Russell L. Blaylock, MD discusses MSG, aspartame, excitotoxins with
Mike Adams: Murray 2006.09.27
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1371

"Mike: What are the big points readers to take away? What do you think
they need to remember in order to protect themselves?

Dr. Blaylock: You need to abstain from all of these things. Aspartame
is not a necessary nutrient, and neither is MSG. The weight of the
evidence is overwhelming. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic
syndrome and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more
aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products.

The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It
produces changes in the brain that are irreversible. What we've found
is that it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the
hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are
abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological
function."

Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of
MSG, aspartame and excitotoxins
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 by: Mike Adams
Key concepts: MSG, aspartame and cancer.

http://www.newstarget.com/020550.html

Mike: I'm here with Dr. Russell Blaylock, and I'd like to explore some
of the more advanced aspects of some of the things you are working on.
Dr. Blaylock, I think readers know the basics of both MSG and
aspartame, but can you review what you've already written about
excitotoxins?

Dr. Russell Blaylock: I have three books. The first one is the
excitotoxin book, "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills," and the latest
one is "Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life." The
third one is "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients," which is
directed at nutritional treatments for cancer. It contains some
material about aspartame and MSG.

Excitotoxins have been found to dramatically promote cancer growth and
metastasis. In fact, one aspartame researcher noticed that, when cancer
cells were exposed to aspartame, they became more mobile, and you see
the same effect with MSG. It also causes a cancer cell to become more
mobile, and that enhances metastasis, or spread. These MSG-exposed
cancer cells developed all of these pseudopodians and started moving
through tissues, which is one of the earlier observations from cancer.

When you increase the glutamate level, cancer just grows like wildfire,
and then when you block glutamate, it dramatically slows the growth of
the cancer. Researchers have done some experiments in which they looked
at using glutamate blockers in combination with conventional drugs,
like chemotherapy, and it worked very well. It significantly enhanced
the effectiveness of these cancer drugs.

Mike: Wasn't there some research that came out recently that supports
all this by establishing a correlation between leukemia and aspartame?

Dr. Blaylock: Yes. This Italian study [ M. Soffritti et al, 2006
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8711/8711.html   free full text ]
was very well done. It was a lifetime study, which is very important
with these toxins. They fed animals aspartame throughout their lives
and let them die a natural death. They found a dramatic and
statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma
and leukemia, along with several histological types of lymphomas, which
is of interest because H.J. Roberts had written an article saying that
there was a significant increase in the primary lymphoma of the brain.

When you look it up in the neurosurgical literature, there is a rather
significant rise in the incidents of what used to be a rare tumor.
We're seeing a lot more of the primary lymphoma of the brain, which is
a little different than lymphomas you see elsewhere. When you look back
at the original studies done by the G.D. Searle company, they found
lymphomas as well as primary brain tumors and tumors of multiple
organs. All of this correlation shows that we've got a powerful
carcinogenic substance here. It is either acting as a co-carcinogen or
a primary carcinogen. Most likely, it's the formaldehyde breakdown
product.

What the Italian study found is that if you take these same animals and
expose them to formaldehyde in the same doses, they developed the same
leukemias and lymphomas. If you look back at the Trocho
["Trok-ho"] study conducted in Spain [in 1998], what they found was
when they radiolabeled the aspartame, they could actually see
formaldehyde binding to the DNA, and it produced both single and double
strand DNA breakage.

We know that when formaldehyde binds to DNA, it's very difficult to
remove it. It will stay there for long periods of time. What that means
is if you just drink a single diet cola today, or sweeten something
with NutraSweet, you're accumulating damage every day. Eventually,
you're going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to
initiate the cancer, and once you develop the cancer, the aspartic acid
component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. You've
got a double effect; it's causing the cancer, and it's making the
cancer move very rapidly.

Mike: Given all this evidence, how has the industry managed to suppress
this information and keep this chemical legal in the food supply?

Dr. Blaylock: Donald Rumsfeld was the one who pushed a lot of this
through, when he was in the chairmanship of the G.D. Searle company,
NutraSweet. He got it approved through the regulatory process, but once
it was approved, the government didn't want to admit that they had made
a mistake. They just continued to cover it up, like the fluoride thing
and the milk industry.

You're not going to criticize milk in the media, because they are smart
enough to advertise in newspapers, magazines, health magazines and
journals. They have all the media outlets covered. The only place that
they don't have covered is talk radio and the internet. The health
blogs can tell the truth.

