The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins
Mike:
I'm here with Dr. Russell Blaylock, and I'd like to explore some of the more
advanced aspects
of
some of the things you are working on. Dr. Blaylock, I think readers know the
basics of both MSG
and
aspartame, but can you review what you've already written about excitotoxins?
Dr.
Russell Blaylock: I have three books. The first one is the excitotoxin book, "Excitotoxins:
The
Taste
That Kills," and the latest one is and updated paperback reprint of "Health and
Nutrition Secrets
That
Can Save Your Life." The third one is "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients,"
which is directed
at
nutritional treatments for cancer. It contains some material about aspartame and
MSG.
Excitotoxins have been found to dramatically promote cancer growth and
metastasis. In fact, one
excitotoxin researcher noticed that, when cancer cells were exposed to
glutamate, they became more
mobile, and you see the same effect with MSG. It also causes a cancer cell to
become more mobile, and
that
enhances metastasis, or spread. These MSG-exposed cancer cells developed all of
these pseudopodia
and
started moving through tissues, which is one of the earlier observations from
cancer.
When
you increase the glutamate level, cancer just grows like wildfire, and then when
you block
glutamate, it dramatically slows the growth of the cancer.
Researchers have done some experiments in which they looked at using glutamate
blockers in
combination with conventional drugs, like chemotherapy, and it worked very well.
It significantly
enhanced the effectiveness of these cancer drugs.
Mike:
Wasn't there some research that came out recently that supports all this by
establishing a
correlation between leukemia and aspartame?
Dr.
Blaylock: Yes. This Italian study was very well done. It was a lifetime study,
which is very important
with
these toxins. They fed animals aspartame throughout their lives and let them die
a natural death. They
found
a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of
lymphoma and leukemia,
along
with several histological types of lymphomas, which is of interest because H.J.
Roberts had written
an
article saying that there was a significant increase in the primary lymphoma of
the brain.
When
you look it up in the neurosurgical literature, there is a rather significant
rise in the incidence
of
what used to be a rare tumor. We're seeing a lot more of the primary lymphoma of
the brain, which
is a
little different than lymphomas you see elsewhere. When you look back at the
original studies
done
by the G.D. Searle company, they found lymphomas as well as primary brain tumors
and tumors
of
multiple organs. All of this correlation shows that we've got a powerful
carcinogenic substance
here.
It is either acting as a co-carcinogen or a primary carcinogen. Most likely,
it's the formaldehydebreakdown product.
What
the Italian study found is that if you take these same animals and expose them
to formaldehyde
in the
same doses, they developed the same leukemias and lymphomas. If you look back at
the Trocho
Study
conducted in Spain a couple of years ago, what they found was when they
radiolabeled the
aspartame, they could actually see formaldehyde binding to the DNA, and it
produced both single and
double
strand DNA breakage.
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Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins
We
know that when formaldehyde binds to DNA, it's very difficult to remove it. It
will stay there for
long
periods of time. What that means is if you just drink a single diet cola today,
or sweeten something
with
NutraSweet, you're accumulating damage every day. Eventually, you're going to
produce this
necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer, and once you develop the
cancer, the aspartic
acid
component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. You've got a
double effect; it's
causing the cancer, and it's making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Mike:
Given all this evidence, how has the industry managed to suppress this
information and keep
this
chemical legal in the food supply?
Dr.
Blaylock: Donald Rumsfeld was the one who pushed a lot of this through, when he
was in the
chairmanship of the G.D. Searle company, NutraSweet division. He got it approved
through the
regulatory process, but once it was approved, the government didn't want to
admit that they had made
a
mistake. They just continued to cover it up, like the fluoride thing and the
milk industry.
You're
not going to criticize milk, or these other food-based problems in the media,
because they are
smart
enough to advertise in newspapers, magazines, health magazines and journals.
They have all the
media
outlets covered. The only place that they don't have covered is talk radio and
the internet. The
health
blogs can tell the truth.
No
matter how much a newspaper wants to tell the truth, they're not going to do it.
