Neuro-excited? Here’s how to calm down.

The information in the post is not medical advice, please consult a medical professional before using health supplements Ever wondered how much our diets impact our mental health? we should know by now that Gluten is a big issue – even those who are not celiac report issues with Gluten but studies suggest it could be due to fermented carbohydrates and not necessarily Gluten. In this post though I want to cover what can cause problems in the brain rather than the gut.

In his website dogtor.J.com, licensed veterinarian John B. Symes pulls apart two major Neurotoxins Glutamate and Aspartate:

Most neurological conditions involve diseased neurons and glial cells, the latter being cells that support the neuron and control the level of glutamate at the synapse (e.g. the astrocyte). We know that these dysfunctional cells can’t handle MSG and NutraSweet so it would follow that they would have difficulty dealing with the other dietary sources of these non-essential amino acids.

If the neurological condition is severe, as many of the sources of glutamate and aspartate as possible should be eliminated at once. In these serious cases, it is clear that the diseased neurons cannot handle the dietary load of glutamate. But, as the individual gets healthier though the elimination of the “big 4” (gluten, casein, soy and corn) and the function of their neurons, immune system, thyroids, pituitary and adrenal glands all improve, they will ultimately be able to handle the secondary sources of glutamate. Once recovery is achieved, these can be reintroduced slowly while monitoring the response.

https://dogtorj.com/what-is-food-intolerance/what-is-the-g-a-r-d/

The Other Hidden Allergens Effecting Our Minds

He advises a common allergens elimination diet both for his human and veterinary clients. Glutamate is not often considered by many as an allergen, which makes me wonder how many people could benefit from being aware of its impact on our mental health:

1) Eliminate all of the “big 4”- gluten (wheat, barley, rye), dairy products, soy and corn.

Soy is the worst of the worst in that it has the most powerful glue for the villi and has the highest glutamate levels of all of the other foods. Soy will bring on pain (and epilepsy) in epidemic proportions. It is already happening and we haven’t even begun to consume it in the quantity planned for us yet. The pet food industry is adding it to formulations every time we turn around and it is making its way into our foods every day. Just look in most convenience foods where food glue is required to act as a binding agent, as in granola bars

2) Eliminate all sources of MSG and aspartame (NutraSweet)

3) Restrict the intake of nuts, seeds and beans/legumes until recovery is achieved. (Legumes may be a long-term problem.)

4) Limit the consumption of gluten-free grains (quinoa, millet, flax, sorghum, and even rice) until symptoms have improved.

5) Limit caffeine intake

6) Limit intake of refined sugar

7) Eliminate all trans fats (hydrogenated oils)

8) Try to eat as organically as possible (to eliminate toxins/pollutants)

9) Drink filtered water

10) Take appropriate supplements (D3, omega threes, B complex, C, magnesium, selenium, magnesium, iodine, zinc, etc.)

Food low in Glutamate and Aspartate:

1) Fruits

2) Vegetables

3) Potatoes

4) Lamb and eggs are relatively low.

5) Tree nuts

Diet Drinks Epidemic and Aspartame

Have you tried to buy a soft drink without sweeteners inside? hard isn’t it? the fizzy drinks are marketed towards children as well so this is a worrying phenomenon. Most artificial sweeteners are bad for us but Aspartate has a particularly bad reputation. Aspartate (a derivative of Aspartame) is found in diet drinks but also more lately in the drinks that are not marketed as diet – this dangerous sweetener is added to sugary drinks also because it is cheaper than sugar. Lets look at the mechanism of action in the brain and body when we drink Aspartame:

‘Aspartame is composed of phenylalanine (50%), aspartic acid (40%) and methanol (10%). Phenylalanine plays an important role in neurotransmitter regulation, whereas aspartic acid is also thought to play a role as an excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Glutamate, asparagines and glutamine are formed from their precursor, aspartic acid. Methanol, which forms 10% of the broken down product, is converted in the body to formate, which can either be excreted or can give rise to formaldehyde, diketopiperazine (a carcinogen) and a number of other highly toxic derivatives. Previously, it has been reported that consumption of aspartame could cause neurological and behavioural disturbances in sensitive individuals. Headaches, insomnia and seizures are also some of the neurological effects that have been encountered, and these may be accredited to changes in regional brain concentrations of catecholamines, which include norepinephrine, epinephrine and dopamine.’

https://www.nature.com/articles/1602866

Aspartame and Rise in Autism

The rise in Autism can be attributed in part to many of our modern day exposures to toxins in western culture, so I wasn’t surprised to read of a connection between the rise in Autism and the rise in Aspartame consumption. If a chemical can do so much harm then its not beyond its scope to effect an unborn child.

‘The rise in autism increased significantly in 1983 with the rise in consumption of aspartame in carbonated beverages, also known as diet soda [105], and has continued to do so as aspartame consumption has grown [106]. Autism has been observed more often among children whose mother was obese or suffered from diabetes, both of whom may demonstrate increased aspartame consumption [107,108]. In the process of digestion, 11% of the aspartame is transformed into pure methanol [109], which is known to be neurologic teratogen and poison for humans [77,110,111]. Methanol is metabolized in our body to formaldehyde by alcohol dehydrogenase class 1 (ADH) [72], and then oxidized to formic acid in the cytosol. When ADH is not available, formaldehyde can react with DNA and RNA; the products can cross link with basic proteins in the cytosol and inactivate them. Such changes have been found in the brains of people suffering from autism [106].’