No matter how much a newspaper wants to tell the truth, they're not
going to do it. This is the kind of pressure these people are under.
Even if you have a good writer who wants to write the story, his editor
is going to override him and prevent it or water it down considerably.
You see this in journals like the Journal of Clinical Nutrition or
College Nutrition. Look at who funds them: The Monsanto Company, and
they used to be sponsored by G.D. Searle. They're not going to want to
put articles in their journal that will infuriate their primary source
of income. Even medical and nutrition journals are controlled by these
people.

Mike: It's the unholy alliance between the scientific community and big
business.

Dr. Blaylock: Right. Another big scandal concerning the research is
something new we found. We discovered that outside of the brain, there
are numerous glutamate receptors in all organs and tissues. The entire
GI tract, from the esophagus to the colon, has numerous glutamate
receptors. The entire electrical conducting system of a heart is
replete with all sorts of glutamate receptors. The lungs, the ovaries,
all the reproductive systems and sperm itself, adrenal glands, bones
and even calcification are all controlled by glutamate receptors. They
act and operate exactly like the glutamate receptors in the brain.

So, when you're consuming MSG, the level of glutamate in the blood can
rise as high as 20-fold. You get very high glutamate levels in the
blood after eating a meal containing MSG. You're stimulating all of the
glutamate receptors. That's why some people get explosive diarrhea,
because it stimulates the receptors in the esophagus and small bowel.
Others may develop irritable bowel, or if they have irritable bowel, it
makes it a lot worse. If they have reflux, it makes that a lot worse.
The thing about the cardiac conduction system glutamate receptors is
this may explain the rise in sudden cardiac death.

What you see in almost all these cases is low magnesium. When the
magnesium level is low, the glutamate receptors become hypersensitive,
and so people -- athletes in particular, if they are not supplementing
with magnesium -- are prone to sudden cardiac death, because of the
glutamate receptors. If they eat a meal or something that contains
glutamate or drink a diet cola before practice, it will produce such
intense cardiac irritability, they'll die of sudden cardiac death. We
know the sudden cardiac death is due to two things: Most commonly
arrhythmia and cardio artery spasm. Both of which can be produced by
glutamate.

Mike: Of course, that death certificate doesn't say they died from MSG.

Dr. Blaylock: No, and it's not going to, because the admitting
physician doesn't know the first thing about any of this research.
They've never heard of it. In fact, most cardiologists I've spoken with
have never heard of this. They didn't know there were glutamate
receptors throughout the electrical conduction system and in the heart
muscle itself. You have a million patients in this country with
arrhythmias that are life-threatening, and no one's telling them to
avoid MSG and aspartame, yet it's a major source of cardiac
irritability.

Mike: It's absolutely astounding. Now, didn't baby food manufacturers
voluntarily remove this ingredient in the '70s?

Dr. Blaylock: They said they would, but they didn't. What they did is
take out pure MSG and substitute it with hydrolyzed protein and
caseinate. If you look at most toddler foods, they all have caseinate
hydrolyzed protein broth, a significant source of glutamate.

Mike: We're destroying the nervous systems of these babies.

Dr. Blaylock: Exactly. Now, one of the things we're hearing a lot about
is childhood obesity. One early observation with exitotoxicity is it
makes animals grossly obese.

Mike: If they banned MSG, the drug companies would lose billions. Think
about how much money they make treating all of these symptoms.

Dr. Blaylock: Here the government has all these big plans for
controlling carbohydrate intake and controlling cereals and sugar and
all that. Those things add to the problem, because what we find in
MSG-exposed animals is that they prefer carbohydrates and sugars over
protein-rich foods. That was one of the characteristics of this type of
obesity. It's very difficult to exercise the weight off and almost
impossible to diet it off. The appetite is out of control, but the
metabolism is also out of control. They have metabolic syndrome on top
of obesity, and so then you have a leptin insensitivity. In terms of
obesity, they have a leptin insensitivity. It has been shown that you
can produce leptin insensitivity very easily with MSG.

Mike: Is there any hope, in your view, that the world may wake up to
this, and some day these ingredients may be banned?

Dr. Blaylock: It's possible, but you know, it's only going to be by
public exposure, through the blogs and sites like yours. Once the
public gets wind of it and is convinced that this is real, then
there'll be an uproar over it. There's just a deception. The average
consumer looks at it and goes, "Well, it says that it contains no MSG,
so it must be okay."

Mike: I find a lot of the vegetarian foods, or so-called health foods,
use yeast extracts.

