Posted by JLx on January 1, 2004, at 20:08:12
In reply to Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) = POISON, posted by Ame Sans Vie on January 1, 2004, at 12:05:27
Hi Michael,
Thanks for posting this as it I think it's important food for thought. I've just started reading "Excitotoxins" by Russell Blaylock, M.D. (a neurosurgeon) which evidently has a great deal of cautionary information about aspartame and MSG -- especially for children and their developing brains.
I used to think that the aspartame issue was overblown scare tactics -- primarily because I could notice no difference in how I felt from drinking several cans of diet Pepsi per day to going cold turkey for many weeks. Now I tend to think that I probably just couldn't tell that it was affecting me because I was so out of whack in general otherwise. Now that I have been following a more "clean" and spare diet for many weeks and have been supplementing with some essentials previously lacking (such as magnesium and methyl donors) I can feel the aggravating affects of MSG. I haven't retried aspartame lately and don't plan to as I'm convinced that while it may be harmless to some people, it's not something GOOD for my brain, which is precariously in balance at best. ;)
I would suggest that people at least try eliminating it as well as all sources of MSG to see if they find some relief as you and many other people have.
Did you do the sleepless experiment you posted previously about considering, btw?
Also, I'm glad you're back here posting as I'd like to pick your brain about Hemi-sync brainwave/binaural beat tapes, if you wouldn't mind, :) but I should probably start a new board for that one.
JL
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