Aspartame - induced hepatitis

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Subject: Steato Hepatitis

Subject: Steato Hepatitis, another extensive NutraSweet Plague,

Bowen, M.D. (for global distribution) Permission to Publish

For those on aspartame support groups who have had questions about

the

liver problems from aspartame, and why some physicians question

hepatitis

in aspartame victims.

From Bowen, M.D. June 4, 2001

Steato Hepatitis, characterized by an accumulation of fat in the

hepatocyte

(liver cell) resulting from ingestion of aspartame is focused in the

mitochondria. Mitochondria are the energy furnaces of the cell and

aspartame (APM) metabolism into more toxic derivatives, formaldehyde

and

formic acid take place in the mitochondria. As in all NutraSweet

poisoning

the formaldehyde and formic acid immediately attack the tissues they

are

generated in so we see a new co-existent plague of " anti-

mitrochondrial

antibody hepatitis " generated right along with the steato hepatitis

because

the immune system reacts to the degenerated tissues.

The breakdown of fats into energy producing chemicals has obligatory

metabolism via mitochondrial mechanisms. When mitochondria are

rendered

defective by aspartame poisoning fat cannot be processed to be used

for

energy. The formation of fat from dietary calories proceeds because

fat is

built up directly in the cytosol of cells and accumulation is not

dependent

on mitochondrial function. So liver cells and fat cells and after

fats

cells (lipocytes) store fat and cannot get rid of it no matter how

badly it

is needed to supply energy to the body. Thanks to NutraSweet these

victims

literally cannot starve the fat off of their bodies or out of their

livers

because of their compromised mitochondrial functional capacity. To

make

matters worse the mitochondrial DNA is severely damaged.

Methanol/formaldehyde poisoning occurring as the direct result of

the obligatory metabolism of methyl radicals is the most common form

of genetic damage, caused by formaldehyde cross linkage of DNA

strains. The mitochondrial DNA is thousands of times more

vulnerable to this than

nuclear DNA, and lack the excellent repair mechanisms that protects

the

integrity of nuclear DNA. The presently understood mitochondria DNA

repair

mechanisms are merely excisional, that is the DNA rendered abnormal

by the

aspartame/methanol poisoning is merely excised leaving the

mitochondrial

function at best insufficient, defective and incomplete. Which in

addition

to producing inadequate and incomplete energy metabolism spins off

highly

damaging free radicals. Methanol/formaldehyde poisoning is noted

for this.

This vicious circle amounts to tremendous degenerative process in

the human

organism and the unfortunate results too numerous to be repeated

here but

are well detailed on www.dorway.com and other excellent sites such

as

www.holisticmed.com/aspartame, as well as Dr. Hyman text on

the

subject. (Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic - 1 800 814 -

9800 or

www.sunsentpress.com/ ). This amounts to virtual " genocide " , and is

further emphasized by the fact this mitochondrial DNA damage is

directly

transmitted by female NutraSweet users to her children and

grandchildren,

and to subsequent generations via her female descendents.

___________________________End of article by Dr. Bowen

For further information on aspartame's effect on the liver see the

Trocho

Study on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html Books on the liver by

Cabot,

M.D., of Mission Possible Australia also on www.dorway.com and

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Blaylock,

M.D. Also see Detox page on this web page. (Newton Labs),

Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health by Dr. Woodrow Monte,

journal

article on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html