Aspartame and Seizures

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We know aspartame is in some of the vaccine solutions.  We know some of
the vaccine ingredients are known to harm brain function along with causing
nutrient depletion.  We know some of the seizure drugs contain aspartame.
We also know that aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame K, and other neurotoxic
artificial sweeteners are in children’s vitamins, children’s antibiotics, chewing
gum, and many other food and beverage items. Please inquire and read labels.

Some years ago I attended the American College of Physicians with the
late world expert on aspartame, Dr. H. J. Roberts.  In the Neurology
workshop the professor said:  “Can anyone tell me why people all over
this country are having seizures for no reason.”  Dr. Roberts said,
“Tell them Betty!”  I explained to the professor that aspartame is in
thousands of products and the 50% phenylalanine lowers the seizure
threshold.  Even pilots are having seizures in the cockpits of
commercial airliners.”  The professor said, “But I thought that was in
the rare case of  Phenylketonuria.”  “No Professor, in all people”.  A
physician raised his  hand and said, “Professor, she’s right.  I’m a
pilot and a physician.  I have a friend who flies commercially and has
seizures and we’re going to have to report him.”  Today we have Mission
Possible Aviation which I founded after a pilot crashed his plane on
aspartame:  http://www.mpwhi.com/pilot_aspartame_alert.htm FAA said they can’t do anything because FDA approved this neurotoxin.

When the manufacturers of aspartame and the FDA lie to physicians it
ties their hands.  Now let’s show you how really bad it gets.  Aspartame
interacts with anti-seizure medication so the patient can’t be helped. 
In Dr. Roberts medical text, “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic”,
www.sunsentpress.com there is a chapter on drug interaction.  You see
aspartame damages the mitochondria or powerhouse of the cell and
interacts with drugs and vaccines.

So what do they do with children who just can’t get well?  Sometimes
they use the Ketogenic diet and they use Ketocal.  When I checked some
years ago it contained aspartame.  I made such a fuss about it I decided
to check and see if they had taken it out.  They have and what did
they  replace it with?  Sucralose! When Marianne Lamar’s husband used
Splenda and had a grand mal seizure she called the manufacturer who
first told her it didn’t cause seizures.  She gave them such a hard time
they finally admitted “well okay, yes Splenda causes seizures and
migraines”.  She asked them why they don’t make that known and was told
because there are so few cases.  Well, of course, how can you associate
Splenda with seizures when its kept a dark secret that it causes them. 
So Ketocal is now advertised as aspartame-free but it contains
Sucralose.  Dr. Morando Soffritti did a study on sucralose and found it
also causes cancer so like aspartame violates the Delaney Amendment and
is illegally on the market.

I was talking to a wonderful, brilliant neurologist here in Atlanta, Dr.
Ramon Sanchez,  who remembers the aspartame wars  in the beginning and
knows it causes seizures.  He told me about a patient who had so many
seizures he finally put her in the hospital. He said he tried every
anti-seizure medication in the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) and
nothing worked.  Of course, it won’t – it aspartame interacts with
anti-seizure medication. When Dr. Sanchez went to the hospital he found a
case of Diet Coke under the bed and questioned the patient who was
addicted to it.  He got her off but she went crazy so he put her in a
mental institution.  Aspartame triggers psychiatric and behavioral
problems as well.  He had her released a couple of weeks later – no more
mental problems and no more seizures.

Dr. Ralph Walton wrote:  “Two years after aspartame was introduced onto
the market I first became aware of the negative impact of this
artificial sweetener on the central nervous system. I had been treating a
then 54 year old woman with imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant,
because of recurrent major depressive episodes. Previous
psychoanalytically based therapy had proven ineffective, but she
responded dramatically to 150mg of imipramine per day. She had done well
for 11 years on this medication, but was then suddenly hospitalized
with a grand-mal seizure and subsequent manic episode.

“One could postulate that she was bipolar, and the antidepressant had
triggered the mania – but she had been on the same medication for a
total of 11 years, and for the previous 5 years at the same 150mg per
day dose. Neither the seizure nor her mania was consistent with what we
know about the clinical course of bipolar disorder or epilepsy. Careful
history revealed that the only change in her life was a recent decision
to switch from the sugar which she had always used to sweeten her iced
tea to a newly marketed product with aspartame.

“Since aspartame can alter the balance of certain neurotransmitters
which we believe are involved in mood disorders and can, in my opinion,
alter the seizure threshold, I advised my patient to avoid all aspartame
products. She did so, and had no further seizures, no further manic or
depressive episodes. I discontinued the lithium carbonate which I had
started when I mistakenly concluded that she had a bipolar disorder,
reinstated her imipramine and she has continued to do well.

