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MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT
A FEMALE RAT DEVELOPED A MAMMARY TUMOR SO LARGE SHE OFTEN USED IT AS A PILLOW

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UPDATE/ANNOUNCEMENT

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum sent a message using the contact form at
http://loveforlife.com.au/contact.

You have my Aspartame Experiment on your web site. This is one that was
plagerized. Below is the real study. The other one has errors.

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:04:56 -0400
To: bettym19 @ mindspring.com
From: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum."
Subject: Aspartame Study: 67% of Female Rats Developed Visible Tumors :

Please note if you have received the first distribution of this study, it was not complete and distributed without Victoria Inness-Brown's permission and with errors. The study has finally been completed. Anything received earlier should be replaced with this report. Check her web site. Further, this shows you when honest research is done by independent unbiased researchers you always see the problems aspartame causes. The only studies that ever said aspartame was safe were always influenced, controlled and financed by the aspartame manufacturer. Like Dr. Soffritti who did the Ramazzini Study showing aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen, Victoria found the rats hair turned yellow from the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol.

http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_study_female_rats_developed_visible_tumor...

http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_study_female_rats_developed_visible_tumors[1].pdf

To contact the researcher, "Victoria Inness-Brown" her email is victoria @ writerswithoutborders.net and web site: www.aspartameexperiment.com

More information on aspartame on www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599

To read more about tumors in original studies:

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D.
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.
The aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv has two cases where aspartame triggered brain tumors. The above doctors are also in this film.

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Aspartame Study: 67% of Female Rats Developed Visible Tumors
By Victoria Inness-Brown, M.A.

“In my opinion, we are the rats of the pharmaceutical and chemical companies that liberally spread their synthetic chemicals worldwide, with no one fully understanding the long-term adverse effects—especially the complex interactions from injecting and intermixing thousands of toxic chemicals in the plant and animal kingdoms sustaining our planet.” —Victoria Inness-Brown

As a citizen scientist concerned about family members addicted to diet soda, I performed a 2-1/2 year scientific study on the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame by putting aspartame (in the form of packets of NutraSweet™) in the drinking water of 60 rats, while keeping 48 as controls.
Of my 30 females on aspartame, 20 of them—or 67%—developed tumors the size of golf balls or greater. Of my 30 males on aspartame, seven—or 23%—developed visible tumors. Five control females—or 21%—developed visible tumors generally smaller in size. No tumors were observed in my control males.

The percentage of females-to-males with tumors was approximately 3:1, which coincides with the complaints about aspartame registered with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) before it stopped accepting them, where females registered 77% of all complaints.

My rats on aspartame also developed other apparent health issues, such as paralysis, difficulty walking, spasmodic torticollis (also called dystonia, where the neck is twisted and the head continually tilted to one side), infected and bleeding eyes, skin lesions, thinning and yellowing fur, and obesity—which is sad, because people often use aspartame to lose weight.

Three of the rats in my control group developed thinning fur and one developed skin problems.

The US Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows for the human consumption of 50 mg of aspartame per kg of body weight per day, which is equivalent to a 150-lb person drinking about 20 12-oz. cans of diet soda. My male rats received about 34 mg/kg of aspartame per day, which is equivalent to a 150-lb. (68-kg) human male drinking about 13 12-oz. cans or 2.25 two-liter bottles of diet soda a day. My females received about 45 mg/kg per day, which is equivalent to a 120-lb. (55-kg) human female drinking about 14 12-oz. cans or 2.4 two-liter bottles of diet soda a day.

FDA laws state that the ADI for any food additive should be one hundred times less than the lowest amount found to cause adverse health effects. If my results are considered valid, then the ADI for aspartame should be the equivalent of less than 1/8 can of diet soda per day. However, if the tumor rate observed in my study is considered valid, then aspartame should be removed from the marketplace altogether. According to the pro-aspartame authors of The Clinical Evaluation of a Food Additive: Assessment of Aspartame, “If the additive is found to cause cancer in either animals or humans at any dose, it is banned from use as a food additive, as a result of the Delaney Anticancer Clause of 1958.”

