I was sent this information on asphartame and thought I should distribute for all those Equal & Diet drink junkies ...
It's long but worth the read ...
Today we have a new medical text on the global plague, so
here are some of the devastations taken from that text as well as other
information: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
www.aspartameispoison.com,
www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 814 - 9800 H. J.
Roberts, M.D. Other physicians will also be quoted.
Devastations of Aspartame Disease:
1. Drug Interaction. Aspartame is a neurotoxic drug masquerading as an
additive and interacts with many of the drugs used to treat the problems it
causes. Some of those drugs are: Coumadin, Dilantin, antidepressants and
other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet (methyldopa), Synthroid,
insulin, cardiac medication, hormone replacement therapy such as
Premarin,thyroid replacement, and even analgesics.
2. Hazard to Aviation. Pilots and air traffic controllers have
experienced confusion, behavioral changes and even convulsions while
consuming aspartame. Dr. Roberts says that many have volunteered their
relevance to the increasing number of collisions and near-collisions in the
sky and at major airports. Many have been grounded because of sustaining
aspartame triggered grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial
airliners. Several American Airline pilots who were heavy users of
aspartame have died, one in flight. One had a stroke.
Mission Possible has an Aviation Division supplying pilots with needed
warning information.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills,
www.amazon.com says in his position paper on pilots: "I have reviewed some
of the reports from airline and private pilots concerning adverse effects
of aspartame on various physiological systems. It is interesting to note
that several of these complaints are related to the nervous system which
puts this in a category of great concern to the pilot as well as the
general public. Some of the more common complaints include disorientation,
difficulty thinking and concentrating, visual blurring or even monocular
blindness, seizures and heart failure. It is well known that the
ingredients in aspartame as well as its breakdown products, have
deleterious effects on the nervous system and retina. For example,
phenylalanine is a precursor of the catecholamine neurotransmitters in the
brain and elevated levels in the brain have been associated with
seizures. It should also be pointed out that these catecholamines are
metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide products that can lead
to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation within the
neurons. Likewise, aspartic acid (an excitotoxin) acts as an excitatory
neurotransmitter and can lower the seizure threshold making a seizure more
likely. The additive effect of aspartic acid and phenylalanine would
significantly increase the likelihood of a seizure, especially under
hypoglycemic conditions.
3. Sudden Death: Dr. Roberts says the underlying mechanisms may include
changes in heart rhythm, allergic (anaphylactic-like) shock, and severe
swelling of the mouth and upper respiratory passage. He says that
aspartame disease should be considered when an adult in apparent good
health who had consumed considerable aspartame products is found dead
without demonstrable cause. He gives the example of a 50 year old woman
who unexpectedly died at home. The only pertinent history obtained from
her daughter was having "a diet cola in her hand every waking minute of the
day and night."
Several physicians have written about aspartame and sudden death. Dr.
Blaylock says one of the primary sites of action of excitatory substances
is the hypothalamus and that sudden cardiac death can be induced by
stimulating the hypothalamus. "It is entirely possible that excitotoxic
stimulation of these hypothalamic centers could also lead to cardiac
arrhythmia and sudden death. Hypothalamic stimulation has also been shown
to produce an ECG pattern exactly like that of a myocardial infarction."
Dr. James Bowen explains that the heart muscle is very sensitive to alcohol
poisonings. Such alcoholic cardiomyopathies frequently terminate in sudden
death. He says: "The aspartame molecule is an alcohol poison about 20,000
times as toxic a poison as ethanol (regular old sipping, or beverage
alcohol) on a per weight basis! Moreover, the myocardium never gets to
rest except between heart beats, so things like the methanol from aspartame
which become more or progressively toxic upon metabolism in muscles are
especially damaging to it. The myocardium is especially rich in
mitochondriae to subserve this metabolic need. The mitochondriae and their
DNA (MtDNA), are especially subject to these damages, and MtDNA lacks the
repair mechanisms of nuclear DNA, so damage to it is highly cumulative and
is even passed on to the fetus by the mother! The Cardiac Conduction
System is a specialized kind of tissue that is a hybrid of neuronal and
muscle tissues, which is even richer in mitochondriae, and it never gets to
rest. It is the clock that generates and effectively coordinates
heartbeats and heart rhythms and contractions. Many various malfunctions
of it precipitate sudden death. Its extreme mitochondrial concentration,
and its dependence upon mitochondrial metabolism for its unresting labors
make it a site intensely generative of the poisonous aspartame cogeners and
extremely subject to their resultant chemical, immune, mitochondrial and
chemical hypersensitization damages." And, of course, aspartame interacts
with cardiac medication.