This is the kind of
pressure these people are under. Even if you have a good writer who wants to
write the story, his editor
is
going to override him and prevent it or water it down considerably. You see this
in journals like the
Journal of Clinical Nutrition or Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Look at who funds them:
The
Monsanto Company, and they used to be sponsored by G.D. Searle. They're not
going to want
to put
articles in their journal that will infuriate their primary source of income.
Even medical and
nutrition journals are controlled by these people.
Mike:
It's the unholy alliance between the scientific community and big business.
Dr.
Blaylock: Right. Another big scandal concerning the research is something new we
found. We
discovered that outside of the brain, there are numerous glutamate receptors in
all organs and tissues. The
entire
GI tract, from the esophagus to the colon, has numerous glutamate receptors. The
entire electrical
conducting system of a heart is replete with all sorts of glutamate receptors.
The lungs, the ovaries, all the
reproductive systems and sperm itself, adrenal glands, bones and even the
pancreas are all controlled by
glutamate receptors. They act and operate exactly like the glutamate receptors
in the brain.
So,
when you're consuming MSG, the level of glutamate in the blood can rise as high
as 20-fold. You
get
very high glutamate levels in the blood after eating a meal containing MSG.
You're stimulating
all of
the glutamate receptors. That's why some people get explosive diarrhea and
dyspepsia, because
it
stimulates the receptors in the esophagus and small bowel. Others may develop
irritable bowel, or
if
they have irritable bowel, it makes it a lot worse. If they have reflux, it
makes that a lot worse. The
thing
about the cardiac conduction system glutamate receptors is this may explain the
rise in sudden
cardiac death.
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What
you see in almost all these cases is low magnesium. When the magnesium level is
low, the glutamate
receptors become hypersensitive, and so people—athletes in particular, if they
are not supplementing
with
magnesium—are prone to sudden cardiac death, because of the glutamate receptors.
If they eat
a meal
or something that contains glutamate or drink a diet cola before practice, it
will produce such
intense cardiac irritability, they'll die of sudden cardiac death. We know the
sudden cardiac death is
due to
two things: Most commonly arrhythmia and coronary artery spasm. Both of which
can be
produced by glutamate.
Mike:
Of course, that death certificate doesn't say they died from MSG.
Dr.
Blaylock: No, and it's not going to, because the admitting physician doesn't
know the first thing
about
any of this research. They've never heard of it. In fact, most cardiologists
I've spoken with
have
never heard of this. They didn't know there are glutamate receptors throughout
the electrical
conduction system and in the heart muscle itself. You have a million patients in
this country with
arrhythmias that are life-threatening, and no one's telling them to avoid MSG
and aspartame, yet it's
a
major source of cardiac irritability.
Mike:
It's absolutely astounding. Now, didn't baby food manufacturers voluntarily
remove this
ingredient in the '70s?
Dr.
Blaylock: They said they would, but they didn't. What they did is take out pure
MSG and substitute
it
with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate. If you look at a number of toddler foods,
many have caseinate
hydrolyzed protein, soy extracts, broth, all a significant source of glutamate.
Mike:
We're destroying the nervous systems of these babies.
Dr.
Blaylock: Exactly. Now, one of the things we're hearing a lot about is childhood
obesity. One early
observation with exitotoxicity is it makes animals grossly obese.
Mike:
If they banned MSG, the drug companies would lose billions. Think about how much
money
they
make treating all of these symptoms.
Dr.
Blaylock: Here the government has all these big plans for controlling
carbohydrate intake and
controlling cereals and sugar and all that. Those things add to the problem,
because what we find in
MSG-exposed animals is that they prefer carbohydrates and sugars over
protein-rich foods. That was
one of
the characteristics of this type of obesity. It's very difficult to exercise the
weight off and almost
impossible to diet it off. The appetite is out of control, but the metabolism is
also out of control. They
have
metabolic syndrome on top of obesity, and so then you have a state of leptin
insensitivity. In terms
of
obesity, they have a leptin insensitivity. It has been shown that you can
produce leptin insensitivity
very
easily with MSG.
