- If you wonder why so many children have ADD, it's because
aspartame destroys the brain - especially in the area of learning. This
is a study from Norway in 2001.
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- Abstract:
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- Introduction: Aspartame (ASM) is a product that
was originally made for diabetics, but today ASM is widely used by healthy
people as artificial sweetener in many food products.
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- Purpose: The main goal with this research was to
see whether ASM was harmful to brain cells (cerebellar granule cells).
We wanted to check if the damage to the neurons are connected to the N-methyl-D-aspartate
(NMDA)-receptors on these cells. Procedure: Brain cells from 7 day old
mice were used. They were cultured in 24 well dishes and different quantities
of ASM were added. After 7 days the cultures were analysed by two different
tests: Lactate dehydrogenases (LDH) test, which gives a picture of cell
death (LDH leakage to the medium in which the cells were cultured). 3[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium
bromid (MIT) test, which can be used to analyse mitochondrial activity
in living cells. To test whether the NMDAreceptor was involved in
the damage done by ASM, the receptor was blocked by (±)2-amino-5
phosphonopentanocid (AP5).
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- Results: Our results showed damage/cell death from
an added quantity of 0,06 mg/ml ASM each day for 4 days. As a comparison
there is 0,24 mg/rnl ASM in Cola light MTT- and LDH-tests showed damage
to the neurons at an added quantity of 1.5 and 3.00 mg/ml ASM after 22
hours of incubation. The results also show that ASM is in part acting through
the NMDA-receptor because AP5 reduced or blocked the damage to the granule
cells.
- Conclusion: In light of these results our conclusion
is that in order to be on the safe side it should be warned against use
of ASM as a food additive, maybe especially in products consumed by children,
because NMDA-receptors and the synapses involved also are connected to
learning.
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- Elisabeth Hetle og Arnstein Eltervaag HOVedonneave 2001
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