Well... one would assume that the reason for that thread's inclusion in the FAQ that is marked as "read before posting" is to avoid retreading the same tired subjects over and over.
I will ignore the fact that that's a link to a heavily biased anti aspartame website that seems to be missing a few of the several hundred studies, both industry and independently funded, that have demonstrated the safety of aspartame, and cut right to the nitty gritty. Can you find a single peer reviewed study that demonstrates dangerous or deleterious effects from Aspartame in quantities that can be realistically consumed by humans?
Probably because there are tons of foods that contain trace levels or higher of mercury, many of them very good for you in the grand scheme of things.
And if aspartame builds up in your organs, we are all screwed, because the metabolites from aspartame are present in much higher quantities in all sorts of foods, methanol particularly in fruits, aspartic acid and phenylalanine in proteins.
Nice opinion piece (not a study) from a man who lost his license for being "delusional" about aspartame. Too bad not a single one of the vast multitudes of studies done on aspartame, methanol, phenylalanine, or aspartic acid consumption in humans has matched his claims.
Even the lowest dose shown to have any effect whatsoever measures in centigrams... for an experiment conducted on mice. You should really read these, rather than copy/pasting...
It really calls into question the methodology used in this research that they don't even know the correct molar mass of aspartame... :icon_neut
I would also point out that bathing cultured cells in something probably isn't going to give you a reaction that is analogous to that same thing being consumed by a living organism, especially since methanol metabolism is handled mostly by the liver.
I'm guessing you've never taken toxicology, then. Arsenic, Cyanide, and Formaldehyde are all excellent examples of substances that are poisonous in large enough quantities. They are also all vital to your health and you will die if you are deficient in them. Formaldehyde is a non essential, true, because your body makes enough of it on its own so long as it has the necessary constituents. However, this also means that your body has an entire pathway set up for dealing with excess formaldehyde... and a good thing, too, because you likely consume more formaldehyde in a day of eating fruits and vegetables than you would consume in a week of drinking diet sodas.
Very cute, and an awesome example of the logical fallacy of begging the question. Nobody disputes that aspartame breaks down. What's in dispute is whether the concentrations of those metabolites have any deleterious effects at doses that a human can possibly consume. Nobody has ever demonstrated such.
This Russell Blaylock?
Who belongs to this organization?
The Russell Blaylock who wants to save your life, but you need to sign up for his newsletter for only $48 a year, and buy his "Brain Repair Formula" for only $46.25 for a 30 day supply?
Clearly, the literally thousands of other researchers that have found aspartame to be safe over the last four decades have all been bought and paid for... but thankfully, this man is looking out for us. Clearly he has no vested interest in advancing a false narrative.
Actually, the main thing that threads like this make me question is why the sugar and HFCS industries, which are literally thousands of times bigger than the aspartame industry, can't buy this kind of research to save their life. They have profits that dwarf the total revenue of all aspartame manufacturers put together, after all...
Oh yes... it's a grand conspiracy and the evil corporations are trying to kill us. Thankfully, we can foil their evil plans for the low, low price of $603.00 a year (plus shipping and handling)!
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