Aspartame A Potent Poison

.

EFSA Godfather,  "Ain't No Aspartame Crime Around Here." By Betty Martini, D.Hum 1-2-14

If its a crime to intentionally promote poison that disabled and claims the lives of millions of fellow humans  then EFSA may be the greatest criminal conspiracy in history.  They were charged to evaluate scientific research on aspartame/NutraSweet/Canderel, E951, etc.  EFSA concluded that 133  studies exonerated aspartame - safe as rain  Further an additional 82 studies  which showed aspartame is deadly were labeled unreliable by EFSA! Read the attached  excellent report from Dr. Erik Millstone (pdf) .   What do you do when study after study after study shows aspartame is a killer? Faced with the evidence aspartame is not safe EFSA simply threw out the evidence.  Now they were left with their phony baloney and that is what they used.  Yes, they simply threw out the window the studies they want to hide from the world and labeled them "unreliable".  The recent studies like studies before them for 30 years showed cancer, heart attacks, strokes, obesity, diabetes, etc.  It is said where there is smoke there is fire, and the aspartame studies that continually show aspartame as a killer are a blazing conflagration that EFSA doesn't know how to deal with.  They simply can't understand that trying to hide the truth is simply trying to put out the fire with gasoline.  The studies are not going to go away and neither are the disabilities and deaths as long as this poison is on the market.  How did they prove safety?  They used industry studies!  Can industry studies show safety?  Of course, not, and they didn't show safety in original studies either.  Aspartame is made up of two neurotoxins, and an excitotoxin and breaks down to a brain tumor agent, diketopiperazine.  How can you take a chemical poison and get it to show safety?  You can't without fraud.  That's exactly what happened in original studies.  G. D. Searle would do things like excise the brain tumors from the rats, put them back in the study and when they died resurrect them on paper.  They also would filter out things like cancer or whatever they didn't want the FDA to see but the problem was they got caught.  The FDA attempted to indict G. D. Searle  until Title 18, Section 1001 of the criminal code for fraud.  Power they had and both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired.  The FDA did not want this poison on the market that they had seen had caused everything from cancer and neural tube defects (autism, spina bifida and cleft palate)  to seizures.  So a Board of Inquiry of the FDA was set up and revoked the petition for approval.  FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan would have signed it into law in 30 days, the time available for any disagreement.  G. D. Searle did not care how many people it would kill and wanted it on the market.  Aspartame was actually listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress.  (Read NutraPoison by Alex Constantine and the Ecologist of 2005: http://www.dorway.com/betty/nutrap1.txt and http://www.dorway.com/betty/nutrap2.txt - Ecologist   http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf  They hired Don Rumsfeld to get it on the market and Searle filed suit to prevent the revoked petition being signed into law.  Rumsfeld said he would "call in his markers" to get it approved.    President Reagan owed him a favor and he paid it.  The day after he took office he had someone from the transition team fire the FDA Commissioner that would have signed the revoked petition into law, at 3:00 AM, according to his wife who was there with him.    http://mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf   Then he wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything on aspartame until he could get a new commissioner to the FDA to over-rule the Board of Inquiry.  He figured it would take 30 days.  Arthur Hull Hayes, a friend of Rumsfeld was appointed and he did just that, over-rule the Board of Inquiry.  According to Alex Constantine, " He was no disinterested bureaucrat. True to the biochemical theme of the aspartame story, Dr. Hayes served in the Army Medical Corps in the 1960s. According to the _Washington Post_, Hayes was assigned to Edgewood Arsenal at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the Army's chemical warfare base of operations, "one of a number of doctors who conducted drug tests for the Army on volunteers . . . to determine the effect of a mind-disorienting drug called CAR 301,060." According to a declassified 1976 report prepared by the Army Inspector General, Hayes had planned a research study to develop the mind-altering CAR 301,060 as a *crowd control agent.* In 1972, Hayes left Edgewood Arsenal, and a new plan for the experiments was drawn up by Edgewood physicians. The 1976 report notes that similar tests had been conducted before Hayes took charge." What was Hayes' reward? When he left the FDA he went to work for the PR agency of the manufacturer, Burson Marsteller for $1000.00 a day on a ten year contract.  According to one article he was never there more than 15 days.  When you put a poison on the market people get sick and people were getting sick from the problems aspartame triggers or precipitates.  G. D. Searle was sold to Monsanto in l985 when Rumsfeld got 12 million.  There were three congressional hearings and Senator Metzenbaum wrote a bill to put a moratorium on aspartame and have NIH do independent studies based on some of the problems being seen in the population such as seizures, what it does to the fetus, behavioral problems, especially in children and interaction of drugs (damages the mitochondria).  The congressional hearings, Senate, were in 1985 and 1987 and are on www.mpwhi.com Read how scientists, physicians and victims spoke out.  Who was there for NutraSweet?  The trade organizations like the ADA's who take money from the manufacturer to push their poison.  For instance, aspartame can precipitate diabetes and recently was even proven to raise fasting blood sugar.  It simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin.  The free methyl alcohol causes diabetics to lose their limbs.  The late H. J. Roberts, M.D., diabetic specialist, discusses this in more detail in the 1000 page medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" www.sunsentpress.com Dr. Roberts was a member of the American Diabetes Assn for 35 years.  He asked them to publish an abstract of diabetic aspartame reactors but they refused because they had given their loyalty to the manufacturer.  It was published in Clinical Research.  A suit was filed against them in 2004 for racketeering but they got out of it.  The American Dietetics Assn has been known as Monsanto's media flacks. As expected with all the powerful influence the bill never got out of committee.  FDA scientist and toxicologist Dr. Adrian Gross who continued to speak out was transferred to the EPA.  He couldn't be kept quiet because he investigated aspartame and knew it was against the law to approve it and that it would kill people.  He told Congress  at least one of Searles studies has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high significance.... In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?" The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residue of cancer-causing chemicals in foods. Dr Gross concluded by asking, Given the cancer-causing potential of aspartame, how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or safe level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a tolerance for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public? Congressional Record SID835:131 (8/1/85) Likewise Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA toxicologist, also testified before Congress that even then when she was testifying in 1987 (approved in 1981) it still hadn't been proven safe:  http://www.wnho.net/j_verrett_testimony.pdf I always wondered what Dr. Gross did at the EPA.  He was also a pathologist.  Then in 2010 my husband and I met Reginall Bundrage who worked for EPA having to do with aspartame and he also is a pathologist.  I kept giving him flyers and information and he kept saying, "I know more than you do on aspartame."  I began to ask him if he knew things about aspartame not a lot of people knew such as triggering male sexual dysfunction.  He said, "Yes I do, I'm telling you I know much more than you."  Finally I said, "Okay, I've been doing this a couple of decades and I've been trained by the experts.  Please tell me what I don't know.  I'm very interested."  He said, "My job had to do with aspartame and I was there in the early 1990's.  I know all about the formaldehyde from the free methyl alcohol.  I also know that people are constantly dying from aspartame and too many for aspartame to be on the market.  I said to my superiors, 'how can this stay on the market killing these many people?'  I was told that surely the FDA would remove it because its such a killer.  That was in the early 1990's and its now 2010 and its still on the market."  Was he working on the dead from aspartame or on the tissues?  Was the department that we know nothing about started by Dr. Gross?  He kept telling me it must be removed from the market, because  it's killing so many people, and gave me permission to tell his story. How many people is aspartame killing?  I flew to Barcelona to see Dr. M. Alemany who did the famous Trocho study that showed that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalmed living tissue and damaged DNA.  http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf;  The first thing that Dr. Alemany said to me was "Betty, aspartame will murder 200 million people".  No wonder Reginall Bundrage said it was constantly killing  so many people.  You could tell how upset he was.  Dr. Alemany wrote about his study when there was an effort to ban aspartame in Hawaii which was not successful.  Here is that letter:  http://www.mpwhi.com/hhc-malemany.pdf Please note that he mentions that the European Union Committee on Food when they were doing a review ignored this damning study just as EFSA has.  You will also note how Dr. Alemany was treated because his study exposed aspartame.  They can't debate the studies.  What they did was try to assassinate Dr. Alemany's character.  How well I remember that review .  I had flown to Belgium to talk to the European Union along with Felicity Mawson, Mission Possible UK.  I first flew into England where I was locked up by Immigration for 3 1/2 hours with questions like "If we let you in England how many people will find out about the dangers of aspartame?"  Not exactly the questions normally asked by immigration.  In fact, I told the man asking the questions:  "I've flown to your country to help your people at my expense.  How do you get off asking me these type of questions?"  Obviously no answer.  The first thing they had done was confiscate all the aspartame material.  I was carrying Dr. Roberts huge 1000 page medical text.  They took me to a physician saying since I had been on a plane for 12 hours they wanted to make sure what condition I was in when they interrogated me.  They laid the medical text on his desk.  He look at the title "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" and said, "I use this!"  I said, "Well, you're going to die."  He responded, "But I'm diabetic!" I answered, "Well then you're going to die first."  He look at the chapter on aspartame and diabetes and said, "What do I do?"  I answered, "I would give you some material but immigration confiscated it."  In the meantime, another immigration lady said, "My daughter uses Lite Coke and she has thyroid disease."  I explained that aspartame can trigger hypo and hyperthyroidism and it was discussed in the middle text, and just not to do anything but get her off of it.  She said, "But they removed her thyroid."   I shook my head and said, "Oops, I knew I should have come back earlier."  I had also lectured in England and Scotland in 2000.  That was about all the  doctor could take and he called in the man who brought me and said, "Give her back everything you confiscated and let her go."  The aspartame industry did nothing but hurt themselves as it was a great lead-off in every lecture - "They didn't want me to be here to give you this information."  Felicity and I spent two hours with the EU - Miguel Angel Granero Rosell and Peter Wagstaffe.  I was wired by Canal Plus, a documentarian in France.  I brought the EU all the damning information including congressional hearings and information they might not have.  It was obvious they were not interested.  I showed them the medical text on the global plague of Aspartame Disease.  Mr. Rosell did not even turn the first page.  Their decision had already been made.  It was later found out that there was no committee to make the decision.  It was made by one person, obviously a flack, and there was no more European Commission on Food and EFSA (European Food Safety Authority)  was set up, no doubt with the hope of eliminating conflicts of interest.  Fat chance.  Over half the committee of EFSA has links substantiating conflict of interest.  Like EFSA the European Commission on Food ignored damning research including all of Dr. Roberts research.    Here is Mark Gold's rebuttal of the review (Aspartame Toxicity Center):  http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm Because of the cancer in original studies that violated the Delaney Amendment and made it illegal to approve the public continued to get cancer from it and more studies over the years continually proved aspartame to be a carcinogen.  Dr. Morando Soffritti of the Ramazzini Institute performed three aspartame studies all show aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. When the first one was released in 2005, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. reviewed it and declared: The new study released in the European Journal of Oncology by Morando Soffritti and co-workers should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study, which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame. This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and co-workers, which also found the formaldehyde breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage was accumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. Along with this most recent study, this means that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia. Even Harvard recently did an aspartame cancer study saying it was the longest and strongest. I wrote an article about it saying Harvard says they are sorry  they told you aspartame is bad.                    http://www.mpwhi.com/harvard_sorry_they_told_you_aspartame_is_bad.htm It must have taken minutes for the aspartame industry to get to them because as soon as they published the study claiming it was the longest and strongest on cancer they apologized for promoting it saying it was "weak science".  Now that's power and  power the aspartame industry should not have.  How disgusting and arrogant.  One more for EFSA to toss out the window. There is a saying:  "Evil is of such ugly miens,  that  to be hated is but to be seen.  But seen too oft its homely face, first we pity, then endure and then embrace"  There was a time when Big Pharma and Big Chem were the adversary of FDA.  It was called the "old FDA".  Since Arthur Hull Hayes, now deceased, its called the "new FDA" and their "customer" Big Pharma supplies half the FDA's funding. Now  this long standing association has caused FDA to embrace such evil they constantly lie.   I once met someone from FDA at a health expo.  I tore into him about telling the public aspartame is safe when they know its not.  He said, "Betty, your argument is with Don Rumsfeld.  We did everything we could to prevent this poison from being marketed for human consumption.  It was taken out of our hands.  What do we do now, say aspartame is not safe, its a poison, but we approved it?"  The FDA became more and more cozy with Big Pharma and the aspartame industry and the "new" FDA became in the end the enemy of  the people.  Jerome Bressler who authored the famous Bressler Report on www.mpwhi.com, front page banner, told me of a serious problem when I called to thank him for telling the truth in his report when he retired from the FDA.  He said the FDA had removed two studies that the public had not been warned about from his report and he pleaded with me to find them.  It took me 8 years and only with the help of Dr. Madelon Price, the biochemist who worked with Dr. John Olney for 38 years did I ever find them.  Dr. Olney along with Attorney James Turner tried to prevent approval.  He had done studies on aspartic acid, 40% of aspartame and found it caused holes in the brains of mice.  He knew what it would do to the fetus and children and you can read his 49 page report to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA on www.mpwhi.com , front page banner.  What were these studies that were stricken from the records and from the public and why were they so important?  They were teratology studies (birth defects) and they showed neural tube defects.  Translation:  Autism, spina bifida, cleft palate, etc!  FDA Memo's say "aspartame causes birth defects".  There is no pregnancy warning on aspartame products.  No wonder Jerome Bressler was so upset, and until he died, as long as he could walk around in the cafeteria of the nursing type of facility he was in he would tell people "don't use aspartame, it poison!"  Just before he died we added these FDA memo's back to the Bressler Report and Lane Shore, Mission Possible Chicago, delivered it to Jerome Bressler at his bedside.  Bressler had also spoken to Doctors H. J. Roberts and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock.  Lane has lost 8 members of his family from aspartame and is a victim himself.  One member was pregnant with twins drinking diet pop and he kept alerting her but she wouldn't listen.  She was obviously too addicted.  So at birth one baby died and one baby hung on by a thread.  Dr. Blaylock says in his book, "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" that even if a baby survives you can  sometimes see the problem at puberty, many times as behavioral problems or dyslexia.  Dr. Morando Soffritti in one of his studies said if the woman is pregnant, and if the baby survives, he can grow up to get cancer.  After the FDA found out I had returned the information to the Bressler Report  and they could no longer hide the facts they released to Dr. Woodrow Monte four more of these studies showing these neural tube defects.  An NTD is an opening in the spinal cord or brain that occurs very early in human development.  The early spinal cord of the embryo begins as a flat region, which rolls into a tube (the neural tube) 28 days after the baby is conceived. When the neural tube does not close completely, an NTD develops.  NTDs develop before mot women know they are even pregnant. So think of the most heinous and inhuman crime the FDA could commit.  How about making a deal with the manufacturer never to allow the public to know that aspartame has been proven to cause neural tube defects, and not listing a birth defect warning on the products?  Dr. Monte went on to write the book, "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills".  You can go to his web site, www.whilesciencesleeps.com and read the last chapter free about autism and aspartame and the deal the FDA made.  He also tells how his house was blown up with him in it, although he survived.  Do get the book, you won't be able to put it down.  Anyone who reads it will never say they  believe the FDA because they approved a product.  EFSA knows about this now and that aspartame will cause birth defects.  Yet in their report they say aspartame is safe for pregnant women with full knowledge it can cause autism and other horrors.  EFSA's doors should be now closed forever.  What a hideous act to ignore the birth defects and try to convince pregnant women its safe.  Getting back to the EFSA report why do industry studies say aspartame is safe.  Mark Gold shows you how the manufacturers or those they pay to do the studies get their results:  http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/ My all time favorite is the Rowen Study.  This is a good example how far an aspartame manufacturer will go.  There were 18 subjects and Monsanto gave 16 of them anti-seizure medication without anyone knowing about it, they were so afraid they would have a seizure on aspartame.  How much aspartame were they afraid of giving a seizure?  They gave them one (1) capsule, that's all, for a one day study.  Sort of tantamount to sniffing the bottle!  You cannot, you cannot - do studies on a poison and have it show safety.  As Dr. Blaylock said at a lecture, "understand the reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and cyanide".  Aspartame is an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered, seizure triggering drug, adjuvant and teratogen that damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines.  Among the horrors it causes is sudden cardiac death.  See Dr. Blaylock's athlete alert on www.mpwhi.com Dr. H. J. Roberts said  aspartame causes an irregular heart rhythm, interacts with "all" cardiac medication, damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death.  MS and lupus are rampant because of aspartame and blindness, of course. Once Dr. John Olney got so upset with G. D. Searle's shenanigans and fraud with original studies that he insisted they do studies in his laboratory so he could oversee them.  Sure enough the studies showed brain damage and Dr. Olney then thought aspartame would never get approved.  However, he didn't know that G. D. Searle never told the FDA the result of the studies.  This is discussed in the movie, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World". An informant, Jana Marie, who was hired to shred Searle's studies after sending one copy of the original to France wrote and said, "aspartame killed everything it touched"!  James McDonald of the UK Aspartame Awareness Campaign says the methanol is 35 times too high in the UK, and 50 times too high in the US.  This too was ignored by EFSA. When 60 Minutes some years ago did an expo on aspartame Dr. Ralph Walton (psychiatrist) did the research on aspartame scientific peer reviewed studies and funding.  Only industry studies showed safety and you know how these are done from Mark Gold's information.  Dr. Walton showed that 92% of independent studies showed the problems and if you removed 6 studies because of the controversy of the "new" FDA and one pro-industry summary, 100% of independent studies show aspartame is deadly.  So there you have it.  Also, Dr. Walton did his own study because he knew some people are depressed and have psychiatric problems.  He wondered what would happen if they used aspartame which depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems, bipolar, schizophrenia, anxiety, panic attacks, paranoia and even suicidal tendencies.  The Administrator took part in the study and got a retinal detachment losing his vision in one eye,  and someone else had conjunctival bleeding.  Subjects in the compromised group said they were being poisoned.  Dr. Walton did not even use the maximum ADI.  The institution stopped the study.  Proof positive you cannot do a study on a poison and have it show safety.  Dr. Walton is now doing another study on birth defects.  If you have given birth after 1984 please fill out the short form on the banner on www.mpwhi.com and send it to Dr. Walton at  rwalton193@aol.com  It won't take you 5 or 10 minutes - please! Dr. Ken Stoller has charts showing autism skyrocketing since aspartame was approved.  When they tried to ban aspartame in New Mexico I personally spoke with the Attorney General Gary King there who told me if we could show this he would personally do something about protecting the children there but nothing was ever done.   It was Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino who sponsored the bill to ban it there.  http://www.rense.com/general74/comn.htm He did a great job but the capital was flooded with lobbyists and attorneys and front groups to stop it from happening. If you want aspartame out of your state email me at bettym19@mindspring.com for the Aspartame Resource Guide. Be sure to see the movie, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" and you can get a copy from producer Cori Brackett  - cori@sweetremedyradio.com  You will see and hear the experts for yourself.  In the film following the ADD people, Feingold, admitted that before aspartame  (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/Canderel, Benevia/Naturtaste) was approved the terms ADD and ADHD were hardly ever used.  Cori Brackett who is an aspartame victim was in a wheelchair for years with MS and could hardly walk or talk.  She had one of the largest lesions ever diagnosis in an MS victim.  I remember the day she called and told me how she had walked out of her wheelchair off aspartame, and a movie ought to be made.  I said, "Tell me about it" and she said, "I own the film company!"  Eight months later off aspartame the huge lesion all but disappeared.  Remember that a study was done by the University of Norway that showed aspartame destroys the brain, especially in the area of learning.  Because the FDA was asked to allow dairy products without proper labeling so the kids in school would use them not realizing they have aspartame in them, be sure your kids are told not to use this and educate their teacher, principal and board of education with the Report for Schools:  http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm Don't allow your child to go to school without it.  Even the Jam companies have petitioned  the FDA to allow aspartame in jams without labeling.  Again, this is against the law and every product requires a PKU warning. I've taken thousands and thousands of cases in over 20 years and I still shed tears because there is no way to get use to the horrors that the aspartame industry and the agencies that should have protected the people instead of industry  have caused  the human race.  One woman used Diet Coke through three pregnancies and has three autistic children.  Here is one from Lisa in Pennsylvania:  "Betty, It was a very emotional morning in speaking to you, I am so thankful for you speaking at a volume of time with me. I want you to know, I will write more to you about all my symptomatics from being poisoned. Both my daughters have Autism with Birth Defects, as I told you , the guilt that has eaten me up inside for my children whom I love of thinking I did this to them is heart wrenching. --- "I am a prisoner in my own body and I can not take care of my babies as they need to, but I do love them and do reading books and coloring and etc. , But they miss Mommy at School plays and Holidays , because I am so weak. I shall write more later, it is time for my 100mg of compound vicodin that I take 3 times a day with Soma 350mg, my medication list is crazy , I will be in touch and we do now have one another's e-mails. "You Touched me and gave me Hope for that I Thank You !!!" Lisa Pennsylvania Just a couple of days ago I went to Virginia.   I make it a policy to at least save one life a day so I was glad I went.  There was a ten year old boy whose grandmother had told the child repeatedly, "do not drink Diet Coke".  The father said he doesn't listen when its the family that tells him.  He had been going to doctors for migraines and was having vision problems, perhaps going blind from the methanol.  Among what I gave the father was the FDA report of 92 symptoms showing headache as #1:  http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf I'm sure after my conversation with the little boy he will never use it again.  Had I not been there he may not have found out.  You see even the physicians don't know because the aspartame industry and the FDA have lied to the trade organizations.  So how does the physician even find out aspartame will interact with the patient's drugs?  Dr. James Bowen who has ALS from aspartame wrote the FDA many years ago and told them aspartame was mass poisoning of the US and more than 70 plus countries of the world, now over 100.  He also told them:  "Every known metabolite of aspartame is of marked or questionable toxicity and patently unsafe for human use. Methyl alcohol is metabolized to nascent formaldehyde in the eye, nervous system and other metabolically active organs. It immediately attacks and denatures the tissue structure proteins in which is metabolized to nascent formaldehyde. This stimulates specific organ and subcellular autoimmunity which seems to be a preponderant source of the bad experiences reported by NutraSweet victims. Aspartic Acid is a neuroexcitotoxic present in damaging amounts, it own right, at the ADI for aspartame. Simple logic tells one that it will vastly increase the metabolism of methyl alcohol to formaldehyde attach there. This corresponds well with the symptomalogies often experienced, such as Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), bulbar palsies, neurohormonal disorders, diketopiperazine issue remains totally unresolved and dangerous. The amino acids that are released by hydrolysis, form eimers and isomers that are either not sufficiently studied, or which are known substrates in undesirable pathological states such as Alzheimer's disease." Most importantly he said:  'the only responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace. That includes those who work so diligently to keep in on the market as well." Big Pharma many times pays large amounts of monies for their horrors but nobody goes to jail.  In this case, the crime is genocide as Dr. Bowen once wrote:  http://www.rense.com/general/asp.htm These liars and front groups have gotten away with murder.  Today is the first day of 2014 and its time to do something about it.  When I lectured for the World Environmental Conference and somebody by the name of Nancy Markle put her name on my paper it went viral all over the world.  When it was realized I was the author my phone rang for "years" without stop from people all over the planet , even with languages I couldn't understand, and thousands got well when they abstained and started Mission Possible operations in their own countries.  Today we are in over 43 countries.  I am asking anyone who reads this to make it go viral so people the world over will know, if they don't already,  aspartame is a killer that is causing genocide.  Send it to attorneys, organizations that prosecute, hospitals that use it, lists of friends and acquaintances, media, Congress and agencies that need to know, especially those who deal in autism and birth defects.  When Dr. H. J. Roberts died in February I had wished he had been given the Nobel Prize for spending the last 30 years of his life alerting the world, writing medical books and reports and trying to get the public to understand  aspartame is a poison.  Before he died he gave me his 30 years of research to carry on his work.  In his memory I ask you not to let a day go by without forwarding this information to someone who can help get it off the market or notify others to save a life.  If you don't buy it they can't sell it.  I mourn for this country and Europe.    I live maybe two hours from the Georgia Guide Stones which say in 8 languages:  "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature".  Translation:  Eliminate 93% of the population.  We look up in the sky and see chemtrails: http://www.mpwhi.com/chemtrails_nanoaluminum_effects.htm, look at how much food is genetically engineered and poisonous like corn (caused huge tumors), pesticides like Roundup, vaccinations and now radiation from Japan.  We have to be proactive.  In Europe they have approved another aspartame product, Advantame and we have to stop it here in the US.  I've asked the FDA repeatedly if Neotame is labeled and they have yet to answer just like they don't answer citizens petitions for ban like mine on aspartame. Instead they write and say they have more important things to do.  What is more important than preventing death?  Aspartame is genocide and Dr. Bill Deagle once said that because of its ubiquitous nature in food and drugs its more dangerous than depleted uranium.  Be warned and never let a day go by that you don't warn someone.  Save a life everyday.    Remember what Jehovah God said in Rev  11:18:  "He will bring to ruin those ruining the earth".  Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 2442-2599 www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Osteoporosis is much more than calcium deficiency

