The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
What the studies have shown, and there were several, but one published in the journal "Nature" a few years back is the one that got the most amount of attention is that animals that consume large amounts of artificial sweeteners. in particular things like saccharin or sucralose show disruptions in their gut microbiome.
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So what happens is certain artificial sweeteners, in particular saccharin, disrupt the microbiome and make the environment within the gut, that mucosal lining, more favorable to bacteria microbiota that are not good for the organism.
some dietary compounds that we use, mainly modern dietary compounds that we regard as inert because they don't seem to directly impact our body, may impact our body in peculiar ways indirectly through their effects on the microbiome.