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EPILEPSY
STUDY INCRIMINATES ASPARTAME IN MEDICATIONS
By Dr. GLEN MABSON, Phd,
CEO: Epileptic Foundation of Maui dba Pacific
Epilepsy Soc.
A Nonprofit Community Supported Public Foundation IRS
501-(C)(3)
808 879 8999
The Pacific Epilepsy Society in
affiliation with the Epileptic Foundation of Maui has completed a seven year
study on Epilepsy and Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in
The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is the
inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized
anti-seizure drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOAT, TEGRATOL and several others produced by
major pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the manufacture of Dilantin changed the description of the 100 mg. Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with red
stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100 mg
of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin
capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical
Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal his name,
but said they were adding aspartame. He said the new larger orange
& white Dilantin is also labeled
100 mg,
Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the
Epilepsy Foundation of
Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO
INTERVIEW WITH DR. MABSON:
by Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum
MARTINI: How did you get started in this
investigation, and why, Dr. Mabson
MABSON From 1999 to 2007 The Epileptic Foundation of Maui conducted
a survey on the number of people in Maui suffering from the three most
prevalent types of epileptic seizures:
(1) Absence (2) Complex-partial (3) Grand Mal Seizures.
4,975 victims from a
In an effort to determine the most effective medication it was discovered that
well over 50% of the victims consumed medications containing aspartame. We
inquired as to what anti-seizure medications were mostly prescribed to control
their seizures. Dilantin, Tegratol
and Depacote contained most aspartame amount among
the 22 most utilized anti-seizure medications.
In 2007 the Dilantin changed the 100 mg white capsule
with red stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which
contains 100 mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin capsule found the seizure rate increased in every
case.
Impaired vision and thinking, and it is suspected
glaucoma in fifty patients who never had visual problems prior to taking the
new Dilantin capsule. We suspected this was an
experiment out of control. A manufacturer of Dilantin
then confirmed aspartame is in the drug.
MARTINI: Were there any deaths having to do with aspartame?
MABSON: Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, has been prescribing
aspartame to patients in large quantities with negative results, in some cases
as many as 150 highly suspected deaths. He is president of the Epilepsy
Foundation of
MARTINI: What is the difference between your organization and
Steins?
MABSON: A big and important difference: The Epileptic Foundation of Maui
(EFM) provides first aid to epilepsy victims, hands on help, with a 24/7 Help
Line 1 888-919-9444 We have trained more than 5000 parents, Maui
Police, Department of Public Safety, IRS, Hawaii Business and Public
Schools at no cost! We provide immediate, practical lifesaving care to
seizure victims.
This is very personal to me. I have traumatic epilepsy from
torture during 18 months as a civilian prisoner of war in
MARTINI: So what does Steins organization do?
MABSON: It sells books and some outdated documents, but
provides no personal service.
MARTINI: In what journals have you published?
MABSON: Among many
others, the following: Neurology 48:621.
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Note: It has been known that aspartame is a seizure triggering drug
for three decades. In a 52 week aspartame
oral toxicity study on 7 infant monkeys, 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died. http://66.34.11.36/SC-18862.pdf
The FDAs 1995 list of 92 documented symptoms from
10,000 citizen complaints named 4 types of
seizures, death, blindness, sexual disfunction and a
long list of neurological injuries.
http://www.aspartame.ca/fdasympt1.pdf
Dr. Richard Wurtman testified against aspartame to
Congress. He told UPI investigator Gregory Gordon that he was threatened
by the VP of G D Searle Co, aspartame producer , that
his funding would be killed if he studied aspartame seizures. So Wurtman speaks no more
against aspartame but he left quite a paper trail. http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm
Mrs. Barbara Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey, tells about her daughter
Julia:
In April 1986 Julia was completing her graduate studies, was diagnosed
with temporal lobe epilepsy. A neurologist in
Thank you for writing to us about your daughters
condition that may very well be associated with NutraSweet. He requested
that I send him specific information about Julies
neurological problems, then arranged for her to be evaluated at
When the testing was completed, my daughter was told that she had been
misdiagnosed by her
I also contacted Dr. H.J. Roberts in
This case is presented in two of Dr. Roberts books
exposing aspartame.
How do aspartame makers get research to show their poison is harmless? The
golden rule applies: He who supplies the Gold makes the Rules.
Researchers-for-hire are vassals of the corporations paying them. If they come
back with the honest analysis: Your junk is a killer! they
get blacklisted, so naturally their report reads: Your glorious scientific
breakthrough is marvelous, safe, effective and
wonderful and everybody in the World should take it twice a day!
[If we don't lie about it somebody else will!]
And should you publish a medical magazine, all it takes to get ridiculous fake
research published is a fat advertising contract. Dr. Ralph Walton correlated
scientific studies with their funding and determined that 92% of independent
studies unfunded by corporations, show aspartame problems,
but 100% of corporate controlled research declare it safe. http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html
G. D. Searle Cos reports to the FDA were so bad that
the Justice Department initiated prosecution for fraud. The easy to fix for
Searle: was to hire the prosecutors, who stalled until the statute of
limitations was about to run out, then left the Government.
