From: “Virgil M. Hulse”
Subject: Re: Dr. Weil and aspartame
Dear Dr Weil.
I am board certified in Family practice and Preventive Medicine.� I took
all of my patients off of Nutrasweet within a 10 year period ,� In all
cases their health improved.
Dr Virgil M. Hulse, M.D. MPH, FACPM
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From” “Betty Martini”
Dear Scott (Fagan, Producer, Ask Dr. Weil, Time Inc. New Media):�
I sent you Dr. Blaylock’s transcript about aspartame and at least read
that if you won’t link to www.dorway.com . Actually, whenever you write
about aspartame if you link for more information to http://www.dorway
.com and www.holisticmed.com your readers will get everything about
aspartame.� Because it is such a deadly poison and destroys the central
nervous system, brain and optic nerve and ravages every organ in the
body its hard to write a brief article but you can link to these
Godzilla web sites that have all the documents,�protest of the National
Soft Drink Association (who knew it would break down to poisons before
they put it in soft drinks and turned around and lobbied for NutraSweet
after their protest), the FDA audit, Bressler Report, that shows the
horror of the original studies that were the target of an indictment for
fraud that was never carried out because two U.S. Prosecutors went to
work for the law firm defending the case (when the District Attorney
goes to work for the godfather except acquittal) – the very studies that
approved aspartame�when a FDA Commissioner (Arthur Hayes) overruled a
Board of Inquiry that told him not to do it, and the damning CDC
investigation.� A phony summary was put on the CDC investigation that
contradicted the report, so we added it in entirey to web. Even the FDA
report of 92 documented symptoms from coma to death is on DORway.
Okay, about PHENYLALANINE, please bear with me because its hard to be
brief and have full understanding.� Dr. Weil wrote that phenylalanine
was okay unless you were PKU.� Every physician that has researched and
worked and exposed aspartame agrees that phenylalanine in aspartame is
neurotoxic.� It doesn’t even matter if you are PKU, it does the same
damage to most people. There are three amino acids you cannot isolate
from the other amino acids in protein and they are cysteine, aspartic
acid and phenylalanine – they go beyond the blood brain barrier and
deteriorate the neurons of the brain causing brain damage of varying
degrees.
I am sending a copy of this to four of the most renowned physicians on
the subject who are on the Mission Possible list so if you don’t hear
from them you know they are standing in agreement and, in fact, I’m
quoting some of them. They are Dr. John Olney, world famed researcher
who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity and who made
world news in l996 explaining the escalating in brain tumors of the
variety that the rats sustained in the original studies.� Here’s a good
point, when you use phenylalanine in food it doesn’t break down into
diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, as it does in aspartame, because
it is insinct with the other amino acids, – it may be 4% of
phenylalanine, not 50% flooding the brain, as Dr. H. J. Roberts, has
said many times.� A copy is going to Dr. Roberts who has written many of
the books on aspartame and has declared it a disease and WORLDWIDE
PLAGUE.� His new medical text on the epidemic will be published to the
general public in the near future at which point we will send press
releases to 100 countries of the world.�
From Dr. Roberts book, kAspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe?, page 28 he’s
telling you what I said, speaking about phenylalanine and asparti acid
and says:� “These are pround differences in both the rates of digestion
and the degree of absorption depending on whether these amino acids are
provided by food or by aspartame.� The usual forms of protein (such as
meat) contain four or five percent phenylalanine – not 50%, as does
aspartame.� Moreover, they are slowly digested within the
gastrointestinal tract, and in tandem with other neutral amino acids.�
This precludes an unbalanced flooding of the system with single amino
acids.� The situation is quote different with aspartame, where the body
is suddenly deluged with large amounts of two amino acids.”�
IMPORTANT:� To understand that even though those with PKU cannot
metabolize phenylalanine its not much different for the rest of the
population.� Here it is in Dr. Roberts book:
Page: 33:� “Under normal conditions, phenylalanine is broken down by the
body to another amino acid known as tyrosine.� An enzyme phenylalanine
hydroxylase is necessary to accomplish this conversion.� If there is a
lack of this enzyme, as in the inherited disorder called phenylketonuria
(PKU), phenylalanine cannot be metabolized.� It then accumulates in the
blood and tissues.� High concentrations of phenylalanine can cause
severe mental retardation in children.� In fact, about 1% of patients in
mental institutions have this condition.� The point being stressed here
is that in this and certain other circumstances aspartame products can
elevate blood phenylalanine levels significantly, albeit not as high as
in PKU. Furthermore, a high intake of phenylalanine tends to depress the
activity of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (Harper l970).�
� *High phenylalanine concentrations are ofund in patients with chronic
kidney failure (uremia), attributed to impairment of conversion. (Furst
l980). *Phenylalanine levels may increase in the absence of sufficient
insulin, which stimulates the synthesis of phenylalanine hydroxylase
(Tourian l975). This clearly could be significant for some diabetic
patients. (Chapter 25)
When analyzing experimental data, it also is necessary to be aware of
the marked species differences that exist in phenylalanine
hydroxylation.� For example, this process is about five times slower in
man than rodents..”