“After this case report was published in the medical literature, many
patients with unexplained seizures or treatment resistant psychiatric
problems were referred to me. I became increasingly convinced that
aspartame could both trigger seizure activity and mimic or exacerbate a
variety of psychiatric disorders”.  Dr. Walton did a study on aspartame
and the reactions were so severe the institution  stopped the study.

Dr. Russell Blaylock in “Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills”,
www.russellblaylockmd.com wrote about aspartame and seizures:  He said:
“In 1985 Dr. Richard J. Wurtman reported three such cases in the journal
Lancet.  One case involved a forty two year old secretary who developed
a seizure following a practice of drinking seven liters of NutraSweet
containing beverages per day.  She had no previous history of seizures. 
The second case was a twenty-seven-year-old computer programmer who had
a single grand mal seizure after drinking 4 to 5 glasses of “Crystal
Light” containing NutraSweet.  It is interesting that this patient also
experienced “twitching, trembling, jerking, and hyperventilation.”  What
makes this interesting is that it resembles the “wet dog shades” seen
when dogs are given large doses of the excitotoxin kainate.  The last
case was a thirty-six year-old professor who drank one liter of ice tea
sweetened with NutraSweet everyday.  After several days of this practice
he developed a grand mal seizure.”

Dr. Wurtman wanted to do studies on aspartame and seizures and was
threatened by the VP of G. D. Searle, the original manufacturer, if he
did his research funds would be rejected.  They were.  Read it in the
UPI Investigation, 8 months, by Gregory Gordon:  http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf

Mrs. Barbara Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey, wrote Dr. Wurtman in
1986.  She said:  — “I have a 22 year old daughter who was only
recently diagnosed as having temporal lobe epilepsy. — Her behavior has
been more and more bewildering for approximately two years.  My
mother’s intuition told me that something was amiss.  I hammered at her
relentlessly by phone.  Finally, and nearly too late, she announced that
she has been experiencing bizarre symptoms with increasing frequently. 
— After pondering her revelation for several days, it suddenly
occurred to me that aspartame could have triggered her seizures since I
develop severe migraine attacks immediately after drinking beverages
sweetened with NutraSweet.”

Barbara’s daughter was having seizures, going blind from the methanol in
aspartame and had a complete personality change.  Her daughter, Julia,
is an uncommonly brilliant girl with the possibility of a magnificent
future at the time.  When she was in high school, she won a Telluride
Association Scholarship.  She competed with more than one million
students from the entire US for this honor.

Dr. Wurtman wrote Barbara back on April 29, 1986 from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and said:  “Dear Mrs. Metzler:  Thank you for
writing to us about your daughter’s condition that may very well be
associated with NutraSweet.  We are very anxious to collect information
on people like your daughter and would be very grateful if you would
provide us with the information requested on the attached form letter. 
Either Dr. Donald Schomer, my neurologist colleague, or I will be back
in touch with you as soon as we receive this information.  Cordially
yours, Richard J. Wurtman, M.D.”

To make a long story short Barbara’s daughter got off
aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal/Canderel, etc. and the seizures disappeared,
her eyesight was restored and her personality went back to normal.

Dr. Richard Wurtman,  was at one-time a Searle consultant,  then
resigned to become a critic of NutraSweet. He said  he had been
contacted by more than 200 people who suspected their seizures resulted
from the toxin. He said it was enough for FDA to remove aspartame from
the marketplace.   Today he has aspartame lockjaw, and will not speak
out about aspartame but MIT gets research funds. His paper trail is
enormous.  Don’t fail to read “Dietary Phenylalanine and Brain Function”
edited by Dr. Wurtman (Birkhauser).

Has it been proven aspartame triggers seizures.  Sure it has by the
manufacturer’s own study.  A 52 week oral toxicity study on aspartame
with 7 infant monkeys showed 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died. 
Searle used it as pivotal in the approval of this deadly addictive,
excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and
adjuvant.  In the beginning the FDA were heros, first trying to having
G. D. Searle indicted for fraud but both US Prosecutors hired on with
the defense team and the statute of limitations expired.  So they
revoked the petition for approval.  Meanwhile G. D. Searle hired Don
Rumsfeld to get it on the market and Searle filed suit at the time the
FDA Board of Inquiry revoked the petition. Rumsfeld said he would call
in his markers and get it on the market.  He was on President Reagan’s
transition team and the day after Reagan took office he had someone from
the team call FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan who would have signed the
petition into law at 3:00 AM and fired him.  Then he wrote an executive
order making the FDA powerless to do anything on aspartame or sign the
petition until he could get a new commissioner there.  He appointed Dr.
Arthur Hull Hayes, a friend of Rumsfeld who then revoked the petition
for approval.