4. Suspected multiple sclerosis. Aspartame destroys the central nervous
system. Searle did studies in South America which showed this and did not
publish the studies. The affidavit of the translator, N. Vera, is on
www.dorway.com Mission Possible is swamped with victims who have MS
symptoms or have been misdiagnosed with MS. Dr. Roberts says: "The
selective localization of lesions in multiple sclerosis requires
comment. I have attributed them in large measure to energy (glucose)
deprivation and fluid retention within the central nervous
system. Aspartame disease involves both, as well as direct
neurotoxicity. Indeed, aspartame induced dysfunction of nerve cells and
their axons may have greater importance than myelin changes.
"Significant biochemical differences are known to exist in various central
tracts, even though they may appear identical histologically. The
concentration of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, for example,
is three to four times greater in the heavily myelinated central tracts
than the lightly myelinated ones, whereas the reverse applies for glutamic
aspartic transminase (McDougal 1961, 1964).
"This orientation is germane because fluid retention is enhanced by the
hyperinsulinized state and impaired water metabolism. The ingress of water
into myelin can disrupt its intermolecular cohesion and function
integrity. (Vanderheuvel 1964).
"An autoimmune response may be triggered by aspartame. The possible
mechanisms include formaldehyde-induced protein changes and increased
leukotrienes, 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, and other arachidonic acid
metabolites after the exposure of macrophages to aspartame (Hardcastle
1997)."
5. Eye Deterioration and Blindness. Aspartame and its
components/metabolites can damage the optic nerves, retina and other areas
of the eyes. Dr. Roberts says that many of the severe visual changes are
consistent with methanol toxicity. "Studies of methanol effects in monkeys
emphasized edema of the optic disc (Hayreh 1977), and degeneration of the
retinal ganglion cells (Baumbach 1977). there is considerable evidence
that methanol is converted from formaldehyde to formate in the eye, even
from chronic low level exposure (Eclos 1996).
"In addition to blindness from optic atrophy, patients with methanol
intoxication have developed cerebral edema, parkinsonism, dementia, and
other neurologic abnormalities. (McLean 1980).
"The late Dr. Morgan B. Raiford, a prominent Atlanta ophthalmologist,
became interested in impaired vision due to methyl alcohol toxicity. He
described his findings in a young aspartame reactor who had suffered marked
visual damage attributed to aspartame products.
"There are profound ocular effects of formaldehyde and formate derived from
the free methanol in aspartame.. Alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde
dehydrogenase are the enzymes involved in methanol metabolism. The retina,
cornea and liver have high alcohol dehydrogenase activity. The highly
reactive formaldehyde molecule, which becomes bound to proteins and nucleic
acids, forms adducts that are difficult to eliminate through the usual
metabolic pathways. Formate, an inhibitor of adenosine triphosphate (ATP),
probably induces retinal damage through energy depletion."
Aspartame eye deterioration and blindness are included in the class action.
6. Lupus. Aspartame can trigger lupus and it can also mimic lupus. Dr.
Roberts explains that another amino acid N-canavanine has been identified
with both the development of a lupus-like disease in monkeys and the
aggravation of pre-existing systemic lupus erythematosus in humans.
