When the researchers conducted spatial learning and memory tests using the Barnes maze, the aspartame mice at four months consistently moved more slowly and covered less distance during training than animals in the control group. They also took nearly twice as long on average to locate the target escape hole, showing impaired memory recall (however, this was inconsistent and not seen as statistically meaningful). By eight months, performance gaps widened even further, with two out of six aspartame-treated mice failing to complete the task at all.
It makes you dumb, unfit and fat (around the organs).
The pancreas is activated to produce insulin by first the sense of taste and sweetness, then by blood sugar levels.
This is why since the large scale adoption of synthetic sweetners, diabetes rates of skyrocketed. People don’t even drink water now in US.
that’s debatable based on the literature: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28148491/
People with diabetes survive into adulthood now too.