ~190mg of these taste replacers a day, the equivalent to a single 12oz diet soda, is associated with 1.6 years of accelerated Brain aging over a 8-year period. A pretty intense finding, I know…
That being said, data like this can not be taken without a few grains of salt. Because not only was it not a Randomized Controlled Trial, thus unable to link causation. But it also doesn’t account for the fact that foods and drinks loaded with artificial sweeteners are often ultra processed and loaded/contaminated with a whole bunch of other stuff.
A realization which warrants a much deeper look into this “Brain Aging” connection…