Today the FDA is simply Big Pharma’s Washington Branch Office.  I call
them the Fatal Drugs Allowed folks,.  Even when I filed an amendment to a
citizen’s petition for ban  based on an imminent health hazard  in 2007
they have refused to answer.  They wrote they had more important things
to do. You’re suppose to answer in a week or ten days by law but the
FDA serves above the law.

Look at the FDA’s own report of 92 documented symptoms on aspartame and you’ll see four types of seizures listed:  http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

The aspartic acid in aspartame is an excitotoxin, a product that
literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain
injury.  Call it the sister to MSG, another excitotoxin.  Actually, all
three components trigger seizures in aspartame as Dr. James Bowen has
discussed.  MSG has a synergistic and additive effect with aspartame. 
Jack Samuels some years ago filed suit against the FDA on this issue and
labeling.  Let me show you how friendly the FDA is with the glutamate
people.

In l993 Jack Samuels, President of the http://www.truthinlabeling.org/>Truth
in Labeling Campaign, was reviewing FDA docket files relating to an FDA
study on the safety of amino acids in supplements. In the files, he
found a letter dated March 22, l991, from Andrew G. Ebert, PhD,
Chairman, International Glutamate Technical Committee, glutamate
industry organization where Ebert admitted that aspartame had been used
since at least l978 in test and placebo materials that his organization
provided to scientists who study the safety of MSG.

A review of studies conducted with the above-referenced test material
clearly indicates that some subjects reacted to both MSG test material
and placebo material. Scientists conducting such studies concluded that
since subjects reacted to both MSG and placebos, their reactions were
not from MSG. Even though such logic is highly questionable, we now know
that subjects reacted to placebos because of the presence of aspartame,
an additive that causes MSG-type responses in MSG-sensitive people.
Because of the disclosure of the use of aspartame in placebo material by
Jack Samuels, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology, in its July l995 report on the safety of MSG in food, concluded
that the use of aspartame in placebo materials was inappropriate.

If you want to read more about this get the new book, “The Man Who Sued
The FDA” by Adrienne Samuels.  Unfortunately, Jack Samuels died.  Many
of the things used in the hospital had MSG and probably killed him.  He
could go into anaphylactic shock if he got MSG.  See his web site,
www.truthinlabeling.org

So how can the manufacturer  and their paid flacks do studies on
aspartame and seizures and it not show the problems.  Read
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html Seems like there
should be a law against these types of studies to cover up the problems.

It was James Turner, Attorney, and the famed John Olney, M.D. who tried
to prevent approval of aspartame.  You must get the aspartame
documentary “Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World”, [email protected] 
You can google the clip, “Sick on Aspartame, Meet Don Rumsfeld” where
James Turner explains approval:  Turner says Dr. Olney got so sick of
Searle’s shenanigans he insisted they do studies in his laboratory so he
could oversee them.  Sure enough aspartame destroyed the brains of the
rodents so he thought it could never get approved.  However, Searle
never told the FDA!

How heinous a crime can the approval of aspartame be?   The FDA made a
deal with G. D. Searle to seal all studies and records on aspartame and
birth defects so the public would never know the FDA said aspartame
caused birth defects.  It caused neural tube birth defects which as Dr.
Monte says in his book “While Science Sleeps” is often a grotesquely
disfiguring malformation of the infant that encompasses a spectrum of
disorders ranging from cleft palate, through spina bifida, to the always
fatal presentations of horrifically deformed skulls with exposed or
missing brains.  It has caused an epidemic of autism.  Read the last
chapter:
http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf>http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf This is the best book there is on the methanol in aspartame.  Even tells how Dr. Monte’s house was blown up with him in it.

Children don’t have a chance these days.  In the movie, “Sweet Remedy”
the ADD people were interviewed and said before the approval of
aspartame the terms ADD and ADHD were hardly used.
Read the “Report for Schools” on the banner on my web site, www.mpwhi.com Feingold, the ADD people wrote an excellent report.

Now to add insult to injury the dairy people have petitioned the FDA to
allow aspartame in 17 dairy products removing labeling  like “chocolate
milk, reduced calories” which would identify the product as having
aspartame or artificial sweeteners to simply “chocolate milk”. 
Aspartame requires a PKU warning by law.  Consider if someone who has
gotten off aspartame doesn’t realize its in a dairy product and uses
it.  Many are chemically hypersensitive for life and it could cause
their death.  In “Sweet Misery” you will see a woman who told the
hospital she was chemically hypersensitive to aspartame and couldn’t
have it.  A dietitian gave her Crystal Lite and she became a Code Blue
and they had to resuscitate her to save her life.

