Aspartame Interacts With ALL Drugs Vaccines And
Toxins FDA Put On Notice
From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. - Bettym19@mindspring.com - 23 February
2005
Who knows more about the toxicity of aspartame than the FDA. Their
toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett strenuously
objected to aspartame approval for 16 years. It wasn't just that
aspartame is not safe and in original studies triggered brain tumors,
seizures and all sorts of other tumors, it was that the manufacturer
filtered out what they didn't want FDA to see.
(January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard
Merrill recommended to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury
investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.331(e), Act 18 USC 1001, for
"their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food
and Drug Administration required by the Act 21, U.S.C. 355 (i) and
for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports
of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame),"
The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect
of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters. ) Both U.S. Prosecutors hired
on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired.
Still the FDA kept saying loudly no - no - no!
FDA's Jerome Bressler wrote the brilliant FDA audit, the Bressler
Report on http://www.dorway.com in regard to Searle's testing. In
speaking with Bressler he told me personally the studies were so
bad the worst 20% was removed by FDA when retyped. He also told
this to Doctors H. J. Roberts and Dr. Russell Blaylock. Dr. Roberts
asked his congressman to get the rest of the report from the FDA
who promptly refused.
In the incredible aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery, A Poisoned
World, from the very mouth of Attorney James Turner who assisted
the famed Dr. John Olney in trying to prevent approval came mind
boggling facts! Don Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defense, was
CEO of Searle and said he would call in his markers and get aspartame
approved. To Rumsfeld the fact the FDA said "no" meant
only he would have to use politics instead of science to get this
neurotoxin approved, knowing full well it would poison the public,
causing in humans the injuries seen in lab animals, brain tumors
and seizures. He was on Reagan's transition team and the day after
Reagan took office Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed to approve this
toxin, since no former FDA Commissioner had been willing to do so.
ASPARTAME WAS APPROVED BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER
President Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to FDA
so he wrote an executive order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner
powerless to oppose aspartame. From the congressional record, Senate,
page S5497, May 7, l985:
"Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes
was determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that
the Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era.
One official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes' level
says the "people at the top" were not receptive to important
concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key
tests submitted in support of aspartame."
"There were real questions" about the reliability and
interpretation of the data "that were glossed over" at
the commissioner's level, this official says, adding that Hayes
and his close associates wanted FDA scientists to concentrate on
providing rationales for overturning the l980 Public Board of Inquiry
instead of focusing on the fact that there were unresolved issues
about a number of key tests."
John Hoey, M.D. in reviewing Marcia Angell's book, "The Truth
About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About
It" (10/7/2004) says:
"By Angell's account, the current slide toward the commercialization
and corruption of clinical research coincided with the election
of President Ronald Reagan in l980 and the passage of the Bayh-Dole
Act, a new set of laws that permitted and encouraged universities
and small businesses to patent discoveries from research sponsored
by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research paid for by
the public to serve the public instantly became a private and salable,
good, one that is producing drug sales of more than $200 billion
a year."
Further, Dr. Hoey in discussing research commercialization said:
"The broader effects are felt in the commercialization of universities,
medical faculties, and our profession. In 2000, in a letter written
in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is Academic Medicine
for Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: No. The current owner
is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of industry into
medical education and the almost complete domination of continuing
medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing
departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal."
When Arthur Hull Hayes got to the FDA a Board of Inquiry was set
up with the finest scientists FDA had. They declared: " ..the
Board concludes that approval of aspartame for use in foods should
be withheld at least until the question concerning its possible
oncogenic potential has been resolved by further experiments. The
Board has not been presented with proof of a reasonable certainty
that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive under its intended
conditions of use. "
"ORDER: The foregoing constitutes the Board's findings of fact
and conclusions of law. Therefore, it is ORDERED that: (1) Approval
of the food additive petition for aspartame (FAP 3A2885) be and
it is hereby withdrawn. (2) The stay of the effectiveness of the
regulation for aspartame, 21 CFR 172.804, is hereby vacated and
the regulation revoked."