Dr. Blaylock: The worst of the things they're doing are the soy
extracts. Soybeans, naturally, have one of the highest glutamate levels
of any of the plant products. When you hydrolyze it, you release the
glutamate, and the soy protein isolates. The glutamate levels are
higher than a lot of what you'll find in MSG products, yet the
vegetarians are just eating it like it's the healthiest thing in the
world. There was a 25-year study done, which looked at people who
consumed the most soy products, and they followed them for 25 years and
did serial CT scans. They found out that the people who consumed the
most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia and brain
atrophy.

These people are destroying their nervous system, and I talked to a lot
of them who complained of severe migraine headaches. I said, "Get off
the soy," and they do, and that migraine headache goes away. In
addition, you have very high manganese levels, which is toxic to the
very same part of the brain that produces Parkinson's. You've got a
mixture of toxins with soy products, and the people think they are
eating a healthy, nutritious product. It's destroying their nervous
system, as well as other organs.

Mike: In this whole debate of soy versus cow's milk, we find
misinformation in both camps.

Dr. Blaylock: I wouldn't recommend either one. If you're obsessed with
milk, use goat's milk. It's closer to human milk, but I wouldn't
recommend cow's milk or soy milk. I think people ought to avoid soy
products as if they were poison.

Mike: Have you taken a lot of heat from NutraSweet or any of these
other companies? I mean, have you been threatened with lawsuits or
anything for going public with this information?

Dr. Blaylock: No, they leave me alone. I know too much. They've never
bothered me. When I wrote the book, George Schwartz warned me, "Are you
sure you want to write this book? If you do, they're just going to
hound you to death." I said, "Yes, I want to write the book." So, I
wrote it with one thing in mind: that they would not be able to refute
it.

I researched every kind of way you can research and proved the toxicity
of glutamate. They know I know that, because I had exchanged this in
writing letters to some of their biggest defenders. They all realized
that they couldn't answer my arguments. So they leave me alone. They're
afraid that if it comes to a big standoff between me and them, they're
going to lose.

Mike: They don't want this information going on the public record.

Dr. Blaylock: No, they don't want that. What they're doing is the old
ploy of just ignoring and hoping it will go away. Of course, they put
pressure on magazines, journals and newspapers not to interview me.
They are trying to keep me in the shadows where they hope most people
don't hear anything I have to say. It only works for so long.

Since I first wrote the book in 1995, proof supporting my viewpoint has
increased enormously. The new material on peripheral glutamate
receptors absolutely killed these people. They have no defense against
that. The new information on the dramatic increase in cancer
aggressiveness is something that they are terrified of.

Mike: Now you find these receptors outside the brain.

Dr. Blaylock: Right. Now, see, I proved it can enter the brain and that
all that was a lie. What they've shown is that there are glutamate
receptors on both sides of the blood brain barrier and that when you
expose these receptors to glutamate, it opens up the blood brain
barrier. So, the glutamate itself can open the barrier, and I list all
these conditions. For instance, as you get older, your barrier becomes
less competent. Almost all Alzheimer's patients have incompetent
barriers. Heat stroke, seizures, autoimmune disorder and multiple
sclerosis all are related with this active blood brain barrier.

You're talking about tens of millions of people, and they are out there
gobbling up aspartame, MSG and other excitotoxins, and no one is
telling them they are making their neurological conditions infinitely
worse. I don't know how many seizure patients I've gotten off their
medicines by just getting them off MSG and giving them magnesium. They
quit having seizures. They were on maximum dosages of medications and
still having seizures. Most neurologists and neurosurgeons that treat
seizures are not aware of this.

Mike: It's not profitable to teach people how to avoid these
ingredients.

Dr. Blaylock: If you look at the neuroscience literature, you can't
pick up an article that's not about excitotoxicity. The hottest topic
in neurosciences is glutamate receptors and excitotoxins.

Mike: Are they talking about it in the food or just as a chemical?

Dr. Blaylock: They won't mention food, but they talk about the
glutamate receptor and what happens when you activate it.

Mike: What about the argument from food companies? I actually got into
a debate with a veggie burger manufacturer, because I wrote an article
that said their product had yeast extract in it, and yet the front
label said, "100 percent all-natural ingredients." They said, "Well,
glutamate appears naturally in other foods, like tomatoes and seaweed."
What's your answer to that kind of defense?

Dr. Blaylock: Sure, but you see, all of these types of glutamate are
bound. They're in oligosaccharides, polysaccharides. They are bound in
amino acids groupings. They're not free amino acids. If you have it as
a complex protein, you absorb it in your GI tract. In the GI tract,
there are almost no free amino acids if you eat foods such as tomatoes.
The level of free amino acids is nil; it's almost all absorbed as
combined amino acids, and then it's only broken down in the liver,
where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal
with. It was never meant to have free amino acids in such high
concentrations.