In an interview with Dr. James Bowen, some years ago  he stated: “The
FDA has made aspartame a self-validating compound, meaning that since
they have released it to market generally recognized as safe, it must be
held blameless. Therefore, their own studies which show horrendous
toxicity must be held invalid.” Dr. Bowen who says aspartame triggered
his Lou Gehrig’s Disease, toxic cardiopathy, and severe depression, not
to mention changing his hair from rich, dark brown to total silver gray
in six weeks wrote the FDA several years ago telling them that aspartame
was a mass poisoning of the American public and more than 70 other
countries. Their only response to this, says Dr. Bowen, was to send an
FDA investigator to his office after he collected 30 other cases for
them. This investigator told Dr. Bowen, “We don’t like what you’re
doing, and we want you to stop.” He told me she repeatedly refused to
accept the 30 cases of aspartame poisoning he collected. Whereupon he
said to her, “Did you come here to intimidate me, or did you come here
to review the case reports, as you say you have?” He says she merely
glared at him and refused to take the reports until he repeatedly
pressured her to do so, and nobody has seen those reports since.

Special warning for diabetics:  Aspartame can precipitate diabetes,
simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys
the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions, and even
interacts with insulin.  The free methyl alcohol causes diabetics to
lose limbs.  Jeanette Soto, Mission Possible Brookville, Florida who
wrote “Blinded Sight” when her husband lost his sight from aspartame was
unable to get her father-in-law, diabetic off aspartame because of the
addiction.  The free methyl alcohol is classified as a narcotic.  It
causes chronic methanol poisoning which affects the dopamine system of
the brain and causes the addiction.  When Jeanette’s father-in-law,
Santiago Echiverria died it had to be a closed casket, the formaldehyde
from the free methyl alcohol was oozing out of his skin.

Mothers Using Aspartame
In Pregnancy & Autism Epidemic:
The FDA Knew It Would Happen!
By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum
8-13-12

As Dr. James Bowen’s paper “Aspartame Murders infants” explained, the
poison violates the Federal Genocide Law. Toxic mechanisms the doctor
listed include:

Teratogen, it produces birth defects
Adjuvant, it forms antigenic tissue triggering immunologic attack
Fetal Wastage
Chelation, promotes heavy metal poisoning.

 Dr. Bowen said further: “Aspartame. sold as NutraSweet, AminoSweet,
E951 and Equal, is in thousands of foods and diet drinks, as well as
drugs. At every point in the fertility process APM 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.

So here we are in 2012 with a global epidemic of autism. Dr. Bill Deagle
said:”The European Environmental Association has projected that with
the rise of autism caused by toxic foods like Aspartame, MSG, Fluoride,
and environmental degradation, by 2013 no one will be born in the
Western World that does not to some degree have autism. Our board of
AAEM, American Academy of Environmental Medicine and Dr. William Rae,
director of the Dallas Environmental Clinic agreed in open discussion at
the October 2010 annual meeting”.

In 1999 Parents Magazine featured the article What’s Happening to Our Children that said almost every family is involved.

To answer Parents Magazine, the aspartame industry used their power to
get  this deadly chemical poison on the market that was listed with the
pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons
submitted to Congress http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf
They have used their power to keep it on the market all because of
profit, addiction and greed.  Dr. Maria Alemany in Barcelona did the
Trocho study on aspartame and showed that it embalmed living tissue and
damages DNA.  When I met this courageous and brilliant professor he
said, “Betty, aspartame will kill 200 million people.”  The aspartame
industry tried to assassinate his character for exposing the truth to
the world.

Robin Goodwin, Mission Possible Falklands, petitioned for a ban of
aspartame but didn’t want to wait years.  He  wrote all 3,000 citizens
warning them. His wife suffered an aspartame brain tumor and his
daughter had seizures for 18 years, which ceased when she abstained. In
early April, 2006, he told me aspartame-containing products  were now
rotting on the store shelves there.   Aspartame Disease is now a global
plague and children are suffering the world over.  If we don’t get
aspartame banned by Codex it could be used in countries where it is not
even approved.

If you value your baby’s or child’s life you now must be sure they will
never get aspartame. A safe sweetener is “Just Like Sugar”,
www.justlikesugarinc.com  Spread the word.  Email me for the “Aspartame
Resource Guide” – [email protected]

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame