From: Jaffe, Lyle D
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:07 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: nutrasweet and seizures and accidents 



-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:01 PM
To: Debsayshi@att.net
Subject: Re: nutrasweet and seizures and accidents 


Dear Deb,

I am so sorry that you have had such a shattering experience because of 
NutraSweet.  You are correct, of course.  To market a neurotoxic drug, a 
seizure triggering chemical poison that destroys the central nervous system 
and even blinds, is pure insanity and criminal in every sense of the 
word.  And this doesn't begin to go into the other horrors that aspartame 
causes as outlined in the 1038 page medical text by Dr. Roberts.  And 
aspartame interacts with just about every drug used to treat the problems 
it causes.  So be glad they did not put you on anti-seizure medication 
because aspartame interacts with Dilantin and like drugs.

I don't know if you really have MS or not, and from what you say its hard 
to tell exactly how much aspartame you have had over the years.  It 
completely destroys the central nervous  system and mimics MS.  You will 
note in Dr. Roberts position paper Multiple Sclerosis or Aspartame Disease? 
on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html  he says a diagnosis should never be made 
until the victim is off aspartame for several months, even if there are 
small lesions.  You can carry that diagnosis the rest of your life and 
perhaps not have it at all.

Below I noticed I mentioned Dr. Roberts medical text but don't know whether 
I mentioned Dr. Blaylock's.  You and your physician should also read his 
book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills.  He is a neurosurgeon and your 
neurologist needs his information as well.  There are other books by these 
two experts on aspartame but I always mention these because if you read 
them both you will understand aspartame very well.

Yes, you could have been killed or killed others.  And consider that 
aspartame also damages the cardiac conduction system and can cause sudden 
death.  It causes cardiac  standstill.  It also interacts with 
cardiac  medication.  Imagine the hazard to aviation.  We do have an 
Aviation Division and I can tell you many pilots have lost their health, 
their occupation and some even their lives from aspartame.  Five American 
Airline Pilots who were heavy users have died, one in flight, and the other 
pilot had to land the plane.

We can pick you up under class action on the seizures and optic 
neuritis.  I do need your address.  And first in importance is to get you 
well.  But I would make an issue with the hospital where you lost the 
job.  As an RN you can help a lot.  And I say make an issue about the job 
because the knowledge itself will help every physician and medical employee 
in the place.   In fact, Denise Reichert, another aspartame victim, 
(bipolar) gave me $1000.00 to put up a billboard and I'm currently looking 
for a place I can do that in a medical center because its going to be 
doctors and patients that are going to look at it, and the seizure issue is 
of such importance it can make the difference of being the diagnostic 
salvation of thousands.  I remember that in l995 when I attended the 
Conference of the American College of Physicians with Dr. Roberts here in 
Atlanta, the first thing the professor of neurology said in one of the 
workshops was "Doctors, I don't care if its off the wall, can somebody tell 
me why so many people in the population are having seizures?"  The 
professor had no idea and even when I explained that there is 50% 
phenylalanine in aspartame, as an isolate is neurotoxic, and lowers the 
seizure threshold he said:  "But I thought that was in real cases of 
phenylketonuria."  I answered, "No Professor, we all have a seizure 
threshold and we have an aviation division, and pilots are having grand mal 
seizures in the cockpits of commercial airliners."  After I said that a 
physician raised his hand and further stated:  "I'm afraid she is right, 
professor.  I am a physician and a pilot and I have a friend who flies 
commercially, drinks  diet pop and has seizures, and I'm going to have to 
report him."  And the FAA says they can't do anything because the FDA says 
its safe.  This is the same FDA who not only said it was "not safe" in 
their final Board of Inquiry where they asked that the petition for 
approval be revoked and aspartame not approved, but the very same FDA who 
wanted the original manufacturer indicted for fraud.  I have a friend who 
is an anti-aspartame journalist and she wears a button that says:  "They 
lie and deny."

Over the years I have had accident after accident reported and so many near 
misses like yours.  Yet the government lends a blind eye and deaf ear 
because of the power of the pharmaceutical industry.  They have front 
groups on the Internet and misinformation sites and they fund professional 
organizations, people in Congress, physicians to defend them, institutions 
and make researchers dependent on research funds.  I wondered why the Mayo 
Clinic had misinformation on aspartame on a web site even after I sent them 
enough medical documentation for them to know they were in error.  Then we 
checked who funded that particular web site and it was Searle, the original 
manufacturer of aspartame, that Monsanto bought in l985.  They have now 
sold.  And people with these pharmaceutical and chemical companies sit on 
the boards of institutions like John Hopkins.  A good book to read is The 
Tainted Truth, The Manipulation of Fact by Cynthia Crossen, who works for 
the Wall Street Journal.

And so the manufacturers of aspartame let loose on an unwarned 
global  population the hounds of disease and death.  And lives continue to 
be shattered like yours everyday, and cases come in like yours constantly.