For more details and to view slide-show movies of my results, go to www.aspartameexperiment.com For complete details, get My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, available from my website as a downloadable e-book.

Note: After reading my report, my family member who had been consuming the most aspartame-laced diet soda said “Your report is very convincing. Since reading it, I’ve cut way down on diet sodas with aspartame.”

Note: My heavily referenced new e-book, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, shows photos of all adverse results mentioned in this article. The photos are interwoven with compelling personal testimonies from aspartame victims, becoming an integral part of an astonishing story underscored by quotes from independent scientific studies and other sources reporting serious adverse effects from aspartame. Salted within the story are “Pollyanna-like” quotes from aspartame industry “talking points” that are also distributed by the numerous national and global regulatory agencies meant to protect the 200,000,000 consumers world-wide who daily ingest aspartame in over 6000 foods, drinks, pharmaceutical drugs and vitamins. This powerful combination of strategically placed quotes and photos dramatically illustrates the stark contrasts between the studies sponsored by the aspartame industry that consistently claim aspartame is safe, versus those done by independent researchers consistently reporting serious adverse effects from the sweetener. The report also highlights the deep conflicts of interests of the scientists and doctors who did the highly-applauded pro-aspartame Magnuson 2007 Report, and debunks a multitude of other aspartame industry studies by exposing the flaws in their experimental designs.

Note: My website www.aspartameexperiment.com is not to be confused with a site of a similar name posted on February 11, 2008 without my permission, and claiming that I was the author. That site was created by someone who scanned images from and rewrote an early, incomplete, incorrect, and tattered printout of my report that was a work in progress I had not released to the public. (I didn’t finish analyzing my data for another six months and had guessed at some of the information, such as the start date and duration of my experiment.) In addition, valid data in that version of my report was misinterpreted. For example, the unauthorized site claims that my results were from consuming an equivalent in humans of a single can of diet soda per day, while the actual values are 13 and 14 cans daily for human males and females respectively. The unauthorized site was translated into several languages and linked to over 1,000 websites. If you own one of those sites, please correct the information on your site and replace the unauthorized link with www.aspartameexperiment.com.

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BY VICTORIA INNESS-BROWN, M.A.

Introduction by author Carol Guilford

“In any such study of even a few hundred test animals, it takes no more than a dozen or so of them to exhibit a particular lesion… to associate with the test agent, i.e., aspartame or its related chemicals.”

Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist in a letter to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, Oct. 30, 1986.

When Victoria Inness-Brown contacted me about “explosive information” concerning aspartame (Equal,NutraSweet) the controversial, artificial, chemical sweetener, I didn’t know what to expect. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence of aspartame’s danger to human health (tires have been recalled for less) it remains in 6,000 food, drink and medicinal products.

Who could imagine a private citizen would do an aspartame experiment with 108 rats for 2 years and 8 months?

The late Dr. Adrian Gross explained that rodent experiments are the means to find out what a particular substance will do to human beings.

Look at Victoria’s pictures of her animals that ingested the equivalent amount of aspartame (in human terms) of less than one diet coke a day, until their spontaneous death. Importantly, the control groups, those fed no aspartame were free from visible effects. (1)

The artificial sweetener, Aspartame, was approved by the FDA, in 1981. By the 1990’s, the FDA had a list of 92 symptoms reported to them by 10,000 consumers, a list revealed to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. (2)

Personally, I have read thousands of cases from aspartame victims, many who post on Yahoo’s Aspartame Victim Support Group list, but Victoria’s photographs, the first ever to be released from any study, give meaning to the hypothesis, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Following is Victoria’s gutsy account of why she did her experiment, the protocol she used to conduct it and the remarkable pictures of the rats. Victoria says--

I WANTED VISUAL PROOF

I did my aspartame experiment because my family was addicted to diet soda. After researching the effects of aspartame, I strongly believed the artificial sweetener might one day lead to their illness and even early death.