Mike:
Is there any hope, in your view, that the world may wake up to this, and some
day these
ingredients may be banned?
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Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins
Dr.
Blaylock: It's possible, but you know, it's only going to be by public exposure,
through the blogs
and
sites like yours. Once the public gets wind of it and is convinced that this is
real, then there'll be
an
uproar over it. There's just a deception. The average consumer looks at it and
goes, "Well, it says that
it
contains no MSG, so it must be okay."
Mike:
I find a lot of the vegetarian foods, or so-called health foods, use yeast
extracts.
Dr.
Blaylock: The worst of the things they're doing are the soy extracts. Soybeans,
naturally, have one
of the
highest glutamate levels of any of the plant products. When you hydrolyze it,
you release the
glutamate, such as with the soy protein isolates. The glutamate levels are
higher than a lot of what you'll
find
in other MSG-contaning products, yet the vegetarians are just eating it like
it's the healthiest
thing
in the world. There was a 25-year study done, which looked at people who
consumed the most
soy
products, and they followed them for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their
brain. They found
out
that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest
incidence of dementia
and
brain atrophy.
These
people are destroying their nervous system, and I talked to a lot of them who
complained of severe
migraine headaches. I said, "Get off the soy," and they do, and that migraine
headache goes away. In
addition, you have very high manganese levels, which is toxic to the very same
part of the brain that
produces Parkinson's. You've got a mixture of toxins with soy products, and the
people think they are
eating
a healthy, nutritious product. It's destroying their nervous system, as well as
other organs.
Mike:
In this whole debate of soy versus cow's milk, we find misinformation in both
camps.
Dr.
Blaylock: I wouldn't recommend either one. If you're obsessed with milk, use
goat's milk. It's
closer
to human milk, but I wouldn't recommend cow's milk or soy milk. I think people
ought to avoid
soy
products as if they were poison.
Mike:
Have you taken a lot of heat from NutraSweet or any of these other companies? I
mean, have
you
been threatened with lawsuits or anything for going public with this
information?
Dr.
Blaylock: No, they leave me alone. I know too much. They've never bothered me.
When I wrote
the
book, George Schwartz warned me, "Are you sure you want to write this book? If
you do, they're
just
going to hound you to death." I said, "Yes, I want to write the book." So, I
wrote it with one thing
in
mind: that they would not be able to refute it.
I
researched the subject every kind of way you can research it and proved the
toxicity of glutamate.
They
know I know that, because I had exchanged letters with some of their biggest
defenders. They all
realized that they couldn't answer my arguments. So they leave me alone. They're
afraid that if it comes
to a
big standoff between me and them, they're going to lose.
Mike:
They don't want this information going on the public record.
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Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins
Dr.
Blaylock: No, they don't want that. What they're doing is the old ploy of just
ignoring and hoping
it
will go away. Of course, they put pressure on magazines, journals and newspapers
not to interview
me.
They are trying to keep me in the shadows where they hope most people don't hear
anything I have
to
say. It only works for so long.
Since
I first wrote the book in 1995, proof supporting my viewpoint has increased
enormously. The
new
material on peripheral glutamate receptors absolutely killed these people. They
have no defense
against that. The new information on the dramatic increase in cancer
aggressiveness is something that
they
are terrified of.
Mike:
Now you find these receptors outside the brain.
Dr.
Blaylock: Right. Now, see, I proved it can enter the brain and that all that
nonsense about the
brain
being protected from glutamate by the blood-brain barrier was a lie. What
researchers have
shown
is that there are glutamate receptors on both sides of the blood brain barrier
and that when
you
expose these receptors to glutamate, it opens up the blood brain barrier. So,
the glutamate itself
can
open the barrier, and I list all the conditions under which the barrier is
broken. For instance, as
you
get older, your barrier becomes less competent. Almost all Alzheimer's patients
have incompetent
barriers. Heat stroke, seizures, autoimmune disorders and multiple sclerosis are
all associated with an
incompetent blood brain barrier.
