This is a great article that appeared in my Facebook news feed this morning:
Dr. Joseph Mercola: Aspartame Pathway
This is a great article that appeared in my Facebook news feed this morning:
Dr. Joseph Mercola: Aspartame Pathway
"Methanol acts as a Trojan horse: It's carried into susceptible tissues in your body, like your brain and bone marrow, where the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme converts it into formaldehyde, which wreaks havoc with sensitive proteins and DNA."
Awesome.
Most rat studies on Aspartme involve stupidly high doses of the sweetener, obviously something bad is bound to happen. Articial sweeteners have more safety studies done than ANY supplement you ingest. They have been tested at megadoses with no ill effect.
Here is a fun fact: there is not a single piece of placebo-controlled, double-blind, and randomized trial which demonstrates that 'artificial' sweeteners do, or are even capable of, leading to tangible adverse health effects in humans.
here is a link from the National Cancer Institure about the link between Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer: Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer - National Cancer Institute
Heres a sum up : FDA has completed its review concerning the long-term carcinogenicity study of aspartame entitled, "Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays to Evaluate the Potential Biological Effects, in Particular Carcinogenic, of Aspartame Administered in Feed to Sprague-Dawley Rats," conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF), located in Bologna, Italy. FDA reviewed the study data made available to them by ERF and finds that it does not support ERF's conclusion that aspartame is a carcinogen. Additionally, these data do not provide evidence to alter FDA's conclusion that the use of aspartame is safe."
Dr. Joseph Mercola has been warned many times (by the FDA) over many things, mainly about misleading people. He thinks that AIDS is not directly caused by HIV but rather by physiological stress and claims that AIDS specialists are part of conspiracy theory.
He advises against infant vaccinations and sunblock and that Swine Flu was just scare tactics.
Joseph Mercola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why would you trust his opinion?
I could give a shit less about studies.
Every fucking time I put Aspartame into my system, I feel like total shit. This was before I even knew about how bad it is.
Some artificial sweeteners aren't so bad, but Aspartame? Pure toxic whale shit.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!
The fact that ALL NON-industry-sponsored studies show serious issues, the controversy and potential criminal elements surrounding its approval and fudging of studies, the obvious collusion between government officials and Searle, the fact that the FDA has more adverse reaction complaints on file for aspartame than ANY other food additive in history... this thing is a helluva lot bigger than Joe Mercola.
Making this about Joe Mercola in an attempt to make it look like this stuff is OK is like pointing at GW Bush and the Iraq war as a justification for Benghazi, Fast and Furious and Lybia.
The sum total of data indicating that aspartame is unhealthy far outweighs any corrupt data that states otherwise.
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And who, in God's name, is naive enough to actually trust the FDA to ensure our safety? Money absolutely talks when it comes to this farce of an agency.
Saying the FDA says something is OK almost makes me want to run from it. Just look at how many prescription drugs kill people every year when used correctly, and then look at the barrage of lawsuits that follow, and then the black box warnings years later -- yeah, I can trust those guys to give me a straight answer!
There is controversy surrounding it, that is undeniable. But the studies in rats have shown to work on different mechanisms hence why it has not be deemed unsafe.
I just had to post considering you used Joeseph Mercola as a resource.
Studies on that Aspartme may be considered safe and not carcinogens:
Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on cur... [Crit Rev Toxicol. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI
Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk in a network... [Ann Oncol. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI
Artificial sweeteners--do they bear a carcinogenic... [Ann Oncol. 2004] - PubMed - NCBI
Aspartame: review of safety. [Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2002] - PubMed - NCBI
Aspartame. Review of safety issues. Council on Scientif... [JAMA. 1985] - PubMed - NCBI
Effects of three sweeteners on rat urinary bladder carc... [Gann. 1984] - PubMed - NCBI
Intolerance being behind some adverse reactions
Aspartame intolerance. [Ann Allergy. 1988] - PubMed - NCBI
Last edited by Jiigzz; 03-20-2013 at 08:36 PM.
Just too add on; consider a can of siet soda containing <150mg of aspartme. When broken down into its constituents you get 75mg phenylalanine, 60mg of L-aspartic acid and 15mg of methanol.
In 100g of steak (small serving) contains we get 1100mg of phenylalanine, 2400mg of l-aspartic acid which is far more than the diet soda.
WRT the methanol, a single apple has ~20-25mg of methanol in it, which is more than a can of diet soda.
Funnly enough, noone ever complains about 'reactions' with apples and steaks like they complainn about aspartme.