He also explains why victims are going blind from aspartame and took the issues of blindness and seizures all the way to the Supreme Court. Only aspartame industry power kept it from being heard by the court.
Dr. Monte continually compares aspartame and smoking. Which is the worst defilement of the body?
Here is an example under the Toxicological Evidence: "The circulatory system is a known target of methanol poisoning, with short term exposure causing thickening of the intima of the artery walls as seen in arteriosclerosis. There are few sources of dietary or environmental methanol poisoning. Cigarette smoking is the most reliable and is universally considered the major cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and the other atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Aspartame is another known source of methanol whose daily consumption has recently been linked to a fifty percent increase in death from heart disease and stroke."
Dr. Monte's book explains how the methanol in aspartame precipitates Alzheimer's disease. In the context of the molecular evidence, he writes: "In the absence of ethanol, dietary methanol easily penetrates the blood brain barrier and passes into the intima and media of the veins and arteries of the brain, where it is transformed by ADH into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde diffuses into nearby nerve cell axons and penetrates until it locates tau protein, which is modified and polymerized to produce plaque. Once the plague breaks through the cell membrane and myelin layers of the axon it is exposed to the brain's macrophages, which become activated, leading to the inflammation of Alzheimer's."
Dr. Monte said: "How can formaldehyde produce such large plague configurations that they break through cell membranes and myelin sheaths surrounding the axon? Under suitable conditions the molecules of many compounds can be linked together into giant molecules by methylene bridges when subject to the action of formaldehyde."
Under toxicological evidence Monte says "The brain is the target organ of methanol poisoning, and methanol's infliction of damage on the brain is the direct cause of all methanol mortalities. Amnesia and memory loss is a common symptom of methanol activity."
Aspartame memory loss is so rampant it is number 9 on the FDA list of 92 symptoms including death:
http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf
Dr. H. J. Roberts who wrote the medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic," 1000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered or precipitated by aspartame, told me he spoke to someone in Air Traffic Control drinking a Diet Coke who couldn't remember his name or where he was. After Pilot Cliff Evans crashed his plane on aspartame, we set up Mission Possible Aviation:
http://www.mpwhi.com/pilot_aspartame_alert_with_letters.htm
So many informants have told me the manufacturers know aspartame precipitates Alzheimer's that I finally wrote an article about them that summarizes their cases:
http://www.rense.com/general96/asparalz.html
Dr. Monte also wrote: "Formaldehyde as a Trigger for Protein Aggregation and Potential Target for Mitigation of Age-Related, Progressive Cognitive Impairment" http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_as_a_trigger.pdf
Monte sums it up in his book: "Something very wrong is going on, something that is killing good people and causing untold suffering to families and communities around the world. Never has such a high percentage of the population been afflicted with so many tragic and wasting illnesses. In the past thirty years, a group of diseases has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and many other countries. These diseases include multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, melanoma, and autism, a once rare birth defect. Mankind endures a plague whose point of origin distinctly coincides with the Food and Drug Administration's 1981 approval of aspartame an artificial sweetener containing methanol, which is metabolized into deadly formaldehyde within the brain and sinew of all who consume it."
Because aspartame was never proven safe by science and indeed the manufacturers own studies proved it to be dangerous, the biggest study on aspartame was thrust upon the unsuspecting public. Monte calls this study on the public a toxicologist's dream. Welcome to the International Association of lab rats and guinea pigs! Today it's called "Rumsfeld's Plague" to commemorate the man who talked President Ronald Reagan into writing an executive order forbidding the FDA to sign the revoked petition for approval of aspartame into law. He even had the transition team call at 3:00 AM the FDA Commissioner Dr. Jerri Goyan and fire him so he could appoint one of Rumsfeld's buddies as FDA Commissioner and over-rule the Board of Inquiry. This is also how Reagan indirectly became an aspartame victim.
Monte wrote: "I remember clearly the sympathy I felt while reading Ronald Reagan's heart wrenching letter revealing his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. It began with this statement: "I have recently been told that I'm one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease." I was saddened by the thought of countless souls witnessing their brains being turned off, not knowing what treasured memory of which loved one they would forget next. Reagan was a man with a legendary memory, considered by some to be photographic during his years as an actor. In contrast, as his presidency progressed, stories of forgetting the names of officials, cabinet members and important press persons became legion."
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