You're
talking about tens of millions of people affected by barrier disruption, and
they are out there
gobbling up aspartame, MSG and other excitotoxins, and no one is telling them
they are making
their
neurological conditions infinitely worse. I don't know how many seizure patients
I've gotten
off
their medicines by just getting them off MSG and giving them magnesium. They
quit having
seizures. They were on maximum dosages of medications and still having seizures.
Most neurologists
and
neurosurgeons that treat seizures are not aware of this.
Mike:
It's not profitable to teach people how to avoid these ingredients.
Dr.
Blaylock: If you look at the neuroscience literature, you can't pick up an
article that's not about
excitotoxicity. The hottest topic in neurosciences is glutamate receptors and
excitotoxins.
Mike:
Are they talking about it in the food or just as a chemical?
Dr.
Blaylock: They won't mention food, but they talk about the glutamate receptor
and what happens
when
you activate it.
Mike:
What about the argument from food companies? I actually got into a debate with a
veggie
burger
manufacturer, because I wrote an article that said their product had yeast
extract in it, and yet
the
front label said, "100 percent all-natural ingredients." They said, "Well,
glutamate appears naturally
in
other foods, like tomatoes and seaweed." What's your answer to that kind of
defense?
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Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins
Dr.
Blaylock: Sure, but you see, all of these types of glutamate are bound. They're
in oligopeptides,
polypeptides. They are bound in amino acids groupings. They're not free amino
acids. If you have it as
a
complex protein, you absorb it slowly in your GI tract. In the GI tract, there
are almost no free amino
acids
if you eat foods such as tomatoes. The level of free amino acids is nil; it's
almost all absorbed
as
combined amino acids, and then it's only broken down in the liver, where it's
released in very low
concentrations that the body can deal with. Our bodies were never intended to
have free amino acids
in
such high concentrations.
Well,
when you hydrolyze these proteins—or you use yeast extract or enzymes to break
down these
various proteins into their free, released amino acids—they're not natural any
longer. What you've
done
is artificially release the amino acids in an unnatural way, and when they enter
your GI tract, they
are
absorbed as free amino acids, then your blood level of that glutamic acid goes
up significantly. As I
said,
it can go up as high as 20-fold, in some cases 40-fold. Your blood brain barrier
is not constructed
to
handle such high levels of glutamate, because it doesn't naturally occur that
way. It can handle the
lower
levels, but it can't handle these very high levels. So this argument, "Oh, it's
natural," is just a lot
of
nonsense.
Mike:
I do find that many manufacturers claim to be natural health companies, or
health foodcompanies, as a cover. They don't really follow that philosophy,
because they'll use these ingredients.
Dr.
Blaylock: Sure, and they use all kinds of backhanded ways.
Mike:
Here's a practical question that's actually been burning in my head for about
eight years: Is
there
anything that a person can take to block the absorption of MSG or glutamate as a
defensive
supplement?
Dr.
Blaylock: Well, not necessarily to block it. You have other amino acids that
can't compete for glutamic
acid
absorption. So that may be one way to help reduce the rate at which it would be
absorbed.
Mike:
Which aminos would those be?
Dr.
Blaylock: Those would include leucine, isoleucine and lysine. They would compete
for the same
carrier system, so that would slow down absorption. There are a lot of things
that act as glutamate
receptor blockers. You know, like silymarin, curcumin and ginkgo biloba. These
things are known to
directly block glutamate receptors and reduce excitotoxicity. Curcumin is very
potent. Most of your
flavonoids reduce excitotoxicity.
Magnesium is particularly important, because magnesium can block the NMDA
glutamate type
receptor. That's its natural function, so it significantly reduces toxicity.
Vitamin E succinate is powerful
at
inhibiting excitotoxicity, as are all of your antioxidants. They found
combinations of B vitamins also
block
excitotoxicity.
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Mike:
Let's talk about restaurants. I can't even eat at restaurants anymore at all,
even those natural
restaurants. They don't know they have MSG, because it's in one of the sauces or
something.
Dr.
