Dr. Layne Norton

I know you like stevia.

You know, there's aspartame is actually very safe.

And people say, what about cancer?

Okay.

So here, here's the thing again, negative new selection bias.

You're much more likely to hear about a study where something causes cancer than has no effect.

How often do you hear a study of like X showed no effect on cancer?

I can't think of like the last time I heard a study get propagated in the news about that.

Like the null hypothesis just doesn't pop up that much.

So, um,

80% of the studies on aspartame show no effect on cancer.

Like,

I think something like 11% are like a possibly and 9% are a yes.

You're talking about animal studies?

But the ones in – it's all – the ones that say yes are all the ones in animals at high doses or you have some of these cohort studies where it kind of like pops up here and there.

But for me to feel confident that something –

For me to feel confident of something with cohort data, I want to see it like really consistently.

Like fiber, very confident that fiber is good for health, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mortality, because I am not aware of a single study looking at fiber intake in a cohort that did not show protective effects and in a dose response manner.

So I'm pretty confident in that data.

But if you look at like, for example, aspartame in a study of the – you're familiar with the NutriSante cohort?