- Dear Leslie,
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- Parkinson's Disease is an insufficiency of dopamine.
And this is what aspartame does, changes the dopamine level of the brain.
It is detailed in these medical books:
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- Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, and Defense Against
Alzheimers Disease by H. J. Roberts, M.D. www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800
827 7991
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- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock, M.D. www.russellblaylockmd.com
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- Also, there is an excitotoxin in aspartame, a product
that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain
damage. This is aspartic acid and it seeps in the brain between the third
and fourth ventricle where Parkinson's, Lou Gehrigs, MS, etc. would be
most prominent. Dr James Bowen discussed that in a post you will find
on the www.wnho.net web site Click on aspartame, and look for the posts
on sudden death and the case for Lou Gehrigs. Also information on www.dorway.com
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- I agree with you that smoking is bad for you. I lost
both my parents to smoking. It sure doesn't help Michael Fox. But he
is definitely addicted to Diet Pepsi according to informants and this would
also interact with Parkinson's drugs like L-dopa.
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- Incidentally, Dr. Blaylock's father died from Parkinson's
and that's why he wrote the book.
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- All my best,
- Betty
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- Leslie Bell wrote:
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- http://www.rense.com/general21/parkinsonFox.htm
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- Michael J. Fox got Parkinson's at his early age because
Parkinson's IS nictonine posioning... this 5'5" man has been chainsmoking
since he was 8 years old, and is still chainsmoking. His mother laughs
about it.
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- Even more horrible... ex-smokers who once posioned themselves
decades ago with nicotine will be getting Parkinsons. If you live long
enough and are a heavy smoker, it is inevitable. You will develop the disease.
Nicotine wears out and eventually kills the dopamine receptors in the brain
that causes Parkinsons.
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- My roomate's father suffers from the disease, and he
gave up smoking pipes IN THE EARLY 60's because his doctor ordered him
to after he developed ACUTE NICOTINE POSIONING.
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- ALL my parents' friends that smoked got Parkinsons...
every last one of them, except for my father, who died in '72 at 54 of
a massive coronary directly resulting from his 4-5 pack a day habit.
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- YOU WILL NOT FIND Parkisnons' in anyone who did not grow
up in a smoking household, a household that burned candles, or had a well-used
fireplace.
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- Back in the days of coal-burning stoves, women got cancer
and Parkinson's from cooking smoke exposure. FIRE DOES NOT BELONG INDOORS,
FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME.
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- Unless you're suicidal and desire a horrible, painful
death. Pray it's a coronary... infinitely preferable to Parkinsons', lung
cancer, or emphesyma, although temporarily more excrutiating.
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- Leslie Bell
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- From Leslie Bell
- 1-5-4
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- Dear Betty -
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- My point is you're going to find millions of people that
have Parkinson's that never used Aspartame, while you won't find any of
them not exposed to environmental indoor smoke. What about all the victims
before Nutrasweet was deployed? (Yes, I feel it is a bioweapon.)
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- I'm not disputing that nutrasweet is not also a contributing
factor, and it might actually be the only factor if Parkinson's starts
showing up in nonsmokers and people not exposed to indoor environmental
smoke (precious few people in this world.)
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- While Parkinson's victims smoke, howerver, I'm inclined
to blame nicotine damage. And the reason it doesn't show up is because
the tobacco comapnies are well aware of it and spend billions of dollars
to fund studies that "prove" otherwise. I think the mechanism
of the damage will be found to be similar.
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- I'm no fan of nutrasweet... I stopped using it decades
ago when I realized I was getting excrutiating withdrawal headaches the
day after I used it, unless I used it again (similar to caffeine, only
much stronger, and it happened even with caffeine free diet coke.) Because
of these headaches and other hidden symtoms, nutrasweet is at least as
addicting as caffeine.
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- Thanks!
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- Leslie Bell :)
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- From Dr. Betty Martini
- 1-5-4
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- Dear Leslie,
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- As pointed out by Dr. Blaylock there can be several elements
that trigger Parkinson's. So to say Parkinson's Disease was around before
NutraSweet is like saying Parkinson's can only be caused by one thing.
It just happens that aspartame can precipitate the disease. And be assured
Dr. Blaylock does his own research and knows the difference between such
things as drug funded and corporate neutral independent research. As
I mentioned he has a special interest in it because his father died of
Parkinson's.
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- He says in his book that "glutamate, amphetamines
and other excitotoxins may produce Parkinson's by overexciting the cortical
glutamate cells that connect to the nigrostriatal neurons lying deep in
the brain." This is true of aspartame as well. He says further,
"It is sort of like lightning hitting the power line outside your
house and burning up all of the appliances connected to that line. The
powerline represents the cortical glutamate neurons and the appliances,
the nigrostriatal system."
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- The points Dr. Blaylock brings out are these:
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- 1. Parkinson's Disease is a disorder who's cause appears
from substantial evidence, to be related to excitotoxicity. These toxins
destroy the cells in the brain central to this disease.
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- 2. Excitotoxins cause these brain cells to generate
enormous amounts of free radicals. This is true of MSG and aspartic acid
(aspartame).
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- 3. There is substantial circumstantial evidence that
dietary excitotoxins, including aspartame, can aggravate these destructive
changes in the Parkinson's brain.
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- 4. The additional toxins - DKP, aspartate, methanol,
formaldehyde and formic acid - add to this injury.
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- 5. Recent evidence demonstrates that aspartame products,
formaldehyde - accumulates within cells and damages proteins and DNA.
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- Dr. James Bowen wrote that "Many NutraSweet victims
report Parkinsonian symptoms. This should be no surprise because every
biochemical component of the aspartame molecule is implicated in producing
Parkinsonian structural damage and creating a biochemical basis for Parkinsonian
symptoms. Aspartame is a source of methyl alcohol. Experts in neurodegenerative
disease from alcoholism recognize that methyl alcohol is the component
of beverage alcohol that causes neurodegenerative disease in Parkinson's
Disease in alcoholics. Beverage alcohol is grain alcohol or ethyl alcohol.
However, methyl alcohol is also present in very small amounts, although
present only in trace amounts in alcoholic beverages. It is the factor
that produces the neurodegeneration. Methyl alcohol accomplishes this
even though the ethyl alcohol serves as a protective factor. Aspartame
on the other hand affords no such protection and the structural components
of the molecule are so arranged that the methyl alcohol from aspartame
is probably 500 to 5000 times more active in producing toxicity than it
would be alone. "
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- Dr. Bowen also wrote that the structural damage in the
basal areas of the brain where Parkinson Disease structural damage occurs
from the dicarboxylic amino acid neuroexcitotoxins is a problem long recognized.
So aspartic acid even in and by itself is a recognized source of the damage
to the basal ganglia where Parkinson Disease degeneration occurs. As in
the case with methyl alcohol the molecule structure of the aspartame molecule
probably makes the aspartic acid damage from aspartame 5000 times more
potent than from free aspartic acid on a mg. per mg. basis. The brain
with loss of neural tissue to produce the dopamine, a neurotransmitter
necessary to let the brain circuitry function normally, is no longer producing
dopamine in sufficient amounts in these structures. The metabolic impact
of the phenylalanine isolate from aspartame is to remarkably decrease dopamine
production thus making Parkinson symptoms much worse".
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- "The phenylalanine isolate out competes all other
amino acids at enzyme sites in the brain. this includes the decarboxylase
enzyme sites. Therefore, the amino acid tyrosine is not decarboxylated
to tramine which is the first step in producing dopamine in the brain.
therefore, the brain dopamine levels plummet remarkably. "
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- "Michael Fox has reportedly used L-Dopa to try and
increase his dopamine levels. The use of aspartame completely defeats
this therapeutic endeavor. Not to mention the fact that it caused the
degenerative disease called Parkinson's Disease in the first place. The
destructive process will continue as long as he uses it. "
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- Whereas this may be a bit technical it explains how aspartame
can precipitate Parkinson's Disease from two physicians who are experts.
Dr.H. J. Roberts has written about it as well.
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- I hope this helps.
- Betty
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