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450,000 people drop dead each year…Why?
From: Chris Gupta
…”The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently published an
article about sudden death referring to Science magazine.
It reported that 450,000 people drop dead each year and
discussed consumers with an irregular heart rhythm.
Aspartame notoriously triggers an irregular heart rhythm.
Frankly, this is probably an understatement as to deaths.
On Dec 16, 2001, the Sunday Telegraph in the UK wrote an
article on sudden death and epilepsy. Aspartame is also a
seizure triggering drug as proven on a pivotal study that
approved it, a 52 week oral toxicity study where seven
infant monkeys were fed the toxin.
Five had grand mal seizures and one died. The FDA report of
92 symptoms lists four types of seizures triggered by this
neurotoxin. To make matters worse, aspartame interacts with
anti-seizure medication such as Dilantin and similar drugs.
….Aspartame, to a striking degree, carries toxic heavy
metals into the body, as well as generating toxic
super-oxide free radicals in the metabolic channels that
are poisoned by it.
The hypothalamus, along with many other brain structures is
severely damaged by the dicarboxylic amino acid
neuroexcitoxin component of the aspartame poisoning. This
alone can cause adrenal insufficiency and resultant sudden
death.
The phenylalanine isolate poisoning from aspartame also
leads to serotonin and dopamine depletion in some areas of
the brain, and elevation of serotonin in others, leading to
neuro-endocrine disruptions contributing to all of the
above, as well as depression and schizophrenic episodes
often leading to aspartame-related suicides.”…
Following article is probably the fastest way to get up to
speed on the dangers of Aspartame. It is also a clear
demonstration on how our regulatory bodies pretend to
protect us and squander our resources (taxes). These much
needed resources are used to attack competition instead.
Competition from products that step on the there cronies
fast buck turf. Before you knowingly eat or drink a product
sweetened with aspartame, read the article below and follow
your investigative senses. If you still aren’t convinced
that aspartame is an FDA-approved poison, then it must be
your fate to become sick and eventually succumb to a
painful death after suffering from a variety of chronic
illnesses.
Of course, you may luck out and be spared years of
ill-health by suddenly, mercifully dropping dead from
aspartame in the prime of your life. Pardon the harsh
comments but there is a war going on and the battle is
being waged in our bodies. Good soldiers don’t eat and
drink the enemies’ weapons.
When 23-year-old Baltimore Oriole’s pitcher, Steve Bechler,
died on February 17, 2003 in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida
hospital, a bottle of weight loss supplements containing
ephedra was found in his locker. Rather than doing a
thorough investigation into what this man’s dietary habits
are, the government immediately began its attack on ephedra
as contributing to this young man’s sudden collapse and
death.
Without any evidence that ephedra alone could cause death,
tough new labeling laws for dietary supplements containing
ephedra were proposed by the federal Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) on February 28 to warn consumers that
it could cause heart attack, stroke or death.
In a March 1, 2003 New York Times article it states that a
Florida medical examiner claimed that the dietary
supplement containing ephedra might have contributed to
Bechler’s death.
When Dr. Roberts spoke to Broward county medical examiner
Dr. Joshua Perper, he was told the cause of death was
hyperthermia which caused multiple organ failure. Bechler’s
temperature had reached a high of 108 degrees. When Dr.
Perper was asked how many diet drinks Bechler drank a day,
he returned a blank stare indicating he was unaware of the
fact that aspartame containing diet and sports drinks could
have caused this man’s untimely death.
The FDA’s attack on ephedra appeared to ominously coincide
with the blatant attempt by New York Times reporter Robert
Pear to connect Bechler’s death with a weight loss
supplement containing ephedrine found in his locker. What
Pear and the FDA refuse to look at is the dietary habits of
the increasing number of athletes who are dying suddenly.
Director of Mission Possible, Betty Martini, has spent the
last ten years of her life warning the world about the side
effects.
“Hi…I am a 26-year-old female athlete. In order to keep
in shape and maximize my training, I have been taking a lot
of sport supplements, protein powders and consuming various
other foods containing a high level of aspartame.
I would estimate that I consume approximately 860 mg. of
aspartame each day. Over the past year I have stopped
menstruating completely. I am at a healthy weight of 150
lbs and maintain a healthy percentage of body fat. Other
symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, depression, mood
swings, personality changes and amenorrhea.
Could Aspartame be responsible for me losing my period and
experiencing the other related symptoms? Please help me.”
Due to several recent articles about sudden death and the
numerous reports of athletes dropping dead who probably are
using diet drinks, proteins drinks, etc. laced with
aspartame, Dr. Bowen has written an in-depth report on
aspartame and sudden death.
Because of the length of this report, following is an
excerpted version that deals only with aspartame and sudden
death, and not the politics and influence that has caused
what may be one of the largest plagues in world history,
Aspartame Disease. ~ Betty Martini, Founder, Mission
Possible International
Epidemic Of Sudden Deaths In Those Exposed To Aspartame
By James Bowen, M.D.
The horrendous toxicity of aspartame has been well
documented ever since its inception.