--- This PBOI report on 9/3/80 was signed by Walle J. H. Nauta,
M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Peter W. Lampert, M.D., and Vernon R. Young,
Ph.D., Member
Dr. Hayes wouldn't take "no" because he was there to get
aspartame approved. As the Congressional Record continues, Senate,
S5497, May 7, l985: "Hayes decisions to approve aspartame for
use in dry foods such as cereals in l981 and soft drinks in l983
does not square with the role of the FDA is supposed to play. The
FDA is the government agency that reviews and approves all tests
submitted by companies before allowing food additives on the market.
The law requires a manufacturer - in this case Searle - to prove
to the satisfaction of the FDA that there is a "reasonable
certainty" that a food additive is safe. The government does
not have to prove that it is harmful - an important distinction.
If tests are inconclusive, an additive is not suppose to be approved
by the FDA."
When Hayes finished his job to get a neurotoxic drug on the market
he hired on with the public relations firm, Burston Marsteller,
who represented NutraSweet, for $1000.00 per day as a consultant.
Hayes refused to talk to the press since. He had no excuse for approving
a toxic drug whose petition was revoked by FDA scientists. Hayes
had full knowledge that its a carcinogen in violation of the Delaney
Amendment which forbid adding carcinogens to food and drugs.
WHEN FDA WAS PUSHED OFF ITS PEDESTAL: Imagine an intact FDA which
tried to do its job of protecting the public, having to proclaim
that a horrendous neurotoxic drug is safe. Would could FDA say when
asked if aspartame was safe? Could they say "we approved it
but its poison"? Probably the only thing they could say was
"Ask us no questions and we will tell you no lies." Even
today when journalists ask the FDA to comment on aspartame they
say: "No comment. See our web site." The web site is just
lying industry propaganda. Beginning with Reagan and Hayes the pharmaceutical
cartel had the power to get approved the worst drugs. FDA seemed
to care not. Their bulletin, the FDA Consumer continued to tout
the safety of aspartame and letters to victims whose lives were
destroyed said aspartame was the most tested additive in history.
Even letters to congressmen lied and lied.
Dr. John Olney knew what aspartame would do to the brains of our
children. and discussed it in his report to the Board of Inquiry.
In l999 Parents Magazine asked "What's Happening to our Children",
announcing that families all over America were experiencing so much
depression it was estimated that 1 out of 4 had contemplated suicide.
The 50% phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold
and depletes serotonin,and can trigger bipolar or manic depression,
mood swings, paranoia, hallucination and suicidal tendencies. So
our children are medicated instead of educated. Seventy per cent
of consumers use aspartame and 40% of the children. Dr. Olney's
prophecy is fulfilled.
To get a copy of the congressional record, Board of Inquiry Report
and Dr. Olney's Report to the Board of Inquiry on CD you can contact
Bob Flint at bobflint@greatfallspro.com. The web site would be www.greatfallspro.com
Three congressional hearings were held by Senator Howard Metzenbaum
who wrote a bill to have independent studies done on the problems
from aspartame, effect on the fetus, behavioral problems in children,
seizures and drug interactions. The producers saw to it that the
bill never got out of committee. The last of the heros of FDA toxicologists
Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett testified to no avail. Dr. Adrian
Gross said without a shadow of a doubt aspartame causes brain tumors
and brain cancer, and violates the Delaney Amendment. His last words
were : "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to
protect the public?"
We are now taking case histories on brain tumors and seizures starting
in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Verrett said: "All studies
were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out."
Today's FDA is the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical/chemical cartel.
The revolving door is so busy they need a bridge for the traffic.
I told all this to Acting Commissioner Dr. Michael Friedman. He
defended Monsanto on 60 Minutes when Dr. Olney made world news about
the aspartame brain tumor association. Then Friedman hired as Vice
President of Searle for big bucks - crime pays well.
