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The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic Foundation

of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and Seizures, finding

that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and the western states and

Pacific Ocean Territories. There has been a100% increase over the two

previous years.

Dr Glenn Mabson of the Epileptic Foundation of Maui believes the reason

for the increase is a change in formulation of several of the major

anti-seizure drugs:

**The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is the

inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized anti-seizure

drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOTE, TEGRATOL and several others produced by major

pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the manufacturer of Dilantin changed the

description of the 100 mg. Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with

red stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which

contains 100 mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new

Dilantin

capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical

Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal his name,

but said they were adding aspartame. " "

Dr. Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the Epilepsy Foundation of

Hawaii (a separate organization from the above) is sympathetic to the makers

of ASPARTAME and routinely prescribes these drugs. I believe this

contributes to the increase of epilepsy in these areas.**

Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO - Epileptic Foundation of Maui

_Aspartame Disease - An ignored epidemic_

(http://www.sunsentpress.com/aspartameDisease.html)

What is aspartame - known to induce seizures - doing in a capsule of

anti-seizure medicine? It can't be there for its sweet taste, because capsules

are swallowed whole. Could someone be drumming up business for more

medication by adding stuff that causes people to need more?

Betty i of Mission Possible, the international anti-aspartame

campaign group, has interviewed Dr Mabson:

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INTERVIEW WITH DR. MABSON

by Dr. Betty i, D.Hum

MARTINI: How did you get started in this investigation, and why, Dr. Mabson

MABSON: From 1999 to 2007 The Epileptic Foundation of Maui conducted a

survey on the number of people in Maui suffering from the three most prevalent

types of epileptic seizures:

(1) Absence

(2) Complex-partial

(3) Grand Mal Seizures.

4,975 victims from a Maui Population of 130,000 suffered from one of these

types of seizures. Seniors over 65 and children 12 or less had increased

epileptic seizures. The count for the entire state of Hawaii is over 28,000

seizure victims.

In an effort to determine the most effective medication it was discovered

that well over 50% of the victims consumed medications containing

aspartame. We inquired as to what anti-seizure medications were mostly

prescribed to

control their seizures. Dilantin, Tegratol and Depacote contained most

aspartame amount among the 22 most utilized anti-seizure medications.

In 2007 the [manufacturer of] Dilantin changed the 100 mg white capsule

with red stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which

contains 100 mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new

Dilantin capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case.

Impaired vision and thinking, and it is suspected glaucoma [were found] in

fifty patients who never had visual problems prior to taking the new

Dilantin capsule. We suspected this was an experiment out of control. A

manufacturer of Dilantin then confirmed aspartame is in the drug.

MARTINI: Were there any deaths having to do with aspartame?

MABSON: Dr. Stein, Neurosurgeon, has been prescribing aspartame to

patients in large quantities with negative results, in some cases. [There

were] as many as 150 highly suspected deaths. He is president of the Epilepsy

Foundation of Hawaii.

MARTINI: What is the difference between your organization and Stein's?

MABSON: A big and important difference: The Epileptic Foundation of Maui

(EFM) provides first aid to epilepsy victims, hands on help, with a 24/7

Help Line 1 888-919-9444. We have trained more than 5000 parents, Maui Police,

Department of Public Safety, IRS, Hawaii Business and Public Schools at no

cost! We provide immediate, practical, lifesaving care to seizure victims.

This is very personal to me. I have traumatic epilepsy from torture during

18 months as a civilian prisoner of war in Viet Nam. Over 50 dedicated

volunteers carry out this public service. We take no money from aspartame

makers.

MARTINI: So what does Stein's organization do?

MABSON: It sells books and some outdated documents, but provides no

personal service.

MARTINI: In what journals have you published?

MABSON: Among many others, the following: Neurology 48:621. Hamburg

University News 2003, Strouseburg on Epilepsy Vol 2 pp 5, 6, 7 & 8 Savic,

International. Athurer lnternational Epilepsy Research 26:245 2002: Long Term

Follow-up After Temporal Lobe Resection for Lesions Associated With Choric

Seizures

- - -

Betty i notes:

**It has been known for three decades that aspartame is a seizure

triggering drug. In a _52 week aspartame oral toxicity study_

(http://www.aspartaam.nl/artikelen_eng/raorapport.txt) done in 1972 on 7

infant monkeys, 5 had

grand mal seizures and 1 died. i adds that **the FDAs 1995 list of 92

documented aspartame related side effects from 10,000 citizen complaints

named 4 types of seizures, death, blindness, sexual dysfunction and a long

list of neurological injuries. " (You can download the list as a _PDF

document_ (http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf) .) And finally,

**Dr.

Wurtman testified against aspartame to Congress. He told UPI

investigator Gordon that he was threatened by the VP of G D Searle Co,

aspartame producer, that his funding would be killed if he studied aspartame

seizures. Wurtman speaks no more against aspartame but he left quite a paper

trail.** (Read the _UPI Investigative Report_

(http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm) from 1987.)

