Does Erythritol Cause Heart Disease?
Mastering Nutrition · Chris Masterjohn, PhD
March 24, 202348m 37s
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Show Notes
This analysis of the recent study by the Hazen group at Cleveland Clinic published in Nature Medicine claiming erythritol contributes to cardiovascular disease shows the following:
- Why elevated plasma erythritol is likely to reflect thiamin deficiency and NADPH depletion from insulin resistance, inflammation, and oxidative stress
- Why the in vitro and mouse study blood clotting likely reflects osmotic stress with no relevance to the use of erythritol as a sweetener.
- Why I strongly suspect the Hazen group is hiding data, specifically the data that they obviously had a chance to collect and would have clinched their case but appears nowhere in their paper.
- Why even though I do not use erythritol as a sweetener, were I ever to think about doing so, the new Nature Medicine paper would play no role in my decision.
Read the analysis in written form, fully referenced, here:
https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/p/erythritol-and-blood-clotting
Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.