Osteoporosis is much more than calcium deficiency

January 1, 2014 by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD  
Filed under Natural Healing

Leave a comment

Thu. Jan. 2, 2014 by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD 

(NaturalHealth365) A great deal of misinformation has been propagated for a very long time regarding the nature and proper treatment of osteoporosis. While osteoporotic bone is certainly very deficient in calcium, the administration of calcium does not resolve or improve this disease, not even a little.

Osteoporosis is a focal scurvy of the bones, and a restoration of an appropriate balance of antioxidants, lead by vitamin C, is essential to the reversal of this disease and the subsequent growth of new, healthy bone. Appropriate mineral intake is also essential for the optimal function of these antioxidants in the bone.

How does a deficiency of antioxidants damage bone structure?

Where antioxidants are severely deficient, there is always increased oxidative stress. And just as a fire might oxidize and burn the ignited wood, the increased oxidative stress in osteoporotic bones decomposes it and “burns” it over time as well.

Chemically, both the wood and the bones become oxidized. To say that osteoporotic bone is a condition of calcium deficiency is really no different than saying that the remaining ash from burned wood is a condition of smoke deficiency.

And just as there is no way to restore the normal structure of burned wood with the smoke that came out of it, there is also no way to restore osteoporosis to normal bone with the calcium that emanated from it.

All diseases result from deficiencies of antioxidant nutrients in different tissue to different degrees.

There has not yet been identified a single disease where increased oxidative stress is not present in the affected tissues or organs, either extracellularly, intracellularly, or both. When any symptom of any disease is present, increased oxidative stress is present somewhere, ultimately manifesting as that symptom.

Resolving this increased oxidative stress, however, is not as simple as taking more antioxidants in the diet or through supplementation. The reasons that the increased oxidative stress is present must be eliminated or severely curtailed, while balancing hormones and ingesting a wide range of antioxidants nutrients with enough biochemical variation that all tissues and cell types are affected.

Vitamin C just ends up being especially important because its small size and biochemical nature allows it to reach so many cells by itself, along with its unique ability to regenerate (reduce) so many other important antioxidants after they have donated their electrons and become oxidized.

The deceptive nature of conventional bone density tests

Calcium will make a bone density test in an osteoporotic patient improve a little bit. On its face, improving the bone density test numbers would seem to be a good thing. However, this is not the case if it is solely (or primarily) calcium administration that caused this result.

Just as a fresh coat of white paint might make a rotten fence look good, it does nothing for the structural integrity of the fence and that’s the same with osteoporosis.

Calcium can improve the bone density test outcome in a cosmetic fashion, but it does not decrease the chances of fracture, which is the purported goal of any effective osteoporosis therapy. It is only when a bone density test improves without calcium administration that one can conclude truly healthy bone has regenerated and reincorporated some new calcium appropriately in the process.

Is there any evidence that osteoporosis is ‘focal scurvy’?

By itself, the supplementation of vitamin C in osteoporosis has been documented to both increase bone density (improving the bone density test results with structurally sound bone), while lowering the chances of an osteoporotic fracture. This is further supported by the substantial research data confirming that vitamin C is vital for the formation and cross-linking of collagen in the bone, the formation of non-collagen bone matrix proteins, the differentiation of stem cells into bone cells, and the regulation of the cells forming cartilage and collagen in the bone.

It is when this healthy structural matrix is first present that ensuing calcification is reflective of normal bone strength and integrity. Effective treatment of osteoporosis (and other chronic degenerative diseases) is straightforward but involves much more than popping a pill or two.

As is discussed in much greater detail in my new book, Death by Calcium, a comprehensive approach to minimize oxidative stress in the bone (and elsewhere) is essential. At least six factors are critical, involving the ability to:

1. Minimize new toxin exposure (dental sources especially important)
2. Eradicate old infections
3. Eliminate old toxins
4. Correct critical hormone deficiencies
5. Optimize antioxidant levels
6. Appropriately utilize prescription medicine, especially calcium channel blockers when possible

The primary supplements recommended include:

1. Vitamin C in regular, liposome-encapsulated, and fat-soluble forms
2. Lysine and proline
3. Vitamin D3
4. Vitamin K2
5. Magnesium glycinate
6. Omega-3 fatty acids
7. Mixed tocopherols
8. Beta carotene
9. Complete B complex

Many, many other quality supplements/nutrients with antioxidant capacity at the cellular level are available. Depending on the size of your pocketbook and the degree of your motivation, you can also take a number of these as well.

There is no one perfect “one size fits all” approach for everyone, and there are multiple approaches that can end up achieving the same goal.

Looking for natural health solutions? Sign up now – for our free, weekly show featuring the greatest minds in natural health and science plus a free gift!

About the author: Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD is a board-certified internist and cardiologist. He is also bar-certified for the practice of law. He has written extensively on the importance of eliminating toxins while bolstering antioxidant defenses in the body, with particular focus on vitamin C. His new book entitled Death by Calcium: Proof of the toxic effects of dairy and calcium supplements is now available at amazon.com or medfoxpub.com.. His website is PeakEnergy.com

- See more at: http://www.naturalhealth365.com/natural_healing/calcium_myth.html#sthash.mD6delrV.dpuf

Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades your Body

Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades your Body

January 06, 2014 | 126,324 views

Visit the Mercola Video Library

By Dr. Mercola

The video above gives a wonderfully clear illustration of what happens when someone nearby you sneezes … and you end up inhaling the virus. It’s said that a single sneeze may produce up to 40,000 droplets, which may leave your mouth at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.1

While some of the heavier droplets will fall to the floor, others remain airborne and are quickly circulated around the room. If the droplet is infected with a virus, and you inhale it, the video shows how a single virus can quickly begin producing millions of copies within your cells.

It’s a frightening prospect, until you realize that your body has more than 1 trillion cells – making 1 million viruses a mere drop in the bucket.

Also important, your body is equipped with its own highly effective defense system – your immune system – that starts killing viruses almost as quickly as they are produced. As long as your immune system can stay one step ahead of the virus, you’ll feel better again quickly … and in some cases may not even know you were ‘sick.’

It’s Flu Season… What’s the Most Important Step to Staying Well?

If you listen to public health agencies, you’ll quickly hear the message that ‘the first and most important step in protecting against the flu’ is yearly vaccination. But upon what data is this strong recommendation based?

During the 2012-2013 flu season, the flu vaccine's effectiveness was found to be just 56 percent across all age groups reviewed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) —in essence, the statistical equivalent of a coin toss. In seniors, aged 65 and over, the US flu vaccines were only 9 percent effective.

The 'gold standard' of independent scientific evaluation and analysis, the Cochrane Database Review, has issued no less than five reports between 2006 and 2010, all of which decimate the myth that flu vaccinations are “the most effective flu prevention method” available.

In real-world and not laboratory conditions, when a flu vaccine at least partially matches the circulating virus, 100 people need to be vaccinated in order to avoid just ONE set of influenza symptoms, according to Cochrane’s findings.

Yet as another flu season approaches, all these facts are conspicuously ignored by conventional medicine and media alike, and you’ll certainly never see them mentioned in any flu vaccine promotion campaign. What else won’t you typically see mentioned?

The fact that the status of your immune system is the most powerful determinant of whether or not you’ll get sick this flu season … with flu or one of the hundreds of other flu-like illnesses going around.

