Does Diet Soda Actually Cause Weight GAIN?

[@ActualHumanPerson]

I stood on my scale both with and without a 2 liter of diet soda and I can say I absolutely weighed more with the diet soda.

[@williammclean6594]

water weight

[@ActualHumanPerson]

​@@williammclean6594 never ask a ladies weight

[@williammclean6594]

@@ActualHumanPerson I'm just saying if you're drinking anything you're going to weigh more because there's water in your stomach. When you piss it out then you weigh less

[@bass779]

Checkmate, liberals

[@ActualHumanPerson]

​@@williammclean6594fair point❤

[@ebbarut]

Had a guy rant to me about how diet soda causes cancer, only to light a cigarette in front of me a few minutes later 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@frextion5867]

bro's not having 2 poison, he'll stick to one thank you

[@joshua-emmanuelortiz-vega6856]

@@frextion5867😂😂😂

[@alex96super]

Saw a pregnant lady avoiding a lot zero sugar drinks or low sugar snacks. Only for to hit her vape while in the store.

[@michaelrobertson1736]

😂 same thing happens to me all the time

[@user-fz3sz2dj4r]

I have anti-vax friends who do blow every weekend and blast steroids constantly, hypocrisy is tiring

[@cristianarevalo3395]

Went from 265 to 150 after a year of switching my lifestyle around and one of the things that helped me was switching from regular soda to diet soda

[@Ceredron]

same. Was at 250 at my heaviest, but switching to diet soda, sparkling water, in addition to the gym has me down to 200 even. Enormous assistance tool for weight loss.

[@PaddyDoesasia-bj3bb]

Great work, keep it up 👍

[@biernut8408]

I love the stuff for weight loss if I put on a few unwanted pounds over the dreaded holidays. The carbonation makes me feel fuller when I'm reducing calories and the caffein is a great appetite suppressant...

[@Canelo3]

Great job! 💪🏼 For me, it’s a great way to satisfy my sweet tooth without taking in extra calories.

[@eventhorizon7234]

i went from 130 to 160 and what helped me was going to the bathroom

[@danielkanewske8473]

It's not the 5 lbs of cheese cake or the gallon of ice cream, it's the diet soda that is making me fat.

[@chubbbubb6870]

Thank God because I wasn't about to give up eating my five pound cheesecakes.

[@dolier2802]

​​@@chubbbubb6870You can eat as much cheese cake and fudge as you want, just cut out the diet soda to balance it all out 👍

[@etrephesm]

mmmm cheesecake 🤤

[@drSamovar]

its the diet soda that keeps your sugar addiction revving high enough to keep the desire for that cheesecake and ice cream strong.....hello?....

[@chubbbubb6870]

@@drSamovar diet soda makes you crave more diet soda.

[@SaiyanStrength]

"Whatever goes in the mouth goes in the mouth." - Dr. Mike Israetel

[@Amir_Nassir]

[@gapho5198]

I never thought of it like that...

[@BWater-yq3jx]

What goes around comes around, therefore...

[@levidiaz3074]

You are what you eat

[@jaromchristensen5598]

@@BWater-yq3jx therefore what goes in the mouth comes in the mouth?

[@AxeMurderer1983]

drinking sugar free soft drinks has not only helped me save calories, it's helped me curb drinking alcohol as well. much better in the long run for me and my body.

[@WakaFlakaFlame777]

Same! Diet soda helps curb the itch for a beer

[@7heSlime]

I had great success with non-alcoholic beer after I quit drinking but gave that up as well when I got serious about losing weight. You don't have to quit everything at the same time and it might not work out if you do it that way. I quit nicotine 8 years ago, alcohol 6 years ago and finally lost weight and got in shape over the past two years, down from 130kg to 78kg and been staying around that weight while puttning on muscle over the past year.

[@gritcrit4385]

Exactly it helps me forget about beer

[@pleasehelp2446]

Same here, it also helps curb cravings for sweets

[@matthewotis3594]

I drink sugar free Gatorade at work.

[@overloaded14]

I must say, I appreciate that the tease of "Is diet soda making you fat?" was promptly followed up by "No, no its not" I still watched the whole video to find out why. Thank you for not making me wait through a bunch of teases about the main point of the video.

[@JadenZeCreator]

That’s why I love Dr. Mike he’s straight to the point then elaborates on nuances later on

[@MereCashmere]

Dr. Mike can you please start citing the studies in the description? It would make it so much easier to argue with my family if i had easy access to PRL

[@stark5353]

Please make a debunk/roast of Gundry like you did with Oz. My parents are turbo fans of that guy, their house is full of his powders and supplements. Drives me nuts.

[@not-a-raccoon]

This. I love it when knee jerk pseudo scientists get debunked

[@ActualHumanPerson]

Start swapping their powders with creatine and protein.

[@diegoh7506]

@@ActualHumanPerson actual genius should be your name

[@Oogiddyboogway]

@@ActualHumanPersonproblem is when it’s starts working they’ll still be convinced it’s Oz’s crap and be even more hooked 😂

[@TehMadCow]

I’d like to see this too, used to get his ads all the time!

[@Alais_NorizaXIV]

I'm on a diet currently, not the first time in my life, always had issues sticking to any diet cause i love sweet stuff and have a hard time dealing with the cravings. Always believed the "artificial sweeteners" are bad for you. Finally came around to look at the research and just swapped out most of the sweet stuff i usually eat with diet soda, makes it so much easier for me. So far im on week 9, have no issue staying on my calorie goal each day and i'm down to about 120kg from just over 130kg

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

Ayy hell good bro. Congrats on your progress my man

[@Mentaljedi]

I mean, they might be bad for you. But being overweight is worse, and 99% of people can't jump from bad diet to perfect diet. Its fine to have crutches like diet sodas.

