Side effects of additives

Fit_Chef_NE wrote: »

More likely a placebo effect like most anecdotal evidence. Your experiment with coffee is flawed by your own personal bias and disproved by the experiences of other people. I mean, if you think it works, go for it. I just think the tooth grinding isn't going to stop that easily. The carnivore diet itself is filled with a bunch of woo and poorly sourced information. It is lacking in fiber, which is linked with longevity and health. Short term, people may see benefits from the carnivore diet, but in the long term, it is linked with an increase in heart disease. If you feel a lot better, it may be a sign that you have some sort of blood sugar issue. The grinding could even be linked to that. Diabetes has been linked to oral health issues in reputable studies.

I have yet to see anything but epidemiological studies that point to eating meat increasing the risk of heart disease, especially when one puts that meat eating into a way of eating that is marked by nutritional ketosis which is a different metabolic functioning from a glucose based metabolism. All the studies I see are of people eating a lot of meat in the overall setting of the general diet of the developed world which adds in so many confounding factors so as to be useless. This is not to mention that epidemiological studies at best can only give correlation and be used to put together double blind studies. I am also curious what this short term duration is and how long one need to eat a certain way before it becomes a long term example? There are people who have been eating carnivore for long time periods, so what do you consider the cut off.

As for the improvement of the teeth grinding, as long as the original poster is not claiming it will solve it for anyone else, that it has went away, whether from specifically eating carnivore or simply moving away from a highly processed diet is a good thing. If it comes back from the Pepsi, there could be a bunch of potential things that could cause it, but again, getting on them because in their n=1 situation is happened as if this is some peer review process is silly.

Lastly, I hope you put this much skepticism toward vegan diets. They has issues as well, and it seems they get the pass because veggies equal healthy.

Leo_King84 wrote: »

When I was 13 I had braces and I ended up grinding my teeth and breaking them off. The orthodontist ended up taking them off and my teeth never got straightened.

After getting braces off the grinding habit remained and it's really plagued me all my life. I've labelled it as a nervous habit as no matter how hard I try not to clench or grind I always got this overpowering urge to do it, to which I'd give in.

I recently started on a Carnivore diet, I'm 2 weeks in now and I've found the urge to grind and clench has disappeared completely. I go days now without doing it. What I did find interesting was the other night I decided to treat myself to a glass of pepsi max as I've stuck to my diet... the whole urge to grind and clench came flooding back after a small glass of pepsi max. It lasted a few hours then went again.

Theres clearly something with pepsi max that triggers this reaction in me.

Imagine putting something like that in yourself for over 20 years and not actually knowing what its really doing to you.

I just went down the rabbit hole on the internet.. It was interesting to see so many articles on the influence of diet on bruxism - including aspartame. (Diet Coke)

Seems many people are hypothesizing a link between the 2. Johns Hopkins has been doing a study regarding the role of diet, Bruxism and neurotransmitters.

A few interesting NIH and PubMed clinical studies on aspartame and neurophysiological symptoms in certain subsets of the population:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28198207/

yes pepsi max contains aspartame.

I thought that was common knowledge.

For most people that isnt a problem though

Ok. I guess everyone didn't know that.

Which artificial sweetener did you think was used in Pepsi Max ?