“In a study that has implications for humans with inflammatory diseases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, given over a six-week period, the artificial sweetener sucralose, known by the brand name Splenda, worsens gut inflammation in mice with Crohn’s-like disease”
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Rodriguez-Palacios et. al, The Artificial Sweetener Splenda Promotes Gut Proteobacteria, Dysbiosis, and Myeloperoxidase Reactivity in Crohn’s Disease–Like Ileitis, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Volume 24, Issue 5, May 2018, Pages 1005–1020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy060