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Killing Me Softly…

I just finished reading an article about Excitotoxins.

Several of these excitotoxins are man-made and used as research tools, others are found in nature, such as glutamate, aspartate and cysteine, all are amino acids and serve as neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers for the synaptic transfer of information in the brain. Glutamate and aspartate are two of the most common neurotransmitters found in the brain and spinal cord. However, when their concentrations rise above a critical level they can become deadly toxins to the neurons (brain cells) and to all the nerve cells connected to these neurons. The brain is equipped to handle and balance these naturally occurring amino acids from food sources. However, when high concentrations of these isolated excitotoxins are put into the bloodstream via food additives it is a seriously different situation. When the neurons are exposed to these substances, they become very excited and fire their impulses rapidly and repeatedly until they reach an extreme state of exhaustion; within hours these neurons die, as if “excited to death”. Thus neuroscientists dubbed this class of chemicals “excitotoxins”. They affect a specific type of neurons and cause widespread destruction of neurons in the retina of the eye, the hypothalamus, and the circumventricular organs. These are areas of the brain which control hormones, growth, the onset of puberty and many other important endocrine functions. This damage is cumulative in effect.

Why are they being added? Primarily to boost sales for food industry giants by enhancing the taste of a myriad of products, many of which are targeted for marketing to children. The snack food aisle abounds with excitotoxic chemicals, as do the canned fun-shaped pastas, soups, sugar-free soft drinks, and even baby foods and infant formulas. This group of chemicals stimulate the taste receptors on the tongue, thereby enhancing the taste of the foods to which they are added.

The article goes on to have this little anecdote about the author’s sister…

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick…she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughters name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19th I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine E-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment… I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda !!! I E-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!!!! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind…

In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda… and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery .. and she is walking!!! No wheelchair!!! This article saved her life

If it says “SUGAR FREE” on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on “ASPARTAME,” marketed as ‘NutraSweet,’ ‘Equal,’ and ‘Spoonful.’ In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence.. methanol toxicity is!

Effectively, the aspartame is heated up in your body and turns to formaldehyde. Ugh. The article says that Aspartamewill cause you to suffer certain symptoms, which in turn will let you know you’re slowly being poisoned. Such symptoms include: fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss. The biggest culprit seems to be diet sodas.

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

The author goes on to say that once his clients are free of the “diet” products without any increase in exercise, most patients lost an average of 19 pounds. So the diet products actually make you store fat in the cells because of the formaldehyde, which isn’t mean to be stored in our bodies… just to preserve them.

He also says that the aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics.

The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage.

Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics, as well.

Finally, documentation and observation reveals that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and AHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called “behavior modification prescription drugs” (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.

Anyhow, whether you believe him or not is up to you. But an interesting article nonetheless.

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