Traditional Chinese Medicine: Artificial Sweeteners

Video Transcript

"In Chinese medicine, we talk about dietary theory. We look at the different organs and we put a taste relationship with each one. So we can either help that particular organ by eating a food with a particular flavor, or if we eat too much of an organ, we can actually create dysfunction. Chinese medicine is always about moderation. So, now enough and we're deficient. If we get too much, we often times create excess or stagnation. So the different organs. The heart, we look for bitter flavors. With the spleen, we look to sweet. With the lung, bland. The kidney, salty. And the liver, sour. So we talk about artificial sweeteners, we think about how it affects our glucose levels in our blood, but we often times talk about them as being 10,000 or 100,000 times sweeter than sugar. So if we talk about the energetics of the spleen, those artificial sweeteners are 10,000 times stronger effect on the spleen, which is in excess and ultimately causes dysfunction providing us for weaker chi on a poorer immune system. There's been a lot of conjecture by a number of alternative practitioners about why artificial sweeteners are not good for us and so Chinese medicine gives up a little bit of an inside into why that may be from an energetic proposal."