Dr. Chris Palmer

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Dr. Chris Palmer: Your Diet Could Be Causing Anxiety, Depression & Brain Fog (6 Simple Changes to Make Today) · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

So the amygdala is kind of sometimes known as like the fear center or the panic center.

So that lined up

Here's the devastating part, though, is that the mice who were given aspartame went on to have babies, and those babies went on to have babies.

None of the babies were exposed to aspartame.

But for two generations, the increased risk for anxiety-like behaviors persisted.

which means that aspartame is inducing epigenetic changes that can be transmitted to your children and your grandchildren.

Now, if this is mice data from mouse studies, again, we will never, ever be able to do these studies in humans.

We can't dissect the amygdala and all sorts.

That will never happen.

We do have large epidemiological studies documenting already people who consume a lot of artificial sweeteners are more likely to have anxiety disorders.

They're more likely to have depression.

They're more likely to have a wide range of mental health conditions.

So we've got probably the best level of evidence we're ever going to get already in humans, that this does apply to humans, it seems.

But what this means concretely is that if your mother

drank a lot of Diet Coke, you might have an anxiety disorder because of that, even if you have never had a Diet Coke in your life.

Now, of course, more than likely, you've had plenty of Diet Cokes because if your mother drinks Diet Coke, she's probably offered you some, and you have probably also been consuming a lot of it as well.

Now, does that mean everybody who drinks aspartame has an anxiety disorder?

Of course not.

It's one of probably hundreds or thousands of risk factors.

So it's just one way to begin to understand that.

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