Avoid these three sweeteners because they can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. If you’re new to my channel, hi, my name is Robert Love. I’m a neuroscientist and I specialize in helping people prevent Alzheimer’s disease with science. You’ve probably heard of Alzheimer’s disease being called type 3 diabetes. What that means is that people who have type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. So if you want to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, it’s a really good idea to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. Here are three sweeteners you want to avoid because they can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. Number one, this one is a surprise to most people. It is agave. So agave is basically high fructose corn syrup. Your body processes it very similarly to high fructose corn syrup. And this is a sweetener that really spikes your insulin, spikes your blood glucose and can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. Plus, what makes it worse than regular sugar is it actually promotes the storage of fat. Sweetener number two to avoid. There’s been a lot of debate about this one. These are artificial sweeteners. There’s a research study out of France of 100,000 people and they studied them over nine years. This is a longitudinal study. A whole bunch of money was spent on this. What they found was that those who consumed foods and beverages with artificial sweeteners had an increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those who did not consume those sweeteners. It was a 69% increased risk, which is pretty substantial. So this is a really well done study. So this shows that over time consuming artificial sweeteners is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Sweetener number three. You know this one. It’s in a lot of packaged and processed foods. It is high fructose corn syrup. So please avoid high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup at all costs. The easiest way to do that is just to not eat packaged and processed foods. What happens is this food, high fructose corn syrup, spikes your insulin, spikes your blood glucose, it promotes the storage of fat and it makes you hungrier. So not only is it going to be stored as fat in your body because your body can’t process that sugar quickly enough, it’s also going to make you hungrier and cause you to eat more and that’s probably not good for your health. I love you. God bless you.