Epilepsy Study Incriminates Aspartame in Medications

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EPILEPSY STUDY INCRIMINATES ASPARTAME in MEDICATIONS

 

By Dr. GLEN MABSON, Phd,

CEO: Epileptic Foundation of Maui dba Pacific Epilepsy Soc.

A Nonprofit Community Supported Public Foundation IRS 501-©(3)

 

 

The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic

Foundation of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and

Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and

the western states and Pacific Ocean Territories. There has been

a100% increase over the two previous years. See EFM Survey, Freedom

of Info Act 2000-2008 & EFM Survey 1999-03

 

The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is

the inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized

anti-seizure drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOAT, TEGRATOL and several others

produced by major pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the

manufacture of Dilantin changed the description of the 100 mg.

Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe to a much

larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100 mg of the

drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin capsule

found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical

Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal

his name, but said they were adding aspartame. He said the new

larger orange & white Dilantin is also labeled 100 mg,

 

Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the Epilepsy Foundation

of Hawaii (a separate organization from the above) is sympathetic to

the makers of ASPARTAME and routinely prescribes these drugs. I

believe this contributes to the increase of epilepsy in these areas.

 

Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO

Epileptic Foundation of Maui (dba Pacific Epilepsy Society)

808 879 8999

 

 

INTERVIEW WITH DR. MABSON: by Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

 

MARTINI: How did you get started in this investigation, and why, Dr. Mabson

 

MABSON From 1999 to 2007 The Epileptic Foundation of Maui conducted

a survey on the number of people in Maui suffering from the three

most prevalent types of epileptic seizures:

(1) Absence (2) Complex-partial (3) Grand Mal Seizures.

 

4,975 victims from a Maui Population of 130,000 suffered from one of

these types of seizures. Seniors over 65 and children 12 or less had

increased epileptic seizures. The count for the entire state of

Hawaii is over 28,000 seizure victims.

 

In an effort to determine the most effective medication it was

discovered that well over 50% of the victims consumed medications

containing aspartame. We inquired as to what anti-seizure medications

were mostly prescribed to control their seizures. Dilantin, Tegratol

and Depacote contained most aspartame amount among the 22 most

utilized anti-seizure medications.

 

In 2007 the Dilantin changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe

to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100

mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin

capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case.

 

Impaired vision and thinking, and it is suspected glaucoma in fifty

patients who never had visual problems prior to taking the new

Dilantin capsule. We suspected this was an experiment out of

control. A manufacturer of Dilantin then confirmed aspartame is in

the drug.

 

MARTINI: Were there any deaths having to do with aspartame?

 

MABSON: Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, has been prescribing aspartame

to patients in large quantities with negative results, in some cases

as many as 150 highly suspected deaths. He is president of the

Epilepsy Foundation of Hawaii.

 

MARTINI: What is the difference between your organization and Steins?

 

MABSON: A big and important difference: The Epileptic Foundation of

Maui (EFM) provides first aid to epilepsy victims, hands on help,

with a 24/7 Help Line 1 888-919-9444 We have trained more than 5000

parents, Maui Police, Department of Public Safety, IRS, Hawaii

Business and Public Schools at no cost! We provide immediate,

practical lifesaving care to seizure victims.

 

This is very personal to me. I have traumatic epilepsy from torture

during 18 months as a civilian prisoner of war in Viet Nam. Over 50

dedicated volunteers carry out this public service. We take no money

from aspartame makers.

 

MARTINI: So what does Steins organization do?

 

MABSON: It sells books and some outdated documents, but provides no

personal service.

 

MARTINI: In what journals have you published?

 

MABSON: Among many others, the following: Neurology 48:621.

