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Help please! is diet soda including caffeine free a diuretic?

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Dr. John Garner answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Nope: The caffeine is your diuretic. Unless you're diabetic, in which case the excess sugar load could also be a diuretic, but in either case, caffeine free diet soda should be about 1:1 for in to out ratio.

Answered 4/26/2020

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