[@dolier2802]

​@@MentaljediYou said it perfectly, even if drinking diet soda isn't conventionally healthy, it's a great stepping stone to getting to a healthier weight

[@arforafro5523]

You keep at it brother, I too have lost 20kg over a year by taking small steps and diet soda definitely helped me cut a lot of calories out without removing one of my favorite treats.

[@OrbitalTrails-x5s]

Carbs are everything

[@HelloFellowYoutubers]

There might be a regional factor too. I’ve never been attacked by a shark while living in Bavaria.

[@pierrex3226]

Do you eat ice cream though?

[@kungfudavie]

Yet…..

[@Javierm0n0]

The sharks are waiting, biding their time for when their legs and lungs form. Then the land sharks will come for us all.

[@diegopena4773]

A shark right now: oil up lil bro

[@swagatochatterjee7104]

You all have those old people who yells at ausländers for not knowing manners

[@BWater-yq3jx]

I realised some time ago that what I mostly want from a soda is something wet, cold, and fizzy. The sugar, and even the sweetness, I don't really need. Sometimes don't even want. So now I just have soda water or sparkling mineral water. It wasn't even slightly difficult.

[@HerroYuy246]

Same. La Croux is a new favorite. Also Topo Chico.

[@JM-tj5qm]

I would love slightly flavored sparkly mineral water. I don’t know how that’s not more popular.

[@BWater-yq3jx]

​@@JM-tj5qm Yes I have that sometimes. I think it's Schweppes.

[@holy.water.]

same. ive been drinking the liquid death sparkling water and its been great

[@grumblesa10]

Yep, same here. Now you can literally make it at home so it's even cheaper. Though I still buy San Pellegrino mineral water, for well, the minerals and it reminds of being stationed at Aviano...

[@AntonioHernandez-bi7qy]

I could honestly listen to you talking everyday and I have never heard a podcast. Thank you for the useful information bro

[@nicstevens5612]

Absolutely love dr. Mike geeking tf out over Star Wars for a solid few minutes

[@techdeth]

Having to have the "calories in, calories out" argument with people who think you can magic your way out of obeying thermodynamics makes absolutely livid.

[@JM-tj5qm]

Right? Is extremely simple. Yet people overcomplicate it or add so much nonsense information. Food is literally fuel. Excess fuel can either become muscle or fat and that’s it.

[@carbonatedPigeon]

It’s not about “magic-ing” your way out of thermodynamics. There are several mechanisms that affect calories in, calories out. If diet soda increased ghrelin (which it doesn’t), causing you to eat more, it doesn’t matter if it has 0 cal.

[@techdeth]

@carbonatedPigeon yeah soda doesn't magic food into your mouth, you do. You eat it = calories In.

[@carbonatedPigeon]

@@techdeth completely missed the point, but okay.

[@carbonatedPigeon]

@@techdeth regardless, you do not brute force your way against hormones in the long term. Engaging in behavior that forces you to work against your body is going to fail 99% of the time.

[@thebluedogILU]

Dr. Mike mentioned this in the video, but from my experience, when I have a sweet craving, having a diet/zero drink almost always satisfies that craving. It's been a fantastic way for me to "have something sweet" without actually having a tone of sugar!!

[@dude231ification]

They say diet soda is bad but beer and alcohol is perfectly fine 🙄 Tired of having this fight

[@lt3880]

Literally nobody is saying that

[@Jay-mi6qj]

​@@lt3880 legit, noone has ever mentioned beer and alcohol being better during a conversation about diet soda

[@carstenstahl5248]

Well while being very critical when it comes to drinking diet soda, especially with the purpose of weight loss, I have never made the experience that anyone around me (who isn’t serious about fitness of course) gave drinking lots off beer and alcohol every weekend a second thought

[@blklightning21]

​@@lt3880thats not what he means. He means people will say that diet soda is bad but will drink alcohol every night or in excess on weekends. That is worse than diet soda.

[@myicyheart]

People just don't like the taste of diet sodas and will use the excuse that "it's bad for you" to not drink it. If it tasted better than regular sugar, those fools would be all over it even if there was research it was harming them like there is overwhelming research that sugar does. It's sugar addiction talking. I used to be one of those people until Coke Zero and now I never miss regular coke at all.

[@josephh5085]

4:30 - This reminds me of the argument that people who drink moderate amounts of alcohol are healthier than those who don’t. The non-drinkers used to drink but stopped for a variety of reasons but the study doesn’t tell you that.

[@Ben-zr4ho]

There are similar studies with smokers being more healthy than non smokers and fat people being healthy than non fat people. Statisticians call it "the smoking paradox" and "the obesity paradox." Why paradox? Because they know it's bs. You just gave a good reason, right out of the book "How Statistics Lie," that would explain why that is. Honestly though? Nowadays especially? I don't think there are all these subtle reasons why statistics are misrepresented. They just outright lie. Here's one I just found out about. The US' mortality rates for mothers giving birth don't look as good as they should. Turns out the CDC is now counting suicides of the mother up to like 3 years after birth. Other countries obviously don't count a mothers suicide due to post partum depression or whatever as a death from childbirth. Or how during COVID all of a sudden supposedly like 1/4 of as many people were dying from pneumonia. Then they just combined influenza, pneumonia, and COVID into one criteria. Even retroactively. It's crazy look at the CDC deaths from 2018, before COVID, they have thousands of deaths from, "influenza, pneumonia, and/or COVID 19" listed even though COVID 19 didn't even exist yet. It's a trip.

