You might think artificial sweeteners are a sweet escape from spiking your glucose levels, but they also have quirks. Firstly, their sheer sweetness informs the body that sugar is about to come; they prime the pump. There's even a biological name for it: Cephalic Phase Insulin Response (CPIR). Therefore, insulin rises to deal with the sugar that never arrives. In Ben Bikman’s book, Why We Get Sick (buy it; it’s brilliant. Possibly the best book I have ever read on insulin) and do watch our YouTube podcast we did together. He talks about how researchers have concluded that artificial sweeteners increase the risk of insulin resistance. According to one study, people who drink an artificially sweetened (diet) soda daily have a 36% greater chance of developing metabolic syndrome and a whopping 67% higher risk of type 2 diabetes...