Searle actually sacrificed people from poor villages in 6 countries and 
never published the studies.  They showed that aspartame destroys the 
central nervous system and brain and hardens the synovial fluids.  Some 
people developed brain tumors, other seizures and some died.  A recent 
study in Norway also showed that aspartame destroys the brain.  The memory 
loss is epidemic in aspartame users and Dr. Roberts says it is his opinion 
it is escalating Alzheimers.  He has written Defense Against Alzheimers 
Disease:  www.sunsentpress.com

It is really past time to do an epidemiological study on MS.  It could be 
done with our records alone as most victims who have been on aspartame for 
any period of time report these symptoms.  and the cases never stop.  I 
think I'll ask Dr. Roberts  if he's interested.  We could do it with our 
records as well as checking with the four support groups on line.
Sometime happened some years ago, really a fluke.  I lectured for the World 
Environmental Conference in l995 when Dr. Gaylord of the EPA made this 
statement:  "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and cannot identify the 
toxin."  I answered:  "I'm Betty Martini of Mission Possible International 
and I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and identify that toxin as 
NutraSweet."  To make a long story short somebody by the name of Nancy 
Markle published my post about it that I had put on a list of 
neurosurgeons, Dr. Rivner's group.  John Smith in the UK sent it to a 
global networker, Shoshanna Allison.  Because her husband got lupus from 
aspartame, ballooned up to 400 lbs, with the usual moodswings and it 
shattered their marriage, she didn't want it to happen to anyone else.  She 
put the post on 450 global networks and it made world news.  Now called 
Paula Revere, she fired the shot heard around the world.

On www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html  you will see my correspondence with Dr. 
Gaylord via email.  You will notice she said she too found out about the 
epidemic of MS and lupus from field reports across the nation.  And that's 
the way we have known, the constant reporting from aspartame victims across 
the world.  One lady in Scotland told me that its like one out of five have 
MS.  And even though its an exaggeration, of course, it shows the extent of 
the epidemic everywhere.  And if they have these symptoms they usually have 
enough of the other usual aspartame reactions to document the cause.  In 
talking to someone at the NIH about an epidemiological study on aspartame 
and MS I was told: "Too many on aspartame".  But that's precisely why it 
needs to be done and why MS is so epidemic.  It should have never gotten to 
this point because so many have always known from the beginning.  Even the 
glutamate people who were doing studies on MSG used aspartame as the 
placebo (a crime of course) before it was ever approved.  So they were 
going to try and show that MSG would not react anymore than the placebo, so 
they had to use something as the placebo they knew was reactive and also an 
excitotoxin, (a product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain 
to death causing brain damage of varying degrees - from the back cover of 
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Dr. Blaylock ).  This was found in 
the FDA files by Jack Samuels when he sued the FDA over the MSG labeling 
issue, so the FDA had known they were doing this for over a quarter of a 
century.

I don't know if this was the post that also alerted you about aspartame, 
but I can tell you so-called MS victims have walked out of wheelchairs ever 
since.  And seizure victim after seizure victim has abstained from 
aspartame to find themselves now seizure free.  Even some victims who were 
declared legally blind like Mary Reiff have had their vision restored.  But 
the cemeteries are full of those who weren't warned in time.

Dr. James Bowen wrote the FDA years ago and told them aspartame is mass 
poisoning of the American public and more than 70+ countries of the world. 
Many ask why did they knowingly mass poisoning the world?  My only answer 
has always been for the same reason as tobacco; addiction, profit and 
greed.  In the end they will all be brought down including the pimps and 
prostitutes who took money from the manufacturer and put greed before life.

I don't know who Nancy Markle is but with Paula Revere's shot around the 
world it continues to save lives daily.  As people get off aspartame and 
get well they make more copies.  Even with front groups and paid 
prostitutes Monsanto could not put out the fire and sold the NutraSweet 
Company.  However, as Mohammed Ali once said:  "They can run but they can't 
hide."

I have a post I did on seizures recently I'll send to you so you can see 
how far Monsanto has gone with flawed research, even down to giving the 
subjects in the study anti-seizure medication, and only one capsule of 
aspartame.  Sort of tantamount to sniffing the bottle.

The reason I went into such detail in this post is because I want you and 
your physician to understand not only why it happened, but because of your 
experience you're precisely the kind of victim that can help a lot.  You 
can tell your story on radio, write letters to editors and help to make 
congress understand.  I know one lady, Mission Possible West Virginia, who 
wrote her congressmen expecting a long delay in writing only to have them 
both call.  So many are using the toxin that her letter identified to these 
congressmen way they were experiencing the same problems.  Her physician 
not only wrote to all his patients to get off aspartame but had the letter 
published in his local paper.  Sometimes little seeds can grow very tall.