[@xiongly435]

The study doesn’t tell you anything. We just know that for some reason - people who drink moderately live longer. This could be because they eat healthier, because they walk more etc and so on.

[@Wiwcac]

I cut out my sugar sodas and just do coke zero mostly now. There are many other factors, but I am down to the low 160s from 255. Diet soda was one of the changes, including sleep and eating habits, that were probably among the most helpful. My next goal is to become reasonably more active and comfortable during life. I come to your channel for your detailed explanations you’ve given of the various exercises that I can do in my small, cluttered apartment. Using some 5 lb weights, some jugs of water for extra weight, a 20lb, resistance bands. Plenty of exercises exist for which I appreciate your guidance. And lil Debbie oatmeal creampies are the best.

[@MrFelixmo]

I also replaced all my soda with coke. Down 100lbs but don't sleep anymore.

[@Wiwcac]

@@MrFelixmo truesame. And I need to find replacements for my bad solutions for that.

[@JPPWB]

I'm not familiar with the brand but Lil Debbie Creampies sounds like a video I saw on the internet once.

[@charleswajda-gotwals3690]

@@MrFelixmo Took me until after a good bit of insomnia to realize the 2L of diet coke I was drinking every dinner had caffeine in it.

[@mrjuanderfuI]

I love that you answer questions quickly and then go into details.

[@atilla7212]

Watching Dr. Mike gives me joy really

[@stick1711]

Thanks for addressing this. The idiocy about diet soda making people fat drives me crazy.

[@OhMyJoshy]

I’ve lost 55 lbs over the last 8 months and only major diet change was going from regular soda to diet soda

[@goldeneagle256]

roughly 600 calories in 1.5 liter bottle of coca cola, so if you drink one of those a day, you gonna gain significant amount of weight.

[@akanji8285]

TLDR: the type of people that drink sodas everyday generally aren’t very strict with their other bodily intake

[@clapurterdcutter-6963]

Been cutting the past month and switched to diet and zero suger…. Dropped 10 pounds, zero calorie and help me feel full in a deficit🤷🏻‍♂️ thanks mike solid fucking content🤙🏻

[@likemysnopp]

for now. Give it 10 years and you wont feel full or energized on them diet sodas or zero sugar aka literal air.

[@Win7ermu7e]

@@likemysnopp How 35 years? That's how wrong I know you are. Caffeine is caffeine and it's an appetite suppressant whether you know it or not.

[@SeuOu]

@@likemysnopp Stomach expansion absolutely influences feelings of satiety, you need some actual food to tickle your pylorus and the carbonation fills in the rest. I drink a liter of sparkling water with meals, it does the same thing for the same reason.

[@JM-tj5qm]

@likemysnopp You will always feel energized because it has caffeine. Also ten whole years? Why would it take that long. And even if it did having benefits for a whole decade seems like a sweet deal to me.

[@clapurterdcutter-6963]

The kind i get has zero caffeine…. Not trying to get energy off diet sodas😂black coffee is pretty solid or caffeine pills. I just drink it for the taste 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@CommieHunter7]

Out of all your vids, this one is a rambling all over the place ride. I'm here for it.

[@Moose92411]

Ego is a really big one. It’s HARD to go back once you’ve begun building a following based on ideas that you may or may not have really believed in. People can’t stand online blowback, which is a shame, because it’s critical to examine your own biases.

[@JM-tj5qm]

Yeah and is like this belief that being healthy is about depriving yourself of stuff you like. Instead of being smart about what you eat and drink. People who think like that also do dumb diets they cheat on instead of doing a smart one they can maintain their whole life

[@dexterdexter8493]

Yup on this note, I hope Dr Mike can clarify that he got it wrong by saying coach Greg claims to be a doctor.

[@gadget00]

yeah, it's a psychological effect: if you affirmed something and you're started to be questioned or put in doubt, you will on an impulse try to defend your idea or attack the doubters(whatever works first to shut them up), whether you're objectively right or not. Just because you said it, it is "true" in your head no matter what. It takes some mental discipline to publicly recognize you made a wrong affirmation and backtrack, and deal with looking/feeling like an idiot, but acknowledging the objective truth

[@brooke9847]

I feel like by age 10 we should fully grasp correlation versus causation, but I still have adults telling me my diet soda is going to make me gain weight.

[@UMAMIMAMU]

I say "Correlation does not equal causation," to my girlfriend all the time. As you can well imagine, she _hates_ it. Lol.

[@musashi296]

the long awaited 20th soda vid

[@BassGoThump]

It’s back in the news. Some bs never goes away.

[@InHellBaby1]

The 2000th Coffee good/bad coming next.

[@JM-tj5qm]

The truth needs to be heard

[@HerculesEinstein]

judging by all the people who continue to chug soda despite intentional price gouging (both coke and pepsi have taken advantage of covid inflation to see how much people will pay. coke found their limit, that's why it's been on sale or rollback for the better part of a year. pepsi has for now, too, but more price hikes to come in 2024) and ever climbing obesity rates, it still needs more saying

[@mangoismangois1672]

Actually had an overweight coworker who drank a lot of sugar soda straight up tell me that diet soda was worse when she saw me getting some

[@legitlyspelunking]

The fact is, if you're overweight or obese, it was a variety of factors that caused you to become that way. Switching sodas from regular to diet alone won't fix it, but it can definitely be part of the equation that leads to weight loss and improved health

[@likemysnopp]

imagen this.. you already drink only diet soda while you eat tons of snacks and other high caloric food with insane amount of bad carbs and bad fats and bad proteins in it. Oh and your stomach expande due to all of this in a nice combination so you dont feel full anymore.. so you eat even more without thinking.. and expanding the stomach more. Thus you need more food and "fuel" to feel full. This is why people who drink diet sodas become fatter in time. There is no damn way out of this no matter what the roided youtubers claim. Eat good nutrition rich food. That is the literal only way and we all know it. Yes, ALL SODAS WILL MAKE YOU FAT IN SOME WAY SOONER OR LATER. Water wont. Plenty of other liquids wont either tbh cuz they have actual nutrition in them.. zero calories means zero energy and zero nutrition of value. So you are esentially drinking air.