He says: "The lupoid and other inflammatory dermatoses induced by
aspartame products may result from the generation of leukotrienes. These
biologically active compounds are derived from arachidonic acid, and
released from a variety of humans cells (macrophages; monocytes;
polymorphonuclear leukocytes; mast cells). There is a three fold rise of
leukotrienes B4 and C4 and of 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, along with
other arachidonic acid metabolites, when macrophages are exposed to
aspartame (Hardcastle 1997.
"An additional hypothesis for the initiation of an autoimmune response by
aspartame metabolites involves the "ambling" of proteins by formaldehyde
thereby making them strange and antigenic to the person's immune system."
Dr. James Bowen explains it this way: "The ability of methyl
alcohol/formaldehyde to create antigenicity, especially as combined in
aspartame molecules is so great as to cause severe autoimmune reactions to
the tissues deformed by formaldehyde polemerization, adduct formation. The
immune system turns against the victim's tissues: Lupus."
Usually if an aspartame victim has been on the toxin for quite awhile or
using a good bit of it he will say: "My physician says I should be checked
for MS and lupus." Both are now epidemic because of this deadly neurotoxin.
7. Epidemic of Diabetes. Dr. Roberts who is a diabetic specialist says
that aspartame may adversely influence control of diabetes, precipitate
clinical diabetes and aggravate or simulate complications referable to the
eyes, kidneys and peripheral nerves. It also interacts with insulin! He
even says: "Several diabetic patients unequivocally attributed more
frequent and severe insulin reactions to the use of aspartame. A
contributory factor in some may have been marked confusion and memory loss,
causing them to repeat doses of insulin or to forget their interval
feedings." Under legal ramifications he says that aspartame related
hypoglycemia may have caused or contributed to the "dead-in-bed syndrome"
in diabetics with hypoglycemia unawareness.
Dr. Roberts writes on the mechanisms of aspartame's diabetogenic potential
and discusses the adverse metabolic, hormonal, toxic and other undesirable
effects of aspartame and its components in his book. He says: "Many could
contribute to the aggravation of diabetes and its complications. They
encompass the wasting of insulin, impaired insulin-stimulated glucose
transport, increased growth hormone and glucagon release after
phenylalanine administration, other effects of its amino acids and
additional pharmacologic activities. Another mechanism whereby
aspartame-induced stimulation of insulin could aggravate diabetes involves
the generation of insulin receptor antibodies capable of blocking the
access of insulin to liver receptors (Dozio 2001).
8. Seizures. Aspartame is a seizure triggering drug. SC-18862, a 52 week
oral toxicity infant monkey study, was pivotal in the approval of
aspartame. Seven infant monkeys were fed aspartame, five had grand mal
seizures and one died. It was stated that the convulsions in the monkeys
were attributed to high serum phenylalanine levels. This study thusly
shows that aspartame does get in the blood even though the NutraSweet
Company denies it, in an attempt to defend their chemical poison.
After researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80
people who suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products with
aspartame, the Community Nutrition Institute said: "These 80 cases meets
the FDA's own definition of an imminent hazard to the public health, which
requires the FDA to expeditiously remove a product from the market. " In
l986 the Community Nutrition Institute petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame
because of these seizures and the fact that consumers were going
blind. The FDA refused.
Dr. Richard Wurtman of MIT wanted to do seizure studies on aspartame but a
Searle VP threatened him that if he did his research funds would be
rejected. This is documented in the 8 month investigation by United Press
International on
www.dorway.com Dr. Wurtman no longer gives interviews on
aspartame but his many papers on the phenylalanine in aspartame which
lowers the seizure threshold are documented in the book Dietary
Phenylalanine and Brain Function edited by Richard J. Wurtman and Eva
Ritter-Walker.
From Cynthia Crossen's book, THE TAINTED TRUTH; THE MANIPULATION OF FACT
IN AMERICA: "The road to hell was paved with the flood of corporate
research dollars which in 1991 had burgeoned to over $2.1
billion. Researchers are working for people who don't like negative
findings and who aren't likely to fund further research by those who
produce them. ... In today's corporate-dominated information market truth
has become to belong to those who commission it."
