Blood Clotting Risk Doubles With Erythritol Consumption: Insights From Pilot Study
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A recent pilot study found that drinking a beverage containing erythritol (an artificial sweetener used to boost the content of stevia and monk fruit and to sweeten low-carb ketogenic products) more than doubled the risk of blood clots in 10 healthy individuals.
Blood clots can break off from blood vessels and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or the brain, causing a stroke. Previous research has linked erythritol to an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and death.
Dr. Stanley Hazen, lead author of the study and director of the Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Prevention Center at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, noted that "remarkably, in all subjects, all measures of platelet (blood clotting) response were increased ...