Aspartame on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 1 episode · Jan 2026
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- Joe Rogan (1)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1)
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“I just had Michael Mals in here. He was talking about how he got off Aspartame and how his brain fog just completely cleared up.”
Rogan states a prior guest's brain fog completely cleared up after stopping aspartame consumption, implying a causal link.
“He was like David Kessler, another really great FDA head, and he banned Aspartain. And Rumsfeld came in there and just overroled them. Rumsfeld had owned Sewel…”
Kennedy claims an FDA commissioner banned aspartame, and Donald Rumsfeld, who owned the company (Searle) making it, personally overruled that ban to get it approved.