Monsanto funded the Rowen study in 1995 to try and show aspartame doesn't
cause seizures. Sixteen of the 18 subjects were taking anti-seizure
medication during the study. And the only gave one single dose of
aspartame in capsule form. Sort of tantamount to smelling the
bottle. Also capsule administration of aspartame slows the absorption of
methanol and may reduce its toxicity somewhat similar to the way ingestion
of food with methanol may slightly reduce its toxicity (Posner
1975). Capsule administration of aspartame also eliminates the quick
absorption of the excitotoxin, aspartic acid (Stegink l987). When aspartic
acid is absorbed quickly it can be excitotoxic (Blaylock 1994, Olney l980)
especially in conjunction with formaldehyde derived from methanol.
Dr. Roberts says that aspartame and its metabolites may cause or aggravate
convulsions through various mechanisms. The importance of altered
neurotransmitter concentrations within the brain (especially serotonin and
norepinephrine), the effects of methyl alcohol and exaggerated hypoglycemia
(low blood sugar attacks) are discussed in his book. He says, for example,
that aspartame and its breakdown products can suppress the synthesis of
several neurotransmitters that tend to prevent seizures.
"Other mechanisms could contribute to aspartame-induced
seizures. They include formaldehyde toxicity (from methanol), altered
monoamine receptors in the cerebral cortex, and loss of the protective
effect of L-DOPA.
"Alterations in brain water, sodium and potassium also may play a
role. They were noted in both humans and animals after methanol intake,
along with vascular stasis. These assume considerable pertinence in view
of the multiple cellular interactions involving calcium, sodium, potassium
and chloride that are known to trigger focal epilepsy (Dichter l987).
"Additionally, altered extracellular fluid concentrations of various amino
acids, notably glutamate and aspartate, play an important role in the
pathogensis of hypoxemic and epileptic brain injury."
Dr. Roberts also mentions that Florence Griffith-Joyner, the Olympic gold
medalist, suffered an unexpected and fatal epileptic seizure at the age of
38. Witnesses had previously seen her drinking a diet cola while jogging
with President Clinton.
There are four types of seizures listed on the FDA report of 92 documented
symptoms triggered by aspartame. This issue is well documented that
seizures are included in the class action.
9. Male Sexual Dysfunction. Aspartame damages the hypothalamus. The
hypothalamus produces gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GRG). The GRH goes
down the stalk between the hypothalamus and pituitary and causes the
pituitary then to produce gonadotropins. The ganglia goes to the testicles
and causes them to produce testosterone. When you're causing hypothalmic
destruction with neuroexcitotoxins like NutraSweet you're suppressing the
formation of male hormone without which there is no sexual drive or
pleasure for either. In original studies aspartame triggered atrophied
testes and testicular tumors. It is by this route. The rest of this
report by Dr. James Bowen is on web.
10. Epidemic of Obesity. From the Congressional Record, Senate S5511,
Protest of National Soft Drink Association, May 7th, l985: "Aspartame has
been demonstrated to inhibit the carbohydrate induced synthesis of the
neurotransmitter serotonin (Wurtman affidavit). Serotonin blunts the
sensation of craving carbohydrates and thus is part of the body's feedback
system that helps limit consumption of carbohydrates to appropriate
levels. Its inhibition by aspartame could lead to the anomalous result of
a diet product causing increased consumption of carbohydrates."
Translation: If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where it's at! Dr.
Sandra Cabot, Mission Possible Australia says: .."There are logical
reasons to explain the fattening and bloating effects of aspartame. When
you ingest the toxic chemical aspartame it is absorbed from the intestines
and passes immediately to the liver where it is taken inside the liver via
the liver filter. The liver then breaks down or metabolizes aspartame to
its toxic components - phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol. This
process requires a lot of energy from the liver which means there will be
less energy remaining in the liver cells. This means the liver cells will
have less energy for fat burning and metabolism, which will result in fat
storing. Excess fat may build up inside the liver cells causing "fatty
liver" and when this starts to occur it is extremely difficult to lose
weight. In my vast experience any time that you overload the liver you
will increase the tendency to gain weight easily. "
Dr. Cabot also says that aspartame causes weight gain by other
mechanisms -- "Causes unstable blood sugar levels, which increases the
appetite and causes cravings for sweets/sugar. This it is particularly
toxic for those with diabetes or epilepsy. Causes fluid retention giving
the body a puffy and bloated appearance. This makes people look fatter
than they are and increases cellulite." Her excellent book on cleansing
the liver is on web.