[@dallysinghson5569]

No damn way out of this? The fleck outta here loser. If you wanna lose weight lower the calories, no gumby like yourself can prove otherwise. Do it via diet soda or we no one cares.

[@ryanhenning1023]

@@likemysnoppI think if you read most of what you said in your own reply, you’ll see that even you are saying that factors other than diet soda are leading to the weight gain. The stretch of the stomach and delayed feeling of fullness are definitely real and evidence based, but even according to you that’s because of all the snacks and excess eating being done. Imagine this. Say this person who’s drinking diet soda, eating bunches of snacks and low quality nutrition in excess begins to switch to good quality food, moderate calorie intake, and beneficial amounts of essential minerals, vitamins, etc. but continues to drink diet soda… Would you say that this person would lose weight? I think even you would say yes

[@um4668]

Your entire statement proves that diet soda doesn't make you fat. You debunked yourself

[@BWater-yq3jx]

I actually doubt diet soda really helps anyone lose weight. My consistent observation has been that diet soda is something that fat, lazy, gluttonous people drink as a kind of token weight loss measure that doesn't involve actual dieting or exercise. Further, I think anyone who is obese will have sugar/carb cravings that diet soda does not satisfy, and so will simply add back those calories elsewhere. This is one area I disagree with the video on - a sweet tooth is also about your body's desire for sugar. So, on balance, I'd say diet drinks are a waste of time, and only exist so that manufacturers can keep making money when people turn away from their regular products.

[@StopTryingSoHard]

I have a dude friend who is a roughneck (kind of a oil/gas laborer). He's like 240lbs, tall, and ripped. He though has a diet than involves, grape soda, cup ramen, hot dogs, and weed. He's being brought up as proof that apparently "soda doesn't actually make you fat." Because he drinks like a 12 pack a day, every day. The thing is, he's a big guy and does a hugely physical job. We worked it out, he does like 3600 kcal a day in food 7 days a week, burns 4000 5x a week and lazes around the other two days (like 2700 kcal). Turns out that the math works out just fine.

[@kleavage1983]

"Damn, you really were the first man huh?" That killed me

[@neco5740]

Just having artificial sweeteners at home and drinking diet soda completely eliminated all my sugar consumption while not feeling limiting in the slightest.

[@Withered416]

This last Xmas my cousin got into a whole argument with us because he was convinced that the Liquid Death water brand “had to have some bad stuff” in it simply because the branding/packaging looks extreme. It was only until he looked it up himself that he finally believed us. Definitely was thinking of that moment while watching this lol

[@shaqitup]

To be fair though if you drink water from a can you are a pecker

[@yehoshuas.6917]

I feel like naming your product "Liquid Death" is uh....kinda bad marketing if you want people to think it's healthy and/or water. I would also assume it has bad shit in it from that name. Why the fuck would you name your water Liquid Death?

[@Bloodrammer]

​@@yehoshuas.6917 because it's cool.

[@SeuOu]

@@yehoshuas.6917 I felt the same way when I first saw the Mush cups pop up in the grocery dairy case...but apparently they have a loyal following, too.

[@Crushanator1]

​​@@yehoshuas.6917 It's marketed and branded that way so you can fit in with people drinking tall boys or energy drinks. whether you're a teen, sober, or just don't want the calories or alcohol in a beer, you shouldn't be ostracized or feel awkward by drinking water. and plastic water bottles are stupid bc plastic can only be recycled a handful of times before it just becomes sludge, so an aluminum can is better for the environment FWIW I think it's silly since it's SUPER overpriced vs just like store brand seltzer, but TBH sometimes I would just rather have a regular water than something carbonated

[@AhegaooPrincess]

I’ve been saying this because when I cut out soda completely I lost so much weight! Dropping soda from your diet can really help

[@Schacal6666]

We need the Dr. Layne Norton and Dr. Mike Israetel crossover!

[@lollipop84858]

Why?

[@lollipop84858]

And what do you mean 'we'

[@bellsteven]

"What up Lucy? Haaaah" 🤣 Your greatest intro yet.

[@HappyDigressions]

The Emperor didn't fall to the Dark Side of social media influencers regarding his looks.

[@waynebarrett3826]

You are the realest! All facts from research

[@sahibsingh6689]

Dr Mike, that star wars tangent had me pressing pause just to catch my breath, thanks for the ab workout.

[@jonmacintyre9905]

I love how direct you are. ❤

[@Lizard008]

I noticed the spelling for Dr. Oz was actually corrected on the slides! Much appreciated.

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

I switched to diet and zero sodas after years of being addicted to full flavor. It was a transition but now full flavor just feels like incredibly sweet candy. It have overall helped curve a lot of my sweet cravings since its mostly only mildly sweet ( other than cherry dr pepper zero). The reality was that it was only a piece of what was making me gain slow but steady weight and I've plateaued for a few years now after losing 15-20 lbs.

[@Ben-zr4ho]

I gave up real sodas years ago but I don't think I ever won't crave them. I love real soda. Ah well...

