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Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota
Abstract
Non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) are among the most widely used food additives worldwide, regularly consumed by lean and obese individuals alike. NAS consumption is considered safe and beneficial owing to their low caloric content, yet supporting scientific data remain sparse and controversial. Here we demonstrate that consumption of commonly used NAS formulations drives the development of glucose intolerance through induction of compositional and functional alterations to the intestinal microbiota. These NAS-mediated deleterious metabolic effects are abrogated by antibiotic treatment, and are fully transferrable to germ-free mice upon faecal transplantation of microbiota configurations from NAS-consuming mice, or of microbiota anaerobically incubated in the presence of NAS. We identify NAS-altered microbial metabolic pathways that are linked to host susceptibility to metabolic disease, and demonstrate similar NAS-induced dysbiosis and glucose intolerance in healthy human subjects. Collectively, our results link NAS consumption, dysbiosis and metabolic abnormalities, thereby calling for a reassessment of massive NAS usage.
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“NNS consumption induced glucose intolerance in a microbiota-dependent manner (56).”
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“Emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners have been shown to be involved in the development of metabolic syndrome features through their modulation of the microbiota in mice46,47.”
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“In a study in seven people, artificial sweeteners given at high doses resulted in insulin resistance after only 7 days47”
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“germ-free mice colonized with gut microorganisms from NAS-treated mice or stool microorganisms exposed to NAS ex vivo develop glucose intolerance.”
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“Consumption of artificial sweeteners in mice and humans has been shown to lead to deregulation of the intestinal microbiota, with altered glycan degradation capacity promoting decreased glucose tolerance, a pre-diabetic condition [58].”
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“Other dietary compounds known to alter the composition of the gut microbiome include noncaloric artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame (Suez et al., 2015), a feature with functional implications associated with the induction of glucose intolerance in mice (Suez et al., 2014).”
From Gut reactions: Breaking down xenobiotic–microbiome interactions (2019) · cites this paper as Suez et al., 2014
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“Although earlier human studies indicated detrimental effects on microbial diversity and composition (99, 100) and a more recent study linked consumption of nonnutritive sweeteners to a “dysbiosis” [an increasingly redundant term in microbiome research (171)] and a decrease in butyrate concentration (172), some reports have concluded that no clear effects of sweeteners on the microbiota can be”
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- Authors
- Suez, J., Korem, T., Zeevi, D., Zilberman-Schapira, G., Thaiss, C. A., Maza, O., Israeli, D., Zmora, N., Gilad, S., Weinberger, A., Kuperman, Y., Harmelin, A., Kolodkin-Gal, I., Shapiro, H., Halpern, Z., Segal, E., & Elinav, E.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Jerusalem Mental Health Center (IL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Segal, Eran
- Elinav, Eran
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-09-17
- Volume
- 514
- Issue
- 7521
- Pages
- 181-186
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1989947363
- Cited by
- 2,067
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 62.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- Keywords
- impaired glucose tolerance, gut microbiota, dysbiosis, saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, obesity, fecal microbiota transplantation, germ-free mice, antibiotic therapy, type 2 diabetes, microbial metabolic pathways, food additives
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Aspartame, Body Weight, Dietary Fats, Feces, Female, Germ-Free Life, Glucose, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Saccharin, Sucrose, Sweetening Agents, Glucose Intolerance, Metabolic Syndrome, Gastrointestinal Tract, Waist-Hip Ratio, Mice, Diet, High-Fat, Microbiota
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