GLOBAL RELEASE - ASPARTAME TOXICITY
Forwarded by Diana Buckland
by request of Dr. Betty Martini
PLEASE NOTE: This matter is regarding ABC Australia NOT ABC
Original Message
From: Dr. Betty Martini mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:03 PM
To: legal@your.abc.net.au
Subject: To ABC about Dr. Karl's propaganda attempting to convince
Australians the aspartame toxicity issue is a hoax
I am writing because ABC says that they will stand behind Dr. Karl and
this is regardless of the fact that not only is his information untrue but can
easily be proven to be false. First of all, obviously I know if I have lectured
for the World Environmental Conference. My invitation to speak is on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html The full story is there as well under Update
World Environmental Conference.
This came about because a post I had written to a group of neurosurgeons
was picked up by a Nancy Markle. She changed the title and put her name on it.
A global networker by the name of Shoshanna Allison saw it and because her
husband was a victim (lupus, seizures, mood swings, etc.) placed it on 450 global
networks to warn the world. Her efforts saved so many thousands of people that
four support groups were set up for the sick and disabled. Today Aspartame
Detoxification Centers are in the
As a Legal Department, I don't have to tell you the power of the Pharmaceutical
Industry. They get what they want because they have a bottomless checkbook
(chequebook). In the case of aspartame, it was beyond not just being safe, the
FDA actually wanted the original manufacturer to be indicted for fraud. Both U.S.
Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon, hired on with the defense team
and the statute of limitations expired. Let's face it, when the District Attorney
goes to work for the Godfather, expect acquittal. The Bressler Report, the FDA
Audit, on www.dorway.com explains some of the things that Searle did. Understand,
if you have a deadly chemical poison and you're trying to do studies to show safety,
it can't be done unless the studies are fixed. Aspartame breaks down to a brain
tumor agent, DKP, so when the rats developed brain tumors Searle would excise
the tumors, then put the rats back in the study.
When they died they would resurrect them on paper as the report points out.
I spoke with Jerome Bressler and thanked him for his report at which point he
told me that the studies were so bad that when the FDA retyped his report they
left out 20% of the worst part he had written. He also told this to Doctors H. J.
Roberts, and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock. Dr. Roberts had his Congressman
demand the information from the FDA but they refused.
Originally Dr. John Olney, one of the most renowned neuroscientists on the
planet today, did studies on aspartic acid (l970) which is 40% of aspartame and
found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He founded the field of neuroscience
called excitotoxicity. Dr. Blaylock wrote the book on it, Excitotoxins: The Taste
That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com An excitotoxin is a product that literally
stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying
degrees. Dr. Olney with the help of James Turner, Attorney in
The FDA refused to allow aspartame on the market for 16 years. But Don
Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle and said he would call in
his markers and get it approved regardless of the fact the FDA said it was not safe
and caused braintumors. I might mention it also triggered mammary, uterine,
testicular, pancreatic and thyroid tumors, for starters. The FDA's own toxicologist,
Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment
because without a shadow of a doubt aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain
cancer. The Delaney Amendment forbids placing anything in food you know will
cause cancer.
The other FDA toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, told Congress all studies on
aspartame were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out. It was like
trying to do studies on arsenic and show it to be safe and they couldn't do it. In fact,
aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent and interacts with vaccines and
other toxins.
The FDA's own report shows 92 documented symptoms triggered by aspartame from
4 types of seizures to coma and death. Dr. Blaylock has a lecture on www.dorway.com
where he says to understand that the reactions to aspartame are not allergic reactions
– but toxic like arsenic and cyanide.
Don Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team. The day he took office
he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to approve aspartame.
But Reagan knew it would take about 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA and in the
meantime the current FDA Commissioner could put an end to aspartame. So talk
about political clout - Reagan wrote an executive order making the current FDA
Commissioner powerless to do anything about aspartame. When Hayes got to the
FDA he over-ruled the Board of Inquiry of the best scientists the FDA had to offer
who said aspartame is not safe, caused brain tumors and the petition is revoked.
That's how aspartame got on the market. Now if you want proof of this and you
want to hear it right out of the mouth of Attorney James Turner all you have to
do is get a copy of the movie just released on aspartame, Sweet Misery:
A Poisoned World. You can get a copy from Cori@soundandfuryproductions.com
It is getting rave reviews and has already been shown in over 10 countries of the
world. In fact, its being marketed in
and Fury are now doing a sequel. Other movies are also in the making. This is one
of the greatest scandals in US History. Nobody has ever said it better than Dr.
James Bowen who told the FDA years ago that aspartame is mass poisoning of the
American public and more than 70+ countries of the world. You can read his letter
to the FDA on labeling on www.dorway.com Searle was afraid they couldn't get it
around the world if anyone knew about the FDA wanting them indicted for fraud.