Mrs. Barbara Metzler tells about her daughter :

**In April 1986 was completing her graduate studies, was diagnosed

with temporal lobe epilepsy. A neurologist in Pennsylvania was treating her

with medication he deemed appropriate, but without success. I learned Dr.

Wurtman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was doing

research into a possible link between epileptic seizures and aspartame.

(NutraSweet). It occurred to me that aspartame may have triggered her problems,

since I experienced that beverages sweetened with aspartame gave me classic

migraines. I spoke to my daughter's many friends, and they watched her

carefully and reported individually that she had peculiar episodes shortly

after

they saw her drink diet soda. So I wrote to Dr. Wurtman and he replied:

Thank you for writing to us about your daughters condition that may very

well be associated with NutraSweet.

He requested that I send him specific information about 's

neurological problems, then arranged for her to be evaluated at Beth Israel

Hospital

in Boston. Her evaluation included 3 days of monitoring with EEG telemetry

as well as neuropsychological testing.

When the testing was completed, my daughter was told that she had been

misdiagnosed by her Pennsylvania neurologist and that she did not have

temporal lobe epilepsy at all. She was advised to stop her medication and to

stop

drinking diet soda. She listened, and little by little, her bizarre problem

disappeared. To watch her recover was an incredible experience! Twelve

years later, she tried diet soda again and she had the same severe reaction.

She quit the diet soda sweetened with aspartame and never had a problem

again.**

Dr. Ralph Walton, asked by Betty i to comment on the Maui study,

said: **We have known for many years that aspartame lowers the seizure

threshold. To combine an anticonvulsive with aspartame to make seizures more

likely is outrageous.**

Washington Consumer Attorney , who fought to prevent aspartame

approval commented on the Epileptic Foundation of Maui's study:

**This study has confirmed that aspartame triggers both seizures and

epilepsy, but this isn't news to me. In 1986 I was the attorney for the

Community Nutrition Institute who petitioned FDA to ban aspartame for that

exact

reason. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had surveyed

80 people who experienced seizures after consuming aspartame. The petition

of the Community Nutrition Institutes said:

These 80 cases meet the FDA's definition of an imminent hazard to the

public health, which requires FDA to expeditiously remove a product from the

market. "

Dr. P. Stoller, President of the International Hyperbaric Medical

Association adds: **When large amounts of unopposed phenylalanine (1/3rd of

the aspartame molecule) hits the brain it causes serotonin levels to

crash, which lowers the seizure threshold, and in many cases causes frank

seizures. This information has been known since the 1970s when the original

research was done on monkeys, but [it was] kept from the FDA by the then owner

of the patent G. D. Searle. This is why the FDA called the US attorney to

convene a grand jury against Searle. The lawyers representing Searle then

bought the US Attorney who left the case to his assistant. The Grand Jury was

allowed to expire and the assistant was then hired by the same law firm -

his reward for killing the Grand Jury.**

Additional discussion (by email):

At 11:59 AM 7/16/2008, Shirley writes:

can you explain to me why they put aspartame in a pill that is

swallowed... what difference does it make if it is sweet or not when you never

taste

it????

Shirley

Friday, July 25, 2008 9:00 pm Dr. Betty i,D.Hum. replies:

Dear Shirley,

Obviously the answer is they do it on purpose, and not to the benefit of

the consumer. Someone just told me Lifesavers uses aspartame as a flavor

enhancer. So now we have poison as a flavor enhancer.

It's just come down to not eating processed foods at all, and making sure

anytime you are prescribed a drug its not got aspartame in it. However,

what bothers me is using it without labeling, and adding it to natural or

artificial flavors.

Aspartame was never an additive. They knew it was a drug from the

beginning. Because it damages the mitochondria it interacts with virtually all

drugs and vaccines. Now we have the global epidemic of Aspartame Disease. In

fact, the medical text is called Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by

H. J. , M.D., _www.sunsentpress.com_ (http://www.sunsentpress.com)

The FDA is not going to help. They are part of the problem. An article

titled Pharma Facade Cracking Over Controversies in the January issue of the

Idaho Observer (2005) stated:

**A little more than one year ago the LA Times broke a huge story about

the incestuous relationship between scientists at the National Institutes for

Health, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and

pharmaceutical company executives. Rep Greenwood (R - PA) noted that,

" This is

not a matter of a revolving door where NIH people go from the federal agency

to the private sector. This is a question of a swivel chair where they sit

at one desk and do both jobs. " As I have mentioned many times, " FDA is Big

Pharma's Washington Branch Office**.

The pharmaceutical industry is putting aspartame in the very drugs used to

treat the problems it causes. For instance, headache is #1 on the FDA list

of 92 symptoms. The victim doesn't know that aspartame is the culprit

because an additive is supposed to be inert or non-reactive. So the victim goes

to the doctor and he prescribes Maxalt by Merck for headache. It contains

aspartame. Aspartame also can trigger Parkinson's which often violently

interacts with L-Dopa. Schwartz Pharmaceutical adds aspartame to Parcopa.