Blaylock: I talked to them, and they said, "We get our food in these big crates,
so there's no
ingredients listed." It's the same thing for hospitals. I talked to a hospital
dietitian and she said, "We
can't
tell because it comes in a crate, and they won't put the ingredients on it. It
just says Salisbury steak
or
whatever."
They
don't know, so it's hard for them to come out and tell their customers, "It's
free of MSG." What
they
mean when they do say that is, "We didn't put any in there ourselves." Their
white sauces are
particularly high, as are their salad dressings, especially the ones that are
creamy, but not the ones that
are
pure oil.
Mike:
Gravy mixes almost always have it, right?
Dr.
Blaylock: Yes, they'll put hydrolyzed protein in it. They're selling taste. I
mean, that's why a person
prefers one restaurant to another. The food tastes better. Then they go home and
feel sick and don't
understand why.
One of
the things that has been noticed about sudden cardiac death is that most that
have it, other than
athletes, die after eating a meal in a restaurant. I suspect it's because these
people have low magnesium.
They
eat the meal, the glutamate stimulates the glutamate receptor in the cardiac
conduction system as
well
as the hypothalamus, and they have a sudden cardiac death.
I was
in a bookstore in Oxford, Miss. This young guy was there, and he just dropped
and died. We
took
him to the hospital and tried to resuscitate him, and we couldn't. He was only
26 years old, and he
had
just eaten a big bowl of soup at one of the restaurants. Well, I talked to the
person that was there,
and he
said they use a lot of hydrolyzed protein and MSG. People will eat a meal, have
a soup before
the
meal, get this huge dose of MSG, and drop dead from the arrhythmia.
Mike:
Could this explain some sudden infant deaths as well, you think?
Dr.
Blaylock: Oh yeah. I mean, look at the popularity of these soy infant formulas.
Mothers are crazy
to
give their kids soy formula. There is a lot of concern about it. There's concern
about the fluoride level,
the
manganese level, and the glutamate levels in these soy infant formulas.
Mike:
At Wal-Mart, I saw bottled water with added sodium fluoride. It's fluoride
water.
Dr.
Blaylock: Oh yes, it's for babies. They have a picture of a baby on it.
Mike:
So, is there a website or a newsletter that people can visit or sign-up for?
Dr.
Blaylock: My website is www.russellblaylockmd.com. I also have a newsletter.
It's at www.
BlaylockReport.com. It's by subscription, but you can buy individual newsletters
as well. You don't
have
to get the whole year. It's issued monthly, for $3.98 a piece. It covers
everything to do with health,
not
just MSG.
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I try
to cover a lot of common subjects and bring people up to date on the new
thinking and research.
I go
through all the medical research. Usually I'll go through everything that
conventional medicine
has to
offer. A lot of times they have good physiology, a good pathophysiology, but
then, they switch
over
and start talking about drugs. I'll go through all the good pathophysiology
material they have,
and
then I'll look up all the nutritional research that's been done that can correct
those problems.
Mike:
I see. Here's an off-the-wall question: If MSG and all its different versions,
as well as aspartame,
were
outlawed tomorrow, what changes would we see in the next five years in terms of
public health?
Dr.
Blaylock: I think you'd see a significant drop in obesity and metabolic
syndrome. You'd see a
tremendous drop in certain cancers. You would certainly see a tremendous drop in
the neurodegenerative
diseases, and all of these diseases that are increasing expeditiously.
The
neurodegenerative diseases are just exploding. Things that used to be rare,
we're seeing all the
time
now. It's just frightening. And when you look through the neurosciences
literature, they have
no
explanation. They don't know why it's increasing so rapidly, but it's because we
have such a large
combination of toxins. For instance, we know that neurodegenerative diseases are
connected to
mercury, aluminum, pesticides and herbicides, and the way they produce brain
damage is through an
excitotoxic mechanism.
So, we
are all exposed to those toxins, and then when you add MSG and excitotoxins to
the food,
you
tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we're seeing this explosion in
neurodegenerative
diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and ADD and Parkinson's—all these things are
increasing so
enormously because we are exposed to products that are excitotoxic..
