Dr. Chris Palmer

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And so we can't have you poison half the participants.

That's not going to benefit them in any way.

So instead, what we do have are animal studies.

And one of the clearest, most recent examples of potential harm

with a mental health condition based on this kind of animal research is with a substance called aspartame or NutraSweet.

This is found in over 500 diet foods and sodas.

It is ubiquitous in our food supply.

Aspartame is found in Diet Coke, most other diet sodas.

It's ubiquitous in our food supply.

And it's largely considered to be perfectly safe.

So researchers actually took mice and they exposed them to normal doses of aspartame.

So not extra high doses, not toxic doses, just normal doses that somebody who's drinking several Diet Cokes a day might be exposed to.

The mice who got the aspartame were more likely to have anxiety-like behaviors.

Those anxiety-like behaviors were reduced with Valium, a common treatment for anxiety.

And the reason the researchers did that part of the study is they wanted to determine, is this normal anxiety or is this some kind of weird...

aspartame anxiety.

Is this like, are we inducing some brand new type of anxiety?

Or is this bread and butter, run-of-the-mill anxiety disorder?

And it was bread and butter, run-of-the-mill anxiety disorder.

The researchers then looked at the brain function of these mice, and sure enough, they found amygdala hyperactivation.

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