Aspartame and Seizures, Case History - Permission for publication

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Dear Reigh,

 

It was so nice talking with you and you're on the Mission Possible

list. Reading your letter reminded me when an ambulance came in from

a grocery store where someone had been drinking a diet soda, the

doctor said, " here comes another aspartame seizure " . When I was in

England lecturing in 2000 I remember talking to someone who told me

an employee at a bottling company had a seizure and called the

NutraSweet Company. A man came out and said, " I just want you to

know you're the first one who ever reported a seizure from

aspartame " . He left his folder behind when he left and when the

employee opened it, there were letters from all these people having

seizures on aspartame. Attached to each letter was their form letter

stating " why you're the first person who ever reported a seizure from

aspartame " . Yet, it was the original manufacturer who did the RAO

study, a 52 week oral toxicity study done on 7 infant monkeys. Five

had grand mal seizures and one died and it was used as pivotal in the

approval of aspartame.

* http://www.dorway.com/raoreport.txt

Also read the footnote on this:

http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=776 Here is how aspartame

manufacturers fix the studies on

seizures: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html

Since you have Dr. Roberts medical text you know that anti-seizure

medication interacts with aspartame. In fact, aspartame interacts

with virtually all drugs because of damage to the

mitochondria. Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com

 

My neurologist was telling me the day he met me about a case of a

woman who was having seizures and nothing would help; he tried every

anti-seizure medication there was. I advised him all anti-seizure

medication interacts. One day he was at the hospital seeing her

and she had a case of diet pop by her bed. He asked her if she was

having a party and she said " no, she drinks a case a day " . He said,

" no wonder you have seizures you have to get off of it " . She did but

she went crazy and he had to admit her to a mental

hospital. However, after two weeks she was fine and never had

another seizure.

 

I don't know if you know this but aspartame causes polychemical

sensitivity syndrome, same as multichemical sensitivity syndrome so

if you accidently get some aspartame as you did you will immediately

react seriously. I know you know not to use any processed food,

especially if it says " artificial and natural flavors " . You do have

to be careful in restaurants. We once took someone to dinner who was

an aspartame victim and I asked the waiter about the desserts and if

there were any additives. The waiter said, " we make them from

scratch, absolutely we would not use aspartame " . So she got a

dessert and almost had a heart attack. You know it damages it

triggers an irregular heart rhythm, interacts with cardiac

medication, damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden

death. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm When I called them

they checked and found out one of the ingredients had aspartame in

it. Dr. Russell Blaylock once said in a lecture: " Understand the

reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and

cyanide. " Just a dab of arsenic will do it in someone chemically

hypersensitive. www.russellblaylockmd.com

 

I've typed in your case you sent me and putting it on the lists with

permission to publish, as a warning to others as you said I

could. I'm also putting in the mail to you one of the Artificially

Sweetened Times, the brochures we give out for

distribution. www.idaho-observer.com Or you can call them at 208

255-2307. I would suggest you give them to others as a warning with

a copy of your case history. I hope you have information on

aspartame in your books. You can use information from the web sites below.

 

I'm glad you have Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,

www.soundandfury.tv I would suggest when you get people together

that you show it. There is a safe sweetener, Just Like Sugar, which

you can get on line, www.justlikesugarinc.com After it was analyzed

Dr. Blaylock wrote in his newsletter, the Blaylock Wellness Report,

" finally a safe sweetener " . No additives, just chicory, orange peel,

Vitamin C and Calcium. You can get it also in most Whole Foods.

 

Aspartame is genetically engineered . Here is what Dr. Bill Deagle

said: " Most people when asked how aspartame is made do not have the

first step of understanding. While an E.R. doctor and primary care

physician in Augusta, Georgia in 1987 and 1988, I was told a number

of interesting facts about the adjacent aspartame factory. Bacteria

with geneses inserted generate a sludge which is centrifuged to

remove the aspartame and many hundreds of contaminant organic and

amino acids are present. We were told not to report illness or

worker's compensation issues for fear of being fired by the hospital,

now the Augusta Regional Medical Center. Many of their employees

presented with psychiatric, neuropathy conditions, chronic fatigue

and organic cases of loss of cognitive function. This powder from

the dried sludge was then transported for packaging in factories

elsewhere in the US, before sale as Equal and now the myriad of names

of this neurotoxin. " We call aspartame " Nastytame " or " Nastyshame " !

 

Thank you for all you do to warn others.

 

All my best,

Betty

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

 

 

Dear Dr. Martini:

 

I pray that everyone takes in your research and wisdom regarding the

dreaded aspartame that is so wide spread. As a nutritionist of many

years, one would presume I was forewarned and forearmed. However, I

had two terrible experiences with this dreaded additive! Both

situations basically involved a restaurant.

 

The first incident was in 1988. Even though I was eating as well as

possible there were several slips of adding NutraSweet to my

teas. Within a minute or two, I went into a terrible Jacksonian

(rare) seizure; and was quickly followed by a Grand Mal Seizure

(never experienced before). My husband and others related that I

turned a shear gray. An ambulance was summoned and I promptly went

into another seizure along with some life saving techniques. Now,

for the hospital, I seizured off and on for six hours. Tests were

run with zero results. Next, two neurologists were flown in from

Flagstaff and I was put in the I.C.U. for observation. From there, I

was in a regular room with a roommate as bewildered as myself. The

seizures lightened throughout the next seven days; and predictably I

was placed on seizure medicine! The next couple of weeks remain

hazy. As a fairly new wife at that time, I'm almost certain that it

was bewildering to say the last, to my husband, as well.

 

The second fiasco was here in Minnesota on a Saturday night. My

husband ordered an Italian meal from a so-called nice restaurant. It

was tasty for an infrequent treat. However, I lost again. This

time, I had progressive tremors and was taken to the hospital for a

four-day stay. Upon return to my home, I was given Carbidopa several

times a day for the onset of Parkinson's Disease.

 

I am now gingerly going off this medicine. A call to the restaurant

gave me the ingredients of the meal. Besides a heavy dose of

aspartame, MSG, salt, sugar, etc. Now, as predicted, my home with

" safe foods " is become my favorite place to eat. I'm almost seventy

years of age; and am finishing up my second book. Because of my

mentor, Dr. H. G. Bieler, author of Food is Your BestMedicine, I am

always searching for the truth some thirty odd years later. Besides

scourging everywhere for additives being added without our knowledge,

I have had the joy of serving 20,000 people throughout the years!

 

I have a wonderful track record with God's help to give out

individual diets. Why mass diets exist is almost as scary as

aspartame; and its horrid " relatives " .

 

Your research, Betty, has been tops! Dr. Roberts' book and other

DVD's are such a relief. I do not keep these ugly additives a secret.

 

My telephone number is 507-510-0101. Computers are my short

suit. My email is AuntyReigh. My website is

www.InternationalDietCare.com.

 

Bless you for all of your help!!!

 

Sincerely,

Reigh Parker-Burch (Ferguson)

Nutritionist/Author