[@vitamin9165]

These videos bring me an immense amount of joy.

[@Bejetata]

Hey man, I like you sense of humor on your videos 😂, great content too

[@HorstDeBepp]

Because my dad is diabetic I'm cautious to not get diabetic as well. I constantly heard diet soda gives you an insulin spike due to sweet taste. So I tested with dads device. I drank 1,5L Coke Zero in one sitting. My blood sugar levels ( mg/dl): before: 81 0min after consumption: 84 30min: 85 1h: 83 2h: 85 so now I know that is bs (in my case at least)

[@Drgluee]

If you are healthy, your blood sugar will hardly change that much when consuming food (according to my doctor). If you want the test to matter, ask your dad, or another diabetic to try this.

[@dannyh982]

@@Drgluee I'm a diabetic and wear a constant glucose monitor, diet soda doesn't spike my blood sugar at all. Regular soda sends it through the roof.

[@Drgluee]

@@dannyh982 Thank you! I suppose the next test would be in a non-diabetic person if it increases insulin release.

[@HorstDeBepp]

@@Drgluee my dad has a ferocious sweet tooth and he is heavily relying on diet soda since my little experiments with no ill effects for him

[@christinelittle2075]

Something to consider is if there’s caffeine in the soda. Caffeine can cause blood sugar to increase(release of stored sugars). Maybe some people confuse that? Not sure if there’s enough caffeine in a single can to really increase blood sugar but still. Also, blood sugar doesn’t always correlate with insulin levels. Sometimes blood sugar is stable BECAUSE insulin spiked and it doing its job to transport the glucose. All of that aside I think you’re right. I don’t think it has any effect on insulin, because I’ve managed to increase my insulin sensitivity GREATLY while still consuming diet soda.

[@Jaguar1612]

0:10 is diet soda making you fat? - No The most concise video ever, please do more videos like this! 15 min saved 😂

[@luszczi]

"People who say x generally have a lack of familiarity with direct research" What a great putdown, I'm stealing it.

[@TheyCallHimBun]

That's just a correlation, though, make sure not to overstate it by implying causality 😉

[@pelletrouge3032]

@@TheyCallHimBunmogging

[@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot]

If you're worries about overeating sweets after a diet soda, have a healthy meal with your diet soda; then you get the sweet AND filling.

[@thraxdownff]

You know im a fat bastard when Im getting irritated at Dr Mike talking about Little Debbie and naming off a bunch of Hostess products 😂

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

Lmao

[@ScottRadkeMusic]

I was getting pissed too…. but “technically” he’s sorta right 🙌🏽 (McKee Foods, that owns Little Debbie, purchased Hostess from Drake’s Branding, post bankruptcy, in 2013) BUT….. I “believe” the J.M. Smucker brand made an offer to purchase the Hostess brand from McKee in 2023… So yeah-- I’m staying irritated 😛

[@c99kfm]

10:20 Stretches of straight roads being supposed to support aircraft landing and take-off? That was a key point of Swedish defensive strategy during the cold war. There were numerous mini-depots with fuel, ammo and the necessary gear spread througout the remote parts of the road network.

[@hurpaderpp]

I had this argument at work with 10 other sales bros and they all ganged up on me and told me I was wrong. Was very annoying lol

[@JM-tj5qm]

Yes and people argue like they are sure about it. Like Im not saying im better than anyone, but I just don’t get how random people who are overweight and clearly don’t care about what they eat see me drinking diet soda and call me out on it like im “cheating “ on my diet. Dude, I’m like leaner than 99% of people you know. Clearly whatever Im doing is working.

[@AaronNazzy]

People also tend to think that since they’re not drinking their calories anymore, they can eat more; which just leads to too high of a caloric intake.

[@michaeladdi1630]

Hey, Dr. Mike, can you please attach the studies that you based this video on?

[@mrsuitcase9799]

Diet soda is saving my a**. Started 255lbs and 32%BF. 3 weeks later with 2/wk gym, more protein, 2k cal/day due to almost no sugar, and I hit just 245. Diet soda replaces sweet craves, makes the tummy feel full late at night before I go to bed so I don't feel hungry. It's awesome.

[@ChrisGatesFitness]

Scott, I hope things with you and Emily work out. 🙏

[@supposedlysavvy]

„There is increasing evidence suggesting that artificial sweeteners in diet drinks can alter the gut microbiome, which is the composition of bacteria in the gut. Some studies have shown that these changes could have negative health impacts, including potential weight gain and impaired glucose tolerance, which could increase the risk of diabetes. These changes in the microbiome might be caused by the altered activity and composition of gut bacteria, which in turn can affect metabolism and nutrient absorption. However, research in this area is still relatively new, and more studies are needed to fully understand the exact mechanisms and long-term effects.“

[@travismora9046]

My mama says diet soda causes fat gain not the dozen of donuts i ate yesterday.

[@Lukerogers0121]

The story about the military reminded me of Tom Segura when he said he was a kid and his Dad told him Tommy Lee Jones is gay. Tom repeated this from his childhood and only got corrected when he was in his 40’s.

[@scottmcevoy9252]

Can we get a cite to the study or studies you mentioned at 1:00? I just had this argument with my mom and I would like to shut that down with a good evidence-based response.

[@nowayjose596]

Unfortunately, the weakness in this channel is that Dr Mike never provides citations to any of the studies he refers to, regardless of the topic. I'm not saying he's wrong or that they don't exist, but you just won't get those actual citations here.

[@Witcherworks]

Is anything free really free in life? Then something that has 0 calories must have a hidden caveat, otherwise regular sodas would cost less than diet and they don’t. Anyone who claims they lost their weight from just switching sodas is ignorant to all other things going on In their life.

