I’ve been telling people for 20 years that they’d be better off drinking corn syrup than Splenda.

No one listens to me.

That’s the story of my entire life: people not listening, even though I am always right about everything.

People have known about Splenda for years. This shit literally is not a sweetener, but tells your brain it is a sweetener. Why would anyone think that was safe?

If you’re that in need of sweet taste, you might as well just start doing fentanyl for your dopamine fix.

New York Post:

America’s favorite artificial sweetener could have some bitter health effects, including damage to your DNA.

Splenda is the brand name for sucralose, often added to diet sodas, baked goods, chewing gum, gelatins and frozen desserts.

It’s even found in drug products like Tylenol, Pepcid and cold and flu medicines.

Splenda is 600 times sweeter than sugar and is the best-selling artificial sweetener in America, with sales roughly double those of its nearest rival, Sweet’n Low.

But sucralose has been found to be genotoxic, meaning it breaks apart the DNA in chromosomes and can lead to cancer, according to new research published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.

In the human body, sucralose breaks down into a compound called sucralose-6-acetate, which can damage the lining of the intestine.

“Other studies have found that sucralose can adversely affect gut health, so we wanted to see what might be happening there,” Susan Schiffman, PhD, study author and adjunct professor at North Carolina State University, said in a news release.

What they found was alarming: “Sucralose-6-acetate significantly increased the expression of genes associated with inflammation, oxidative stress and cancer,” the study authors wrote.

“Our in vitro studies used human tissue, so the findings are directly relevant for the human body,” Dr. Schiffman added.

The new study adds to earlier research that finds sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate can also cause intestinal damage.

“When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues — the tissue that lines your gut wall — we found that both chemicals cause ‘leaky gut,’” Dr. Schiffman said.

“Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. A leaky gut is problematic because it means that things that would normally be flushed out of the body in feces are instead leaking out of the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream,” Dr. Schiffman added.

It’s a bigger problem than that. Your entire immune system and even your cognitive function is linked to your gut. Your gut regulates the entire bacterial makeup of your body, and it regulates your hormone system.

“Independent scientific studies show that ingestion of sucralose can damage the cell membranes of the gut and cause irritable bowel syndrome,” Dr. Schiffman told Newsweek.

The makers of artificial sweeteners, however, assert that their products are safe.

Imagine that!

“Sucralose has undergone one of the most extensive and thorough testing programs conducted on any food additive in history, resulting in consensus on its safety throughout the global scientific and regulatory community,” a representative for the International Sweetener Association told Newsweek.

Some health experts also question the relevance of the new study.

“The findings raise potentially concerning findings that deserve further study, but do not practically reflect what occasional or even frequent ingestion of sucralose-sweetened food and beverages have on health,” Dr. John Damianos, a hospital resident at Yale School of Medicine, told Medical News Today.

Nonetheless, artificial sweeteners have been scrutinized for years, and several studies have linked the products to health risks.

A 2020 study published in the journal Cell Metabolism found that sucralose in combination with carbohydrates (like those in baked goods) can swiftly turn a healthy person into one with high blood sugar, the Washington Post reports.

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Considering the risks of all added sweeteners — artificial as well as natural — Dr. Damianos encourages people to consider healthy, low- or no-sugar options.

“Instead of soda or diet soda, switch to seltzer water,” Dr. Damianos recommends, adding, “Instead of highly processed foods and drinks to satisfy that sweet tooth, grab fruits with their natural sugars paired with an abundance of health-promoting fiber and phytonutrients.”

Fake sugar is literally less healthy than anything else, including and especially real sugar.

Imagine that the government goes around whining about cigarette smoking, when studies showing that tobacco and nicotine are unhealthy are much more contested than the studies showing that most of what is put in processed food is highly dangerous and even volatile.

Just eat food, retards.

Stop eating this processed crap, which many insects won’t even eat.

One would assume that after more than a hundred years of messing around with X-rays, scientists and doctors would already be aware of this.

But one would be mistaken.

Study Finds:

X-rays have been a staple of modern medicine for a long time, and any doctor or radiologist is quick to tell their patients that there are absolutely no risks or harmful side effects associated with the radiation necessary to perform an X-ray. Now, researchers from Erasmus University Medical Center and Oncode Institute in the Netherlands have discovered that low doses of radiation, long believed to be safe, did in fact create breaks in lab grown human cells that allowed additional DNA to enter the chromosome. In more simplistic terms, the radiation caused mutations on the cellular level.

To be clear, these findings do not mean that going to have an X-ray is going to harm you, and extensive further research is necessary involving actual living animals, and eventually humans, before any real conclusions can be drawn. Still, the results of this study at the very least are concerning, and seem to indicate that there are still some aspects of how radiation interacts with our bodies, on a cellular level, that science has yet to fully understand.

High doses of radiation are almost certain to cause mutations in the exposed, often leading to cancer, or even worse symptoms in extreme circumstances. This happens because ionizing radiation creates double-strand breaks in cells that allow excess DNA to enter. These extra pieces of DNA usually make their way to the nucleus, leading to cellular mutations. Most of the time, these extra bits of DNA are leftovers from completed natural processes, such as genomic DNA repairs or viral infections.

