{"id":21696,"date":"2019-02-04T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T23:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T23:35:35","slug":"continual-consumption-of-aspartame-found-to-increase-oxidative-stress-in-brain-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21696","title":{"rendered":"Continual consumption of aspartame found to increase oxidative stress in brain tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aspartame_Granules-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"aspartame\" class=\"wp-image-21697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aspartame_Granules-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aspartame_Granules-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aspartame_Granules-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aspartame_Granules.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers found that aspartame, a common artificial sweetener, has a damaging effect on the brain. More specifically, they found that the long-term consumption of aspartame increases oxidative stress in brain tissue and disrupts neurotransmitters, which harms physiological functions. Aspartame consumption reduced the antioxidant activities of two of the most powerful antioxidants in the body, glutathione and superoxide dismutase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/continual-consumption-of-aspartame-found-to-increase-oxidative-stress-in-brain-tissue\/\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/health-healing\/continual-consumption-of-aspartame-found-to-increase-oxidative-stress-in-brain-tissue\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that aspartame, a common artificial sweetener, has a damaging effect on the brain. More specifically, they found that the long-term consumption of aspartame increases oxidative stress in brain tissue and disrupts neurotransmitters, which harms physiological functions. Aspartame consumption reduced the antioxidant activities of two of the most powerful antioxidants in the body, glutathione &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Continual consumption of aspartame found to increase oxidative stress in brain tissue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21698,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions\/21698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}