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Aspartame is one of my worst triggers too. Haven’t touched it in over a decade because the migraines I get are so horrific from it. Glad you figured it out 💖
There are so many people who talk about how aspartame fucks up their bodies, it’s common knowledge it fucks up the stomach after a while… But the doctors here INSIST that all the diabetics are wrong and imagine it bc they haven’t heard of any side-effects, side-effects that weren’t screened for to begin with. The food safety authorities said it was fine when it was launched so nothing new need to be known apparently.
I fucking hate hate HATE aspartame. It ruins what it touches.
I tend to regard it as the current nicotine blunder of the medical world, in that doctors used to prescribe smoking as a treatment for tuberculosis and asthma, and now with hindsight that knowledge makes our hair stand on end at how emphatically wrong and harmful that is.
I saw an article a while ago that showed a link between aspartame in hot beverages being a possible seizure trigger, and about lost my mind cause my brother who has epilepsy puts it in his coffee all the time. He’s had a substantial decrease in headaches, tremors and other seizure related problems since he switched back to sugar and started avoiding it as much as possible in readymade foods.
It’s also off the top of my head, not recommended for people taking medication for schizophrenia for the same reason, because the phenylalanine in the aspartame can worsen some side effects of neuroleptic drugs. But a lot of people don’t seem to realize or have been told this by their doctors, and only find out once they’ve got down the rabbit hole of research on their own. And that is profoundly shit.
Anyway, yes. Hating aspartame being a common ingredient is a hill I’m ready to die on.
You know, asparatame has always just absolutely wrecked my GI tract, even if it’s just a tiny bit. Just, sent me into full on ‘curl up and whimper and drink Pepto Bismol right out of the bottle’ cramps and also, yes, sometimes triggered headaches.
I found out after I was diagnosed with Crohn’s that this is pretty common for people with Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis, and it can worsen damage in IBD patients systems. One of the things the doc told me is “No asparatame for you ever.”
Which was fine, because I already avoided it like the plague, but yeah. Asparatame is the Devil.
It all starts in the mid 1960’s with a company called G.D. Searle. One of their chemists accidentally creates aspartame while trying to create a cure for stomach ulcers. Searle decides to put aspartame through a testing process which eventually leads to its approval by the FDA. Not long after, serious health effects begin to arise and G.D. Searle comes under fire for their testing practices. It is revealed that the testing process of Aspartame was among the worst the investigators had ever seen and that in fact the product was unsafe for use. Aspartame triggers the first criminal investigation of a manufacturer put into place by the FDA in 1977. By 1980 the FDA bans aspartame from use after having 3 independent scientists study the sweetener. It was determined that one main health effects was that it had a high chance of inducing brain tumors. At this point it was clear that aspartame was not fit to be used in foods and banned is where it stayed, but not for long.
Early in 1981 Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (who is a former Secretary of Defense.. surprise surprise) vowed to “call in his markers,” to get it approved. January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, Searle took the steps to re-apply aspartame’s approval for use by the FDA. Ronald Reagans’ new FDA commissioner Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry’s decision. It did not take long for the panel to decide 3-2 in favor of maintaining the ban of aspartame. Hull then decided to appoint a 6th member to the board, which created a tie in the voting, 3-3. Hull then decided to personally break the tie and approve aspartame for use. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller. Burstone-Marstella is the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about aspartame.
It is clear to this point that if anything the safety of aspartame is incredibly shaky. It has already been through a process of being banned and without the illegitimate un-banning of the product, it would not be being used today. Makes you wonder how much corruption and money was involved with names like Rumsfeld, Reagan and Hull involved so heavily. In 1985, Monsanto decides to purchase the aspartame patent from G.D. Searle. Remember that Arthur Hull now had the connection to Monsanto. Monsanto did not seem too concerned with the past challenges and ugly image aspartame had based on its past. I personally find this comical as Monsanto’s products are banned in many countries and of all companies to buy the product they seem to fit best as they are champions of producing incredibly unsafe and untested products and making sure they stay in the market place.
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