For this study, researchers wanted to see if low, generally considered safe, doses of radiation would have any negative side effects on lab-grown human and mouse cells. As far as X-rays go, the radiation doses used in this experiment were comparable to the “upper range of common diagnostic procedures.”

After exposing the cells to the radiation, it was observed that mutations, via inserted DNA, had indeed taken root in the cells. Surprisingly, these low doses of radiation actually caused mutations in the cells “more efficiently” than higher doses had in previous studies.

Wisdom teeth pain? X-rays.

Your kid fell to the ground while playing? X-rays.

Pain when moving your wrist? X-rays.

Grandma says the weather is hard on her bones? X-rays.

The problem with all of these modern medicine things like X-rays, which don’t result in an immediate and visibly observable negative effect on the human body, is that it’s hard to accurately lay the blame on something after 20 or more years have passed.

What if that one X-ray someone got when she fell in the park when she was 5 years old and her shoulder was hurting was a key factor in the breast cancer and thyroid problems she developed later in life?

How would researchers track and measure the consequences of X-rays?

What about cell phone radiation?

What about Wi-Fi?

You cannot run from this.

The ubiquity of the chemical diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) makes it inescapable.

Before getting to the study, take a look at some of the places in which you can find it.

Wikipedia:

DEHP is a component of many household items, including tablecloths, floor tiles, shower curtains, garden hoses, rainwear, dolls, toys, shoes, medical tubing, furniture upholstery, and swimming pool liners. DEHP is an indoor air pollutant in homes and schools. Common exposures come from the use of DEHP as a fragrance carrier in cosmetics, personal care products, laundry detergents, colognes, scented candles, and air fresheners. The most common exposure to DEHP comes through food with an average consumption of 0.25 milligrams per day. It can also leach into a liquid that comes in contact with the plastic; it extracts faster into nonpolar solvents (e.g. oils and fats in foods packed in PVC). Fatty foods that are packaged in plastics that contain DEHP are more likely to have higher concentrations such as milk products, fish or seafood, and oils. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) therefore permits use of DEHP-containing packaging only for foods that primarily contain water.

DEHP is in virtually everything, and a study on worms suggests that it could be damaging people’s DNA and causing infertility.

Daily Mail:

A banned chemical once used in toys, clothes, food packaging and cosmetics may lead to fertility problems, according to a study on worms.

Scientists fear diethylhexyl pthalate, which makes plastics bendy and is still used in recycled PVC, damages DNA.

Past studies have claimed DEHP may make both men and women less fertile but the way it could do this has not been well understood.

A study on roundworms revealed that it increased the risk of DNA strands snapping while the body is trying to make sperm or eggs.

It also made them less able to repair broken DNA and led to defects in the chromosomes, which then caused genetic problems which stopped sperm and eggs growing properly and made embryos less able to develop.

Scientists not involved with the research said there was no proof the same problems would happen in humans and older research had suggested they would not.

Yeah, let’s just defend plastic and treat the fact that more and more people started turning into androgynous beings as plastic popularity increased as a big coincidence.

Multi-causal blah blah blah, many variables to consider yadda yadda yadda.

A team at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, did the research by exposing the creatures to DEHP in a lab.

DEHP was used for building, car manufacturing and producing food packets, as well as medical devices and electrical cables.

Because DEHP was classed as a ‘reproductive toxicant’ – meaning it could damage fertility – it was banned under European law in 2015.

It’s still in circulation though.

Five years is not enough time to expect every toy, every furniture upholstery, every swimming pool liner, and every piece of clothing containing DEHP to completely disappear.

But EU members voted in the following year to allow it to continue to be used in the production of recycled PVC.

The move means it is still used in new items as well as existing in the environment in items made before the ban or in countries where it’s still legal.

In their study, the researchers did experiments to see how the chemical affected a species of worm called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans).

They used amounts of DEHP which they said were ‘within the range detected in the human population’ – the chemical has been detected in people’s urine.

Plastic urine. Cool.

Now I wonder if it could also be found in semen.

Although the worms are tiny and only grow to about 1mm long, their genes are very similar to humans’ so are useful for DNA research.

The study found that when worms were exposed to DEHP their DNA was more likely to break and less likely to be able to repair itself.

The genetic defects which occurred as a result of this meant embryos were less able to grow and the worms were less fertile.

‘[DEHP affects chromosomes] in part by altering chromatin [genetic material] during the production of eggs and sperm,’ said Dr Mónica Colaiácovo, who led the research.

‘Our studies link this alteration to increased levels of DNA double-strand breaks and impaired ability to properly repair these breaks.

‘This underscores the importance of identifying better alternatives for replacing DEHP.’

The researchers said other studies had shown ‘doses relevant to human exposure’ had shown the chemical could damage fertility in mice.

At this point, plastic should be declared a crime against humanity.

Pictured: insanity.

Besides eating the foods that your great-grandfathers would have considered foods, it would be prudent to also try to cook as they cooked, with utensils and kitchenware that they’d know how to operate and which are made from the same materials that they’d have recognized.