More hype than substance: erythritol and cardiovascular risk

Joseph · March 5, 2023, 4:29pm

People should review the following;

March 4, 2023

Nutritional Biochemistry

Peter Attia MD

More hype than substance: erythritol and cardiovascular risk?

AnUser · March 5, 2023, 5:34pm

It’s being discussed here:

Sugar alcohols (polyols) and mortality/heart disease risk?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9 I thought they were safe, esp b/c some sugar alcohols (like trehalose) are pro-longevity, but this complicated things… Also can someone PDF this article? Subsequent targeted metabolomics analyses in independent US (n = 2,149, NCT00590200) and European (n = 833, DRKS00020915) validation cohorts of stable patients undergoing elective cardiac evaluation confirmed this association (fourth versus first quartile adjusted hazard ratio (95% confidence interval), 1.80 (1.18–2.77) and 2.21 (1.20–4.07), respectively). Then Hazen’s group conducted other studies that showed that erythritol seemed to cause clotting of blood in laboratory experiments, and that the compound appeared to increase the risk of clotting in certain genetically engineer…