I have an article to post about aspartame but just so you know, this goes for all sugar substitutes and artificial sugars. According to Mayo Clinic, sugar substitutes are broken down into 4 groups:

1. Artificial sweeteners (i.e. aspartame),
2. Sugar alcohols (i.e. Xylitol),
3. Novel sweeteners (i.e. Stevia), and
4. Natural sweeteners (that are not sugar)(i.e. honey).

See the table below:

Sugar substitutes

Of all of these, I want to talk about one class in particular: Artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweetener means: not sugar though it tastes sweet. You may recall some of your early history lessons: water and wine kept in led storage containers in ancient Roman and Greek times for a reason: led is sweet. It is not sugar but sure would make an awesome sugar substitute! We do not use it because of its weight obviously and because we have been able to identify it as a major toxin. This shows you a key point: not everything that tastes sweet can safely be used as a sugar substitute for human consumption!

Now let’s take a look at one of the sugar substitutes on the list: Aspartame. Aspartame is in many of our foods and drinks and as of late I even heard that it appeared under a new name in Japan (something cute for kids) but I do not have confirmation of that. Nonetheless I have some acquaintances who suffer from “Aspartame toxicity.” Go ahead and search for “Aspartame Toxicity” in any internet search engine and there is going to be a very high likelihood that 90% of the sites that pop up will call this a hoax toxicity. After all, it does not affect test rats and other non-human mammals, why would it affect humans?

General Mammalian Brains versus Human Brains

Of course we know that rat and other mammalian non-human brains are not as evolved as human brains but we tend not to give that a deeper though at a chemical level. Could that be that in addition to its size and lacking some features, may there be some additional difference between the two types of brains?

As it turns out there are many differences, some of which are evolutionarily very different from what you think, but also different in how the two types of brains metabolize certain energy and chemicals that enter the body. As you know, we have a blood brain barrier that few things can cross. Aspartame is one that does albeit not in the form of Aspartame but as formaldehyde after a few chemical changes that include conversion to methyl alcohol, aspartic acid, phelylalnine and then methanol.

There is a major biochemical problem here. Methyl alcohol is known now, and has been known since 1940, to be metabolized differently by humans from every other animal. (Dr. Woody Monte)

Aspartame is primarily made up of aspartic acid and phenylalanine. The phenylalanine has been synthetically modified to carry a methyl group, which provides the majority of the sweetness. That phenylalanine methyl bond, called a methyl ester, is very weak, which allows the methyl group on the phenylalanine to easily break off and form methanol…humans are the only mammals who are NOT equipped with a protective biological mechanism that breaks down methanol into harmless formic acid. This is why animal testing of aspartame does not fully apply to humans. (Dr. Mercola)

Formaldehyde: Aspartame in the brain!

In the human brain, aspartame becomes formaldehyde, a rather toxic chemical as you very well know if you have ever taken a biology class of dead bugs and organs that are kept floating in formaldehyde to prevent rotting… ‘nough said from what that is!

But what does formaldehyde do in the brain? Well for one thing, it prevents organic changes–hence we use it to preserve dead organic tissue to stay unchanged forever. So a chemical like that will do the same in the human body. It modifies the DNA in the human cells so it cannot change: namely methylation. Formaldehyde turns the protein production of the DNA off. This process may be reversed, according to Dr. Monte, using Ubiquinol (a CoQ10 formulation), and also by optimizing leptin and insulin signaling.

Aspartame or Being Floxed? Can they be treated the same way? 

To optimize leptin and insulin signaling, one has to actually follow the Stanton Migraine Protocol^TM, which is a totally coincidental finding. It is coincidental since the Stanton Migraine Protocol^TM is for migraines. One of the goals of that protocol is to reset the metabolic processes and to keep blood sugar and electrolyte as steady and stable as possible 24/7 no matter what a person eats or drinks. Thus using the Stanton Migraine Protocol^TM in combination with the recommended Ubiquinol may in fact reverse the negative effects of having damaged cellular DNA. This may also work for those who had been floxed! Fluoroquinolone drugs damage the mitochondrial DNA and not the human cellular DNA but it may just work! Try it!

Your comments are welcome as always!

Angela