Sudden deaths logically arise from several of its many
toxicities. For example, Christina Onassis, Patty Crane,
and Carol Hamm are amongst those that I know of who were
using aspartame and were addicted to it, and visibly
deteriorating under its influence when they suddenly, and
unexpectedly, died therefrom.
Patty Crane was found dead amongst a litter of diet Pepsi
cans. Her mother, Betty Hayland, was exposing Patty’s
“Nutra Death” on TV. She came to me to learn the
biochemical basis of its deadliness. After learning some of
the biochemistry, she asked, “Dr Bowen, how could such a
poisonous chemical ever be on the market?”
I answered “Betty! This is organized crime in our
government.”
She became furious with me! “That I should suggest there is
organized crime in the U.S. government! What a nut!”
A few days later they called and threatened her life. A
couple days later two men tried to drag her into a car. She
was able to make her escape by breaking free and running. A
couple days later her husband Dave, who now has no question
that organized crime runs our government, came home and
found her shot dead in a puddle of blood on the floor.
Carol Hamm was a close friend, but not my patient so
medical confidentiality does not prevent my discussing her
tragedy. We played cards together a couple of times per
week and she constantly had diet drinks in her hands while
she played. She, over a short period of a few weeks use,
visibly deteriorated physically right in front of my eyes,
and mentally. Her card playing deteriorated as well.
She would defiantly look me right in the eye as she drank
diet to let me know that she didn’t care that I had warned
her of what I knew about aspartame. She was going to
satisfy her addiction, by damn! Come what may! What came
was that, one night she didn’t show for cards, and her
daughter Debby called the police. When we arrived at her
house she was lying dead in bed with bloody fluid running
out of her mouth. In all three cases the autopsy report
revealed only “unexplained pulmonary edema.”
This is the difference between death from aspartame
metabolism and regular alcoholism: You can’t smell it on
the breath, and medical politics forbids attributing
anything evil to “Nutra Sweet.”
Jim Krossik was an employee at Searle’s first aspartame
plant in Phoenix. He developed neural toxicity from
breathing the aspartame dust in the air in the plant and
passed out on the plant floor. When he recovered and
returned to work, he found that all employees were required
to wear a facemask lest they breathe the deadly Nutra Sweet
dust.
He complied, but absorbed enough through his skin that he
passed out on the floor dead. The autopsy report revealed a
“severe alcoholic cardiomyopathy” as its only finding. Jim
used no alcoholic beverages.
Articles such as “Sperm Warfare,” “Aspartame and methanol
revisited,” etc., enlarge upon the unique methanol toxicity
from aspartame. It metabolizes in a toxic axis of aspartame
to methanol, to formaldehyde, to formic acid, to carbon
monoxide. Aspartame, to a striking degree, carries toxic
heavy metals into the body, as well as generating toxic
super-oxide free radicals in the metabolic channels that
are poisoned by it. A good overview of the aspartame
problem is the book “Billions of Victims” which is
available as free advice at many educational/informational
sites on the net. Since it educates about Chemical
Hypersensitivity, (CHz), it is essential reading for a full
understanding of the issue of sudden deaths from aspartame.
The heart muscle is very sensitive to alcohol poisonings.
Such alcoholic cardiomyopathies frequently terminate in
sudden death. 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 (heart muscle) never gets to rest
except between heart beats, so the methanol from Aspartame
that becomes more or progressively toxic upon metabolism is
especially damaging to muscles.
The myocardium is especially rich in mitochondria to serve
this metabolic need. The mitochondria and their DNA (Mt
DNA) are especially subject to these damages, and Mt DNA
lacks the repair mechanisms of nuclear DNA, so damage to it
is cumulative, even being passed onto 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 mitochondria, and it never gets to
rest. It is the metabolic clock that generates and
effectively coordinates heartbeats, heart rhythms and
contractions. Many various malfunctions of it precipitate
sudden death.
The heart’s extreme mitochondrial concentration, and its
dependence upon mitochondrial metabolism for its unresting
labors make it a site intensely generative of aspartame’s
poisonous byproducts and extremely subject to their
resultant chemical, immune, mitochondrial and CHz damages.
When the methanol from aspartame is metabolized, it has an
obligatory first-step metabolism to formaldehyde, the
strongest organic base. This is a polymerizing agent which
cross links sites on DNA so it can’t reproduce or function
to transmit genetic information nor essential metabolic
instructions.
The next step in Aspartame’s metabolism is to formic acid
which is a chromosome-shattering agent (along with cyanide
and fluoride, it is called a “blister poison” because it is
so damaging that it leaves blisters of dead tissue behind).
Formate is also recognized as fire ant poison. The whole,
entire toxic axes are severe sensitizing agents. A fire ant
can, because of the sensitivity it engenders, kill a human
being that outweighs it billions of times.
Thus, the myocardium and conduction system are rendered
highly subject to attack both from the direct actions of
the aspartame poisons and their metabolic derangements
along with the free radicals they generate via the impaired
metabolic competence and are highly susceptible to other
toxics and “sick environments” via CHz, (Chemical
Hypersensitivity).