Your Flu Might Not Actually be the Flu

When it’s fall or winter and you start to feel feverish with a cough, sore throat, fatigue and body aches, most people automatically think ‘flu.’ If you’ve had the flu vaccine, you may wonder how you still became sick. If you didn’t, you may wish you had. Yet, how many of these illnesses are actually the flu?

Most physicians don’t bother to do the laboratory testing required to find out, because the treatment for most flu-like illnesses is the same.

Only about 20 percent of all influenza-like illness that occurs every year is actually associated with influenza viruses because many types of respiratory illnesses with flu-like symptoms can be mistaken for influenza. About 80 percent of cases of suspected influenza sent to the CDC for analysis lab test negative for type A or type B influenza.

What is also not widely shared is the fact that “most people who get influenza will recover in a few days to less than two weeks” (this is a direct quote from the CDC2).

Those who do not are much more likely to be those with compromised immune systems who develop flu-related complications, like pneumonia or bronchitis. Most deaths attributed to the flu are actually due to bacterial pneumonia, and these days, bacterial pneumonia can be effectively treated with advanced medical care and therapies like respirators and parenteral antibiotics.

Natural Immune-Boosting Strategies Give You Widespread Protection Against Viral Infections – Flu Vaccine Does Not

The CDC doesn’t even know how many people die each year from the flu, putting their estimates at between 3,000 and 49,000 people a year – and that is for ‘flu-associated’ death, which means “deaths that occur in people for whom seasonal influenza infection was likely a contributor to the cause of death, but not necessarily the primary cause of death.” The reality is the vast majority of these deaths are due to pneumonia -- not flu -- which likely accounts for only a few hundred. Yet the CDC continues to use tens of thousands as a scare tactic to drive people towards flu shots.

Again, hearing about flu deaths (which are actually typically pneumonia deaths) further contributes to the fear-mongering urging Americans to get vaccinated against the flu … without letting the public know that they’re still entirely susceptible to all of the other flu-like illnesses going around. And also keeping quiet about the fact that a flu vaccine does not protect against the ‘primary cause of death’ in most flu-associated deaths, which is pneumonia.

A far better approach would be to educate people about the importance of healthy eating, exercise and vitamin D levels – as, unlike the flu vaccine, these natural strategies do help protect against all of the viruses and bacterial infections going around since they work by bolstering your body-wide defense against all disease: your immune system.

Vitamin D: Are You Taking Advantage of This Flu-Fighting Nutrient?

A universal vaccine being developed by the pharmaceutical company Sanofi is based on the finding that people who have more virus-killing immune cells, known as CD8 T cells, either don’t get sick or experience only mild flu symptoms.3 The idea behind this vaccine is that by stimulating your body to produce more CD8 T cells, it may protect you from getting the flu, or at least from having severe symptoms.

However, while the drug company researchers brag that they know how to use a vaccine to stimulate the immune system to produce more CD8 T cells, they fail to mention that vitamin D is also known to have a direct immune-modulating effect on CD8 T cells. This was revealed in a study published in 2010.4 Other research has proposed that deprivation of sunlight and vitamin D at higher latitudes worsens CD8 T-cell deficiency.5 So, it may be, then, that a ‘universal flu vaccine’ doesn’t need to be created at all because it essentially already exists in the form of vitamin D!

Vitamin D is an important player in overall healthy immune function, but it’s also an effective antimicrobial agent in its own right, producing 200 to 300 different antimicrobial peptides in your body that kill bacteria, viruses and fungi.

Another 2010 study6 that didn't get any widespread attention also demonstrated the effectiveness of vitamin D as a preventive strategy against influenza. In fact, children taking just 1,200 IUs of vitamin D3 per day, which is considered a low dose, were shown to be 42 percent less likely to come down with the flu. I firmly believe that optimizing your vitamin D levels is the single most important and least expensive action you can take to help strengthen immune function and protect against getting sick during the flu season, and would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng/ml year-round.

Have You Thought About What You’re Eating?

If your diet contains a lot of refined sugars, grains and processed foods, you’re not doing your body any favors this flu season. Instead of giving your body the fuel it needs to function optimally, which means being healthy enough to fight off infectious viruses, you’re giving it more toxic elements that it must overcome.

For instance, too many carbohydrates in the form of sugar and grains is very unbalancing for your gut flora. Sugar is “fertilizer” for pathogenic bacteria, yeast, and fungi that can set your immune system up for an easy assault by a respiratory virus. Most people don't realize that 80 percent of your immune system actually lies in your gastrointestinal tract. That's why controlling your sugar intake is crucial for optimizing your immune system.

Additionally, making sure you’re ingesting plenty of beneficial bacteria in the foods you eat (specifically fermented foods) is also crucial. In one study, 3- to 5-year-old children who received either a single strain or combination of beneficial bacteria called probiotics twice a day for six months had:7

• Reduced fever by 53 percent and 73 percent respectively
• Decreased coughing by 41 percent and 62 percent
• Reduced runny noses by 28 percent and 59 percent

• Reduced antibiotic use by 68 percent and 84 percent (which is a major gain in and of itself because antibiotics are vastly overused in children and also devastate your gut flora)

It's worth noting that each mouthful of fermented food can provide trillions of beneficial bacteria—far more than you can get from a probiotics supplement, which will typically provide you with colony-forming units in the billions. I thought this would be a good analysis, so I tested fermented vegetables produced with our probiotic starter culture to determine their probiotic potency and was astounded to discover they had 10 trillion colony-forming units of bacteria. Literally, one serving of vegetables was equal to an entire bottle of a high potency probiotic!  Fermented foods also give you a wider variety of beneficial bacteria, so all in all, it's a more cost effective alternative. Fermenting your own foods can provide even greater savings, and is actually easier than you might think.

How’s Your Sleep Schedule and Your Stress Level?

These are important questions that your physician should be asking around flu season, and really all year long, as they also play a key role in helping you stay well.  Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired and stressed, if your body is overly fatigued or burned out it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article "Guide to a Good Night's Sleep" for some great tips to help you get quality rest, and be sure you’re thinking about your stress levels, too.

When researchers from Carnegie Mellon University infected study participants with a common cold virus, those who had reported being under stress were twice as likely to get sick.8

Chronic stress also exerts a powerful negative influence on your epigenetic health, turning on and off the expression of genes that directly influence your likelihood of getting sick. Using techniques like energy psychology, you can correct the emotional short-circuiting that contributes to your chronic stress, which helps to optimize your genetic expression. My favorite technique for this is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but there are many others, such as yoga, journaling and prayer.

Exercise Can Help You Have a Flu-Free Flu Season

If you are exercising regularly the likelihood of your acquiring a cold or other viral illness is significantly reduced, and studies have clearly shown this. In one such study, staying active cut the risk of contracting a cold by 50 percent, and cut the severity of symptoms by 31 percent among those who did catch a cold. The researchers noted that each round of exercise may lead to a boost in circulating immune system cells that could help ward off a virus.

It is actually a well-known fact that exercise improves the circulation of immune cells in your blood. The job of these cells is to neutralize pathogens throughout your body. The better these cells circulate, the more efficient your immune system is at locating and defending against viruses and other pathogens that may otherwise opportunistically overrun your body.

Due to the key role that exercise plays in supporting your immune system, it's crucial to treat exercise like a medicine that must be properly prescribed, monitored and maintained for you to enjoy the most benefits. Essentially, you need to have a varied routine that includes high-intensity interval training (HIIT) like Peak Fitness.

Five More Steps to Avoiding the Flu Naturally

It’s a fact that disease-causing viruses and bacteria are all around us. Whether you come into contact with the flu or another variety, you need to focus on maintaining a robust and well-functioning immune system to avoid getting sick. As mentioned, I believe optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the most potent preventive strategies available, followed by diet (including fermented foods to optimize your gut flora), stress relief, exercise and sleep.

There are other factors that can come into play too, of course. The following guidelines will also act in concert to support your immune system and help you avoid getting sick:

• Take a High-Quality Source of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils (think vegetable oils) as it will seriously damage your immune response.
• Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap using synthetic chemicals for this – conventional antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.
• Tried and True Hygiene Measures. In addition to washing your hands regularly, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, ideally with the crook of your elbow (to avoid contaminating your hands). If possible, avoid close contact with those who are sick and, if you are sick, avoid close contact with those who are well.
• Use Natural Immune-Boosters. Examples include oil of oregano and garlic, both of which offer effective protection against a broad spectrum of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in your body. And unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, they do not appear to lead to resistance and the development of ‘super germs.’
• Avoid Hospitals. I'd recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency and need expert medical care, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds. The best place to get recover from illness that is not life threatening is usually in the comfort of your own home.

