Aspartame Side Effects

Aspartame side effects range from bowel problems to headaches to neurological complaints. It may also be responsible for many unexplained symptoms that your doctor has no ability to connect to a diagnosis. Aspartame poisoning may also be involved in Parkinson’s, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and Multiple Sclerosis. Simply STOP the product for two months to see if there is any change to your health.

Aspartame side effects are real. Despite studies that claim it is safe…let’s get real here…we can find studies that suggest that Vitamin C or Vitamin E are not helpful for certain health concerns.

Aspartame side effects are mostly neurological, but can affect any part of the body. Why?

Aspartame poisoning results because aspartame is made from three known poisons, phenylalanine, L-Aspartic Acid and methanol. Poisons you ask? Isn’t there phenylalanine and L-Aspartic Acid in all proteins that we eat everyday? Yes, but hang on. Isn’t there methanol in common foods like apples? Yep, but hang on.

All proteins we eat contain amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Each type of protein contains a combination of potentially 20 some amino acids. So, each of us eats phenylalanine and L-Aspartic Acid everyday in the protein portion of our foods. But in combination, each amino acid competes with the others for receptors on cells and everything works fine.

Isolated amino acids such as phenylalanine and L-Aspartic Acid in aspartame…without the other amino acids to compete with…can overwhelm the cells and cause changes that effect your health. Using any medical search engine reveals many studies about the toxicity of isolated amino acids.

Methanol is found in many common foods, but always in the presence of ethanol. Nature is quite smart as the ethanol combines with the methanol in the body to prevent any negative side effects from the methanol. The ethanol cancels out the methanol. The same medical search engines show plenty of data about the toxicity of methanol all by itself.

Bottom line….phenylalanine and L-Aspartic Acid and methanol are safe when found in nature, but potentially toxic when used in isolation.

Then there’s the problem of methanol turning into formaldehyde and then into formic acid. Really bad idea to have that in your body.

You may ask why doesn’t everybody have symptoms or health issues since so many of us use this product. Simple. We each have different genetic strengths and weaknesses as well as we are all biochemically different from each other. That explains why not every woman with the breast cancer gene gets breast cancer or why not everyone with a family history of Crohn’s Disease gets Crohn’s Disease.

So, aspartame affects each one of us differently, for different reasons and with different symptoms.

One thing you can count on with regard to the use of ANY artificial sweetener: If man has created, processed or altered any naturally occurring substance, the body will more than likely not understand it and symptoms may occur.

Please just stop the foods and drinks that contain them to see what happens. If you have no negative side effects from aspartame poisoning (unlikely)…nothing lost but a couple months without your favorite products. If right…and you do nothing…your health may suffer forever.