“The “studies” were not the most legit:”
Neither is that website you linked. That website is owned by LeRoche Benicoeur which after years of BBB complaints has finally had the FDA step in to shut down the scam.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/warning-letters/fda-conceivemedia.pdf
A company who profits off of the fears of women who feel they have fertility issues would never push info that might affect their fertility in a negative way, right? From their website: “Hundreds of other researchers have done studies on stevia since these two studies were done, and none noted any side effects of the fertility variety, and actually none have noted any side effects at all.”
NO SIDE EFFECTS AT ALL and yet how many posters on this very thread report headaches/migraines? Thousands of researchers HAVE BEEN PAID to report that global warming is real so we all need to fall in line with the globalist agenda but that does not make it true. The fact that studies were paid to be done after the Ehrlich book came to light just means that those funding the studies got what they paid for. If the last year has taught anything, don’t be so quick to “trust the science.” I trust the antidotal evidence of hundreds of years of native women who figured it out on their own just as I would not chew on a yucca root during the first month of pregnancy if I wanted to keep the child.
An interesting evaluation of the GRAS approach taken for these extracts is here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268795/
The article is free.
The paper ends with this comment, concerning all accepted GRAS notices for these compounds:
“With regard to safety, notifiers include data and information about the metabolism of steviol glycosides and the similarity of metabolism for all steviol glycosides in rats and humans. Estimates of dietary exposure to stevia-derived ingredients are within JECFA’s established ADI of 4 mg/kg bw/day on a steviol equivalents basis.”
That amount is roughly nine packets of purified extract a day for a 160 pound person.