Clinical Scientist Sets the Record Straight on Hazards of Sugar

Clinical Scientist Sets the Record Straight on Hazards of Sugar

January 05, 2014 | 162,021 views

Visit the Mercola Video Library

By Dr. Mercola

Dr. Richard Johnson is the head of nephrology at the University of Colorado and is actively engaged in clinical research. Over the past 25 years, much of his research (which is funded by the National Institutes of Health) has focused on fructose and obesity-related diseases.

Not only has he published some 500 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, he’s also authored books along the way. His latest book, The Fat Switch, is a really intriguing book that shatters many of our age-old myths about diet and weight loss.

His hypothesis is that, rather than being driven by eating too many calories and lack of exercise, obesity is primarily driven by eating too much refined sugar, particularly fructose. According to Dr. Johnson:

“The conventional wisdom is that people are eating too much and exercising too little. Of course, there’s a lot of evidence that supports that... It’s too much energy in, too little out, and the rest is turned into fat.

This is the law of thermodynamics, and there’s some truth to it. The issue is that when people talk about this, they seem to think that it’s the culture that’s driving obesity...

But what we know is that animals in general will regulate their weight very tightly... In order to gain weight significantly, you actually have to block your sensation of fullness, so that you’re hungry more, and you have to block your energy output. You actually block the ability to oxidize fat to burn fat.”

How Leptin Resistance Causes Obesity

In order for you to significantly gain weight, you must first become leptin resistant. Leptin is a hormone that helps you regulate your appetite. When your leptin levels rise, it signals your body that you’re full, so you’ll stop eating.

However, as you become increasingly resistant to the effects of leptin, you end up eating more. Many people who are overweight also have an impairment in their   body’s ability to oxidize fat, which leads to a low-energy state.

The question then is: what drives this basic process? Why do you become leptin resistant in the first place?

Dr. Johnson’s research clearly shows that refined sugar (in particular fructose) is exceptionally effective at causing leptin resistance in animals, and it’s very effective at blocking the burning of fat.

“When you give fructose to animals, they lose their ability to control their appetite, they eat more, and they exercise less. Fructose  looks like it’s playing a direct role in weight gain,” he says.

His research also reveals that fructose has effects independent of this mechanism to induce this metabolic syndrome. Whereas fructose increases weight through the standard mechanism of stimulating more food intake and blocking the burning of fat, even when you control caloric intake, fructose can affect body composition.

This is because when you eat fructose, you actually generate more fat in your liver for the same amount of energy intake, compared to other types of sugar... For example, if you calorically restrict an animal but give it a high-fructose diet or a high-sugar diet, it will still produce fatty liver and will still become insulin resistant. According to Dr. Johnson, fructose has two effects:

1. It stimulates weight gain through its effects on your appetite and by blocking the burning of fat
2. It also changes your body composition to increase body fat even when you are on a caloric restriction

Fruits... Are You Eating Too Much of a Good Thing?

Most overweight  Americans have some degree of insulin and leptin resistance. This also includes people with diabetes, and many individuals with high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

If you fall into this category, it would be prudent for you to restrict your fructose consumption to about 15 to 25 grams of fructose per day from all sources.

Those who are normal weight and relatively healthy may also benefit from reducing their intake of fructose, particularly from foods containing high fructose corn syrup or sugar, as the effects of high sugar  and HFCS intake may have effects  that build up over time.

Naturally, fruits also have fructose but contain many beneficial nutrients and anti-oxidants. For someone who is obese, one has to be careful with eating fruits that have substantial fructose content. Some fruits, such as lemons and limes, have minimal fructose content and are safe.

Other fruits, such as grapefruit, kiwi, and berries, also have relatively low fructose content and high levels of nutrients.  However, fruit juices, dried fruits, and some fruits that are rich in fructose (such as pears, red apples, and plums) should be eaten relatively sparingly. Dr. Johnson explains:

“Most animals will regulate their weight very carefully. They even regulate it in a seasonal way. Towards the fall and before winter, many animals will gain weight, particularly animals that hibernate. They will dramatically increase their fat. A lot of them do so by actually becoming leptin resistant and by blocking their ability to oxidize fat.

It’s the same mechanism that we see in people who are getting fat except these animals are doing it purposely in preparation for hibernation. It’s a survival advantage.

Normally, a natural fruit is also a source of fructose. But most natural fruits have relatively small amounts of fructose, like four to eight grams. If you eat a lot of fruit, that could be an issue. But they also often have a lot of things that are very healthy, like antioxidants, flavonols, and so forth.

We’ve actually discovered that many of these compounds in natural fruit can counter some of the effects of the fructose. So when you have a fruit that has a small amount of fructose, oftentimes the good components in the fruit can keep it neutralized.”

Interestingly, as a fruit ripens, the sugar content goes up while many of the antioxidants and other beneficial nutrients go down—and animals appear to instinctively know this. Bears, for example, will eat huge amounts of berries in the fall to fatten up. It’s worth keeping this in mind, as the fructose in fruit can add up quickly if you eat a lot of it.

“There was just a paper published in the British Medical Journal, which looked at individual fruits as a risk factor for obesity and diabetes,” Dr. Johnson says. “Certain fruits, which we know have relatively low-sugar content and very high vitamin and antioxidant contents, are actually quite healthy. Berries, in particular blueberries, are very, very healthy.

But juices, where you put all the fruit together and you get a lot of sugar in one glass, it’s just too much. When you drink that, you can flood your liver with fructose, and then that will overwhelm the benefits of all the antioxidants. You’ll still get an increased risk for fatty liver, obesity, and diabetes from fruit juice.”

Obesity Increases Your Body’s Absorption of Fructose

Another interesting tidbit is that if you’re insulin resistant and obese, it doesn’t take much fructose to activate the processes that will keep you fat. Some of Dr. Johnson’s most recent research shows that the more high-fructose corn syrup you eat, the more you absorb and the more you metabolize it. Thus, eating fruits may be more of an issue if you are insulin resistant, whereas fruit intake is likely safer or even beneficial if you are lean and healthy.

This helps explain the paradox of how some very fit people can eat a lot of fruit without gaining any weight. I’m not insulin resistant, and when I decided to play around with adding some extra fruit to my diet on strength training days, I actually lost five pounds, which to me didn’t make sense at first, since fructose should do the opposite. Part of that may be related to the fact that my body was optimized to burn fat as my primary fuel, as I was regularly practicing intermittent fasting.

According to Dr. Johnson, if you exercise regularly, a small amount of fructose can actually be quite beneficial, because the fructose will accelerate glucose absorption in your gut and improve muscle performance. But it really depends on how your body metabolizes the fructose. Your body normally cannot absorb fructose well. But the more fructose you eat, the more the transporters that allow for fructose uptake in your gut are turned on. Hence, the more fructose your body will absorb. Lean children tend to only absorb about half of the fructose they consume, whereas obese children who have fatty liver disease absorb close to 100 percent.

“Not only that – the kids with fatty liver, we’ve previously shown that they have high levels of enzymes in their liver that metabolize the fructose. Not only did they absorb more, but they metabolized it more effectively. This is a problem,” he says.

The Power of Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a powerful tool to help you resolve your insulin and leptin resistance. It’s also one of the fastest ways to shed excess pounds, as it helps shift your body from burning sugar to burning fat as its primary fuel. To me, the most remarkable aspect of intermittent fasting is that once you make the transition, your hunger and cravings for sweets virtually disappears.

Granted, in order to get it right, you need to severely restrict your sugar or fructose intake. A healthy diet becomes all the more important when you start intermittently fasting. Ideally, you’ll want to swap your non-vegetable carbs for healthful fats. Most  benefit from anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of their daily calories in the form of healthful fat, such as avocado, olives, butter, nuts (I prefer macadamia and pecans), and coconut oil for example.