Most influential in my research on the aspartame molecule was The Bressler Report. (3) Dr. Jerome Bressler, M.D., led an FDA task force to attempt to validate the authenticity of a study done by G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical company that held the patent to the “sweetener.”

Dr. Bressler’s team did the Searle audit between April 25, 1977 and August 4, 1977 of study PT #988S73, a 115 Week Oral Tumorigenicity Study in the Rat. The rat study was supposedly done by Searle to examine the adverse effects of the crystalline form of aspartame’s breakdown from phenylalanine, 50% of the chemical’s composition to SC-19192, diketopiperazine (DKP).

Bressler’s force found irregularities in Searle’s experiment-- missing raw data, errors and discrepancies in available data, exclusions of animals, and animals that had masses removed and were then returned to the study.

It is clear Searle misrepresented the carcinogenicity of DKP and hid incriminating data from the FDA.

One unreported tissue mass in Searle’s study measured 5.0 X 4.5 X 2.5 cm. Equivalent to 2 in. X 1.75 in. X 1.0 in. —a significant sized tumor that should be visible to the naked eye, hard to miss.

I was convinced I would see tumors and possibly other harmful effects to convince my family and friends to avoid aspartame.

MY EXPERIMENTAL SETUP

MY EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL

Summary of aspartame rat study protocol

Protocol parameter
Description

Source of aspartame
NutraSweet packets.

Form of aspartame
NutraSweet dissolved in drinking water, available 24 hours per day.

Dosage
Two packets of NutraSweet per eight ounces of water (about 80 mg of aspartame per each eight ounces); about 34 mg/kg of aspartame for males; 45 mg/kg for females.

Duration
Two years, eight months (about 138 weeks, where one month = about 4.3 weeks); until the spontaneous death of the animals.

Rat strain
Bred from two males, two females, each from different varieties of PetCo rats, including the Sprague Dawley strain. Maintained a genetic mix throughout the breeding, avoided mating brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters.

Number of rats in study
Experimental group of 30 males, 30 females. Control group of 24 males, 24 females; a total of 108 rats.

Type of feed
Kaytee’s Supreme Fortified Daily Blend for Rat & Mouse and Kaytee’s Supreme Fortified Daily Blend for Hamster & Gerbil from a local feed store.

DIET PEPSI, ASPARTAME OR NUTRASWEET?

Because my family members were addicted to diet soda, at first I wanted to put Diet Pepsi in my rat’s water bottles. That idea was short lived. After turning a filled bottle upside down and attaching it to a cage, the liquid immediately started flowing out—carbonation pressurizes the bottle—so diet Pepsi wouldn’t work. It was just as well, because the cost of the soda would have been prohibitive over the course of the experiment.

I did not want to mix dry NutraSweet with rat food for several reasons. First, I wanted to simulate the effects of diet soda—a liquid. Next, NutraSweet is sold as powdered crystals that are tiny compared to the grains and alfalfa pellets comprising the food I fed my rats. I knew the powder would fall to the bottom of the food bowls, allowing the rats to avoid it.

I also knew from personal experience it would be hard to calculate the dosage, because so much food ends up in the trays under their cages. Finally, aspartame crystals may clump, allowing rats to avoid them. In The Bressler Report, the FDA task force reported the rats learned to eat around the DKP crystals.

I decided to mix pure aspartame in their water. In an Internet search for an aspartame supplier, I found only food and beverage manufacturers are permitted to purchase aspartame. Dr. Ralph Walton, a respected researcher, in the mid-90’s, experienced the same problem. No aspartame for sale for his study. (4)

The National Institute of Health evaluates a packet of aspartame-based sweetener such as NutraSweet contains 40 mg of aspartame.

I decided on putting the NutraSweet in their drinking water, at the rate of two packets—a total of 80 mg of aspartame–per each 8 oz of water.