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8227014/

Gut Bacteria and Biofilm

But its not just ourselves we are fucking up when we consume sweeteners, as they have been found in wastewater. Worryingly some sweeteners including Aspartame have been shown to cause pathogenic bacteria in the gut to proliferate. In this study three sweeteners were tested:

‘Our studies also demonstrate that all three sweeteners evaluated (saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame) increased biofilm formation of E. coli with only aspartame affecting biofilm formation of E. faecalis. Bacteria typically transition from planktonic to biofilm as a result of environmental and physiological cues, including cell density, nutrient availability, and cellular stress. Bacteria growing in biofilms are less sensitive to antimicrobial resistance treatment and are more likely to express more virulence factors and exotoxins compared to planktonic cells [30,31,32].’

https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/10/5228

Is Sugar Tax The Culprit of The Aspartame Madness?

In 2018 the Soft Drinks Industry Levy came into effect, which was intended by the UK Government to tackle childhood obesity, whilst evidently benefiting the chemical industry (which is also the food industry). But is it futile to reduce childhood obesity whilst increasing the risk of Cancer, Gastrointestinal problems and Neurological issues?

‘Money will go towards doubling the Primary Sports Premium, the creation of a Healthy Pupils Capital Fund to help schools upgrade their sports facilities, and give children access to top quality PE equipment.

The levy will also give a funding boost for healthy school breakfast clubs.’

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/soft-drinks-industry-levy-comes-into-effect

But is the so called sugar tax as benign as it makes itself out to be? the Soil Association produced a very revealing article which suggests otherwise. Psychologist Susan E. Swithers of Purdue University gives a scathing commentary on the real effects of sugar tax and the increased use of artificial sweeteners in our children’s diets:

“Artificial sweeteners are not the answer to childhood obesity, Exposure to hyper-sweetened foods and beverages at young ages may have effects on sweet preferences that persist into adulthood. In the real world, artificial sweeteners are not specifically helpful at reducing sugar intake,” Swithers continues, for they create “altered preferences and thresholds” for sweetness. We consequently seek out the very sugary foods we’re meant to be avoiding – studies have shown that high levels of sweetener consumption are associated with excessive sugar consumption [4]. Perhaps flogging children artificially sweetened fizz isn’t as benign as public health guidance seems to suggest.

Our public health authorities probably know this. While they’re doing their best at maintaining a pretence at consensus agreement on the benefits of sweeteners, one doesn’t have to dig far beneath the surface for this pretence to begin to crumble.”

https://www.soilassociation.org/blogs/2018/may/04/the-sugar-tax-should-be-extended-to-artificial-sweeteners/

Dirty History Behind The Most Controversial Additive of All Time

Turns out I have uncovered a dark past to Aspartame – one which isn’t that easy to unravel. Here are some dodgy facts about Aspartame:

James Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle, accidentally discovers aspartame, a substance that is 180 times sweeter than sugar yet has no calories.

Spring 1967– Searle begins the safety tests on aspartame that are necessary for applying for FDA approval of food additives.

Fall 1967– Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, conducts aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys on behalf of the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were being fed aspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal seizures.

In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame’s clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it “might induce brain tumors.”

The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to “call in his markers,” to get it approved.

In 1995 the Federal Drug Agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. From 10,000 consumer complaints, the FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms, including death.

A total of three documentaries have been made in an attempt to blow the whistle on the industry:

Sweet Remedy: The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002463/

Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World Movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454639/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl

In the sequel to Sweet Remedy – Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World – Cori Brackett had a strange cause-and-effect experience with the diet cokes she was drinking and quickly found herself disabled and diagnosed with MS. Slowly able to walk and speak again, she believes her illness is linked to aspartame.

A study titled ‘EFSA’s toxicological assessment of aspartame: was it even-handedly trying to identify possible unreliable positives and unreliable negatives?’ was published in 2019 – challenging the most recent official attempt to settle the controversy provided by the European Food Safety Authority’s (or EFSA) Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (or ANS):

‘A good case can be made for the claim that no industrial food additive has been more controversial than aspartame [7]. G D Searle, a US pharmaceutical company, first petitioned the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for permission to market aspartame in 1973; in 1974 the FDA announced its intention to grant permission for its use in dry goods, such as table-top sweeteners [8]. Before that decision could be implemented, objections were raised by independent scientists alleging that aspartame could cause mental retardation, brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders [9]. Before those issues were resolved, further objections were raised focussing on documentary and interview evidence indicating that Searle, and its sub-contractor Hazleton, had failed to conduct properly at least 15 toxicology tests, and that their subsequent reports had been misleading’

https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13690-019-0355-z

Worst of all is the exposure to a child’s developing mind, this study titled ‘Excitotoxic food additives–relevance of animal studies to human safety’ reveals that there seems to be no safety margins observed and that damage may not be observable at the time it occurs but may emerge later on in life. Whilst this may be hard to evaluate, surely even

‘Despite these reasons for maintaining a wide margin of safety in the use of excitotoxins in foods, no safety margin is currently being observed, i.e., a comparative evaluation of animal (extensive) and human (limited) data supports the conclusion that excitotoxins, as used in foods today, may produce blood elevations high enough to cause damage to the nervous system of young children, damage which is not detectable at the time of occurrence but which may give rise to subtle disturbances in neuroendocrine function in adolescence and/or adulthood.’

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6152304/

Current Classification of Aspartame According to the World Homicidal Organization

In 2023 the World Health Organization reclassified Aspartame as a category 2b risk as a potential carcinogen. The Group 2B classification is generally used either when there is limited but not convincing evidence for cancer in humans or there is convincing evidence for cancer in experimental animals, but not both. WHO nutrition director Dr Francesco Branca told the Associated Press:

“We’re not advising consumers to stop consuming aspartame altogether, We’re just advising a bit of moderation.”

https://apnews.com/article/aspartame-sweetener-cancer-who-diet-soda-f0ded163d975a023c8661f1b2d6b230e

Then again the WHO has tried its best to achieve worldwide genocide, sorry depopulation, with its so called Vaccines.

You choose.