When it comes to protein, Dr. Johnson agrees that most people could benefit from cutting down on animal protein, especially those high in purines, such as shrimp and lobster. According to Dr. Johnson, a high animal protein diet can accelerate kidney disease, and this appears to be a result of the purines. The following infographic offers a quick review of the basics of intermittent fasting. For a more in-depth review, please see this previous article.

Exercising while fasting can further boost results. A simple way of doing this is to exercise in the morning, and skipping breakfast. As explained by Dr. Johnson:

“If you exercise at night, you’re basically burning primarily your glycogen and carbohydrate stores. You don’t actually burn too much fat. But if you exercise in the morning, you burn more fat than carbohydrates.

The question is why? The reason is that as soon as you quit eating, you’re burning the carbohydrates in your liver. It takes about eight to 10 hours for the glycogen to be completely depleted. What happens is that every time you get a good night’s sleep, during that time your body is burning off the carbohydrates. In the morning, you are basically in a low-carbohydrate state, and you’re now burning fat. That’s why exercising in the morning burns more fat, because you don’t have the big carbohydrate stores.”

If you need to eat a little in order to exercise, make sure to avoid all sugars and carbs. That means no bread products or juices, for example. Essentially, you want to carbohydrate-restrict completely in the morning, in order to allow your body to keep burning fat instead of sugar. As noted by Dr. Johnson, another “trick” to really making intermittent fasting work for you is to restrict most all your non-veggie carbs to a very short period of time each day (typically dinner). He recommends restricting your carb consumption to a window of just two hours per day.

Exercise Stimulates Your Body’s Energy Production

Exercise is really important in this entire process. Not only does it help burn off fat; it also stimulates your mitochondria. Mitochondria are the “power stations” inside your cells that produce the energy that drives your body. As explained by Dr. Johnson, sugar and obesity are both associated with a decrease in the energy levels in your cells, because of the adverse effects sugar has on your mitochondria. Over time, obese people actually lose mitochondria. There are only three factors that stimulate mitochondria really well, according to Dr. Johnson, and those are:

1. Exercise
2. Vitamin C (it even helps block some of the adverse effects of sugar. Dr. Johnson recommends getting about 500 mg of vitamin C per day)
3. Dark, raw chocolate, high in flavonols

Uric Acid as a Marker for Fructose Toxicity

Dr. Johnson promotes using your uric acid level as a marker for fructose toxicity, which we’ve discussed at some length in a previous interview. Interestingly, for whatever reason, I have a relatively high baseline uric acid level. It’s above Dr. Johnson’s ideal recommendation of 5 or less. Mine’s typically closer to 6. When I implemented intermittent fasting and eliminated most carbs from my diet, replacing them with high quality fats, my uric acid shot up closer to 8. Still, I have no symptoms of gout or other uric acid-related issues. I often wondered if perhaps it was a complication of intermittent fasting, however according to Dr. Johnson, such an effect is fairly normal when you first start fasting and become ketotic.

“We don’t really know why. It might be a compensation mechanism. But it does come down over time under a ketotic diet,” he says.

That said, uric acid is a very strong predictor for developing obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and fatty liver. If you have a high-serum uric acid—7 or higher—your risk for developing diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome is significant.

Why Many Need General Carb Restriction in Addition to Restricting Fructose

Dr. Johnson recently published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, showing that restricting fructose may not be enough if you’re severely overweight or obese. General carb restriction may also be needed in such cases. The reason for this is that restricting carbs allows you to burn off glycogens. But Dr. Johnson’s team has also made another significant discovery, which explains why general carb restriction is necessary for those struggling to shed excess pounds:

“We’ve recently had another discovery: carbs like glucose or flour and bread may be able to cause metabolic syndrome in their own right, but it’s through fructose. How does that work?  What we did is we fed animals glucose. That’s a different sugar. There’s no fructose in it. It’s what’s present in flour and bread.  When we fed mice a high-glucose diet, to our amazement, they actually over time started to develop fatty liver, insulin resistance, obesity, and all those bad things.

When we studied them, we found that they were converting some of the glucose to fructose in their liver. Even though they weren’t eating fructose, they were able to use the white flour and the glucose that they eat to convert it to fructose in their body.

We then used special mice that cannot metabolize fructose. They are lean, healthy machines. When we gave them glucose, they did not get fatty liver and they did not get insulin resistance. We could show that the mechanism by which carbs are causing fatty liver is actually still through fructose.”

So, the bottom line is that this is another argument for avoiding bread, rice, and other non-vegetable carbs—especially if you are insulin resistant. If you’re trying to lose weight, restricting carbohydrates will your body to burn fat better, and prevent fructose from being formed in your liver.

The Difference Between High Fructose Corn Syrup and Table Sugar

According to Dr. Johnson, most of the fructose you get comes from table sugar, which is sucrose, and from high-fructose corn syrup. Whole fruits actually play a minimal role in the amount of fructose most people eat Dr. Johnson explains:

“Sucrose is table sugar. It comes from sugar cane and sugar beets. It’s a molecule of glucose and fructose that are bound together in what we call as disaccharide. But basically, the glucose and fructose are bound together. One gram of sucrose is half a gram of fructose.

High-fructose corn syrup is a mixture of fructose and glucose that are mixed freely together. The ratio can vary. Usually, like in soft drinks, the amount of fructose is higher than the amount of glucose. It’s typically 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. A recent study showed that the industry sometimes adds even more fructose in soft drinks; a lot of times it’s 60 percent or 65 percent. It’s really quite a significant amount of more fructose than you see with table sugar.”

There are important differences between these two types of sugars. Dr. Johnson’s team has done studies comparing the metabolic effects of fructose and sucrose, finding that high-fructose corn syrup causes greater increases in fructose blood levels, higher uric acid rise, and a higher rise in blood pressure. The unbound form of fructose also causes more fatty liver disease in animals than the bound form found in sucrose.

“The bottom line is it looks like high-fructose corn syrup is different from sucrose,” he says. “It looks like it is worse. But both of them are major sources of fructose. You don’t really want to switch from high-fructose corn syrup to table sugar; you want to reduce both. But in terms of effects, they are different. I believe high-fructose corn syrup is biologically worse than sugar.”

Understand the Ramifications of a High-Fructose/High-Carb Diet

People everywhere are finally waking up to the indisputable fact that all sugars are not created equal when it comes to the physical end results they create. Again, part of what makes fructose so unhealthy is that it is metabolized by your liver to fat in far more rapidly than any other sugar. But recent research also reveals that, if you are overweight or obese, your liver tends to convert some of the glucose you consume into fructose, even if you’re not eating fructose primarily from sources such as HFCS or sugar.

What this means is that if you are overweight, or insulin and leptin resistant, you likely need to restrict not only fructose from your diet in order to shed the excess weight, but other non-vegetable carbohydrates (such as potatoes, rice, and grains) as well. In addition to that, maintaining a regular eating schedule can be very helpful. Personally, I believe there is good reason to consider a scheduled eating or intermittent fasting program. There is an emerging consensus that narrowing the window of time that you consume food may have enormous health benefits and also help you reduce your percentage of body fat.

I've revised my own eating schedule to eliminate breakfast and restrict the time I eat food to a period of about six to seven hours each day, which is typically from noon to 6 or 7 pm for the majority of days. This still gives me a net fasting time of 17-18 hours a day. However, about 25 percent of the time I am traveling, so I’m more liberal on those days. Additionally, when I am at my ideal body weight, I will have fruit immediately before or after a workout. To learn more, please see my previous article, “The Power of Intermittent Fasting.”

You can order Dr. Johnson's latest book, The Fat Switch at 50% off below.

Dr. Mercola and Dr. Johnson Discuss Sugar and Obesity

The Medicine for Healing Diabetes

BLOG POSTS BY GABRIEL COUSENS M.D.

