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Jun 12Liked by Modern Discontent

My assumption from this sudden tantrum about Xylitol is that Pig Pharma/Medical Iatrogenic Complex (MIC) has decided to give it the Ivermectin treatment. Xylitol is well known in dentistry as an effective anti-bacterial/viral and a small family producer has done some studies showing that a nasal spray with Xylitol can be effective in reducing SARS-Cov2 viral load in nasal tissues. But of course, when they started marketing the actually safe and effective treatment/preventive, FDA came down hard. I don't know the outcome of their fight with FDA, but all this BS falls right into the same line. As an additional "kill the messenger" argument, Cleveland Clinic, based on a quick internet browse, appears to still be shilling for mRNA vexxes. For me, that's enough to eliminate any credibility they ever had on any and every topic.

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Jun 13·edited Jun 13Liked by Modern Discontent

Yep. Example is the continued Gov harassment of xclear which sells xylitol products that help with clearing nasal infections. There are lots of pubmed articles going back decades published about the benefit of topical xylitol to reduce bad bacteria in mouth.😁

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Honestly, I don't think this has to be related to COVID and alternative treatments.

If I were to go down the conspiratorial route remember that Ozempic is a really big hot button drug right now and it's causing many processed food manufacturers to scramble on what to do as people are forfeiting their typical foods. Regardless of what one feels about these drugs I think it's become more "in" to think about one's health including cutting back on sugar.

So it would be somewhat fitting if sugar alternatives get hit with bad publicity if it means that Big Sugar can keep people within its grasp.

Again, not sure if that's what's happening but I don't think we have to look at it from just the COVID paradigm.

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Jun 13Liked by Modern Discontent

While you show this wasn't even considering actual dietary intake, even if those with heart issues were eating a lot of xylitol it could be precisely because they were avoiding sugar due to having heart issues.

In other news, umbrellas are linked to rain showers...

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They mention this as well as one of the reasons why people may consume non-nutritive sweeteners. There's dozens of issues with this study and it was already rather long so I couldn't list anything, but yeah there are multiple reasons why someone would choose foods with these sugar alcohols and one obvious reason is that they aren't in a good state of health to begin with. Again, a reversal of variables can be going on.

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Jun 12Liked by Modern Discontent

It still shocks me sometimes how bad science journalism can get. Thanks for looking into this (I am chewing xylitol gum as I type).

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Thanks! I may make this a series as it seems like these things are happening quite a lot, and more than people may expect.

Within the past few weeks a lot of obesity-related conferences have gone on and many of the news articles that were put out were taking from presentations- not studies formally published anywhere, and so how exactly can someone come up with a complete analysis from just presentations? And then people read these articles and assume that there's a bunch of new studies coming out.

I like to just look at what media outlets put out because they never seem to cover studies in a meaningful capacity.

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Jun 13Liked by Modern Discontent

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Jun 13Liked by Modern Discontent

Thanks for the information. I saw the headlines recently about this. I was wondering if it was another junk news report. I guess so.

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Thanks! The biggest issue is that outlets sort of cobbled together results from different parts of the paper, and because of that it made it appear as if it was xylitol that was being consumed that was responsible for the MACE when that clearly wasn't the case, and really the authors still didn't create a compelling argument against xylitol anyways. Doing a hodgepodge of studies and making huge inferences doesn't amount to much.

But that's being charitable. It's likely that someone just put out a report and everyone else sort of created their own articles out of what other people reported. It's likely why most reports don't every link to the study they actually reference (or even provide a title or anything outside of "a study").

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Thank you for your response. The media is largely trash in this country. I think it is a number of problems such as laziness, corruption, and incompetence in varying combinations. I wonder if protecting the fluoride industry had any to do with it. More and more negative reports are trickling out about fluoride and I wonder if xylitol is seen as a threat.

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