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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Artificial sweetener shows surprising power to overcome antibiotic resistance

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Artificial sweetener shows surprising power to overcome antibiotic resistance

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Saccharin, the artificial sweetener used in diet foods like yogurts and sugar-free drinks, can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria—including one of the world's most dangerous pathogens.
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    If this shows to be quite accurate, one must have to wonder what it does to the natural gut biome. I’ll have to contemplate this further. I should go grab my morning Diet Coke to wake my brain up.

    … Twenty. Minutes. Later…

    Oh. Oh, no.

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      Good news! Diet Coke doesn’t use saccharine.

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    I definitely thought this would be and Xylitol, and I was wrong

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    I wonder if this means that people who live off of diet soda get sick less often.

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      Probably less than people on sugar-rich soda.

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      Or whether they have problems with the bacteria the digestive system needs to function properly.

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      Removed by mod

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