Hamberg University News 2003, Strouseburg on Epilepsy Vol 2 pp 5, 6,

7 & 8 Savic, International. Athurer lnternational Epilepsy Research

26:245 2002: Long Term Follow-up After Temporal Lobe Resection for

Lesions Associated With Choric Seizures

 

 

Note by Betty Martini, D.Hum: It has been known that aspartame is a

seizure triggering drug for three decades. In a 52 week aspartame

oral toxicity study on 7 infant monkeys, 5 had grand mal seizures and

1 died. http://www.aspartaam.nl/artikelen_eng/raorapport.txt

 

The FDAs 1995 list of 92 documented symptoms from 10,000 citizen

complaints named 4 types of seizures, death, blindness, sexual

disfunction and a long list of neurological

injuries. www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

 

Dr. Richard Wurtman testified against aspartame to Congress. He told

UPI investigator Gregory Gordon that he was threatened by the VP of G

D Searle Co, aspartame producer , that his funding would be killed if

he studied aspartame seizures. So Wurtman speaks no more against

aspartame but he left quite a paper trail.

http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm

 

Mrs. Barbara Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey, tells about her

daughter Julia:

In April 1986 Julia was completing her graduate studies, was

diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. A neurologist in Pennsylvania

was treating her with medication he deemed appropriate, but without

success. I learned Dr. Richard Wurtman of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology was doing research into a possible link

between epileptic seizures and aspartame. (NutraSweet). It occurred

to me that aspartame may have triggered her problems, since I

experienced that beverages sweetened with aspartame gave me classic

migraines. I spoke to my daughters many friends, and they watched

her carefully and reported individually that she had peculiar

episodes shortly after they saw her drink diet soda. So I wrote to

Dr. Wurtman and he replied:

 

Thank you for writing to us about your daughters condition that may

very well be associated with NutraSweet. He requested that I send

him specific information about Julies neurological problems, then

arranged for her to be evaluated at Beth Israel Hospital in

Boston. Her evaluation included 3 days of monitoring with EEG

telemetry as well as neuropsychological testing.

 

When the testing was completed, my daughter was told that she had

been misdiagnosed by her Pennsylvania neurologist and that she did

not have temporal lobe epilepsy at all. She was advised to stop her

medication and to stop drinking diet soda. She listened, and little

by little, her bizarre problem disappeared. To watch her recover was

an incredible experience! Twelve years later, she tried diet soda

again and she had the same severe reaction. She quit the diet soda

sweetened with aspartame and never had a problem again.

 

I also contacted Dr. H.J. Roberts in Florida and he immediately

suggested that my daughter was suffering from a reaction to the

artificial sweetener aspartame in her diet soda. And, he realized

that the aspartame also had a definite effect on her cognitive

functioning and her vision.

This case is presented in two of Dr. Roberts books exposing aspartame.

How do aspartame makers get research to show their poison is

harmless? The golden rule applies: He who supplies the Gold makes the

Rules. Researchers-for-hire are vassals of the corporations paying

them. If they come back with the honest analysis: Your junk is a

killer! they get blacklisted, so naturally their report reads: Your

glorious scientific breakthrough is marvelous, safe, effective and

wonderful and everybody in the World should take it twice a

day! [if we don't lie about it somebody else will!]

 

And should you publish a medical magazine, all it takes to get

ridiculous fake research published is a fat advertising contract. Dr.

Ralph Walton correlated scientific studies with their funding and

determined that 92% of independent studies unfunded by corporations,

show aspartame problems, but 100% of corporate controlled research

declare it safe. http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

 

G. D. Searle Cos reports to the FDA were so bad that the Justice

Department initiated prosecution for fraud. The easy to fix for

Searle: was to hire the prosecutors, who stalled until the statute of

limitations was about to run out, then left the Government.

 

You just cant make a poison safe. Here is the famous FDA audit, the

Bressler Report: http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt

 

Dr. Ralph Walton did his own study on aspartame which was then owned

by Monsanto who refused to sell him the aspartame because they

couldnt control his research. But the study was shut down after one

man had a retinal detachment and never regained the sight in one eye.