You just cant make a poison safe. Here is the
famous FDA audit, the Bressler Report: http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt
Dr. Ralph Walton did his own study on aspartame which was then owned by
Monsanto who refused to sell him the aspartame because they couldnt
control his research. But the study was shut down after one man had a retinal
detachment and never regained the sight in one eye. Another volunteer had conjunctival bleeding and others complained of being
poisoned. In speaking to Dr.Walton about this study,
he replied: We have known for many years that aspartame lowers the
seizure threshold. To combine an anticonvulsive with aspartame to make
seizures more likely is outrageous. Read his report on aspartame seizures and
psychiatric disorders. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_and_psychiatric_disorders.htm
Here is research by Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center, showing
scientific abuse in seizure research and aspartame by industry. http://www.dorway.com/wurtman2.html
Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner, who
fought with Dr. Olney to prevent aspartame approval commented on the Epileptic
Foundation of Mauis study:
This study has confirmed that aspartame triggers both seizures and epilepsy,
but this isnt news to me. In 1986 I was the attorney
for the Community Nutrition Institute who petitioned FDA to ban aspartame for
that exact reason. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
surveyed 80 people who experienced seizures after consuming aspartame.
The petition of Community Nutrition Institutes petition said:
These 80 cases meet the FDA's definition of an
imminent hazard to the public health, which requires FDA to expeditiously
remove a product from the market." His case went all the way to the
Supreme Court and was turned down, which shows the power of the manufacturers,
because how could any Supreme Court Justice who examined proof that
aspartame triggers seizures let it stay on the market.
Our Supreme Court is overwhelmed by Big Pharma's
influence as shown by the Court's February decision, Riegel
v. Medtronic Inc., barring lawsuits in state courts that challenge and contest
the safety/effectiveness of medical devices that are FDA approved.
Recently lawmakers have unveiled plans to introduce legislation in the House
and Senate to overturn that decision which restricts states authority and
deprives afflicted patients of any recourse for damages.
Next Big Pharma will attempt to become free of any
liability from dangerous drugs that inflict disability and death on consumers.
Of course this is unconstitutional. Had the FDA banned aspartame in l986
thousands of aspartame victims would still be alive.
Subsequently FDA listed 92 aspartame symptoms including four types of seizures,
and death, which were tabulated from over 10,000 volunteered consumer
complaints.
On
FDA list of reactions to aspartame named grand mal seizures, seizures and convulsions,
petit mal seizures, now called absence seizures, simple partial seizures &
complex partial seizures. An imminent health hazard amendment in October to a 6 year old Citizens Petition to
ban aspartame by Dr. Betty Martini, Founder of
The Epileptic Foundation of Mauis research shows
anti-seizure drugs contain seizure triggering aspartame which they give to
epileptics to stop seizures. When will this obscene insanity cease.
H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP authored the
encyclopedic1,000 page text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic , and
has reported on aspartame seizures for years, as well as drug interaction with
anti-seizure medication. He said:
Considering the large body of data pointing to aspartame-induced or aggravated
epilepsy, I regard the virtual total lack of interest therein as
disgraceful. For any who doubt the reality of this association, I have
detailed the clinical and experimental
information in many articles and four texts over the past quarter century. This
issue has been compounded by the addition of aspartame to a number of drugs
used to treat seizures. (www.sunsentpress.com)
Dr. Kenneth P. Stoller explains:
When large amounts of unopposed phenylalanine (1/3rd of the aspartame molecule)
hits the brain it causes serotonin levels to crash which lowers seizure
threshold, and in many cases causes frank seizures. This information has been
known since the 1970s when the original research was done on monkeys but kept
from the FDA by the then owner of the patent G. D. Searle. This is why
the FDA called the
President, International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc www.hbotnm.com
Medical Director, Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico
By law a food additive must be inert, non-reactive. Aspartame is a chemical
poison, an excitoneurotoxic drug that interacts with
virtually all drugs and vaccines. Because it rapidly degrades it quickly
becomes adulterated. Its illegal to ship adulterated
products according to interstate commerce laws. Only by the political clout of
Don Rumsfeld, who was hired as CEO of the Searle Co
to get it on the market, is it now poisoning the world. http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com wrote in
Health & Nutrition to save Your Life: "So in the case of diet
drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain aluminum fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins
found in aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government-approved toxic
soup imaginable." ....He says that drinking even one diet cola
a day can cause formaldehyde buildup in cells, so
that the amount of the toxin increases daily. "
He also wrote that "phenylalanine is a precursor of the catecholamine
neurotransmitters in the brain and elevated levels in the brain have been
associated with seizures. These catecholamines are
metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide
products that can lead to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation within neurons.
"Likewise aspartic acid, an excitotoxin, acts as
an excitatory neurotransmitter and can lower the seizure threshold making a
seizure more likely. The additive effect of aspartic acid and phenylalanine
would significantly increase the likelihood of a seizure, especially under hypoglycemic conditions. This would occur if a diet drink
is substituted for a meal, or if one is on a stringent diet. It is well known
that hypoglycemia greatly magnifies the excitotoxic effects of these ingredients,"
Now aspartame even in drugs, the very drugs that are used to treat the problems
aspartame triggers in the first place, like seizures.
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Note the FDA wanted to add a warning label on epileptic drugs because of
suicidal thoughts and behavior.
A panel of experts were convened and told the FDA to
skip the black box warning. Who were the experts, Big Pharma.
Is there any question regarding who is running the FDA? Recently the drug
Singulair was in question because of suicidal
tendencies. Even a 7 year old was suicidal. Singulair
has aspartame in it. The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure
threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers bipolar,
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, anxiety, mood swings, etc. The FDA is probably
still in the "probing" stage,
and never gets any further because they are Big Pharma's
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