PROFESSIONAL OPINION CONCERNING THE ROLE OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET (R) ) IN ARTHRITIS AND FIBROMYALGIA

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PROFESSIONAL OPINION CONCERNING THE ROLE OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING ASPARTAME

(NUTRASWEET ® ) IN ARTHRITIS AND FIBROMYALGIA

It is my opinion that persons with unexplained joint pain and muscle-soft

tissue complaints who consume aspartame should consider stopping these

products, including gum, for a trial period of at least one

month. Dramatic improvement of these and other symptoms from

unrecognized aspartame disease occurred in scores of patients- often

within days. Awareness of this relationship may spare the individual

considerable testing, expense, and the side effects of potent drugs.

This corporate -neutral statement is based on 15 years of observation and

research by a Board-certified internist. It is offered as general

information in response to numerous requests from patients and consumers

about the subject. The details appear in more than a score of my

published articles, and in these books and audio cassette sets:

* SWEET'NER DEAREST: BITTERSWEET VIGNETTES ABOUT ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET ®)

(book) (Sunshine Sentinel Press,

P. O. Box 17799, West Palm beach, Florida 33416; 800-814-9800)

* IS ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET ® SAFE? A MEDICAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND

LEGAL OVERVIEW (2 cassette set) (Sunshine Sentinel Press)

* BREAST IMPLANTS OR ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET ® DISEASE? THE

SUPPRESSED OPINION ABOUT A PERCEIVED MEDICOLEGAL TRAVESTY,

(book) (Sunshine Sentinel Press)

* ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET ®: IS IT SAFE? (book) (The Press,

Philadelphia)

These and related titles are described in the Sunshine Sentinel Press

home page at www.icanect.net/sunpress and www.gate.net/~sunpress

JOINT PAINS - " ARTHRITIS "

Joint pain was a prominent complaint in 163 (14 percent) of 1200 persons

with aspartame disease in my series..They included physicians and

nurses. Most experienced dramatic relief (at times referred to as

" miraculous " ) relief after abstinence from these products. Resumption of

aspartame PROMPTLY precipitated joint pain in most, thereby reaffirming

the diagnosis.

The misdiagnoses were numerous. They included atypical rheumatoid

arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, lupus erythematosus (especially when a

suggestive rash occurred), " the aging process, " palindromic rheumatism

in children, and complications attributed to silicone breast

implants. Aspartame also can aggravate longstanding typical arthritis..

The mechanisms of such joint, bone, and muscle complaints largely reflect

the toxicity of each of the three components of aspartame

(phenylalanine; aspartic acid; the methyl ester, which promptly becomes

free methyl alcohol or methanol), and their multiple breakdown products

after exposure to heat or during prolonged storage. Aspartame has an

affinity for bone. Formaldehyde results from the metabolism of methanol,

and probably plays a significant role by causing profound changes in the

soft and synovial tissues, and immunologic effects.

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FIBROMYALGIA "

This popular diagnosis was made in 27 patients among my most recent 649

aspartame reactors. It is a nonspecific term that is invoked

when conventional tests for muscular and rheumatologic disorders prove

normal.

As in aspartame disease, most of the patients are women. Many of the

associated complaints-including fatigue, poor concentration, headache,

numbness and tingling - also improve after stopping aspartame. They have

expressed gratitude after having been subjected to the stigma that their

problem was primarily " psychosomatic. "

@2000 H. J. , M.D.

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