Another volunteer had conjunctival bleeding and others complained of

being poisoned. In speaking to Dr.Walton about this study, he

replied: We have known for many years that aspartame lowers the

seizure threshold. To combine an anticonvulsive with aspartame to

make seizures more likely is outrageous. Read his report on aspartame

seizures and psychiatric

disorders. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_and_psychiatric_disorders.htm

 

Here is research by Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center,

showing scientific abuse in seizure research and aspartame by

industry. http://www.dorway.com/wurtman2.html

 

Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner, who fought with Dr. Olney

to prevent aspartame approval commented on the Epileptic Foundation

of Mauis study:

 

This study has confirmed that aspartame triggers both seizures and

epilepsy, but this isnt news to me. In 1986 I was the attorney for

the Community Nutrition Institute who petitioned FDA to ban aspartame

for that exact reason. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology surveyed 80 people who experienced seizures after

consuming aspartame. The petition of Community Nutrition Institutes

petition said:

 

These 80 cases meet the FDA's definition of an imminent hazard to

the public health, which requires FDA to expeditiously remove a

product from the market. " His case went all the way to the Supreme

Court and was turned down, which shows the power of the

manufacturers, because how could any Supreme Court Justice who

examined proof that aspartame triggers seizures let it stay on the market.

 

Our Supreme Court is overwhelmed by Big Pharma's influence as shown

by the Court's February decision, Riegel v. Medtronic Inc., barring

lawsuits in state courts that challenge and contest the

safety/effectiveness of medical devices that are FDA

approved. Recently lawmakers have unveiled plans to introduce

legislation in the House and Senate to overturn that decision which

restricts states authority and deprives afflicted patients of any

recourse for damages.

 

Next Big Pharma will attempt to become free of any liability from

dangerous drugs that inflict disability and death on consumers. Of

course this is unconstitutional. Had the FDA banned aspartame in

l986 thousands of aspartame victims would still be

alive. Subsequently FDA listed 92 aspartame symptoms including four

types of seizures, and death, which were tabulated from over 10,000

volunteered consumer complaints.

 

On Maui, a Pacific paradise, over 100 aspartame seizures victims have

died. Multiply that in over 100 countries where aspartame is consumed

in thousands of foods and soft drinks. It should be banned by Codex

to prevent a rampaging scourge as it would multiply in even more countries.

 

FDA list of reactions to aspartame named grand mal seizures, seizures

and convulsions, petit mal seizures, now called absence seizures,

simple partial seizures & complex partial seizures. An imminent

health hazard amendment in October to a 6 year old Citizens

Petition to ban aspartame by Dr. Betty Martini, Founder of Mission

Possible International, has been ignored by the FDA. The FDA is

corrupted by the avalanche of cash paid by the companies it

regulates, over half of FDA funding. Face it, FDA works for Big

Pharma, not citizens. It should immediately ban aspartame, as it

should have done 22 years ago instead of continuing in the hire of

aspartame producers.

 

The Epileptic Foundation of Mauis research shows anti-seizure drugs

contain seizure triggering aspartame which they give to epileptics to

stop seizures. When will this obscene insanity cease.

 

H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP authored the encyclopedic1,000 page

text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic , and has reported on

aspartame seizures for years, as well as drug interaction with

anti-seizure medication. He said:

 

Considering the large body of data pointing to aspartame-induced or

aggravated epilepsy, I regard the virtual total lack of interest

therein as disgraceful. For any who doubt the reality of this

association, I have detailed the clinical and experimental

information in many articles and four texts over the past quarter

century. This issue has been compounded by the addition of aspartame

to a number of drugs used to treat seizures. (www.sunsentpress.com)

 

 

Dr. Kenneth P. Stoller explains:

When large amounts of unopposed phenylalanine (1/3rd of the aspartame

molecule) hits the brain it causes serotonin levels to crash which

lowers seizure threshold, and in many cases causes frank seizures.

This information has been known since the 1970s when the original

research was done on monkeys but kept from the FDA by the then owner

of the patent G. D. Searle. This is why the FDA called the US

attorney to convene a grand jury against Searle. The lawyers

representing Searle then bought the US Attorney who left the case to

his assistant. The Grand Jury was allowed to expire and the

assistant was then hired by the same law firm as his reward for

killing the Grand Jury.