[@smithy89]

​@@WitcherworksWrong. Just eliminating regular consumption of full sugar sodas in favour of diet sodas will save you hundreds of calories.

[@dallysinghson5569]

Calories in, calories out. Switch that 500cal beverage to a 0 one is gonna have you lose weight. The cost? Buying all the soda. You can do it with water too if you want, it has a cost but cheaper.

[@Daniel_Daigle]

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763677/

[@ishaanjain6254]

Yo, I’d love to see a video where you talk about new studies starting in 2023 around spot reductions in fat. I always believed in the science stating spot reduction isn’t real but reading those made me more open to the possibility. They’re pretty interesting if you haven’t given them a look

[@atilla7212]

Teach us how to read a study paper effectively and how to choose them Dr Mike

[@vancomycinb1193]

It's actually tough. Spent more than 1 semester in university doing just. One entire graduate level bacterial genetics class was devoted to that. One paper a week, critique it, find holes, decide and defend if it was well done research as presented or not. Not an easy skill, honestly. You need to know a lot about the topic in the papers, and you need to have some experience with experimental design.

[@stratos59]

@@vancomycinb1193 it really depends on the subject and how much of the paper you actually want to understand . I would suggest just start reading 1 and try to fully understand it through googling. If you start reading more papers on the same subject it will become easier over time. From an Electrical engineer.

[@ivanriverajr5012]

You made my day dude. This topic came up at work. This dude thinks he is a fitness guru. The debate was that diet soda makes you fat regardless. 😂 i out this video in for him. He was pissed.

[@TheUncleshady]

I go on the zero soda carousel once in a while and I thought same... drinking diet soda is making me crave sweets after, but it was likely I was craving sweets to begin with and the zero soda didn't cure the craving.

[@InternetStudiesGuy]

No, it's perfectly natural. You have high insulin, low blood sugar, thus you crave sweet stuff. Now you drink diet soda, which increases your insulin even higher and lowers your blood sugar even more, so now you crave sweet stuff even harder. Next time you have a craving for something sweet, eat something fatty instead. Like bacon. It will lower your insulin and normalize your blood sugar without making you hungry for more sweet stuff again soon after. Over time, your body stops craving sweets.

[@Cologaan]

2:30 i was so confused why you were censoring "heart attack" until i got it

[@michaelstagar4254]

It is hard to do Dumbell Flys when Dr Mike cuts a joke. The laughter hurts my form. 😊

[@B-a_s-H]

Pro tip: Don't watch video's during your training. #StayFocused

[@dallysinghson5569]

One can listen to them.

[@B-a_s-H]

@@dallysinghson5569 Sure... but still, if it's distracting, better don't.

[@VernCrisler]

Better to watch during cardio.

[@JM-tj5qm]

@B-a_s-H Watching videos while lifting can sometimes be good for me. Like in exercises that are more painful and burning than hard is better to have something that distracts you from the burn so you keep going. In hard lift absolutely I wouldn’t listen to videos

[@jneilen330]

Clinical pharmacist that loves to read papers. Did you cite your sources? Wanted to review them and have them ready to quote when I get asked by my rounding team (this conversation comes up often).

[@JustinTOsburn]

I remember reading or hearing somewhere that highways had to have a curve of some kind every X miles to keep people actively driving and make it harder to fall asleep at the wheel. It's Probably some bullshit like that too🤣

[@MereCashmere]

Your first mistake is accepting that the government gives a fuck about you instead of money and power

[@MereCashmere]

But that is hilarious 😅

[@jennafairhaven9084]

I'm glad that I stuck around to Dr. Mike loving on the cream pies (oatmeal lil debbies)

[@sheend]

I lost so much weight with replacing drinks with diet pop, BUT i do notice when i drink any type of pop, even diet, i crave some foods. Like a trigger almost. Weird.

[@allmightybison5629]

Just drink more diet lol. The molecule makes you crave the taste

[@sheend]

​@@allmightybison5629some things just go so well together w8th carbonated drinks

[@JM-tj5qm]

I never understood that… I don’t crave shit. Is the complete opposite. I drink diet soda and I completely forgot I didn’t eat.

[@uhmmmFU]

@@JM-tj5qm Same. Something about the taste and the sensation of the carbonation in my stomach tricks my brain into thinking I ate something.

[@christinelittle2075]

Maybe association? Like I used to always get big diet sodas at the movie theater, so sometimes I associate salty popcorn with it. Or being at a family gathering growing up where I’d have rootbeer and potato chips- so diet rootbeer makes my brain want them. Just a thought 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@ZaqZiemba]

My genuine concern with diet soda has always been about incorporating it into a calorie controlled diet (I.E. for bodybuilding). Because as a trained molecular biologist, I know that these sugar alternatives may have binding affinity with relevant cell receptors such as for insulin signaling. And I know insulin signaling stimulates adipogenesis (and myogenesis obviously). So it seems possible that sugar alternatives may lead to fat being directed into adipocytes which wouldn’t otherwise be as preferred if I say, drank water instead. So I’m BEGGING on my hands and knees Dr Mike. Do you know if any of these studies controlled for the factors of macronutrient splits and total caloric intake between groups??

[@TheContrarian09]

I think the answer is “It depends on the person.” For me who has weak resolve, Diet Coke is the line that if crossed everything goes down hill fast(im talking fast food, cinnamon rolls, cake, etc.) and if its uncrossed, you would think i have the will and self control of a monk. Its crazy.

