This is incredibly silly: 1. The study was on cells in a jar 2. The concentrations used were up to 50 times what you'd find in diet drinks 3. Gut bacteria aren't peoplehttps://www.businessinsider.com.au/artificial-sweeteners-aspartame-and-sucralose-damage-gut-bacteria-e-coli-2018-10 …
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An example of the concentrations that the scientists used is 4mg/ml of aspartame Diet Coke has 0.4 mg/ml of aspartame, about 1/10th of the amount Hardly representative
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Also, this was the effect of various sweeteners on a single strain of E. Coli, it's not even clear whether this would transfer to other strains of bacteria
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