A 12-oz diet soda has about 180 mg of aspartame, 15 mg of aspartame per oz., the amount in approximately 4.5 packets of NutraSweet.

According to the industry-run Aspartame Information Center website, a conservative estimate of the maximum dose of aspartame for humans per day, the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI), as set by the FDA, is 50 mg/kg, approximately twenty cans of 12-ounce diet soda for a 150 lb. adult and six 12-ounce cans for a 50-pound child. Tabletop sweetener ADI is 97 packets for an adult and 32 packets for a child.

The animals in my study weighed on the average of 1 pound for males and 0.66 pounds for females. The ADI for the males was 16.9 mg and for the females 13.5 mg

To put these numbers into perspective, the aspartame received by my rats daily, was equivalent to two-thirds the aspartame contained in 8-oz of diet soda.

My masters degree is in mathematics.

RAT STRAIN

Most studies are done on rats that are genetically identical. According to a friend who runs a rabbit and mouse lab for a local bio-tech company, “Some vendors sell strains of rats that have gone through 30 generations of brother and sister in-bred mating.”

This concept seemed counter-intuitive to me. How do these strains of rats represent the general population? In “Mean Genes”, Jay Phelan and Terry Burnhan write: “Almost all animals avoid mating with close relatives because it makes for bad babies. From mice to monkeys, animals are reluctant to have offspring with siblings.

I bought my rats at PetCo and bred them for my experiment. I purchased rats of different colors, to get a genetic verity. I also attempted to breed rats that were not brothers and sisters, to avoid in-breeding mutation.

I found most of the observable symptoms occurred during the last third of the rat’s life-span, illuminating the information that the adverse effects of aspartame are cumulative.

I chose to allow my rats to live out their natural lives. I honor them for their sacrifice and for showing the way for the rest of us.

I put NutraSweet in their water starting in March, 2002, and the last of them died in November 2004. The experiment lasted a total of two years, eight months.

Even though I had read the Bressler Report, I was struck by the number and size of the growths. Eleven females and one male developed tumors. That’s 37% of the females on aspartame.

During the audit of Searle’s DKP study, pathologist Dr. Charles H. Frith spent three days with the FDA task force to review 145 animals. Sufficient slides substantiated 73 female animals with grossly observed masses.

THREE ASPARTAME FEMALES WITH TUMORS

In 2005, Dr. Morando Soffritti of the European Foundation of Oncology, in Bologna, Italy completed an 8-year “mega-experiment” with1800 rats, to evaluate the potential carcinogenic effects of aspartame.

The results of the experiment showed a dose-related statistically significant increase of lymphomas and leukemias in female rats. This statistically significant increase was also observed at the dose level of 20 mg/Kg of body weight, a dose inferior to the accepted daily intake permitted by current regulations.

Results of Dr. Soffritti’s second long-term carcinogenicity bioassay on Aspartame …”not only confirm but also reinforce our first experimental demonstration (Belpoggi et al. 2006; Soffritti et al. 2005, 2006) of APM's multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the human ADI. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that when life-span exposure to APM (aspartame) begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects are increased.”

I was relieved to know to know Dr. Soffritti also let his rats live until spontaneous death because most cancers occur “in the last third of a person’s lifetime.”

There are no photographs from the Soffritti study. But one can surmise, they looked something like this.

THESE FEMALES IN MY MINI-EXPERIMENT APPEAR TO HAVE MAMMARY OR LYMPH TUMORS.

THIS FEMALE DEVELOPED A LARGE TUMOR ON HER LEFT SIDE.

THIS FEMALE DEVELOPED A TUMOR ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER FACE.

THIS FEMALE HAS A VERY LARGE TUMOR ON HER RIGHT SIDE.

THIS MALE HAD A GROWTH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS FACE.

THIS FEMALE HAD A TUMOR NEAR THE LEFT LYMPH GLAND OF HER NECK. NOTE THE IDENTIFYING WHITE MARK ON HER HEAD.

