- Dear Jeff,
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- Because so many aspartame victims have
cardiomyopathy, and so many athletes who have dropped dead, I
posed this question to the physicians. There are different types
of cardiomyopathy. For instance, alcoholic cardiomyopathy is a
disease of the heart muscle due to alcohol consumption. And
reasonably you can probably understand because there is wood
alcohol in aspartame, free methyl alcohol. So Dr. Bowen has
answered this, and while its technical, yet it serves to explain
to those who might have the problem why they have it. It's the
best explanation I've seen written and thought it should be part
of the record and put on web sites. We thank Dr. James Bowen for
explaining in detail. It looked like he tried to put this on the
list but I haven't seen it come through.
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- All my best, Betty
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- Cardiomyopathy From Aspartame
- By James Bowen, MD
10-19-3
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- Cardiomyopathy from toxic and auto immune
causes has long been appreciated. Cardiomyopathy is often an
accompanying feature of rheumatic fever, for example.
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- Since Aspartame is indeed a toxic,
mitochondrial, and auto immune killer we could expect no less!
The heart is especially targeted in alcohol poisonings of all
kinds, but is not especially the focus of attention in most
cases because the liver and nervous system symptoms usually get
more attention. I. e: Steato Hepatitis, "anti mitochondrial
antibody hepatitis", cirrhosis, etc. as well as the
neurodegenerative diseases. The heart failure of alcohol
drinkers was well known before the advent of Aspartame. I had a
personal friend who died of it.
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- Since the intact Aspartame molecule is an
alcohol poison about twenty thousand times as toxic as most
beverage alcohols, and since most of the damage from beverage
alcohol comes from its methanol content, Aspartame, which has
the methanol-formaldehyde-formic acid toxic axis as one of its
highly aggravated toxic components, could very predictably cause
extreme damage of all organs of the body. Indeed the FDA
recognized ONLY 92 Aspartame related problems before it refused
to count any further!
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- Since this Methanol- damage is related to
subsequent metabolism which increases the severity of poisoning,
and DNA and tissue damage at each step of the axis, it would be
expected that those organs which are highly metabolic would be
greatly effected, and that indeed is just the case. The Heart,
for example, never really gets to rest, just between beats. The
cardiac conduction system never rests, if it does, or if it gets
out of control, you are dead! SUDDENLY! The auto immune attack
is similarly focused in areas of metabolic activity. So the
heart is a certain target for the Aspartame damage. I personally
went into such a toxic cardiomyopathy after just two days of
using the lo-Cal Kool Aid, that I went from being a two mile per
day swimmer to being so cardio decompensated, I had to stop and
catch my breath just to climb one flight of stairs to my
apartment.
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- Aspartame was at that very moment killing
workers in Searle's first Aspartame plant in Phoenix. Even
though you are supposed to ingest it by FDA mandate, Aspartame
manufacturing plants around the world now protect their
employees with face masks and full body protective garments lest
their employees come into any contact with the dust! This all
started with the death of an employee named Krossic who first
passed out from the inhaled dust's toxic effects. His death
occurred even after all were made to wear face masks so they
couldn't breathe the dust. He absorbed enough through the skin
that he died from a toxic cardiomyopathy. The post mortem exam
revealed an "alcoholic cardiomyopathy". Jim Krossic
was a teetotaler who used NO beverage alcohol!
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- The mitochondria are the sub cellular
structures which are literally the energy furnaces of the cell,
so they get a huge amount of damage from Aspartame, and from
creatine likewise. The heart muscle, as I have mentioned in
previous articles, (See Dorway) have enormous concentrations of
mitochondria: on the order of twenty to one hundred thousand per
cell. The cardiac conduction system, even more! Little wonder
Athletes who use Aspartame are suddenly dropping dead. Even more
so if they use both creatine and Aspartame! Sudden death has now
become the leading cause of death in the US! Mitochondrial DNA,
(MtDNA), in addition to being where the toxins are generated in
great concentration, lacks the protective and repair mechanisms
of nuclear DNA, so the mitochondrial DNA is horribly damaged.
Just six weeks of using the lo-Cal Kool Aid completely grayed me
from having a full head of dark reddish brown hair when I
started using the Kool Aid! It was only since 1983 when
Aspartame wa! s fully marketed for soft drinks that any full
line of hair dyes aimed at the male user were brought to market!
I know. I went searching, and there were none at first. MtDNA
damage is of itself, so prone to produce cardiomyopathy, that
cardiomyopathy is one of many congenital "Mitochondrial DNA
Diseases" which the mother can pass on to her offspring
from herself having MtDNA that is damaged, such as from having
previously consumed Aspartame.
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- The Maternal transmission of damaged MtDNA can
occur for the rest of a woman's reproductive years, and may
directly affect both her children and grand children, as well as
becoming a persistently transmitted genetic problem. The mother
therefore, does not necessarily have to have been drinking
Aspartame, when she got pregnant, nor while carrying the baby.
Since the female is born with all the eggs she will ever have
already present in her ovaries, it may well likely be the Nutra
Sweet her mother drank which is the source of her offspring's
problems.
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- This is not to suggest that Aspartame ingested
by the mother before and during conception and pregnancy is not
horribly damaging to the fetus. It indeed is, and such Aspartame
use is HIGHLY damaging to the fetus, causing fetal loss,
deformity, fetal alcohol syndrome, and many other horrible
problems. Now that Aspartame has been openly and extensively
marketed for twenty plus years, children and athletes may be
suffering from the Aspartame foisted upon their mothers and even
grandmothers! Yes, a given athlete may never have used
Aspartame, but may be dying from an Aspartame MtDNA
cardiomyopathy inherited from his maternal line. Athletes who do
use Aspartame, or worse yet, both Aspartame and creatine are, of
course at great risk, even if they inherited no such problems
from their maternal ancestors. Male Ancestors do not transmit
MtDNA diseases because the sperm has only a few mitochondria,
and will unlikely be the winner in the race to find and
fertilize the egg if any mitoch! ondria are damaged. Moreover
the egg accepts only the head of the sperm. The mid body which
contains the sperm mitochondria serves only to provide the
energy and motility to get the head of the sperm to the egg and
through its wall. In addition, if any mitochondria from the
sperm do get into the fertilized egg, that condition results in
the death of the egg.
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- It would therefore be fair to say that
children are two thirds the genetic result of their mother's
DNA! All the more reason that females especially, should be
protected from any use of Aspartame! That goes for creatine too!
My articles such as "Sperm Warfare", "Punditries
and Palsies", "Aspartame murders infants",
"Billions of Victims", etc. go into greater and wider
detail on many of these topics. They are available at
www.bowendrjim.com. www.dorway.com may have a wider selection of
mine and other authors' articles on related topics.
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- Sincerely,
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- Dr Jim Bowen
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