Antimicrobial Resistance Spreads Through Artificial Sweeteners

We've all heard about super bugs created by overuse of antibiotics - but antimicrobial agents of all kinds can cause this resistance. Resistance is a big deal because it makes an infection so much harder to get rid of (and potentially more deadly). Many non-nutritive sweeteners are actually antimicrobial in nature - they alter the microbes and can even kill off some. The stronger ones resist being killed and share these resistance genes with other microbes!

In this video I discuss this study published in February 2021 in the ISME Journal: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-021-00909-x#Sec18

This study examined saccharine, sucralose (Splenda), aspartame, and acesulfame potassium (ace-k) and how these sweeteners impact microbes - specifically how they spread antimicrobial resistance.

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