THE TUMOR GREW TO GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS AND APPEARED TO BE FILLED WITH NUMEROUS SMALLER TUMORS. THE TUMOUR BECAME ENTANGLED WITH HER RIGHT FORELEG CAUSING GREAT DIFFICULTY WHEN MOVING.

THIS LAST PHOTO OF THE SAME FEMALE, TAKEN AFTER DEATH, SHOWS THE SMALL TUMORS MORE PRONOUNCED ALONG WITH THE BLOOD VESSELS THAT FED THEM.

The fact that the European Union can discredit the Ramazzini Institute’s damning 8-year cancer study is because, as researcher Mark Gold, (holisticmed.com) points out, after extensive background checks-- the persons controlling our world-wide health have big-time ties to industry.

CHANGE IN VISION IS NO. 3 ON THE FDA LIST OF ASPARTAME SYMPTOMS.

Endocrinologist, Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D. writes in “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic”, “The FDA initially received ocular complaints attributed to aspartame from 177 consumers (Dr. Linda Tollefson, personal communication, August 12, 1987).

Eye complaints, in the 1200 cases Dr. Roberts clinically observed for his book “were prominent”, including retinal detachment and in 27 cases, blindness occurred in one or both eyes. Other aspartame “reactors” reported tunnel vision, eye pain, jerking of the eyes, bright flashes, dry eyes, trouble with contact lenses and bleeding eyes.

MALE WITH BLEEDING EYES

THESE TWO MALES HAD EYE INFECTIONS

“In 1991, I was diagnosed with an ‘incurable’ case of Grave's Disease, a fatal thyroid disorder, I never really had Grave's Disease but my doctors were convinced I did. I had aspartame poisoning with symptoms of 'textbook‘ Grave's Disease caused by aspartame saturating my foods.”
Dr. Janet Starr Hull
“Sweet Poison”: How The World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener is Killing Us. New Horizon Press

One of the symptoms of Grave’s Disease is protruding eyes. This is a no-longer private e-mail from Dr. Hull to Carol Guilford.

“YES, I had protruding eyes, cystic acne, and my hair was falling out in clumps. I had gained 30 pounds, too. ALL that went away within a year from stopping all aspartame. I even had holes in my retina from the methanol, and those have closed up now. All backed up by my eye surgeon.”

If you go to Dr. Hull’s web site, sweetpoison.com, you will find her a beautiful-looking woman.

FOUR ASPARTAME-FED FEMALES WITH PROTRUDING EYES

No observable eye disorders were found in my control group of 48 animals.

NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS

No observable neurological problems were displayed in my control group.

Film maker Cori Brackett (“Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World”) wrote a book of poetry, “Through the Shadows”, about her MS diagnosis and her year-long recovery after she threw out the diet Coke. (soundandfuryproductions.com)

ASPARTAME MALE WHOSE HIND LEGS BECAME PARALYZED

He did not live long after.

TORTICOLLIS

Torticollis is a condition that causes the neck to twist, involuntary to one side. The NSTA, the National Spasmodic Torticollis Association, describes torticollis as “Spasmodic Torticollis (ST), a painful and debilitating neurological disorder caused by a dysfunction of the brain.”

According to the NSTA, this aspartame-fed male and female rat have “tonic torticollis rotational.”

THIS FEMALE PERPETUALLY TURNED HER HEAD TO THE LEFT, A HUMAN SYMPTOM OF TORTICOLLIS.

THIS MALE ALSO HAD TROUBLE WALKING, FREQUENTLY FALLING OVER.

Note that his body is leaning toward his left side.
Unsteady gait is No. 61 on the FDA list of aspartame symptoms.

