Dr. Mark Hyman

Are those not bad?

Because you don't absorb them.

Well, sugar alcohols sound great, but they're kind of these weird, strange names.

They're derived from plants, fruit and vegetables sometimes.

And they're in everything from candy to bubble gum to cough drops to chewable vitamins to smoothies to even, quote, health foods often have these.

Now, the...

They're kind of less sweet than traditional artificial sweeteners.

They do have calories, but we don't absorb them because they're too big.

So anything with the word all on it, like mannitol, maltitol, sorbitol, xylitol, erythritol, these are things you don't want to eat.

When you do, they tend to cause a lot of gut issues.

They cause...

The bugs in your gut, they love these.

They just munch them down and they'll create bloating.

I mean, I remember once when these first came out like 25 years ago or something, this patient of mine gave me this chocolate bar.

Look, Dr. Hyman, here's a chocolate bar.

And there's no sugar.

And it's amazing.

And it tastes good.

And I'm like, great.

And I'm like, okay, I'm going to eat it.