 Parkinson’s Disease
You may remember actor Michael J. Fox from the “Back to the Future” movies, or the sit com “Spin City.”
For years, he was a spokesperson for Diet Pepsi.
He has a very severe form of Parkinson's. He was diagnosed in 1991 at the age of 30 with early-onset Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Betty Martini, who has spent decades lobbying for an FDA reversal of its approval of aspartame, points to the case of Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's. Dr. Martini reports Fox is addicted to diet cola. "Aspartame can precipitate Parkinson's and as a neurotoxic drug even interacts with L-dopa," she says.
Dr. Russell Blaylock, a leading authority on excitotoxins, speaks to a Parkinson’s connection:
“Parkinson's Disease is a disorder whose cause appears, from substantial evidence, to be related to excitotoxicity. These toxins destroy the cells in the brain central to this disease. Excitotoxins cause these brain cells to generate enormous amounts of free radicals. This is true of MSG and aspartic acid (aspartame). There is substantial circumstantial evidence that dietary excitotoxins, including aspartame, can aggravate these destructive changes in the Parkinson's brain. The additional toxins – DKP, aspartate, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid – add to this injury. Recent evidence demonstrates that the aspartame product, formaldehyde - accumulates within cells and damages protein and DNA.” 1
Dr. James Bowen speaks to Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis:
"Aspartic acid, the excitotoxic component of aspartame does not cross the blood brain barrier but is secreted into the cerebral spinal fluid by the choroid plexus located in the ventricles of the brain. There, in the brain's lower area and upper terminus of the spinal is where Lou Gehrig’s, Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis damage is most prominent. These critical locations are bathed in the [toxins as the blood courses by them]. From the third to fourth ventricle there is a narrow canal called sylvian aqueduct which fills with this secretion and washes the roof of the hypothalamus." 2
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research website makes no mention of an aspartame connection: “Fox wholeheartedly believes that if there is a concentrated effort from the Parkinson's community, elected representatives in Washington, DC, and (most importantly) the general public, researchers can pinpoint the cause of Parkinson's and uncover a cure within our lifetime.” 3
This sounds familiar, much like what President Richard Nixon said in the 1960s when he launched the “war on cancer.” And yet, today we have more cancer than ever before.
Increasingly, health activists are forcing medical professionals to look behind the well-funded industry proclamations of safety to see that synthetic sugars in diet sodas can cause symptoms that mimic or exacerbate a number of diseases, including Parkinson's.
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