GENETIC DAMAGE

“Searle had submitted 13 tests in an attempt to establish that aspartame did not cause genetic damage but memos from public records show that FDA scientists who reviewed the tests found serious deficiencies in all of them.”
Mary Nash Stoddard
“Deadly Deception: Story of Aspartame”
Former Texas State Judge Stoddard is the founder of the ACSN, The Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, along with her partner, consumer attorney, James Turner. (aspartamesafety.com)

THIS ASPARTAME FED FEMALE HAD A TOOTH GROWING OUTSIDE THE MOUTH

THE LARGE TAN MALE RAT IN THE CENTER BELOW WAS THE SAME AGE AS HIS STUNTED MALE AND FEMALE COUSINS. THE SMALLER RATS GREW TO ABOUT HALF THE AVERAGE WEIGHT OF THEIR COUSINS.

CLOSE UP OF A FEMALE BORN WITH A SINGLE EYE

A MALE BORN WITH ONE EYE

Changes in skin in No. 65 on the FDA list and No. 66 is change in hair or nails. These shots are graphic, indeed. No rats in the control group showed skin problems.

THESE ASPARTAME MALES HAD THINNING AND YELLOWING FUR.

A SKIN LESION ON AN ASPARTAME MALE

THE SKIN OF THIS FEMALE RAT STARTED COMING OFF THE WEEK BEFORE IT DIED.

The unkindest cut of all. Change in body weight is No. 53 on the FDA list. (5)

THIS FEMALE ASPARTAME RAT BECAME OBESE.

IS ASPARTAME A HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL?

THE INDEPENDENT, JUNE 6, 1999

WORLD’S TOP SWEETENER IS MADE WITH GM BACTERIA.

“A Monsanto spokeswoman confirmed that aspartame for the US market is often made using genetic engineering.”

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration classifies methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid, components of aspartame as hazardous.

Carol Guilford convinced me to let her attempt to explain Aspartame, The Poison, in just a few paragraphs.

Aspartame is a very sophisticated, clever drug. So, first off, let me point out that this sophisticated, clever drug could never have been “discovered” accidentally.
Incidentally, James M. Schlatter, the scientist who, working on an ulcer drug licked his finger to find the sweet chemical NutraSweet has never been questioned.

PHENYLALANINE, 50% of the aspartame molecule is isolated from the chain of amino acids with which it exists in nature. Isolated phenylalanine, neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. tells us crosses the blood brain barrier to interfere and kill the neurotransmitters of the brain by “exciting them to death.” (“Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills”)

In 1987, Dr. Louis J. Elsas, then Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at Emory University testified at the hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, concerning “NUTRASWEET”—HEALTH AND SAFETY CONCERNS.”

Dr. Elsas told the Senators, “In the developing fetus such a rise in maternal blood phenylalanine could be magnified four to six fold by the concentrative efforts of the placental and fetal blood brain barrier and this concentration kills such cells in tissue culture. The effect of such an increased fetal brain concentrations in vivo would probably be much more subtle and expressed as mental retardation, microcephaly, or potential certain birth defects.”

Does autism ring a bell? When Dr. Elsas told the senate this significant fact about phenylalanine, in 1987, infant autism rates were 1 in 1500, today they are 1 in 150 and rising.

How many of us ever heard of Alzheimer’s, in 1980? The rates have doubled since aspartame was approved; a conservative statistic is 5 million in the US have the disease.

PHENYLALANINE converts to DKP, diketopiperazine, a tumor agent. The suspicious study of DKP by Searle Pharmaceuticals prompted the FDA to audit the experiment, the results of which are documented in the Bressler Report.

ASPARTIC ACID is 40% of the aspartame molecule. Dr. Madelon Price, in 1998 was Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri told her students: “Aspartic acid (aspartate) has been known to be a neurotoxin for 30 years. (now 40 years) Rodents that have ingested too much aspartame as infants are stunted as adults, obese and have sexual and reproductive dysfunctions. (7)

At the same lecture to her students that day, someone asked Dr. Price whether the phenylalanine in neotame, the aspartame clone, approved by the FDA was the same as the phenylalanine in aspartame. Dr. Price answered, it was. Neotame is now in the food supply, unlabeled, without a PKU warning for those who cannot metabolize phenylalanine. “Ah, says industry… but there’s such a small amount of phenylalanine in neotame, it doesn’t count.”