Also, as to the liver, aspartame triggers steato hepatitis. See report by
Dr. James Bowen on web.
11. Birth Defects, miscarriages and mental retardation. Dr. Bowen states
that at every point in the fertility process aspartame destroys, beginning
with the gleam in mom and pop's eyes; it ruins female sexual response and
induces male sexual dysfunction. Beyond this, aspartame disrupts fetal
development by aborting it or inducing defects. And if a live child is
born aspartame may have heinously damaged the DNA of the baby, cursing
future generations.
Be sure to read this entire report: Aspartame Murders Infants. Also Dr.
Roberts position paper on aspartame and pregnancy and small children, and
Dr. Louis Elsas (pediatric professor, Emory University, genetics) testimony
before congress on web.
Aspartame has caused an epidemic of autism and ADD. One has to but read
the famed Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA
telling them what will happen to the brains of our children if they approve
aspartame, to understand the prophecy has been fulfilled. You will find
this report on
www.greatfallspro.com but it requires equipment to download
it, mentioned on this web site. Dr. Olney founded the field of
neuroscience called excitotoxicity. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.
wrote the book on it, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. It was Dr. Olney
who did the studies in l970 on aspartic acid which is 40% of aspartame and
found that it causes lesions in the brains of mice. It is an
excitotoxin, a product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain
to death causing brain damage of varying degress, as written across the
back of Dr. Blaylock's book.
12. Brain Tumors. Aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain
tumor agent, and it triggered astrocytomas, pituitary adenomas, etc. in
original studies. It was on this basis that the Board of Inquiry of the
FDA said not to approve aspartame, and the fact that it had never been
proven safe. The FDA had not only not wanted to approve this neurotoxin
but wanted the original manufacturer, Searle, indicted for fraud. However,
two U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon, hired on with the
defense team and the statute of limitations expired. Searle hired Don
Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, who said he would call in his markers
and get aspartame approved, as discussed in the UPI investigation. The day
after President Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes to
get aspartame approved. Dr. Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then
went to work for the PR agency of the manufacturer and has refused to talk
to the press ever since. Dr. John Olney made world news in l996 over the
aspartame/brain tumor association. Brain tumor cases are included in
class action.
13. Gulf War Syndrome. After the National Soft Drink Association wrote a
30 page protest which was included as 6 pages in the congressional record,
admitting that aspartame decomposes at 86 degrees, the pop companies with
full knowledge sent diet pop to the Persian Gulf. The NSDA had even quoted
the law that made it a crime to use any product in carbonated beverages
that decomposed or adulterated the drink. The troops were also given
Anthrax vaccine and aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent and
interacts with vaccines. Symptoms of Desert Storm Syndrome are identical
to Aspartame Disease. Aspartame Disease mimics MS and causes Lou Gehrigs
symptoms. Dr. James Bowen himself is a victim and has Lou Gehrigs having
consumed a lot of Diet KoolAide when he practiced in the desert. A study
has now been done on Gulf War illness with the result of Lou
Gehrigs. Forty thousand innocent men and women have perished. And yet the
pop companies sent this chemical poison to the Gulf with full knowledge!
14. Chemical Hypersensitization. Aspartame is a literal chemical poison
and as such triggers polychemical sensitivity syndrome which is really the
same as multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. Dr. James Bowen has
several reports about this on web. Consider the seriousness of this as it
relates to interaction with vaccines. Consider, for instance, that
vaccines can trigger autism and aspartame can trigger autism, and aspartame
interacts with vaccines. What chance do babies and children have
today. Today there is a bill in Congress which if passed will grant full
immunity to the vaccine companies so that if a vaccine kills their child
the company can't be sued.
