yeah, i hadn't drank any artificial sweetened stuff until 2021... it probably was the early early stages of onset of type 2 diabetes that was causing the - at the time - mild symptoms like cramping and peripheral neuropathy
now i know what it all is... all that seed oil fried potatoes for 20 years and energy drinks for a lot of that time, and then the additives kept on stacking up, the maltodextrin, the drinks with sugar but also artificial sweeteners, probably colors and flavors have been involved too, there is so much shit in the food these days that never was there 20 years ago, or at all 40 years ago
and on top, i've had celiac the whole time, but the odd thing is that the rash from it didn't start to happen until i was in my late 20s, 2006 and after... so it's probably GMO wheat or some shit, combined with all the other shit, probably glyphosate in the seed oils, so many easy things to point at, and bugger me hard shit to avoid now