So they got it approved in
Turner in the regulatory agency there. Parliament had a big blow out but did not
rescind the order. The story was in the Guardian. Then Searle was able to
rubberstamp it around the world. Letters have been written to ANZFA for years,
especially by Dr. H. J. Roberts and they just disregard them.
Like our FDA today they are nothing more than the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical industry. No matter how much evidence you give them they do nothing.
In Dr. H. J. Roberts first book on aspartame, Aspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe?
He quoted his first press release where he stated if something wasn't done then
we would have a global plague on our hands in five or ten years. It didn't take
that long for Dr. Roberts to declare Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and
publish the 1038 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com
At the World Environmental Conference, Dr. Clarice Gaylord of the EPA said:
"We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and cannot identify the toxin.
" I said: "I'm Betty Martini of Mission Possible Intl, and I'm here to lecture on
MS and lupus and identify the toxin as NutraSweet/Aspartame." These diseases
are completely documented in the medical text as well as in Excitotoxins: The
Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., and his new book, Health
& Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life, www.russellblaylockmd.com
Just recently Dr. Blaylock released a press release on the MS and Aspartame
Connection complete with research. Go to www.wnho.net and clic on aspartame.
How serious is it? Basically what he is saying is that a good deal of the population
who have been using aspartame for years have subclinical MS and if not warned
can have full blown disease. And what is ABC doing - telling the people of
its all a hoax. I realize ABC in
the States and is the national, government-funded public broadcaster in
But this doesn't say very much for truth from Australia ABC.
This is why aspartame is so deadly. It is a molecule composed of three components,
40% aspartic acid (an excitotoxin), a methyl ester which immediately becomes
methanol (10%), a neurotoxin, and 50% phenylalanine, as an isolate a neurotoxin
that goes directly into the brain, lowering the seizure threshold and depleting
serotonin. Aspartame breaks down to a witches brew of toxins including
diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent.
James Bowen, M.D. is a victim of aspartame with Lou Gehrigs and has explained
how the destruction works. Aspartic acid, the excitotoxic component of aspartame
does not cross the blood brain barrier but is secreted into the cerebral spinal fluid by
the choroid plexus located in the ventricles of the brain. There, in the brain's lower
area and upper terminus of the spinal cord is where Lou Gehrigs, Parkinson's Disease
and Multiple Sclerosis damage is most prominent. These critical locations bathed in
the toxin as it removes from the blood. From the
a narrow canal called sylvian aqueduct which fills with this secretion and washes
the roof of the hypothalamus. This accounts for the damage to the hypothalamus.
Dr. Madelon Price, Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology in Psychiatry, and
biochemist who worked with Dr. Olney for 30 years recently mentioned that
although aspartic acid does not cross the blood brain barrier, that many people
have compromised blood brain barriers. She said very important to her, is that
healthy people are at risk because certain areas of the brain, small organs that
about the ventricles of the brain, lack blood brain barrier protection. These are
the circumventricular organs (CVO) of the brain. The 3 principle ones are:
(1) the area postrema, located on the floor of the 4th ventricle, which controls
vomiting.
(2) the subfornical organ which hangs from the roof of the juncture of the 1st
and 2nd ventricles, which controls thirst and
(3) the median eminence/arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, located on the
floor of the 3rd ventricle, which controls the flow of many hormones. She said
this is the most important area and the one that got she and Dr. Olney involved
in the aspartame issue in the first place.
The capillaries that run through these organs are fenestrated - they have areas
of thinning in their walls (fenestre = window in French). Most capillary walls are
very tight and aspartate can only cross their walls by an energy dependent pumping mechanism. But aspartate can freely enter the CVO through the permeable
fenestra in the walls of the CVO capillaries. Releasing factors which control the
release of growth hormone, all the sex hormones (follicle stimulating hormone,
luteinizing hormone and prolactin), thyroid hormone and corticotropin among
others are controlled by this area of the brain.
Dr. Price mentioned the shrunken testes in experimental rats and also said it is well
known that women who ingest a lot of aspartame, stop menstruating and cannot get
pregnant. The baby animals that she and Dr. Olney injected or fed aspartate grew
up to be obese and infertile adults. That is because this area of the brain was affected.
As to methanol it converts to formaldehyde and formic acid and causes metabolic
acidosis. Dr. H. J. Roberts says the chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine
system of the brain and causes the addiction. Methanol is classified as a narcotic.
In the worst case scenario, a body builder and athlete, Charles Fleming was highly
addicted to diet drinks and other aspartame products. When he died they saw
the methanol poisoning and thought his wife poisoned him. This sweet Sunday
School teacher who helped the homeless was sentenced to 50 years in prison,
and is in the movie, Sweet Misery. Several aspartame experts have looked at
the autopsy and written affidavits that Fleming died of aspartame.
