Aspartame Control.

Just watched a film called the Esoteric Agenda and was interested that Phenylalanine (Phe) in the sweetener Aspartame got a mention and that one of the effects of aspartame mentioned was the inability to think and the feeling of being in a fog. Of course it was tied into a string of other facts about fluoridation of water supplies etc. that are deliberately in place to control the population, debatable but interesting.

The problem here is that if you are normal (do not have PKU), any Phe content would be metabolised by the liver in the usual way and not present a problem, it certainly wouldn’t increase the blood levels twenty fold as an ordinary diet would in a person with PKU. I experience cognitive function delay and problems with the simple recall of words during conversation along with an inability to concentrate, this is all tied in with being off diet at which my blood levels of phenylalanine are likely to be 1200-1500umols/l, in context the levels of someone without PKU would be in the region of 60umols/l. If I were ‘on-diet’ my levels would be expected to be 700umols/l or lower, preferably 300-400, that is still five to ten times the norm and the problems I experience improve dramatically. So my argument is; does the ingestion of aspartame in moderate amounts on a daily basis increase the levels of phenylalanine in the blood of people without PKU to high enough levels to cause the ‘inability to think?’ I think not.

As for other claims in the film, I am now even more skeptical, two hours of my life I will never get back.

Add comment May 13th, 2012