Well, when you hydrolyze them -- or you use yeast extract or enzymes to
break down these various proteins into their free, released amino acids
-- they're not natural any longer. What you've done is artificially
release the amino acids in an unnatural way, and when they enter your
GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids, then your blood level
of that glutamic acid goes up significantly. As I said, it can go up as
high as 20-fold, in some cases 40-fold. Your blood brain barrier is not
constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate, because it doesn't
naturally occur that way. It can handle the lower levels, but it can't
handle these very high levels. So this argument, "Oh, it's natural," is
just a lot of nonsense.

Mike: I do find that many manufacturers claim to be natural health
companies, or health food companies, as a cover. They don't really
follow that philosophy, because they'll use these ingredients.

Dr. Blaylock: Sure, and they use all kinds of backhanded ways.

Mike: Here's a practical question that's actually been burning in my
head for about eight years: Is there anything that a person can take to
block the absorption of MSG or glutamate as a defensive supplement?

Dr. Blaylock: Well, not necessarily to block it. You have other amino
acids that can't compete for glutamic acid absorption. So that may be
one way to help reduce the rate at which it would be absorbed.

Mike: Which aminos would those be?

Dr. Blaylock: Those would include leucine, isoleucine and lysine. They
would compete for the same carrier system, so that would slow down
absorption. There are a lot of things that act as glutamate blockers.
You know, like silimarin, curcumin and ginkgo biloba. These things are
known to directly block glutamate receptors and reduce excitotoxicity.
Curcumin is very potent. Most of your flavonoids.

Magnesium is particularly important, because magnesium can block the
MNDA glutamate type receptor. That's its natural function, so it
significantly reduces toxicity. Vitamin E succinate is powerful at
inhibiting excitotoxicity, as are all of your antioxidants. They found
combinations of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.

Mike: Let's talk about restaurants. I can't even eat at restaurants
anymore at all, even those natural restaurants. They don't know they
have MSG, because it's in one of the sauces or something.

Dr. Blaylock: I talked to them, and they said, "We get our food in
these big crates, so there's no ingredients listed." It's the same
thing for hospitals. I talked to a hospital dietitian and she said, "We
can't tell because it comes in a crate, and they won't put the
ingredients on it. It just says Salisbury steak or whatever."

They don't know, so it's hard for them to come out and tell their
customers, "It's free of MSG." What they mean when they do say that is,
"We didn't put any in there." Their white sauces are particularly high,
as are their salad dressings, especially the ones that are pure oil.
They all contain MSG.

Mike: Gravy mixes almost always have it, right?

Dr. Blaylock: Yes, they'll put hydrolyzed protein in it. They're
selling taste. I mean, that's why a person prefers one restaurant to
another. The food tastes better. Then they go home and feel sick and
don't understand why.

One of the things that has been noticed about sudden cardiac death is
that most that have it, other than athletes, die after eating a meal in
a restaurant. I suspect it's because these people have low magnesium.
They eat the meal, the glutamate stimulates the glutamate receptor in
the cardiac conduction system as well as the hypothalamus, and they
have a sudden cardiac death.

I was in a bookstore in Oxford, Miss. This young guy was there, and he
just dropped and died. We took him to the hospital and tried to
resuscitate him, and we couldn't. He was only 26 years old, and he had
just eaten a big bowl of soup at one of the restaurants. Well, I talked
to the person that was there, and he said they use a lot of hydrolyzed
protein and MSG. People will eat a meal, have a soup before the meal,
get this huge dose of MSG, and drop dead from the arrhythmia.

Mike: Could this explain some sudden infant deaths as well, you think?

Dr. Blaylock: Oh yeah. I mean, look at the popularity of these soy
infant formulas. Mothers are crazy to give their kids soy formula.
There is a lot of concern about it. There's concern about the fluoride
level, the manganese level, and the glutamate levels in these soy
infant formulas.

Mike: At Wal-Mart, I saw bottled water with added sodium fluoride. It's
fluoride water.

Dr. Blaylock: Oh yes, it's for babies.
They have a picture of a baby on it.

Mike: So, is there a website or a newsletter that people can visit or
sign-up for?

Dr. Blaylock: I have a newsletter. It's www.BlaylockReport.com. It's by
subscription, but you can buy individual newsletters. You don't have to
get the whole year. It's issued monthly, for $3.98 a piece. It covers
everything.