You may have heard about so many athletes dropping dead. The ones we have
investigated were using aspartame. Dr. Bowen explained aspartame and sudden
death in great detail. He says that aspartame and methyl alcohol poisoning are
noted for damaging myocardium and the specialized form of myocardium called
the cardiac conduction system. This kind of damage leads to susceptibility to
arrhythmias. The aspartame and methyl alcohol poisoning causes immense
damage to the mitochondria (life of the cell) and to MtDNA which perpetrates
the mitochondria damage. The myocardium and cardiac conduction system
never get to rest. They are constantly at work pumping blood, therefore they
are very highly concentrated in mitochondria to accommodate the metabolic
needs of this tremendous work load. Therefore, mitochondria damage is more
highly reflected in the heart. Damaged mitochondria produce increased amounts
of free radicals and other abnormal metabolites that produce arrhythmias.
Moreover, the person using NutraSweet may have a markedly decreased intake
of mineral and vitamin co-enzyme factors which also sensitizes the heart to
arrhythmias. It appears with athletes exercise is the last straw. You have unusual
demands on the cardiorespiratory system.
Dr. Blaylock says that magnesium protects the brain and heart from excitotoxins.
When an athlete runs he depletes magnesium. Its the last straw. The phenylalanine
in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered
serotonin triggers manic depression, mood swings, insomnia, suicidal tendencies,
paranoia, hallucinations, etc. Psychiatric and behavioral problems are epidemic.
In fact, President Bush now wants everyone in this country checked for mental
illness. Congress has admitted that US children are poisoned and have given the
National Institutes of Health 2.7 billion to find out the culprit. See my letter to
NIH and their letter also on www.wnho.net click on aspartame. This is the site
of the World Natural Health Organization.
Dr. Roberts in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic says: "Increased brain
phenylalanine can elevate norepinephrine levels becoming clinically manifest as
hypertension. A comparable phenomenon has been demonstrated in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Another plausible mechanism involves increased phenylalanine
metabolites, especially dopamine, in the presence of excess insulin. Tourian (l985) demonstrated that insulin potentiates the synthesis of phenylalanine hydroxylase
in tissue cultures.
He also says: "The documentation of essential hypertension in an insulin-resistant
state associated with hyperinsulinemia (Ferrannini l987) but independent of obesity,
is germane because many aspartame reactors have reactive hypoglycemia.
Furthermore, phenylalanine increases insulin release. In the face of continued
hyperinsulinemia, the down regulation of insulin receptors (and ensuing decreased
insulin actin) the increased reabsorption of sodium and sympathetic stimulation can
exaggerate hypertension."
Dr. Roberts in the l980's was selected as the best doctor in the
medical organization. He is Board Certified and Recertified in Internal Medicine,
a diabetic specialist. He says that aspartame can precipitate diabetes, stimulates
and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into
convulsions and even interacts with insulin.
What aspartame has done to the family is a crime. If someone does get pregnant
Dr. Bowen points out that aspartame is an abortifacient and also a teratogen
(causes birth defects). And if a live child is born he says aspartame may have
heinously damaged DNA for generations to come. DNA damage was proven on
the Trocho Study in l998, and also showed that the formaldehyde accumulates in
the cells with most toxicity in the liver but substantial amounts in the kidneys,
adipose tissue (reason for obesity -
fat cells), retina and brain. Aspartame also ruins female response and trigger
male sexual dysfunction.
Dr. John Olney told the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concerning children, and
they agreed with him, "I conclude that despite Searle's persistent tendency to
AVOID PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS OF APPROPRIATE DESIGN to clarify
the safety of the aspartate moiety of aspartame under "use" conditions, the few
items of relevant evidence they have generated since l974 serve to reinforce my
position that aspartame, together with glutamate, does pose significant risk of
destroying neurons in childrens' brains and exerting adverse influence on
neuroendocrine systems. Certainly the studies performed, thus far, do not even
begin to refute, disprove or rule out the brain damage and neuroendocrine risks
I have defined and documented with extensive evidence, nor do they demonstrate
that there is an adequate safety margin for the use of aspartame (plus Glu) in
childrens' foods. Searle has failed, therefore, to establish the safety of their
product for use in childrens' foods."
And so the best scientists the FDA had to offer revoked the petition for aspartame.
And if Don Rumsfeld hadn't called in his markers and Reagan hadn't appointed
Hayes to get it approved anyway by over-ruling the FDA Board, millions would
not have perished from the fatal diseases and tumors triggered by this neurotoxin,
and our children wouldn't be poisoned. As Dr. Blaylock says in Excitotoxins, even
if a child survives his mother using aspartame during pregnancy, by the time he
reaches puberty you will probably see behavioral problems. Aspartame reduces
IQ, triggers ADD, autism, ADHD and other horrors.
