Prof. Dr. Sinan Altan Kocaman, founder of Ankara Koru Hospital Heart Center, pointed out that the sweetener called Xylitol, which is included in packaged foods and used by almost the entire food sector, increases the blood clotting rate by 50 percent.
Research by scientists has revealed that the low-calorie artificial sweetener called Xylitol can increase blood clotting and lead to critical health problems such as heart attack, heart failure, clotting in the brain and stroke.
Prof. Dr. Sinan Altan Kocaman, founder of Ankara Koru Hospital Heart Center, told İHA reporter that sweeteners can be used both synthetically and naturally.
Kocaman noted that in the studies conducted by scientists on xylitol, the cause-effect relationship of this sweetener for cardiovascular diseases was examined.
Prof. Dr. Kocaman stated that the study first checked whether xylitol, which is an artificial sweetener, activates platelets under a microscope and said, “Platelets are the leading role of clotting in our blood vessels. They saw that these platelets are activated invitro under a blood microscope.”
Kocaman stated that the artificial sweetener called xylitol is a sweetener that is currently used by almost the entire food industry.
“Some of these artificial and natural ones can already be made in the body,” Kocaman said:
“When you take them as food, they circulate in the blood a thousand times more than what is normally in the body. It was also checked whether the amounts circulating in the blood activated platelets. Unfortunately, this is also activated. When you eat one dessert, the amount of these food sweeteners in your blood reaches a thousand times the normal amount, and the activation levels of platelets are different between those who consume them more than once a day and those who consume them once. When you consume 3-4 times, they rise even higher in the blood and increase the risk of blood clotting at that moment. They saw that this theoretical, in a laboratory and in human blood coincides with each other. We are not saying that you will definitely have a heart attack if you take one sweetener today. But when you compare 2 thousand people, some of them already have a tendency for platelets to clot. When you add this on top of that, we see statistically that these cardiovascular events increase, and if we see that this is 1.5 times, we are talking about a 50 percent increase.”
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