I try to cover a lot of common subjects and bring people up to date on
the new thinking and research. I go through all the medical research.
Usually I'll go through everything that conventional medicine has to
offer. A lot of times they have good physiology, a good
pathophysiology, but then, they switch over and start talking about
drugs. I'll go through all the good pathophysiology material they have,
and then I'll look up all the nutritional research that's been done
that can correct those problems.

Mike: I see. Here's an off-the-wall question: If MSG and all its
different versions, as well as aspartame, were outlawed tomorrow, what
changes would we see in the next five years in terms of public health?

Dr. Blaylock: I think you'd see a significant drop in obesity and
metabolic syndrome. You'd see a tremendous drop in certain cancers. You
would certainly see a tremendous drop in the neurodegenerative
diseases, and all of these diseases that are increasing expeditiously.

The neurodegenerative diseases are just exploding. Things that used to
be rare, we're seeing all the time now. It's just frightening. And when
you look through the neurosciences literature, they have no
explanation. They don't know why it's increasing so rapidly, but it's
because we have such a large combination of toxins. For instance, we
know that cellular neurodegenerative diseases are connected to mercury,
aluminum, pesticides and herbicides, and the way they produce brain
damage is through an excitotoxic mechanism.

So, we are all exposed to those toxins, and then when you add MSG and
excitotoxins to the food, you tremendously accelerate this toxicity.
That's why we're seeing this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases;
Alzheimer's and autism and ADD and Parkinson's -- all these things are
increasing so enormously because we are exposed to carcinogenic
toxicity from all these different things and this huge exposure to
excitotoxins, which is the central mechanism.

This is what no one's been able to claim. You look at one person's
report and they'll say, "Alzheimer's is related to mercury exposure,"
and then another one says, "No, it's related to pesticides," and yet
another one says it something else, but they're all operating through
the same mechanism. All of these things operate by increasing brain
immune activity, and that activates excitotoxicity. So that's why all
of them seem to be related, because they're all doing the same thing to
the brain.

Mike: What about the American Diabetes Association? Given that
aspartame actually promotes obesity, based a lot of the work you've
uncovered, I find it curious that the ADA so strongly supports
aspartame.

Dr. Blaylock: I don't, considering they receive huge amounts of money
from the makers of aspartame. They fund their walk-a-thon and all that
kind of stuff, so they get tremendous amounts of money from the makers
of aspartame, and money talks.

Whether they're just deluding themselves and choosing not to believe
it's toxic, refusing to look at the evidence, or they're just concerned
about the money and could care less, I don't know, but when you look at
the pathophysiology of diabetes and the effect of aspartame, it's
absolute nonsense for anybody who has diabetes to be on aspartame.
Particularly in a neurological aspect, it's going to make it a lot
worse.

Mike: What about other popular chemical sweeteners like sucralose in
Splenda?

Dr. Blaylock: There's really not a lot of research in those areas. They
have some basic research, like with Splenda, showing thalamus
suppression. If that holds up in other research, it's a major concern.
If you're suppressing the thalamus gland in a child, that's the future
of their immune function. You can increase everything from autoimmunity
to producing immune-related diseases, to infections and cancers. The
implications of thalamus gland suppression are enormous.

There have been reports of miscarriages associated with Splenda in
experimental animals. The problem is, we don't have a lot of
well-conducted studies on Splenda to ferret these things out, and
they're not going to do them. The best way to protect your product is
to never test it, or just to set up some phony test and report it in a
journal that's friendly to your point of view.

That's what they did with certain vaccines. They did thousands of phony
studies and waved them around, claiming nothing was found. You can
design any study to find whatever you want. Particularly, you can
design it to have negative results. That's the easiest thing to do.

Mike: We've got government health officials telling us mercury is safe
and we've got big business telling us both aspartame and MSG are safe.
It sounds like every poison in the food supply or in organized medicine
is perfectly safe.

Dr. Blaylock: We did that with lead. When they first started
questioning the safety of lead, the levels they said were safe were
just enormously high, and then a mere 10 years later, suddenly we're
finding out that lead is toxic at 10 micrograms. In the '60s, they were
fighting over the same thing. The defenders of gasoline-added lead were
saying lead wasn't toxic, except in extremely high doses. Then
neuroscience literature was contradicting them, but nobody would
listen. Finally, the weight of the evidence was so overwhelming that
they found out extremely low concentrations of lead were toxic and
accumulate in the brain.

It's the same thing with mercury. Mercury is even more poisonous than
lead. An infant is getting 150 times the dose of mercury than the EPA
safety limits. A hundred times higher than the FDA safety limits.
Here's a little baby that's getting 150 times higher a dose than the
FDA says is safe for an adult.

