Referring to a recent article in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/health_and_science/legislature-calls-on-unm-to-consider-center-for-movement-disorders/article_2027c45c-627f-57a5-87f4-28f3b30b3a26.html
New Mexico's legislature has very recently been discussing the
need for a Movement Center focused on how to treat Parkinson's disease, given
that there are only a few physicians in that state able to treat this illness. I concur that
this is needed, but instead of merely only throwing more money at the treatment, you
need to deal with the causes. There is a terrible lack of information among
physicians and the public at about Parkinson problems. In 1985, US Senator
Howard Metzenbaum wrote a bill to require independent studies of problems that
begin with aspartame's approval, including the effect on the brain
chemistry, what aspartame does to the fetus, seizures, behavioral problems
and interaction with drugs including MONAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS,
ALPHA-METHYL-DOPA AND L-DIHYDROPHENYLALANINE.
Aspartame was acting as a
drug and interacting with L-dopa. Worse, Parkinson's drugs like Parcopa
and its generic contain aspartame: http://www.rxlist.com/drug-interactions/carbidopa-levodopa-entacapone-oral-and-cholestyramine-aspartame-oral-interaction.htm So many notified Schwarz Pharma: (http://www.wnho.net/schwarz_pharma_letter.htm) but they refused to remove aspartame despite their full knowledge of the deadly interaction and
indisputable facts sent.
Both parents of Dr. Russell Blaylock (neurosurgeon
and author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills) both died of Parkinson's and
he has a great interest in the disease. On this book's back cover, Blaylock
defines excitotoxin:
From Dr. James Bowen's Lou Gehrig's disease article:
Dr. Blaylock quotes Dr. John Olney pointing out
the irony of a food industry practice:
From a chapter in his book entitled Creeping Death: The Neurodegenerative Diseases:
"By ingesting diets high in MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, aspartame and other excitotoxins, these people would be exposing their brains to damaging levels of this class of toxin. Eventually other neurons would be damaged, possibly leading to symptoms of Alzheimer's type dementia and ALS. Glutamate and aspartate can enter the brain without a breakdown in the blood brain barrier. We know that certain areas of the adult brain have no, or incompetent, barriers. These areas are near the ventricular system (circumventricular organs) and can potentially act as points through which glutamate and aspartate in the plasma could slowly seep into the surrounding brain, thereby by-passing the blood brain barrier."
Blaylock explains Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease): "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. These are the primary neurons in the spinal cord that control muscle movements of the body. But these neurons do not operate by themselves; rather, they are controlled from higher up in the brain by other neurons in the motor cortex which send fibers down the spinal cord, that in turn connect (synapse) with the anterior horn cells. This bundle of fibers from the cortex is called the corticospinal tract. In most cases of ALS these neurons are also affected."
Dr. Blaylock discusses research on ALS in l987 by
Doctors Andreas Plaitakis and James T. Caroscio:
Writing about the prevention of ALS:
"You must also avoid all foods and drinks sweetened with aspartame (NutraSweet), since it contains the powerful excitotoxin aspartate. In addition, all that we have learned about hypoglycemia and Parkinson's disease also applies to ALS patients. Low energy levels greatly magnify the toxic effect of MSG and aspartate on the spinal cord."
Dr. Blaylock's book states that glutamate,
amphetamines and other excitotoxins may produce Parkinson's by overexciting the
cortical glutamate cells that connect to the nigrostriatal neurons lying deep
in the brain. This is true of aspartame as well. "It is like lightning hitting
the power line outside your house and burning up all of the appliances
connected to that line. The powerline represents the cortical glutamate neurons
and the appliances, the nigrostriatal system.
Dr. Blaylock points out that: 1. Parkinson's
disease is a disorder whose cause appears from substantial evidence, to be
related to excitotoxicity. These toxins destroy the cells in the brain central
to this disease. 2. Excitotoxins cause these brain cells to generate enormous
amounts of free radicals. This is true of MSG and aspartic acid (aspartame). 3.
There is substantial circumstantial evidence that dietary excitotoxins,
including aspartame, can aggravate these destructive changes in the Parkinson's
brain. 4. The additional toxins - DKP, aspartate, methanol, formaldehyde and
formic acid - add to this injury. 5. Recent evidence demonstrates that
aspartame products, formaldehyde - accumulates within cells and damages
proteins and DNA.
Dr. James Bowen has noted that many NutraSweet
victims report Parkinsonian symptoms.
Bowen also wrote: "The structural damage in the basal areas of the brain where Parkinson Disease structural damage occurs from the dicarboxylic amino acid neuroexcitotoxins is a problem long recognized. So aspartic acid even in and by itself is a recognized source of the damage to the basal ganglia where Parkinson Disease degeneration occurs. As in the case with methyl alcohol the molecule structure of the aspartame molecule probably makes the aspartic acid damage from aspartame 5000 times more potent than from free aspartic acid on a mg. per mg. basis. The brain with loss of neural tissue to produce the dopamine, a neurotransmitter necessary to let the brain circuitry function normally, is no longer producing dopamine in sufficient amounts in these structures. The metabolic impact of the phenylalanine isolate from aspartame is to remarkably decrease dopamine production thus making Parkinson symptoms much worse. The phenylalanine isolate out-competes all other amino acids at enzyme sites in the brain. This includes the decarboxylase enzyme sites. Therefore, the amino acid tyrosine is not decarboxylated to tramine which is the first step in producing dopamine in the brain. Therefore, the brain dopamine levels plummet remarkably."