You can educate yourself very quickly through the use of the web sites 
which contain government documents and a river of information from 
physicians.  And the physicians keep writing books to help the public find 
out.  Also be sure to add to your library, Trust Us, We're Experts.  You'll 
really like that one.

I hope you will join the aspartame support groups, you can click on from 
www.dorway.com  Mission Possible International is a worldwide volunteer 
force of activists and victims in 50 states and 22 countries warning 
consumers off aspartame.

All my best,
Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible 
International   www.dorway.com   770 242-2599

At 11:42 AM 9/18/2002 +0000, Debsayshi@att.net wrote:
>Dear Betty  -  I am a registered nurse, very health conscious.  I was 
>diagnosed
>with MS in 1986 when I graduated nursing school.  I had only two episodes 
>since
>then both called optic nuritis - I had no MRI to prove the MS until a year 
>ago
>because I had left nursing for a while and decided to have an MRI and a
>neuropsych eval to quantify my abilities to be sure I was OK to do the 
>nursing.
>I had never heard that nutrasweet was even bad for you.  I don't watch TV or
>read papers much - too busy having a fun life.  I took a job 45 min away from
>me in another state for a 12 hr shift in a hospital.  Days mostly.  I started
>to use the nutrasweet in my daily coffee about 4 months ago.  Had never 
>used it
>to any extent prior.  I also work out at a gym often and worked out the day
>before this happened.  I know I was somewhat dehydrated, Worked the next 
>day a
>full 12 hr shift.  Had a quick bite for lunch at around 12, maybe 1pm then
>worked right through - no water - just the am coffee and then a diet sprite
>20oz at around 6pm - I drank it right down cause I was so 
>thirsty.  Finished my
>shift and left at about 7:30pm.  I made it over two big bridges near my home
>and just after I came over the Jamestown bridge I very faintly remember 
>feeling
>nauseated and maybe a tingling in my legs - the sun was still out as it 
>was the
>beginning of July - I was next "waking up" with the EMTs trying to get me 
>out o
>the car - I was against the jersey barrier in the high speed lane and I 
>didn't
>know what was happening.  They had to talk me into going into the hospital -
>they said they thought I had a seizure.  I was admitted and the tests all
>proved I had no seizure disorder, the MS also was NOT ACTIVE by lumbar
>puncture.  The doctors had no answers for me except my magnesium level was a
>little on the low end of the paramater.  I had problems with memory as 
>well, I
>did not remember the next day, Sunday, as well as a date I went on two weeks
>later.  You see Betty I did not know it was the Nutrasweet so when I went 
>back
>to work two weeks later, I continued to use the stuff in my coffee.  My 
>doctors
>did not feel it necessary to start me on seizure meds as I had no 
>disorder, all
>tests were negative.  And I was able to keep my drivers license.  I was 
>afraid
>to work out at the gym for a while, thinking it was just the 
>dehydration.  But
>my neurologist couldn't justify the memory loss not even to the MS since its
>been in remission for 9 years.  I continued to have some confusion at work -
>not a good thing and people noticed.  I didn't make any errors thank god, 
>but I
>did lose my job three weeks ago.  I found out about the Nurasweet two 
>weeks and
>have stopped using it.  I feel better, but that job meant a lot to me, 
>they had
>no real reason to let me go as I had just had an excellent review in June.  I
>have met with my attending phyician Dr. Robert Hance in Wickford, RI. I
>discussed this all with him and his initial check showed Nutrasweet to be a
>neuro toxin.  He's doing further invetigation on the dorway web site and he
>will also discuss with my neurologist.  The stuff needs to come off the
>market.  I could have gotten killed and killed another person coming off that
>bridge - and I work very had to maintain my credibility as a RN - Dr. Hance
>will be getting back to me within a week.  Thank you for your time.  Deb 
>Wahl,RN
> > Dear Deb,
> >
> > I need a chronological history, how long you've been using aspartame,
> > etc.  address, and eventually some medical records.  Be sure your doctor
> > knows about the new medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
> > www.aspartameispoison.com  or www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 814 -
> > 9800.   There is a whole chapter on seizures and in the chapter on drug
> > interaction explains how aspartame interacts with Dilantin and like drugs.
> >
> > On the www.dorway.com  is the RAO study showing even in a pivotal study
> > that approved aspartame, 5 out of 7 monkeys had grand mal seizures and one
> > died.  And they used this to prove safety!!!
> >
> > Who is your physician?
> >
> > All my best,
> > BettyAt 05:14 PM 9/17/2002 +0000, Debsayshi@att.net wrote:
> > >How do I get involved in the law suit?  My home number is 401 295-7830. I
> > >have
> > >my doctors reviewing the information at dorway.com as all the information
> > >points to this being the cause of my new experience with seizures and 
> memory
> > >loss.   Deb Wahl  debsayshi@att.net.
> >
> >
> >