Returning To Healthy

As Bryanth commented on my last post:

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this aspartame study by a private citizen tells it all.

http://myaspartameexperiment.com

I couldn’t agree more!

The following facts shown by recent scientific research:

1. Aspartame (Nutrasweet) breaks down into methanol (wood alcohol).
2. Methanol quickly converts to formaldehyde in the body.
3. Formaldehyde causes gradual and eventually severe damage to the neurological system, immune system and causes permanent genetic damage at extremely low doses.
4. Methanol from alcoholic beverages and from fruit and juices does not convert to formaldehyde and cause damage because there are protective chemicals in these traditionally ingested beverages.
5. The most recent independent research in Europe demonstrates that ingestion of small amounts of aspartame leads to the accumulation of significant levels of formaldehyde (bound to protein) in organs (liver, kidneys, brain) and tissues.
6. Excitotoxic amino acids such as the one which is immediately released from aspartame likely increases the damage caused by the formaldehyde.

“I know that the average consumer has a devil-may-care something-is-gonna-kill-me attitude… but they don’t realize that before THIS stuff kills they are going to have a miserable declining existence with LOTS of pain and other problems (not to mention cancer, tumors, and maybe even Alzheimer or similar things) before death solves the problem.”
- An Aspartame Victim

Long-Term Damage

It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use.

Brain Cancer

Aspartame caused large brain tumors in life-long animal experiments at a dose that could be considered within the “Acceptable Daily Intake” limit after adjusting for differences in metabolism of aspartame’s breakdown products between humans and rodents. Not long after the FDA Commissioner went to work as a consultant for the PR firm of the aspartame manufacturer, FDA Investigator and Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross stated the following:

In view of all these indications that the cancer-causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act? Is it not clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that aspartame had caused brain tumors or brain cancer in animals, and is this not sufficient to satisfy the provisions of that particular section of the law?

Given that this is so (and I cannot see any kind of tenable argument opposing the view that aspartame causes cancer) how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame (50 mg/mg body-weight) as constituting an ADI (Allowable Daily Intake) or “safe” level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a “tolerance” for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?

Uterine Polyps

Pre-approval experiments showed that an aspartame breakdown product caused uterine polyps in experimental animals.

Not long after the FDA Commissioner went to work as a consultant for the PR firm of the aspartame manufacturer, FDA Investigator, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett stated the following:

“This (DKP) is the famous study with the uterine polyps, and it is also the study in which there were changes in serum cholesterol, significant changes over the dose range.”

“Now, we still are not sure exactly how much of DKP each group of animals or any individual animal got; they may not have gotten what would be calculated on the basis of daily consumption had the diet been homogeneous.”

“The fact is, in spite of that, there were significant increases–and I think everybody agrees with that–of uterine polyps and also changes in blood cholesterol.”

“When that was then taken into consideration, they said, oh, well, obviously, they must have gotten the diet, because we have these changes. But then they disregarded the changes as being significant--you know, uterine polyps were not pre- carcinogenic. Well, I can rustle up 15 million women by this afternoon who will disagree with that.”

Other Hazards

The following is a selection of other hazards from long-term use of aspartame. Once these effects are seen clinically, the internal damage has often been done. Removing aspartame from the diet may clear up some of the symptoms but the damage from the breakdown products such as methanol may be permanent.

Seizures and convulsions, arthritic and joint pain, chronic fatigue, depression, memory loss, vision damage and loss, tingling in the extremities, slurring of speech, irritability, severe anxiety attacks, menstrual problems, blood sugar control problems, symptoms similar to multiple sclerosis, worsening of fibromyalgia, parkinson’s tremors, etc., etc.

I am currently on week 8 of my Candida Cleanse. I started with the probiotics in week 7. The first 6 weeks I have been taking a fungicide along with some essential vitamins to support my body during this cleanse. I’ve now lost 30 pounds.

An interesting thing I discovered this weekend is that when I increased the amount of mangosteen juice I am taking the inflammation I have in my knees from the arthritis is considerably less. I have been going to the club regularly to walk for about the last 3 weeks and this past weekend I helped with some fencing that needed to be done. Both of my knees became swollen and sore from this so I doubled my daily juice intake and by Sunday afternoon I was back to normal again. Amazing juice!

I’ve read and re-read Kevin’s books on Natural Cures. I’ve also joined his online community. I am grateful for what he is doing to open the eyes of Americans to what our government is doing to us. I’m tired of going to the doctor’s office and being given a band-aid to cover up the symptoms instead of finding out what is actually wrong. I’m tired of what the food industry is feeding us without telling us what they are actually putting in our food. And, I’m tired of the corruption going on in our government and that no one seems to care.

I’ve begun making changes in my lifestyle and have been doing the things he lists in chapter 6 of his book “Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About”. I am already feeling much better, I’ve lost 15# in just 4 weeks, I have more energy than I’ve had in a long time and I can see an improvement in my skin tone.

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!

I’ve made many changes already and will continue to add to this list as I make new ones.

• Started eating as organically as I possibly can.
• Stopped eating pork and shellfish.
• Stopped drinking soda.
• Stopped eating artificial sweeteners
• Stopped taking over the counter drugs.
• Stopped taking prescription drugs. (Wasn’t taking any and don’t plan to)
• Started drinking water.
• Research Alternative Therapies
• Massage Therapy
• Wear an Electromagnetic Chaos Eliminator
• Colon Cleanse
• Candida Cleanse
• Started seeing an alternative health care provider
• Started drinking mangosteen juice
• Started taking coral calcium
• Started taking SeaVegg