Mike: What are the big points readers to take away? What do you think
they need to remember in order to protect themselves?

Dr. Blaylock: You need to abstain from all of these things. Aspartame
is not a necessary nutrient, and neither is MSG. The weight of the
evidence is overwhelming. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic
syndrome and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more
aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products.

The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It
produces changes in the brain that are irreversible. What we've found
is that it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the
hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are
abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological
function.

Mike: Well, hopefully the weight of this evidence will someday become
overwhelming, and government regulators will listen to you.

Dr. Blaylock: The pressure on researchers is so enormous. Larry Troker
came out with his research about the DNA damage by aspartame. Then his
career was damaged by the makers of aspartame. He said he would never
do another research project concerning aspartame. Well, a number of
researchers have said the same thing. Once they published their
results, the full weight of these companies come down on their head.
NutraSweet will contribute millions to a university and threaten to
pull their donations if someone isn't quieted.

Mike: So there's blatant scientific censorship at work here.

Dr. Blaylock: There's blatant, and then there's just understood. You
have NutraSweet manufacturers donating several million dollars to your
university. The director of that laboratory, or the president of the
university, will just quietly let them know that they'd really like to
see research come to a stop.

The editor-in-chief of The Chemical News went through that with
fluoride. They fired him because he refused to be quiet about fluoride
toxicity, and they had just received this huge grant from
Colgate-Palmolive. They said, "We'll lose our grant if you don't get
quiet about fluoride." He wouldn't, and they fired him. Researchers
know this.

Mike: I want to commend you for being willing to stand up and tell the
truth about all of this. I think you're doing a great, positive service
to public-health.

Dr. Blaylock: You're the one doing the service, because you're putting
the word out there. Without you, I would just be sitting in a room
fussing. It's people like you that get this word out and let people
know what's going on in the world.

Mike: I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to pass a bill to outlaw
health talk on the internet.

Dr. Blaylock: They're trying to do it. You know, they passed a law at
one time in several states that no one but dietitians could speak on
the subject of nutrition. Several states had that law passed. This
meant Ph.D. biochemists couldn't talk about health. It was ridiculous.
I'm sure that one day they're going to have an internet bill saying
there's just too much dangerous material coming over the internet on
health issues, and we need to regulate it.

Mike: Well, I want to thank you very much for all your time.

Dr. Blaylock: Thank you. I appreciate you giving me this opportunity.

Note: This full interview is also available as a free download (PDF) at
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1090
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multiple sclerosis: Blaylock: Murray 2004.06.09

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Confirming evidence and a general theory are given by Pall (2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/909
testable theory of MCS type diseases, vicious cycle of nitric oxide &
peroxynitrite: MSG: formaldehyde-methanol-aspartame:
Martin L. Pall: Murray: 2002.12.09

Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Sep; 111(12): 1461-4.
Elevated nitric oxide/peroxynitrite theory of multiple chemical
sensitivity:
central role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors
in the sensitivity mechanism.
Pall ML.   martin_pall@wsu.edu
School of Molecular Biosciences, 301 Abelson Hall,
Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.

The elevated nitric oxide/peroxynitrite and the neural sensitization
theories of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) are extended here
to propose a central mechanism for the exquisite sensitivity
to organic solvents
apparently induced by previous chemical exposure in MCS.
This mechanism is centered on the activation of
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors by organic solvents
producing elevated nitric oxide and peroxynitrite,
leading in turn to increased stimulating of and
hypersensitivity of NMDA receptors.
In this way, organic solvent exposure may produce progressive
sensitivity to organic solvents.
Pesticides such as organophosphates and carbamates may act
via muscarinic stimulation to produce a similar biochemical
and sensitivity response.
Accessory mechanisms of sensitivity may involve
both increased blood-brain barrier permeability,
induced by peroxynitrite,
and cytochrome P450 inhibition by nitric oxide.
The NMDA hyperactivity/hypersensitivity and excessive nitric
oxide/peroxynitrite view of MCS provides answers to many
of the most puzzling aspects of MCS
while building on previous studies and views of this condition.
PMID: 12948884

Prof. Pall describes processes by which an initial trigger exposure,
such as carbon monoxide or formaldehyde, can generate
hypersensitivity to many substances.  He himself had recovered
from a sudden, debilitating attack of multiple chemical sensitivity
in June/July 1997.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1056
disorders of NMDA glutamate receptors in brain range from high activity
(MCS, CF, PTSD, FM, from carbon monoxide or formaldehyde
(methanol, aspartame)-- Pall)
to low activity (schizophrenia-- Coyle, Goff, Javitts):
Murray 2004.03.13