Aspartame is escalating asthma and products like Singulair contain aspartame,

now said to be causing suicidal tendencies. The phenylalanine in aspartame

lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin which triggers suicidal

tendencies, bipolar, panic attacks, etc.

Talking about bipolar, aspartame is an inactive ingredient of Risperdal

M-Tab orally disintegrating tablets - each 2 mg. tablet contains 0.56 mg

phenylalanine and each 1 mg tablet, 0.28 mg phenylalanine. So aspartame

triggers bipolar and now they give

aspartame back to them in Risperdal, used to treat the problem. The FDA

noted the frequency of prolactin-producing pituitary tumors in patients

taking risperidone, a drug widely prescribed for schizophrenia and bipolar

disorder. Of 64 patients with pituitary tumors receiving anti-psychotics, 48

had

been using risperidone. Dr. H. J. wrote a paper about this.

Aspartame triggered pituitary tumors in original studies. Now its triggering

these tumors in patients using a drug that contains aspartame.

The FDA is allowing this, the very agency who knows how deadly aspartame

is because they tried to have them indicted for fraud. You just can't do a

study on a poison and show safety and they got caught doing things like

excising brain tumors from rats, putting them back in the study and when they

died resurrected them on paper. They also revoked the petition for approval

because aspartame could not be proven safe and caused brain tumors. Don

Rumsfeld through political chicanery got aspartame marketed as discussed in the

aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World.

_www.soundandfury.tv_ (http://www.soundandfury.tv)

In 1986 the Community Nutrition Institute petitioned the FDA to ban

aspartame because it was causing so many seizures and people were going blind.

The FDA refused even though it had full knowledge of this. So the FDA has

nothing to do with safe food and drugs. It is the Food and Death Association

who raids health food stores to snatch healthful vitamins and herbs and at

the same time approves poisons for the public. They sit by and do nothing

with this happening. This is why I say everyone should write their

congressman. The FDA's doors need to be shut forever. When those responsible to

solve

the problem ARE the problems its an abomination. As long as the incestuous

relationship of the FDA exists with the pharmaceutical industry the public

will continue to be poisoned. They receive money from the pharmaceutical

industry and its well known you can't serve two masters. So the FDA has

betrayed the public trust and is the cause of the problems that exist.

Consider that even pediatric pharmaceuticals are not safe - they do not

even spare the children. A mother takes her child to a pediatrician and he

proscribes Augmentin, pediatric Penicillin. It has aspartame in it. Then the

mother goes to the store and buys over-the-counter cough syrup and such

that have aspartame in it. On January 7, 2005, WZZM13 News coverage published

an article titled: **Researchers May Have Found Cause for Sudden Death

Syndrome**. The article said: " 3000 children die every year of Sudden Infant

Death Syndrome, better known as SIDS. ... They say a lack of Serotonin, the

brain chemical known for regulating moods, also helps the body set the pace

for breathing.** The phenylalanine in aspartame depletes serotonin!. Here

is a case in point: _http://www.wnho.net/sweetened_horror_story.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/sweetened_horror_story.htm) So the FDA doesn't even care

how

many babies and children die each year because they have refused to ban

aspartame. Aspartame triggers an irregular hearth rhythm and interacts with

cardiac medication. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes

sudden. Imagine a baby being given this poison. Their little hearts can't take

it. Even young student athletes are dropping dead.

_http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm)

Now pharmaceutical companies say they will remove over-the-counter

products for toddlers like two year olds voluntarily because it has been

brought

to their attention babies are dying for some reason. Be assured they are

still there as I checked a couple of months ago. Some of the products also now

contain Splenda which is a chlorocarbon poison. The FDA has been

petitioned to ban Splenda as well but the FDA does nothing. I filed a petition

to

ban aspartame 6 years ago which has to be answered in 180 days. The FDA

ignored it. I filed an amendment based on an imminent health hazard which has

to

be answered immediately, like a week or ten years. This was done in

October and they have ignored it. The FDA serves above the law and is the

problem. People are dying because the FDA refuses to do its job so Big Pharma

can

gouge the public and make more billions to influence and control. We now

have a Fascist government.

If you and everyone on these lists sends this to their congressman maybe

we can get their doors closed. Today they are guilty of the very same crime,

Title 18, Section 1001, they filed against the original manufacturer of

aspartame, G. D. Searle. Their web site

tells the public aspartame is safe, and they put out propaganda in their

FDA Talk Paper, with full knowledge they are lying.

The first weekend after Labor Day is Aspartame Awareness Weekend. I think

this year we will try and get the poisons off restaurant tables, and I'll

write a flyer. And we should all write Congress to do something about the

FDA. Congress gives them more money and they use it for bonuses. After all,

they have no use to use it to protect the public, since its obvious that's

one thing they don't do.

All my best,

Betty

Dr. Betty i, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

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See also:

_Aspartame - avoid it - Dangerous symptoms_

(http://www.hallgold.com/epilepsy.htm)

_Aspartame Disease - An ignored epidemic_

(http://www.sunsentpress.com/aspartameDisease.html)

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