In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned
FDA to ban aspartame because so many were having seizures and going
blind from the free methyl alcohol in the drug. Aspartame is sold
as an additive but it's a neurotoxic drug. FDA law requires an additive
be inert or non-reactive. The medical text on aspartame disease
lists countless diseases and symptoms and drug interactions by the
toxin.
ASPARTAME DISEASE RAGES, INTERACTS WITH ALL DRUGS, VACCINES AND
TOXINS.
When aspartame was news, Dr. H. J. Roberts in a press conference
foretold that in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague. And
it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global
plague and published the medical text in 2001, Aspartame Disease:
An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991.
His chapter on drug interaction goes into Coumadin, Dilantin, antidepressants
and other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet, hormones and insulin.
He says aspartame interacts with all cardiac medication and even
discusses drug reactions after the cessation of aspartame.
In his general considerations he discusses that aspartame may either
reduce or potentiate drug action by various mechanisms. He lists
a few of the possibilities.
* Alteration of the blood proteins to which drugs attach.
* Alteration of drug receptors on cell membranes.
* Changes in the sites at which impulses are transmitted along nerves
and to muscle.
* Metabolic abnormalities in the elderly that are known to enhance
their vulnerability to drug reactions (Weber l986). This problem
increases in the case of persons taking multiple drugs ("polypharmacy")
prescribed by several physicians.
* Interference with drug action by amino acids and protein. An example
is the erratic therapeutic effects when patients with parkinsonism
who were controlled on levodopa began to use aspartame products.
The antagonism of levodopa by dietary protein presumably reflects
impaired transport from serum across the blood brain barrier by
neutral amino acids (Pincus l986).
Dr. Roberts also discusses Lidocaine (Xylocaine) which he says is
an important drug used for local anesthesia and the treatment of
ventricular arrhythmias in intensive care units. Alterations of
its pharmacology by aspartame require study. He says: "Kim
et al (l987) reported that the intraperitoneal administration of
aspartame significantly reduced the 50% convulsion dose of lidocaine.
They indicated that PKU patients and asymptomatic PKU heterozygotes
may be more sensitive to the toxic effects of this and related local
anesthetics."
Today Dr. Roberts explained: "An interaction should be suspect
with virtually every drug if the patient is using aspartame."
This goes along with conversations with Dr. James Bowen who says
because aspartame damages the mitocondria of the cell it will interact
with all drugs and as a chemical hypersensitization agent will interact
with vaccines, unsafe sweeteners like Splenda or sucralose ( chlorinated
hydrocarbon) and toxins.
Dr. Bowen wrote about the biochemical interactions between aspartame
and other poisons including many pharmaceuticals illustrated in
Dr. Roberts medical text and said Dr. Mercola's web site has them
as well. Further he wrote: "Because aspartame in the processes
of digestion and metabolism, forms about ten other known severe
poisonings, and intermediate metabolites, it's potential for drug
related interactions is immeasurable. To top that off, the aspartame
molecule is so heinously poisonous in different ways that it never
passed a single FDA standard toxicity test! So Donald Rumsfeld,
CEO of aspartame manufacturer Searle employed political power to
get it approved, after the FDA for 16 years refused to allow it
on the market because of aspartame toxicity. Then Reagan took direct
executive measures to paralyze FDA from further action against aspartame.
Our FDA has never been the same since. Deadly chemicals now being
blessed by FDA are marketed as wholesome pharmaceuticals, are just
the tip of the iceberg, and result of Rumsfeld's damage to FDA.
If any concern whatsoever for human welfare still existed, aspartame
would be immediately pulled from the market! The reasonable FDA
lawful standard is that a chemical must pass all toxicity tests
at one hundred times the "maximum human dose," in order
to pass as a food additive. What the original tests showed is that
at a dose of three cans of pop per day, scaled to the weight of
the animal, aspartame releases DKP, a recognized virulent brain
carcinogen. No other chemical causes the brain cancer rate to jump
as much."
Dr. Bowen continues, "Aspartame is a known destroyer of DNA.