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/946
Functional Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Disease Part 1/2:
Perlmutter 1999.07.15: Murray 2003.01.10 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1034
Brain cell damage from amino acid isolates (aspartame releases
phenylalanine, aspartate, methanol [formaldehyde, formic acid]
Bowen & Evangelista May 6 2002: Murray 2003.11.10

http://www.aspartame.ca/Brain%20Cell%20Damage.pdf
Brain cell damage from amino acid isolates 5.6.2   41 references
detailed 22 page review by James D. Bowen, MD and
Arthur M. Evangelista, former FDA Investigator  orwilly@msn.com
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1283563,00.html

Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases:
Scientists alarmed as number of cases triples in 20 years

Juliette Jowit, environment editor
Sunday August 15, 2004  The Observer

The numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in
less than 20 years, scientists have discovered.

The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia
have trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides,
industrial effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other
pollutants, says a report in the journal Public Health.

In the late 1970s, there were around 3,000 deaths a year from these
conditions in England and Wales. By the late 1990s, there were 10,000.

'This has really scared me,' said Professor Colin Pritchard of
Bournemouth University, one of the report's authors. 'These are nasty
diseases: people are getting more of them and they are starting
earlier. We have to look at the environment and ask ourselves what we
are doing.'

The report, which Pritchard wrote with colleagues at Southampton
University, covered the incidence of brain diseases in the UK, US,
Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain
in 1979-1997. The researchers then compared death rates for the first
three years of the study period with the last three, and discovered
that dementias - mainly Alzheimer's, but including other forms of
senility - more than trebled for men and rose nearly 90 per cent among
women in England and Wales. All the other countries were also affected.

For other ailments, such as Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, the
group found there had been a rise of about 50 per cent in cases for
both men and women in every country except Japan. The increases in
neurological deaths mirror rises in cancer rates in the West.

The team stresses that its figures take account of the fact that people
are living longer and it has also made allowances for the fact that
diagnoses of such ailments have improved. It is comparing death rates,
not numbers of cases, it says.

As to the cause of this disturbing rise, Pritchard said genetic causes
could be ruled out because any changes to DNA would take hundreds of
years to take effect. 'It must be the environment,' he said.

The causes were most likely to be chemicals, from car pollution to
pesticides on crops and industrial chemicals used in almost every
aspect of modern life, from processed food to packaging, from
electrical goods to sofa covers, Pritchard said.

Food is also a major concern because it provides the most obvious
explanation for the exclusion of Japan from many of these trends. Only
when Japanese people move to the other countries do their disease rates
increase.

'There's no one single cause ... and most of the time we have no
studies on all the multiple interactions of the combinations on the
environment. I can only say there have been these major changes [in
deaths]: it is suggested it's multiple pollution.'

Pritchard's paper has been published amid growing fears about the
chemical build-up in the environment. A number of studies have pointed
to serious problems. TBT is being banned from marine paints after it
was blamed for masculinising female molluscs, causing a dramatic
decline in numbers. A US report linked neurological disorders to
pesticides. And testing by WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund) found
non-natural substances such as flame retardants in every person who
took part.

WWF has named chemical pollution as one of the two great environmental
threats to the world, alongside global warming, and is particularly
worried about 'persistent and accumulative' industrial chemicals and
endocrine - hormone distorting - substances linked to changes in gender
and behaviour among animals and even children.

'We've started seeing changes in fertility rates, the immune system,
neurological changes [and] impacts on behaviour,' said Matthew
Wilkinson, the charity's toxics programme leader.

Pesticides and pharmaceutical chemicals must now undergo rigorous
testing before they can be used. But there are an estimated 80,000
industrial chemicals and the 'vast majority' do not need safety
regulation or testing, said Wilkinson.

However, the chemical industry strongly rejects what it claims are
often unproven fears. Just because chemicals are present does not mean
they are at dangerous levels.

But critics are not reassured. 'It is true that just because we find a
chemical does not mean it is dangerous,' said Wilkinson. 'But it is
equally true that for the vast majority of chemicals we have so little
safety data that the regulatory authorities have no idea what a safe
level is.'

The Royal Society of Chemistry also said quantities of pesticides were
declining. 'Improvements in analytical chemistry mean that lower and
lower levels of pesticides can be detected,' said Brian Emsley, the
society's spokesman. '[But] because you can detect something doesn't
necessarily mean it is dangerous.'
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Public Health. 2004 Jun; 118(4): 268-83.
Changing patterns of adult (45-74 years) neurological deaths in the
major Western world countries 1979-1997.
Pritchard C, cpritchard@bournemouth.ac.uk
Baldwin D,
Mayers A.
Department of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of
Southampton, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton SO14 OYG, UK.