[@tiernanastronskas261]

Diet soda broke your resolve? Yikes lol Anyways, dieting is not easy. The biggest factor in the success of your diet, is doing it for a reason you feel is good enough. If you don’t feel like the difficulty of the diet is going to be worth the result for you, it will always fail.

[@Paul-yk7ds]

Is there another video where Dr Mike debunks the "diet soda is bad for your microbiome" argument? Because he only briefly mentioned it and tossed it aside in this video. (I would be interested for reasons unrelated to weight control.)

[@vihta545]

I admit I don't read research on diet soda, but when I was 12 I started having quite severe migraines (with auras) it got really bad when I was 17...every week I had at least one migraine until I finally figured out what caused it: Diet Coke. Whenever I drank a diet coke I got a migraine within 5 minutes (I could set a timer on it...happend 10 out of 10 times). It is not the only trigger I had, but staying away from it reduced my migraines from 1-2 per week to 1 a month. After almost a year I thought I'd give it another try, drank a diet coke and within 5 minutes I got the migraine 😀. Haven't tried it again for the past 20 years. I'm not saying it is bad for everybody, but it certainly is bad for me.

[@Goalseeker123]

It could be caffeine

[@SZ-wb1qb]

Could be the aspartame

[@Win7ermu7e]

caffeine is a cerabral vasoconstrictor bro.

[@vihta545]

@@Win7ermu7e Yeah it's not the caffeine though...I regularly take caffein in form of powder and never had any issues even at quite high doses.

[@Nick-o-time]

​@@SZ-wb1qbit's almost certainly not.

[@ramblings6434]

Hi I enjoy your channel. I have tried many times to lose weight. In fact in 2018 I did cardio and weight lifting for 7 months and did not lose a single pound nor did I looked toned. I was in my 30's. i am in my 40's now. Watching your channel over the last 2 weeks I have learned so much and so many things I did wrong during that time. My goal is just to lose some weight so I can be able to keep up with my two under 10 kids. Your videos keep me motivated and are entertaining. I never drink dietsoda because of all the myths I have heard and the taste is awful. I do however let my self have 1 regular coke a day. Not sure if that is bad or not since I am just starting my weight loss journey after 5 years but because of your videos I almost completely stopped junk good and other forms of sugar. So thank you.

[@ramezalghazawi2692]

Thank you for giving the answer at the beginning ❤️ ur a king

[@coltonberry4127]

I loved this 13 second video, great stuff Dr. mike

[@understandinglife.4541]

Thank u for going in the ring with the elite, all power to you 🙏

[@habanero6332]

I lost double my body weight while drinking loads of it and I still do. I am now shredded and lift heavy weights at 57. So essentially 25 years on diet soda and ketogenic diet then carnivore.

[@marceloduda21]

the issue with diet soda is ironically shown in a family guy cutout in which an overweight woman drinks it and says "now I can eat anything!" Diet soda has no calories, yes, but it won't burn calories for you either man

[@alexanderminidis157]

It's the same regarding the safety of the artificial sweetener. Despite a recent WHO publication (who doesn't listen to WHO?), people will still claim it's cancerous due to some early animal studies which are irrelevant if you do the correct context.

[@sanguinemoon9201]

I had to research the effect of aspartame on the amygdala when i got my degree in psychology. The data showed it lit up the amygdala like a Christmas tree. This is strongly correlated with over eating. It is feasible, though not conclusive, that aspartame can cause you to eat more food than you typically would. We saw similar results with donuts.

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

Damn thats wild bro

[@samuelagboola]

Your suggestion isn’t supported by any actual research. This is mentioned directly in the video.

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

@samuelagboola my man, his suggestion wasnt really covered in the video. Dr Mike didnt really cover the neurochemistry of some of these sweeteners, and its very possible that what sanguinemoon is saying is true. Also there are so many studies conducted across the world that dr mike doesnt have time to read them all and may not be aware of some supporting what sanguinemoon is saying. Here's a study I found that does somewhat support sanguine's assertions about aspartame: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/

[@yipperdeyip]

For me, I've been a cut for 8 weeks now drinking diet soda daily. Pretty easy to not overeat

[@damonrambo3244]

You mean it could potentially increase your appetite. Eating more is a choice. It cant "make yout eat more."

[@BLITZ0100]

Here's what I've been told before and have assumed to be true because it seems logically sound about diet soda. Drinking diet soda or just drinking any low calorie beverage when you feel thirsty makes your body respond to the sweetness and "boot up the ol' food digestion system" and when you after an hour or so doesn't get the energy it expected from that sweetness, you become hungry. And that hunger translates to you going to grab in-between meals, grabbing a sandwich an hour before dinner, grabbing a bag of chips just before you head to bed and so on. So its not a "sweet things makes you want more sweetness" but more of a "sweet things that don't actually have calories makes you hungry and so you are more likely to respond to your percieved hunger by overeating". In other words, artificial sweeteners is stimulating your appetite, making you overeat, thus indirectly making you fat. I think the issue is that people are comparing diet soda to non-diet soda, for which I absolutely agree with Mike here that diet soda is CLEARLY a better choice than regular soda. But what you really should be comparing is diet soda vs beverages that aren't sweet to begin with like unsweetened tea or water. Learning to appriciate these unsweetened drinks is much preferred to drinking diet soda since you wont be stimulates to overeat (if you are already overweight). On the flipside if you needed to gain weight but struggle with appetite, maybe diet soda could be just the thing for you. Small disclaimer, I have not properly researched any of this from a scientific standpoint but a quick google search did bring me to an article (AMA Netw Open. 2021;4(9):e2126313. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26313) where this seems to be the case for women and people who are obese. But I'm sure someone who's deeper in this field of study like the big strong Dr. Mike himself is would be a much better interpreter of the significance of this study.