"Poster Boy for Diet Pepsi Michael Fox has reportedly used L-Dopa to try and increase his dopamine levels. The use of aspartame completely defeats this therapeutic endeavor. Not to mention the fact that it caused the degenerative disease called Parkinson's Disease in the first place. The destructive process will continue as long as he uses it."
The bottom line is that for 40 years aspartame has
been on the market poisoning the public and interacting with drugs. The
medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" by the late Dr. H.J.
Roberts, world renown aspartame expert, is 1000 pages of symptoms,
diseases and drug interactions all triggered or precipitated by
aspartame.
Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino carried a bill to ban
aspartame in New Mexico. I testified along with Pediatrician Kenneth
Stoller before Senate and House Committees. Five out of seven in the Senate
Public Affairs Committee were ostentatiously sipping on their Diet Cokes; Dr. Stoller told them,
"I don't think we will get anywhere with all of you drinking Diet Coke, but please
have mercy on the children."
I visited with former New Mexico Attorney General
Gary King, asking that something be done to protect New Mexico's children.
He told me if I could show him that since the approval of aspartame autism has increased,
he would intervene. Dr. Stoller had already done the research and sent it
to the Attorney General but nothing was done. Later it was found out that
the teratology studies (on birth defects) had been sealed from the
public. It took me 8 years to find them and they showed neural tube
defects, spina bifida and cleft palate for starters. Dr. Woodrow Monte
then wrote the book, "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills". Here is
the last chapter on aspartame and autism: http://www.rense.com/general96/asparautism.html
Dr. James Bowen has Lou Gehrig's resulting from
his own aspartame poisoning wrote Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino, and enclosed his
letter to the FDA about mass poisoning of the public. http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_senator_goyp_concerning_aspartame.htm
While I was in New Mexico to testify to the
legislature, there were lobbyists, attorneys and front groups. The power
of the aspartame industry was everywhere.
In 2009 the FDA admitted to President Obama that
they were broken. They are run by Big Pharma.
As an example of industry power Dr. Blaylock wrote in his book:
"Placebos are supposed to be completely inert substances. Otherwise they would produce a physiological effect all of their own and ruin the experiment. In the case of MSG toxicology studies, the placebo used to test the excitotoxin glutamate is NutraSweet, which contains the excitotoxin aspartate. It has been clearly shown in a multitude of studies that aspartate produces the identical destructive reactions on the nervous system as MSG. It would seem obvious even to the layman that you would not use a control substance to compare to a known toxin if the control contained the same class of chemical toxin. But that is exactly what is being done.""Are the representatives of the glutamate industry aware of this basic scientific fact? It is hard to believe otherwise, especially in the face of the fact that one of their own representatives presented evidence before a public hearing at a meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in which tables were presented showing that aspartame produces the same types and incidences of reactions as MSG."
"Did these scientists disclose in their scientific papers the fact that the placebos also contained a known excitotoxin? The answer is an emphatic "no", and I have reviewed dozens of these studies. In fact, I was not aware of this deception until I received the proof from Dr. Samuels. In many cases the powder used to mix the placebos was supplied by the International Glutamate Technical Committee (IGTC). It is interesting to note that the Ajinomoto company, the chief manufacturer of MSG and the raw materials of aspartame, is an active member of the IGTC."
"This company funds extensive research programs and provides funds to major universities for research on the safety of MSG. In my personal opinion, I have to believe that both the company representatives, and certainly the scientists doing the research, must know that such studies are dishonest at the very least."
It's obvious that aspartame can precipitate ALS. In conclusion Dr. Blaylock wrote: "But of primary concern is the effect of these powerful brain cell stimulants have on the developing brain of the infant and child and the later development in the adult of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's dementia, Huntington's disease and ALS. The brain not only utilizes the excitatory amino acids as normal neurotransmitters, but there exists a delicate balance of excitatory and inhibitory chemicals in the brain. When the balance is upset, serious disorders of the nervous system can result."
While I was in New Mexico I gave out to Legislature members Dr. Ralph Walton's research for 60 Minutes showing that almost all independent scientific peer reviewed research delineates the problems aspartame triggers or precipitates.
To me, this was horrifying to
hear ill-informed corporate lobbyists try to disprove the research, parroting
what their corporate masters told them to say. It was like walking into a
pool of very ignorant and very dangerous Piranhas. Two out of three of the most vicious and vociferous pro-aspartame lobbyists ended up in prison for other reasons having to do with a fraudulent voter education film project and their embezzling from that project. One actually died in prison.
Aspartame is very hard to avoid. The broken
FDA just approved another aspartame drug, Advantame, as an
additive. One doctor told me aspartame is in all gastrointestinal
generics and it triggers gastrointestinal disease. It was given to me
without my knowledge and interacted with the pain medication. I
immediately was covered in urticaria or hives and stopped breathing on three
occasions before I found out. The opioids epidemic is all over the news.
Maybe there is some overuse but a lot of deaths can be caused by the violent
interaction of aspartame and opioids.
In the halls of hospitals today you see "falling
signs". #2 on the FDA list of 92 symptoms is loss of balance.
http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf
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