 

 

President, International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc www.hbotnm.com

Medical Director, Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico

 

By law a food additive must be inert, non-reactive. Aspartame is a

chemical poison, an excitoneurotoxic drug that interacts with

virtually all drugs and vaccines. Because it rapidly degrades it

quickly becomes adulterated. Its illegal to ship adulterated products

according to interstate commerce laws. Only by the political clout of

Don Rumsfeld, who was hired as CEO of the Searle Co to get it on the

market, is it now poisoning the

world.

http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

 

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

wrote in Health & Nutrition to save Your Life: " So in the case of

diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain aluminum fluoride

compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus

creating the most powerful government-approved toxic soup

imaginable. " ....He says that drinking even one diet cola a day can

cause formaldehyde buildup in cells, so that the amount of the toxin

increases daily. "

 

 

He also wrote that " phenylalanine is a precursor of the

catecholamine neurotransmitters in the brain and elevated levels in

the brain have been associated with seizures. These catecholamines

are metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide products that

can lead to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation

within neurons.

 

" Likewise aspartic acid, an excitotoxin, acts as an excitatory

neurotransmitter and can lower the seizure threshold making a seizure

more likely. The additive effect of aspartic acid and phenylalanine

would significantly increase the likelihood of a seizure, especially

under hypoglycemic conditions. This would occur if a diet drink is

substituted for a meal, or if one is on a stringent diet. It is well

known that hypoglycemia greatly magnifies the excitotoxic effects of

these ingredients, "

 

Now aspartame even in drugs, the very drugs that are used to treat

the problems aspartame triggers in the first place, like seizures.

 

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

Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners

 

(PS) Now in the news: FDA Told to Skip Black Box on Epilepsy Drugs

and Suicide WSJ

 

Posted by Jacob Goldstein

 

 

Until yesterday, the FDA had been rolling steadily toward

<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/07/08/fda-still-mulling-warning-for-pfizers-ly\

rica/>slapping

a black-box warning on epilepsy drugs because they may increase the

risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

 

But a committee of outside experts convened by the FDA thinks thats a

bad idea. The panel voted 14-4 against the black-box warning

yesterday, with three abstentions,

<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121570692715442899.html>the WSJ reports.

 

The committee members did agree that some risk may be associated with

the drugs. But the panel didn't seem to think that the risk, which

the FDA found by pooling data from many studies, is high enough to

merit a black-box - the most serious warning commonly used for

prescription drugs. Among the medicines reviewed were Pfizers Lyrica,

Abbott Laboratories Depakote and Johnson & Johnsons Topamax.

 

One panel member said the risk appears to be modest. And some worried

that the black-box warning might prevent some patients from taking

the drugs in cases where the benefits of reducing seizures would

outweigh the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

 

The panel did support a more moderate step: Sending a medication

guide to doctors detailing the risks.

 

Suicide risk has been a big issue for the agency with

<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/06/20/fda-got-left-out-on-paxil-risk-documents\

/>other

drugs, so yesterdays vote puts the agency in a bit of an awkward spot

on a very sensitive subject. The FDA isn't required to follow the

advisory committees suggestions, but it usually does so.

__________________________

 

Note the FDA wanted to add a warning label on epileptic drugs because

of suicidal thoughts and behavior.

A panel of experts were convened and told the FDA to skip the black

box warning. Who were the experts, Big Pharma. Is there any

question regarding who is running the FDA? Recently the drug

Singulair was in question because of suicidal tendencies. Even a 7

year old was

suicidal. http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_probes_suicide_in_singulair.htm

Singulair has aspartame in it. The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers

the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin

triggers bipolar, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, anxiety, mood swings,

etc. The FDA is probably still in the " probing " stage, and never

gets any further because they are Big Pharma's Washington Branch Office.