When studies are not fixed by Industry it's very easy to show how quickly
aspartame poisons. Dr. Baret in the
360 children by changing milk for aspartame laced juice, detailed in Dr. Roberts
medical text. All these children immediately demonstrated inability to concentrate, hyperactivity and such. Knowing that the only change made was adding aspartame
to the diet he removed it. In four days all the children went back to normal.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to prove how deadly aspartame is, which is
why the FDA and the manufacturer has tried to prevent independent studies.
If you read the UPI investigation on www.dorway.com you will see that Searle
even threatened Dr. Richard Wurtman at MIT if he did studies on aspartame
and seizures, his research funds would be rejected, and they were. ILSE is their
front group that supplies research funds to universities who co-operate.
Research is negotiable. MIT now gets research funds but Dr. Wurtman no
longer speaks out about aspartame.
Finally in l996 when Dr. Olney made world news on the aspartame and brain
tumor issue, he was on 60 Minutes (also in
Walton joined him showing research on scientific peer reviewed studies and funding.
92% of independent, scientific independent studies showed the problems aspartame
causes, and if you removed 6 studies the FDA had something to do with since they
now are now the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical industry, plus one pro-industry
summary, 100% of independent studies show problems with aspartame. What
does say to industry funded and controlled studies saying aspartame is safe?
Like FDA toxicologist Jacqueline Verrett told Congress, all studies were built on a
foundation of sand and should be thrown out. I've gone to great length to provide a
good part of the story of aspartame and let you know that with it on the market, no
drug is safe. Aspartame interacts with just about every drug used to treat the
problems it causes as outlined in the medical text. I'm the messenger, founder
of an unpaid global volunteer force with operations in 50 states and over 22 countries
of the world educating the public on the deadly affects of aspartame, the information
from world experts. And what does ABC do - try to make out like its all a hoax, and
aspartame is safe as rain. Information is a matter of public record and cannot be
denied.
Are advertising funds more important that the lives of the people of
every bit of information can be checked out, and wasn't, how come ABC wants to lie to
the public? Currently suits have been filed against 14 large companies for poisoning the
public with aspartame such as Coke, Slimfast, Pepsi, Pfizer, Wrigleys and Atria. I'm also
working with class action attorneys and attorneys call often who are interested in
investigating. Four support groups help the sick and disabled. Aspartame Detoxification
Centers continue to increase. More and more movies are being made to get the
information to the public. Even in Sweet Misery, Turner admits that Searle even did
studies in Dr. Olney's lab showing brain damage and didn't even turn them over to
the FDA. They cared not about how many brain diseases their toxin would poison
and how much pain, suffering and death they would cause. A quarter of a million web
sites warn the public do not use aspartame. www.truthinlabeling.org explains
aspartame has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Their records show
how the glutamate industry used aspartame as the placebo for a quarter of a century
in studies with MSG to make the public believe that MSG reacted no differently
than the placebo, when in fact, both are excitotoxins. Searle even used people in
poor villages in
seizures, and show that aspartame destroys the brain and central nervous system.
Then they didn't publish the studies. Some of those people died. The pregnant
woman lost her baby. We have the affidavit from the translator.
Today the aspartame industry provides fake, frauds and front groups to mislead the
public. Dr. Stephen Barrett of quackbusters, one of the most well known for false
and misleading information on web has just been charged with racketeering. The
public has had enough.
Now ABC had a choice. I expected a full apology and the truth to be told to the
Australian people. My email sent to you on the 7th September, 2004 was ignored
– I informed you in that email that if I did not receive a full apology and the truth
to be told within 5 days (that is by the 12th September) after receipt of my email,
that this information will be placed on the world-wide web. The Australian people
will find out either way. In the end this letter may get to more people in
than ABC does. Be assured the aspartame industry and their bottomless checkbook (chequebook) and influence is not worth the life of even one child, much less the
mass poisoning of the world. Enough is enough. All the facts are a matter of public
record, and I would be happy to give you the phone numbers and emails of the
physicians for verification of the facts.
Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl,
Parkway
Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
Filmed in-person interviews with Doctors, Lawyers, people with aspartame
related health problems, advocates and many others. The film Sweet Misery reveals
one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence in the history of
the industrial revolution. The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed
as a “hoax” by the sweetener industry and at least 5 other internet websites.
The real footwork however, unravels something less comforting than a mere “hoax”.
Sweet Misery is a documentary released by Sound and Fury Productions. http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com
FORWARDED AT THE REQUEST OF DR. BETTY MARTINI
by Diana Buckland Global Recognition Campaign/Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity/chemically induced illnesses, diseases & injury affecting civilians &
