{"id":1029,"date":"2025-07-14T18:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:28:06","slug":"common-sweetener-may-raise-stroke-risk-by-altering-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/common-sweetener-may-raise-stroke-risk-by-altering-brain-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sweetener May Raise Stroke Risk by Altering Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/erythritol-stroke-neurology-29452\/\" title=\"Common Sweetener May Raise Stroke Risk by Altering Brain Cells\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a brain and a packet of sweetener.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sweetener-stroke-neuroscience-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>A common sugar substitute, erythritol, widely used in \u201csugar-free\u201d and low-carb products, may increase stroke risk by damaging brain blood vessel cells. A new study found that erythritol exposure reduced nitric oxide, increased vessel constrictors, impaired clot-busting abilities, and boosted free radical production in these cells. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common sugar substitute, erythritol, widely used in \u201csugar-free\u201d and low-carb products, may increase stroke risk by damaging brain blood vessel cells. A new study found that erythritol exposure reduced nitric oxide, increased vessel constrictors, impaired clot-busting abilities, and boosted free radical production in these cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}