On page 34 with regard to phenylalanine loading:� “Plasma phenylalanine
concentrations increase as much as ten times when normal adults and PKU
carriers are gien loads of 100-200 mg. aspartame/kg body weight (Matalon
l987).� Using 6 per cent phenylalanine as the blood level that is
probably harmful to the outcome of a pregnancy, 14% of normal persons
and 35 per cent of PKU carriers exceed this concentration after such
exessive amounts enter the body (Matalon l987).� Phenylalanine tolerance
testing is used to demonstrate a reduced capacity for metabolizing
phenylalanine.� Subjects ingest a single dose of this amino acid, such
as 100 mg/kg body weight (Koch l982).
VERY VERY IMPORTANT;
Page 35
Brain Levels of Phenylalanine:
“Consuming phenylalanine as dietary protein does not significantly
elevate phenylalanine concentrations in the brain.� Paradoxically, she
eating of customary proteins even tends to decrease brain phenylalanine
due to the concomitant increase in plasma concentrations of other
neutral amino acids – especially valine, leucine, isoleucine,tynine for
brain uptake in the lining cells of the small blood vessels that make up
the blood brain barrier.� By contrast, ingesting an aspartame containing
soft drink with foods rich in carbohydrate and oor in protein (such as
dessert� can increase – PERHAPS DOUBLE – phenylalanine in the brain
(Yokogoshi l984). The very high affinity for phenylalanine of the system
that transport amino acids into brain capillaries (Pardridge l987b) is
emphasized.� Indeed, phenylalanine has the highest affinity for ransport
across the blood brain barrier of all the circulating amino acids.� Its
selective increase then can alter brain concentrations of the amino
acid-derived neurotransmitters (Choi l986).”
This is the end of this quote in the book.� But under the phenylalanine
in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold of the brain and depletes
serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression, rage, panic
attacks, anxiety su icidal tendencies, etc.� Remember, that you are
changing brain chemistry!� Aspartame changes the dopamine level of the
brain! Imagine what this does to a Parkinson patient on L-dopa!
While I know I’m not brief, I’m giving you references so you know you
are right in what you say, and I hope you appreciate this.� Also, my
computer is cutting out so I’m going to send this, and go on to part 2.�
I’m also sending this to Dr. Russell Blaylock who wrote Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills, neurosurgeon, of whom I sent you the interview
that goes into phenylalanine.� this is so important you really should
read it.� Also, this is going to Dr. Ralph Walton who was on 60 Minutes
and did a study on aspartame.� With real world aspartame the study had
to be stopped because of the complaints from the subjects who said they
were being poisoned and such things as conjunctival bleeding from the
eyes and retinal detachment. Also, he said on 60 Minutes that of the 90
independent studies on aspartame not funded by the manufacturer, 83
showed problems with aspartame.
I will quote Dr. Blaylock’s comments on phenylalanine on part 2.� Please
please read all this to understand how big a mistake it was, and so you
will understand how deadly aspartame is and phenylalanine’s part in this
toxin, this very deadly drug.� Other doctors are also receiving a copy
of this in case they want to comment.
Regards,
Betty