But the "mandating" of vaccines is an abomination. Dr. James Bowen
wrote: "There are many overriding reasons not to violate our inherent
rights and not allow assaults upon our bodies without our permission. Such
violation of our bodies by a mass immunization program is a form of
rape. Should some bureaucracy choose to believe that a mass immunization
is in order, they have no right to do so, except by our individual
consent. This is the only safe approach to immunization because in most
cases, the individual remains the most competent gatekeeper and decision
maker concerning which preventative and therapeutic modalities should enter
his body."
Aspartame also has a synergistic effect with MSG, fluoride and RBGH. Four
support groups for aspartame victims exist on line and they are also
reacting to GM products.
15. Behavioral and Psychiatric Problems: Dr. Ralph Walton, Psychiatrist,
Chairman of the Center for Behavioral Medicine said: "We have known for
years that when aspartame is ingested with a carbohydrate rich meal the
usual physiologic increase in tryptophan is blocked, while brain
phenylalanine and tyrosine concentrations are increased. These changes in
amino acid neurotransmitter precursors could, I believe, alter
indolamine/catecholamine balance, and thus have a profound effect on mood
and cognition --- depressed mood, anxiety, dizziness, panic attacks,
nausea, irritability, impairment of memory and concentration."
Time Magazine recently wrote that bipolar (manic depression) use to be in
adults but now is on the rise in children. Forty per cent of our children
are now consuming aspartame which triggers manic depression, suicide
tendencies and the rest of the problems mentioned above by Dr.
Walton. Parents Magazine in Sept 1999 wrote an article titled: "What's
Happening To Our Children?" and said most all families are affected. They
also said that by the time a child reaches the 4th level of high school,
one out of four has contemplated suicide.
The FDA has full knowledge of all these problems listed above and in the
medical text by Dr. H. J. Roberts. And with this full knowledge has now
approved Neotame, a more potent aspartame. The public must be alerted to
prevent this from ever hitting the food market. The FDA has steadfastly
even refused to put a warning on aspartame for pregnant women! This is
emphatically obscene.
If you think these are all the devastations of aspartame disease, I would
suggest you get the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
www.sunsentpress.com This report would be too lengthy to list all the
devastations listed in this text and include other things such as
headache, atypical peripheral neuropathy, intellectual deterioration,
atypical and unexplained pain, joint pain (hardens the synovial fluids),
myasthenia gravis, pseudotumor cerebri, unexplained blackouts, personality
changes, addiction (methanol classified as a narcotic), urticaria or hives,
eat problems, hypo and hyperthyroidism (read the book Sweet Poison by Janet
Starr Hull), gastrointestinal reaction, infertility, all types of tumors,
liver dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection, blood and lymph
node disorders, altered folic acid metabolism, confusion and memory loss,
Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, sleep apnea, etc.
For those on aspartame support groups who are too ill to give out flyers or
have walks, etc. over Aspartame Awareness Weekend, please forward this
paper to your physician, family, friends, email lists, medical personnel
and other physicians. Remember for each physician who understands
aspartame he can save the lives of thousands of patients. Let
neurologists, oncologists and opthalmologists know about the class action
so they can not only forward the cases but get their patients off
aspartame. Send this and your case history to the media because for every
article written thousands of people find out.
Mission Possible is a hands around the world campaign and volunteer force
warning the world off aspartame on a humanitarian basis. Remember that
aspartame damages DNA and can destroy the human race.
The reports mentioned above are on the web site
www.dorway.com which links
to many other sites including the Aspartame Toxicity Center,
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame , and aspartame support groups such as
www.presidiotex.com/aspartame and asparspan in Spanish. There is a full
book list and many government documents on web. Every aspartame victim
should complete the Medwatch form to the FDA and send me a copy. Aspartame
Detoxification Centers are also listed on
www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html and
warning flyers,
www.dorway.com/handouts.html
Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599
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Asphartame = nasty!!!
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