{"id":224659,"date":"2025-11-06T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/common-sweetener-could-damage-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:04:51","slug":"common-sweetener-could-damage-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/common-sweetener-could-damage-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke","title":{"rendered":"Common Sweetener Could Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-sweetener-could-damage-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.<\/p>\n<p>But research suggests this widely used sweetener may be quietly undermining one of the body\u2019s most crucial protective barriers \u2013 with potentially serious consequences for heart health and stroke risk.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.physiology.org\/doi\/full\/10.1152\/japplphysiol.00276.2025\">study<\/a> from the University of Colorado suggests erythritol may damage cells in the blood-brain barrier, the brain\u2019s security system that keeps out harmful substances while letting in nutrients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar. But research suggests this widely used sweetener may be quietly undermining one of the body\u2019s most crucial protective barriers \u2013 with potentially serious consequences for heart health and stroke risk. A study from the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}