The Medicine For Healing Diabetes

Posted by: The Culture of Life on 12/31/2013

• Categories: HEALTH & WELLNESS

Type 2 diabetes is a worldwide pandemic. There are approximately 400 million people in the world who now have type 2 diabetes. As outlined in my book, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: Revised Edition, the high success of my live-food vegan cure stands as clear evidence that type 2 and, surprisingly enough, type 1 diabetes is curable, contrary to what is taught in almost every medical school in the world that diabetes is incurable and a downhill descent into an accelerated death. In the allopathic teaching, type 2 diabetes may take as much as 10-19 years off one’s lifespan. In this context, diabetes is accelerated aging. My research with the last 120 diabetes to come through my Diabetes Recovery Program at my clinic at Tree of Life Center, US in Patagonia, AZ, shows that in a 21-day period 61% of type 2 non-insulin dependant diabetics (NIDDM), 24% of type 2 insulin dependant diabetics (IDDM), and 21% of completely documented type 1 diabetics, were cured; and 31.4% of type 1 diabetics also came off all medication. The definition of cured means a fasting blood sugar of 99 or less and taking no oral hypoglycemic medication or insulin. By 3 weeks 86.4% of type 2 insulin dependant diabetics were off all medication. One hundred percent of NIDDM type 2 diabetics were medication-free after 3 weeks. In summary 97% of all type 2 diabetics were off all medications in 3 weeks. A collective percentage of 39% of all type 2 diabetics were healed in 3 weeks. No statistical results for any diabetic program have come close to my particular vegan live food approach. These positive results increased over the course of a year following our program. The remaining 68.6% of type 1 diabetics who remain on insulin had an average of a 67.5% drop in their use of insulin.

In 1999, a study in Great Britain showed a diet high in salad and vegetables throughout the year had an 80% lower risk of type 2 diabetes than those who ate vegetables less often. A high level meta-analysis of 12 studies from around the world cited in Diabetologia in 2009 showed that meat eating increases the incidence of diabetes by 35-50%. The only other study that suggests that diabetes may be partially reversed with a vegan diet was Dr. Neal Barnard’s excellent study showing that people eating a natural vegan diet over a 12-week period, were able to have a 46% average reduction in medication (with no actual cures noted).

Dr. Cousens with Claudia, A Diabetes Recovery Program Participant. October 2013

There are two levels of insight that help me design a program that would get these unusual results. The first is a social-spiritual insight – “There is never enough food to feed a hungry soul.” In an effort to feed their hungry souls in our modern world people have taken to over-eating and especially over-eating of junk food and sweets in a futile attempt to bring sweetness into their lives and fill their emptiness. This certainly is contributing to why in the U.S. we are seeing an epidemic of obesity. Eighty-two percent of diabetics are overweight, and 48% are obese. Some people call this pandemic “diabesity”. An important part of my 3-week program was to create a teaching and psycho-spiritual processes aimed at helping people let go of their eating and sugar addictions and fill that emptiness of the soul with meaning, value, and spirit.

The second aspect of this approach is a basic theory for understanding diabetes, which in essence is a new definition of diabetes that I called the chronic diabetes degenerative syndrome (CDDS). In this context, diabetes can be understood as an accelerated chronic degenerative aging process that is primarily a genetic and epigenetic toxic downgrade, resulting in leptin, insulin, and other hormonal and metabolic dysregulations, including protein, lipid, and carbohydrate imbalances. CDDS also involves a chronic inflammatory, accelerated aging process as a driving force. This degenerative process arises from a diet primarily high in sugar (including both simple and complex carbohydrates), trans-fatty acids, processed and junk foods, and cooked animal fat and protein. It is made worse from a diet low in fiber combined with a lifestyle of stress; obesity; lack of exercise; lack of sleep; and general toxic exposure including pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, and environmental toxins. It is an insufficient diet that adds to the vitamin, mineral, and antioxidant deficiencies found in type 2 diabetes. The degeneration syndrome is associated with insulin and leptin resistance. The tendency for developing CDDS increases with age. It is driven by a toxic degenerative epigenetic memory program. To heal diabetes type 2, one has to turn off the toxic metabolic memory and the chronic para-inflammation associated with it.

Based on my theory, I designed a program that was specific for upgrading the genetic and epigenetic program back to normal and for turning off the toxic metabolic memory, and which reversed the leptin, insulin, and other hormonal metabolic dysregulations. A key to this was switching from the relatively high complex carbohydrate diet, that both Dr. Barnard used in his study and that I previously used, to a moderately low complex carbohydrate diet. This was a key breakthrough that explains the difference between the classic vegan approach and my upgraded approach for curing diabetes. I have seen a rapid reversal of the main chronic degenerative symptomology. Some people have been legally blind and unemployable and within three months their vision returned. People arrive with significant abnormal kidney function tests, with our program being the “last chance” before they were to go on kidney dialysis, and within 3 weeks their kidney function tests have either returned to normal or close enough to normal that they no longer need kidney dialysis. Many had significant neuropathy with an inability to feel feet, sexual organs, and decreased vibratory sense throughout the body. Many of the neuropathy symptoms disappeared over the course of the three weeks. Ninety-five percent of those with high blood pressure went to normal blood pressure in three weeks. Many experienced improved digestive function from gastric paresis to normal digestive and bowel function. Many had significantly improved clarity of mind and memory and decreased general confusion. Diabetes increases the rate of glycation, which disturbs mental functioning; and diabetes often creates insulin resistance of the brain, which seems to be associated with hippocampal degeneration that is very much a part of the memory disturbance and general confusion. Over the course of the 3 weeks much of the mental confusion and memory loss generally cleared entirely.

The secret to this success is a 100% organic, live-food, plant-source-only diet organized along a macronutrient design that was/is different than the traditional vegan macronutrient paradigm of a low fat, low protein, and high complex carbohydrate diet. I designed a moderate low carbohydrate diet of 25-35% initially and up to 30-50% in the long term. This is a slightly ketogenic diet. During healing the phase, clients avoid all simple and complex carbohydrates except leafy greens, non-starchy, low-glycemic vegetables, sprouts, and sea vegetables. This includes the avoidance of all grain, all sugars, white flour, sweets, and sweeteners, except for stevia and naturally derived birch tree xylitol and their various forms. This moderate-low carbohydrate diet significantly decreased and/or healed both insulin resistance and leptin resistance, which are the two driving hormonal imbalances in type 2 diabetes. The fat intake was 25-45% with a high emphasis on omega 3 foods like nuts, seeds, oils, and purslane. All the fats were raw and plant-based. No trans fats were used. The overall holistic effect of this 25-45% raw, plant-based fat diet resulted in a drop in total cholesterol to 159 and a cardio-protective triglyceride count of 82. This drop in triglycerides is primarily due to the moderate-low carbohydrate diet as carbohydrates raise triglycerides. The protein intake was 10-25% of the diet. The clients also were taught how to individualize their diets for their particular constitutions.

The power of a 100% live-food, plant-source-only diet also created a significant anti-inflammatory effect by decreasing para-inflammation by as much as five-fold, as measured by the C-reactive protein (CRP). This is important because inflammation is a driving force behind aging and thus diabetes. Use of all organic food minimized the negative effects of pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals on insulin, leptin, and pancreas beta-cell function in general. In addition, the third week of the program and the follow-up program included the use of high-potency proteolytic enzymes for decreasing para-inflammation, peri-ductal scaring and beta cell scaring and destruction. Other herbs and supplements were used such as chromium, vanadium, magnesium, B vitamins, calcium, zinc, potassium, and manganese, and herbs such as gymnema sylvestre, curcummin, fenugreek, cinnamon, cayenne, holy basil, parsley, banaba, shilajit, bitter melon, goat’s rue, and bilberry. These herbs were added later in the program and were clearly not the cause of the healing, but they have been used for centuries for the amelioration of diabetes and decreasing blood sugar. Their role was to support the activated healing process. People were kept on them for three months after their fasting blood sugar was 99 or less and they were free of all diabetic medications. Moderate exercise and moderate sleep (7-8 hours nightly) was emphasized. People were advised not to return to fish, chicken, meat, or dairy. After people were healed for three months they moved to a maintenance diet of 80-100% live-food, plant-source-only, healthy carbohydrate of 30-50%, including moderate non-gliadin/non-gluten grains, cooked beans, and legumes. They remain on this maintenance diet indefinitely. Part of our program in the third week is teaching people how to prepare tasty organic, vegan, live-food meals for both healing (1.0) and maintenance phases (1.5). This empowers them to maintain this diet long term successful way.

In each generation we are given the medicine for the healing of that generation. In the context of the current diabetes pandemic a 100% organic, 80-100% live-food, plant-source-only diet is the medicine for healing this generation and future generations.

Create a trackback from your own site.