What you Don’t know about Aspartame aka sugar-free
Asparatame is the most common sweetener used in today’s drinks and foods. It is also by far, the most DANGEROUS substance on the market that is added to foods.
Reported by the FDA, aspartame accounts for over 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives. These reactions are serious including seizures and death.
Aspartame also causes: Headaches/migranines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, WEIGHT GAIN, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain and more seriously: brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, parkinson’s disease, alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
How do they Cause Damage?
Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain that helps transfer info from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing too much calcium into the cells. Because of this, tons of free radicals have been made, which kill the cells. The neural cell damage are referred to as “excitotoxins.” They “excite” the neural cells to death.
Aspartic acid is an amino acid. This raises the blood plasma level of aspartate and glutamate by incredible amounts and leads to a high level of those neurotransmitters in certain areas of the brain.
The blood brain barrier (protects the brain from toxins including asparatate and glutamate)
1) is not fully developed during childhood
2) does not fully protect all areas of the brain
3) is damaged by numerous chronic and acute conditions
4) allows seepage of excess glutamate and aspartate into the brain even when intact.
These toxins in excess will slowly DESTROY neurons, which in turn contribute to choronic illnesses as mentioned above.
Methanol=poison=10% of Aspartame
Methanol/wood alcohol is a deadly poison. The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested which is when aspartame is heated above 86 degree F. For example, jello.
This is just a breif summary of a few of the side effects of diet sodas/drinks/ sugar free foods.
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Why does everything that’s awesome have to be bad? I’m gonna go get a Diet Coke :/
I am addicted to the stuff…its the one bad thing in my diet that I have not been able to kick. I’ve got the memory loss, fatigue, anxiety, depression and more….I attributed those symptoms to getting older. I drink at least 6 diet drinks a day.
I’m studying psychology and glutamate plays a key role in addiction.
http://www.cocaine.org/glutamate/addiction.html
Approximately 10% of aspartame (by mass) is broken down into methanol in the small intestine. Most of the methanol is absorbed and quickly converted into formaldehyde and then to formic acid.[81] The metabolism of aspartame does not damage the body because: (a) the quantity of methanol produced is too small to disrupt normal physiological processes;[80] (b) methanol and formaldehyde are natural by-products of human metabolism and are safely processed by various enzymes;[80] (c) there is more methanol in some natural fruit juices and alcoholic beverages than is derived from aspartame ingestion;[80][82] and (d) even large doses of pure methanol have been shown in non-human primate studies to lead to ample accumulation of formic acid (as formate), while no formaldehyde was detected.
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