The mitocondrial DNA (MtDNA) is especially damaged, yielding the
present epidemic of diseases aspartame consuming mothers pass on
to all future generations. Aspartame also directly damages the mitochondria,
thus having a "double whammy" effect on mitochondrial
function! The summation of these many known severe toxicities and
its immune, genetic, mitochondrial, and metabolic damages, make
clear that aspartame will not only cause many diseases, which the
FDA and CDC have already noted but it has pathways of approach to
interact adversely with every conceivable pharmaceutical. My forth
coming book: "Sweet Mystery in The Present Darkness: Whatever
Happened to We Scientists Who First Spoke Out Against Aspartame?"
will delve into all of this in greater detail and more specificity."
The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste wrote in the spring
of l996 the article: "The Rising Rates of Health Problems -
Is There A Toxic Connection? Stephen Lester.
It might as well have been written about aspartame because the diseases
it lists are all ones that have been written about as triggered
by aspartame, from birth defects to chemical sensitives. Under the
title Cancer Lester says:
"When has gone wrong with our way of thinking when it is considered
"normal" that 1 in 3 people get cancer? IT IS NOT NORMAL..
Cancer is not a natural disease and even if it were, it wouldn't
be "normal" for cancer to claim the lives of 25% of the
population. " Again, one can only think of aspartame when in
original studies it triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian,
testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors and violated the Delaney
Amendment. The Pharmaceutical and Chemical cartel know aspartame
violates the law, so one would ask is that why the Delaney Amendment
was repealed? When a law for the safety of the public gets in their
way of marking poison they simply do away with the law.
In June it will be 3 years since I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame
because I have the FDA records and they lie to the public. The law
states they have 180 days to answer. Their letter to me states they
have more important things to do. So the FDA continues to recall
drugs that interact and leave the poison aspartame on the market.
Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with
all cardiac Rx. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes
sudden death. With people dropping dead so fast that defibrillators
are now sold over the counter, they took the opportunity to pull
ephedra (Chinese MaHaung )off the market when an athlete died who
was using Diet coke. Dr. John Olney reviewed the FDA records on
ephedra and found it to be safe. One attorney said, "it wasn't
Chinese Mahaung at all, but the drug that caused some problems."
So what does the FDA do, leave the drug on the market causing the
problems and snatches a safe supplement in their continuing loyalty
to the pharmaceutical cartel.
MSG has an additive and synergistic effect with aspartame. Is that
why the glutamate industry used aspartame as their placebo, so they
could show that one excitotoxin does not react more than the placebo
when, in fact, the aspartic acid in aspartame is also an excitotoxin.
They started doing this before aspartame was approved, so it was
well known in the industry that aspartame would react. The records
found in the FDA files by Jack Samuels (www.truthinlabeling.org)
who filed suit against the FDA on labeling of MSG, showed the FDA
had known all along and the industry had been doing this for 25
years against the law. While the FDA had to admit it was wrong they
did nothing, again giving their loyalty the glutamate industry.
One can only remember the words of Dr. James Bowen to the FDA over
18 years ago: "Aspartame is mass poisoning of the American
public and over 70+ countries of the world". What does it take
to save the people from this poison when government lies?
Dr. John Hoey, writing about the book The Truth About the Drug Companies
says according to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
of America, the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. trade association
has "the largest lobby in Washington," which in 2002 employed
675 lobbyists (including 26 former members of Congress) at a cost
of more than $91 million. The result has been above-average growth
in corporate profits during both Republican and Democratic administrations.
The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress explicitly
to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power to get
lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in the
form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate
coffers. These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) in l997 that permitted direct-to-consumer advertising
to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most serious side
effects, have further augmented profits. The overall effect has
been a corruption not only of science but also of the dissemination
of Science." No wonder new books keep being published like
Dr. Carolyn Dean's "Death of Medicine".
Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible Intl
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com
New Aspartame Information List - click on banner on www.wnho.net
Books on aspartame, including medical text, Aspartame Disease: An
Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991 by H. J.
Roberts, M.D.
Books on aspartame by Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com
Movie on aspartame - contact cori@soundandfuryproductions.com
Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
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