Toxicology Expert Explains Why Aspartame is so Dangerous to Your
Health
November 11, 2012
Story at-a-glance
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Aspartame is the most dangerous food additive on the market
today, accounting for over 75 percent of adverse reactions
reported to the FDA, including seizures and death
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Even though aspartame is touted as natural it has a
synthetic methyl group on one of the amino acids that
rapidly breaks down to methanol (wood alcohol). The
sweetness associated with aspartame is largely the result of
methyl alcohol bonded to the amino acid phenylalanine
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Methyl alcohol is metabolized differently in the human body
compared to other animals, and is FAR more toxic in humans
which is why studies have trouble nailing down the hazards
related to aspartame, because most rely on animal not human
studies
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Methyl alcohol, after it is taken up by the body as a
“Trojan Horse” into susceptible tissues like the brain,
converts rapidly into formaldehyde,. This causes severe
damage to proteins and DNA that can contribute to many
serious and chronic diseases, such as cancer, autism,
Alzheimer’s disease, and multiple sclerosis
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Fresh fruits and vegetables contain minute amounts of
methanol, but there’s a natural mechanism that makes it
harmless. Pectin firmly binds to methanol, allowing it to
simply pass through your body and be excreted, because the
human body does not have the enzymes to break that bond
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