Damaged Mt DNA, its resultant mitochondrial dysfunction
along with dysfunctions by and from immune and
hypersensitivity reactions (CHz) are all associated with
sudden deaths. Cardiomyopathies from damaged Mt DNA are
also well known to be passed to the child from the mother.
Many other Mt DNA diseases are inherited from mothers who
have damaged Mt DNA. Because the Mt DNA is not in the
nucleus but rather is located in the mitochondria of the
cell, its transmission in the case of a given ovum is
haphazard and random, so that infants from such mothers
usually display varied, random, and often dissimilar
disease patterns.
One may be diabetic, another may have a cardiomyopathy,
another pervasive developmental disorders such as autism,
another, metabolically generated diseases like
steato-hepatitis, hypotonic obesity, etc
Another related area is the damage done to the
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Repeated poisonous
assaults, such as CHz, cause the activation of the
anti-shock mechanisms of the adrenal glands leading to
either adrenal fatigue or a chronic turned-on status, both
being conducive to sudden death, especially in response to
toxic or other shock inducing states such as the CHz
response.
The hypothalamus, along with many other brain structures is
severely damaged by the dicarboxylic amino acid
neuroexcitoxin component of the aspartame poisoning. This
alone can cause adrenal insufficiency and resultant sudden
death.
The phenylalanine isolate poisoning from aspartame also
leads to serotonin and dopamine depletion in some areas of
the brain, and elevation of serotonin in others, leading to
neuro-endocrine disruptions contributing to all of the
above, as well as depression and schizophrenic episodes
often leading to aspartame-related suicides.
Aspartame is a potent epileptogenic agent, causing seizures
directly from its toxic effect, as well as when in
withdrawal from same, along with seizures induced by the
CHz when the patient is exposed to even minute amounts of
sensitizing agents such as chemical contaminants.
Some of these contaminants are sulfites from pulp mills (or
the universally practiced new world order environmental
abuse of illegally burning high sulfur coal in power
plants), pollens, fungal blooms, and other “sick”
environments, and food chemicals. Such seizures can result
in sudden death, especially if the subject is alone and
suffering from the other aforementioned Aspartame risk
factors.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently published an
article about sudden death referring to Science magazine.
It reported that 450,000 people drop dead each year and
discussed consumers with an irregular heart rhythm.
Aspartame notoriously triggers an irregular heart rhythm.
Frankly, this is probably an understatement as to deaths.
On Dec 16, 2001, the Sunday Telegraph in the UK wrote an
article on sudden death and epilepsy. Aspartame is also a
seizure triggering drug as proven on a pivotal study that
approved it, a 52 week oral toxicity study where seven
infant monkeys were fed the toxin. Five had grand mal
seizures and one died. The FDA report of 92 symptoms lists
four types of seizures triggered by this neurotoxin. To
make matters worse, aspartame interacts with anti-seizure
medication such as Dilantin and similar drugs.
Additional passages from the article above said “…many
people, including doctors, have little idea that a
disturbing number of patients, many of them young and in
good health, die unexpectedly, often in their sleep.”
Further it states that “The unpredictable death syndrome
has become known as Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy or
“Sudep.” In 1996, there were 969 epilepsy related deaths,
twice as many as from sudden infant or ‘cot’ syndrome,
which is the subject of widespread inquiry.”
Dr. James Bowen wrote at the time, “Sudden death during
seizures is almost always due to cardiac standstill due to
cardiac arrhythmias. There are several ways that this is
due to aspartame damage. Aspartame and methyl alcohol
poisoning are noted for damaging myocardium and the
specialized form of myocardium called the cardiac
conduction system.
This kind of damage leads to susceptibility to arrhythmias.
The aspartame and methyl alcohol poisoning cause immense
damage to the mitochondria and to Mt DNA which perpetuates
the mitochondria damage. The myocardium and cardiac
conduction system never get to rest. They are constantly at
work pumping blood, therefore they are very highly
concentrated in mitochondria to accommodate the metabolic
needs of this tremendous work load.
So mitochondrial damage is more highly reflected in the
heart. Damaged mitochondria produce increased amounts of
free radicals and other abnormal metabolites that produce
arrhythmias.”
Dr. Bowen continues about the unusual demands on the
cardio-respiratory system and notes that seizures due to
NutraSweet occur more frequently and in spite of otherwise
adequate anti-seizure medication.
Furthermore, aspartame interacts with pharmaceutical drugs
and anti-seizure medication creating yet another unknown
toxic byproduct. He says it should be no surprise then that
people are dropping dead from this aspect of aspartame
toxicity. Aspartame and cardiac and chest problems by H. J.
Roberts, M.D.
Aspartame, MSG and Other Excitotoxins and the Hypothalamus
by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.
Both have written books that discuss sudden death syndrome:
Mission Possible is currently seeking case histories for
class action on aspartame-triggered seizures, brain tumors,
eye deterioration and blindness.
Some common products that contain aspartame are Gatorade,
all diet soft drinks, sugar-free gum, Celestial Seasonings
herbal teas (under natural flavorings — thanks to the FDA).
Please just use raw, unprocessed honey for sweetener.