[@cornflakes0420]

I've never been this early. Love your videos Mike ❤ Thanks for all the info!

[@LMarti13]

Dr. Mike with the stealth philosophy of science lesson

[@Bigdawgmikeholmes]

Lost 100 pounds. Diet Coke helped me in so many ways.

[@jadithslimrivven]

Sometimes I wish correlative research could be outlawed, or at least barred from any reputable journal. It leads to so much misinformation that gets amplified by the media.

[@SuperDeathbody]

As ice cream eating shark I approve this video.

[@southc4463]

Bro answered it immediately at the beginning of the video, you fucking angel

[@rohitk2497]

was hoping this was a dive into whether artificial sweeteners still cause a spike in insulin, and whether it negatively impacts the gut microbiome. I've heard these mechanisms suggested for problem with diet soda, but don't know what the actual impact is and whether it is to a relevant level for weight gain and metabolism etc

[@ErikSmalls]

It’s true that artificial sweeteners spike insulin and is not beneficial for gut microbiome. Check out Dr Robert Lustig on the Huberman lab.

[@huckfinn4686]

Yeah likewise. It seems pretty obvious that diet soda is better than regular sugar soda. But what about the negative effects of artificial sugar, in nature there is generally no free lunch they say, and the idea that there this perfect wonderful sugar replacement… seems dubious to me

[@mostlycloudy1738]

Yea all these people saying they lost 100 pounds were already massively obese, I’ve only heard of one sweetener that doesn’t cause insulin spikes and that’s erythoitol, aspartame is just as bad as sugar as it is nearly a poison and he’s encouraging people to drink it, almost puts me off listening to him

[@JETZcorp]

I think the gut microbiome was mostly an effect of sucralose rather than aspartame. The three components that aspartame breaks up into are pretty common in whole foods. I am interested in the idea of an insulin or blood sugar response directly triggered by the sweet taste perception itself. My mom (who has type-2) said she saw her blood sugar go up a bit after drinking diet soda, but I question the scientific rigor of her testing protocol.

[@johnboylan3832]

Anecdotally, sucralose for sure affects the gut.

[@justcus]

i’m gonna go chug a bunch of diet sodas while listening to elton john and billy joel on loop now. thanks dr. mike!

[@HeadCannonPrime]

I'm going to level with you here mike. There are a LOT of very stupid people in the world that don't actually understand what science IS let alone understands what science finds.

[@johnboylan3832]

The irony of you saying that and then thinking that science finds anything.

[@notha7sn]

I like how you answered in the first minute

[@kennethcatena2121]

I think people are missing the point though. Yes, obviously diet soda has less calories than regular soda, so switching to it will help with losing weight. Its about how people who drink diet soda think it is healthy. Diet soda, regular soda, NONE IF IT IS GOOD FOR YOU. Just bc one has less calories than the other doesn’t change how many chemicals are in soda that are terrible for you

[@Loljjkb]

Who cares! Avocado is healthy for you. If you eat too many you will gain weight. Eating healthy doesn’t make you lose weight. Also eating clean healthy food is not sustainable. People will binge and never get back on track. Having something like diet soda help curves the desire for bad food

[@AnimusVoxPopuli]

Everything is made of chemicals. Saying chemicals generally are bad is just uninformed. What chemicals in soda are bad for you? What research can you cite? And is the amount that is bad for you an amount a human being would actually drink?

[@jasonv.5938]

Name them. Name them all and the amounts that are bad.

[@andreasericsson6989]

The airfield thing is taken from Sweden. We actually do that, but it requires you to build fighter jets that can actually land on a really short and narrow strip, which the US doesn't (carriers don't really count, since they hook the planes and slow them with wires; Not really tenable to maintain on the freeway system).

[@Xplora213]

I’ve been drinking a lot more water recently and the thought I would swap that out for Coca Cola is absolutely mind blowing. I think you’ve got some cultural issues in the USA if anyone thinks 2 litres of Coke a day was even vaguely acceptable unless you move concrete.

[@kingchris1233]

Dr. Mike is right. I have been drinking about 4 Coke Zero's a day and I am at 14% body fat. I have drank them all my life and have had no issues with weight. I remember this guy who was smoking a cig telling me how bad diet sodas were for me. 2 years later he was dead of cancer. The irony.

[@matterman2003]

It doesn't necessarily cause weight gain, but what it does do is activate the "sweet" receptors in the brain but doesn't actually satiate it, unlike actual sugar. So while they may not gain weight from drinking diet soda, the brain will try and force them to satiate this sweet craving and more often than not they will indulge in something else which DOES cause weight gain like ice cream or pie or cake or some other form of sugary food. So while it is indirect, it does HELP to cause cravings that DO cause weight gain if not properly controlled. You wanted a good answer to why they don't just drink more diet soda? That's it...diet soda does NOT satiate that craving like sugar does. Additionally, new reaarch shows that it can negatively alter the gut microbiome and resuce the diversity of bacteria . The gut microbiome has been found to be a very key componwnt to maintaining a healthy weight and preventing metabolic disorders due to the types of bacteria in it..."good bacteria" release anti-inflammatory compounds and help thr body stay metabolically healthy and able to both utilize and burn fat properly while "bad" bacteria hinder your metabolic health due to releasing compounds that cause inflammation, reduce insulin sensitivity and alter the body's ability to utilize fat properly

[@huberttherrien5419]

I always felt like I was saboting my diet because of the amount of diet coke I drank. Not anymore! Thank you for this video, I absolutely love this channel