Dr. Colin Pritchard (Profesor Emeritus, School of Medicine, University
of Southampton and Research Professor; Institute of Health & Community
Studies, Bournemouth University, UK.
Institute of Health & Community Studies, Bournemouth University,
Royal London House, Christchurch Rd., Bournemouth BH1 3LT.
Tel.: +44-2380-766487

Clinical Neuroscience Division, School of Medicine, University of
Southampton, Southhampton, UK. dsb1@soton.ac.uk

OBJECTIVES:
To compare changes in 'adult' (45-74 years) 'all-cause deaths' (ACDs)
with all neurological death categories by age and gender in the 10
major Western countries between the 1970s (1979-1981) and the 1990s
(1995-1997).
METHOD:
World Health Organization standardized mortality data for age and
gender (1979/97) were used to examine changes in adult mortality rates
per million based upon ICD-9 categories
for ACDs, 'neurological deaths'
and the special neurological categories
of 'other neurological deaths' (ONDs)
and 'mental disorder deaths' (MDDs),
which include the dementias.
Ratios of ratios were calculated to demonstrate how each individual
country's pattern changed over the period by age and gender,
resolving the problem of cross-national comparisons.
Rates of change across the endpoints and between age groups (45-54,
55-64, 65-74 and 75+ years) were examined using analysis of variance,
stepwise regression analysis and cross-tabulation analyses.
RESULTS:
Meningitis deaths fell substantially,
but there was little change in multiple sclerosis or epilepsy deaths.

OND rates for the 1990s increased compared with the 1970s rates for
males and female,
in actual terms and relative to ACDs for almost all countries.

Many of the relative rates of increase
were substantially higher than 20%.

There were significant statistical differences with respect to relative
rates of ONDs between the 1970s and the 1990s data,
even when the 75+ years age group was excluded.

Significant differences were also found between age groups,
but only in the 1990s data.

MDD rates showed similar trends.

Analyses of actual rates of increase in these causes of death showed
that males outnumber females in all ages below 74 years.

The extent of this difference remained constant across the endpoints.

However, in those aged 75 years and over,
females outnumbered males at both endpoints,
but this disparity widened significantly in the 1990s data.

CONCLUSIONS:
The 1990s data indicate substantial increases compared with the 1970s
data for ONDs (especially amongst 65-74 year olds),
and rises in MDDs in 55-64 year olds in five countries,
including England and Wales and Germany,
and in 65-74 year olds in most countries,
suggesting earlier onsets of the underlying conditions.
Further country-specific research is required to explain the emerging
morbidity and mortality.
PMID: 15121436
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16:
Murray 2006.05.11

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1366
toxicity in rat brains from aspartame, Vences-Mejia A, Espinosa-Aguirre
JJ et al 2006 Aug: Murray 2006.09.06

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1369
Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit artificial
sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J Burnham, The
Bristol
Press: Murray 2006.09.22

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes,
New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1353
carcinogenic effect of inhaled formaldehyde, Federal Institute of Risk
Assessment, Germany -- same safe level as for Canada:
Murray 2006.06.02

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1352
Home sickness -- indoor air often worse, as our homes seal in
pollutants
[one is formaldehyde, also from the 11% methanol part of aspartame],
Megan Gillis, WinnipegSun.com: Murray 2006.06.01

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority,
to actively find, quickly share, and positively act upon the facts
about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray, MA  Room For All  rmforall@comcast.net
505-501-2298  1943 Otowi Road   Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349
NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank
inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid):
Murray 2006.08.19

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~HwoSfJ:1
HSDB  Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame

ASPARTAME   CASRN: 22839-47-0
METHANOL  CASRN: 67-56-1
FORMALDEHYDE   CASRN: 50-00-0
FORMIC ACID  CASRN: 64-18-6

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1307
formaldehyde from 11% methanol part of aspartame or from red wine
causes same toxicity (hangover) harm: Murray 2006.05.24

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid --  the major causes of the dreaded
symptoms of "next morning" hangover.

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 L diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg
methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of the methanol is turned
into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg,
is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in
drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.

Any unsuspected source of methanol, which the body always quickly
and largely turns into formaldehyde and then formic acid, must be
monitored, especially for high responsibility occupations, often with
night shifts, such as pilots and nuclear reactor operators.

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame    mgold@holisticmed.com
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center    Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301     603-225-2100

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"
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