Wait a minute. Dr. Price explains, “Aspartate (aspartame) is additive in its effects with glutamate and other excitotoxins. In other words, a subtoxic dose of aspartame added to a subtoxic dose of glutamate (MSG) may add up to a toxic dose. Unfortunately it is hard to find food that does not contain added glutamate, and for some categories of food it does not have to be listed on the label.

METHANOL is 10% of the aspartame molecule. Methanol (wood alcohol) is a known poison and addictive, too. Doesn’t everyone knows someone who carries a diet Coke around all day?

The aspartame industry claims there is more methanol in a glass of orange juice than in aspartame products, but in a natural product, such as orange juice, the poisonous wood alcohol has the antidote for methanol inherently in it-- ethanol.

Free methanol turns into formaldehyde (embalming fluid).

In 1998, a research team from the biology department of the University of Barcelona, Spain, C.Trocho, et al concluded: “Aspartame converts to formaldehyde in vivo in the bodies of laboratory rats.”

“Formaldehyde is a highly reactive small molecule which strongly binds to proteins and nucleic acids forming adducts which are difficult to eliminate through the normal metabolism pathways… the amount of formaldehyde adducts coming from aspartame in tissue proteins and nucleic acids may be cumulative. It is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard because of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts. “

The formaldehyde from the free methanol then breaks down to formic acid, ant sting venom.

Yes, a very, sophisticated, clever drug—killing us sweetly.

FOOTNOTES

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1. Three female rats in the control group of 48 had small tumors.

2. Activist Betty Martini has a receipt from the Dept. of Health and Human Services for her request of the aspartame “report.” The cost was $42.30. The letter is dated June 6, 1995 http://www.presidiotex.com/92symptoms

3. The complete Bressler Report can be read at http://www.presidiotex.com/bressler

4. Dr. Ralph Walton compiled a list of all controlled human and animal studies looking for the effects of aspartame. Out of 90 independently-funded studies, 83 of them found one or more problems caused by aspartame. But out of the 74 studies funded by the aspartame industry (e.g., Monsanto, G.D. Searle, etc). every single one of them claimed that no problems were found.

5. Dr. Sandra Cabot (“The Liver Cleansing Diet”) in a position paper on aspartame explains the liver is so busy detoxing the poisons from aspartame, it cannot properly metabolize fat.

MSG is also an “excitotoxin” that causes obesity.

Dr. Blaylock writes, in an article for Nurse World Magazine… “dozens of independent laboratories have confirmed the connection between gross obesity and exposure to MSG early in life. More recent studies have also found it induces type 2 diabetes. “One of the most frightening connections is with sudden cardiac death. It is known that the heart’s electrical conduction system contains a number of glutamate receptors, as does the heart muscle itself. If these glutamate receptors are overstimulated, fatal arrhythmias can result.” Change in heart rate is No. 15 on the FDA list of aspartame symptoms.

6. Everything you ever wanted to know about the methanol in aspartame is in Dr. Monte’s letter of January, 2006. Author, columnist David L. Dewey has posted the letter at http://www.dldewey.com/monte.htm David’s concise article Aspartame - Sweetness Disguised as Disease or Death is at http://www.dldewey.com/aspar.htm

7. Dr. Price worked with Dr. John Olney, who in 1969 found aspartic acid caused nerve damage in the brains of mice. It was Dr. Olney who discovered that aspartame and MSG could kill brain cells by “exciting” them to death, hence the name “excitotoxin.”

In 1996, Dr. Olney showed the link between aspartame and brain cancer, up 10% after aspartame had been on the market for 3 years and one year after its inclusion in diet sodas.

Despite an airing on “60 Minutes”, Dr. Olney was media-blitzed by industrial power, in the same manner as Dr. Soffritti is being dismissed today, ten years later.

Death is No. 77 on the FDA list of aspartame symptoms.

Link to this website: http://myaspartameexperiment.com