{"id":3743,"date":"2025-11-27T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/sweetener-in-sugar-free-products-may-increase-liver-disease-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:01:01","slug":"sweetener-in-sugar-free-products-may-increase-liver-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/sweetener-in-sugar-free-products-may-increase-liver-disease-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetener in sugar-free products may increase liver disease risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-27 15:00:59<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A supposedly \u201chealthier\u201d sugar substitute in sugar-free products could be fuelling deadly liver disease.<BR><br \/>\nAlarming new research suggests sorbitol \u2014 a common sweetener and naturally occurring sugar alcohol \u2014 may trigger metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) by allowing dangerous fat to build up inside the liver. <BR><br \/>\nThe condition, once known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, now affects up to one in five Britons, though experts fear the real figure may be far higher.<BR><br \/>\nThe study, published in Science Signalling, used zebrafish to investigate what happens when the gut microbiome &#8211; the army of \u201cfriendly\u201d bacteria that normally breaks down sorbitol &#8211; is disrupted. <BR><br \/>\nWhen those bacteria were wiped out with antibiotics, researchers saw sorbitol rapidly accumulate, travel to the liver and spark fatty liver disease even when the fish were eating a normal diet.<BR><br \/>\nWorse still, adding sorbitol directly to their food caused the same harmful effect.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to lead researcher Dr. Gary Patti, sorbitol is \u201cone transformation away from fructose\u201d, the sugar notorious for supercharging cancer cells and driving fatty liver. <BR><br \/>\nWhile the body naturally produces small amounts of sorbitol during digestion, the microbiome normally clears it safely. <BR><br \/>\nBut Dr. Patti warned: \u201cIf you don\u2019t have the right bacteria, that\u2019s when it becomes problematic\u2026 sorbitol doesn\u2019t get degraded and is passed on to the liver.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nEven people with healthy gut bacteria aren\u2019t entirely protected. Too much glucose or sorbitol can overwhelm those microbes, allowing sorbitol to slip through to the liver where it converts into a fructose derivative and contributes to fat buildup.<BR><br \/>\nThe study concluded that excessive sorbitol intake \u201cmay pose a risk for the development of MASLD\u201d.<BR><br \/>\nThe findings arrive amid mounting concerns over artificial sweeteners. While experts caution sugar substitutes are still preferable to sugar itself, the idea that they pass harmlessly through the body \u201cmay not hold true,\u201d researchers warned.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-27 15:00:59 A supposedly \u201chealthier\u201d sugar substitute in sugar-free products could be fuelling deadly liver disease. Alarming new research suggests sorbitol \u2014 a common sweetener and naturally occurring sugar alcohol&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}