This
is what no one's been able to explain. You look at one person's research and
they'll say, "Alzheimer's
is
related to mercury exposure," and then another one says, "No, it's related to
pesticides," and yet
another one says it something else, but they're all operating through the same
mechanism. All of these
things
operate by increasing brain immune activity, and that activates excitotoxicity.
So that's why all
of
them seem to be related, because they're all doing the same thing to the brain.
Mike:
What about the American Diabetes Association? Given that aspartame actually
promotes
obesity, based a lot of the work you've uncovered, I find it curious that the
ADA so strongly
supports aspartame.
Dr.
Blaylock: I don't, considering they receive huge amounts of money from the
makers of aspartame.
They
fund their walk-a-thon and all that kind of stuff, so they get tremendous
amounts of money from
the
makers of aspartame, and money talks.
Whether they're just deluding themselves and choosing not to believe it's toxic,
refusing to look at the
evidence, or they're just concerned about the money and could care less, I don't
know, but when you look
at the
pathophysiology of diabetes and the effect of aspartame, it's absolute nonsense
for anybody who has
diabetes to be on aspartame. Particularly in a neurological aspect, it's going
to make it a lot worse.
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Mike:
What about other popular chemical sweeteners like sucralose in Splenda?
Dr.
Blaylock: There's really not a lot of research in those areas. They have some
basic research, like
with
Splenda, showing thymus suppression. If that holds up in other research, it's a
major concern. If
you're
suppressing the thymus gland in a child, that's affecting the future of their
immune function.
You
can increase everything from autoimmunity to producing immune-related diseases,
to infections
and
cancers. The implications of thymus gland suppression are enormous.
There
have been reports of miscarriages associated with Splenda in experimental
animals. The problem
is, we
don't have a lot of well-conducted studies on Splenda to ferret these things
out, and they're not
going
to do them. The best way to protect your product is to never test it, or just to
set up some phony
tests
and report it in a journal that's friendly to your point of view.
That's
what they did with certain vaccines. They did thousands of phony studies and
waved them
around, claiming nothing was found. You can design any study to find whatever
you want. Particularly,
you
can design it to have negative results. That's the easiest thing to do.
Mike:
We've got government health officials telling us mercury is safe and we've got
big business
telling us both aspartame and MSG are safe. It sounds like every poison in the
food supply or in
organized medicine is perfectly safe.
Dr.
Blaylock: We did that with lead. When they first started questioning the safety
of lead, the levels
they
said were safe were just enormously high, and then a mere 10 years later,
suddenly we're finding
out
that lead is toxic at 10 micrograms/L. In the '60s, they were fighting over the
same thing. The
defenders of gasoline-added lead were saying lead wasn't toxic, except in
extremely high doses. Then
neuroscience literature was contradicting them, but nobody would listen.
Finally, the weight of the
evidence was so overwhelming that they found extremely low concentrations of
lead were toxic and
accumulate in the brain.
It's
the same thing with mercury. Mercury is even more poisonous than lead. An infant
is getting
150
times the dose of mercury than the EPA safety limits. A hundred times higher
than the FDAsafety limits. Here's a little baby that's getting 150 times higher
a dose than the EPA says is safe for
an
adult.
Mike:
What are the big points readers to take away? What do you think they need to
remember in
order
to protect themselves?
Dr.
Blaylock: You need to abstain from all of these things. Aspartame is not a
necessary nutrient, and
neither is MSG. The weight of the evidence is overwhelming. If you want to avoid
obesity, metabolic
syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make
your cancer more
aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products.
The
damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce
changes in the
brain
that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. What we've found is that
it reprograms
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the
wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function
normally. These children
are
abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
Mike:
Well, hopefully the weight of this evidence will someday become overwhelming,
and government
regulators will listen to you.
Dr.
Blaylock: The pressure on researchers is so enormous. Dr. Trocho came out with
his research
about
the DNA damage by aspartame. Then his career was assaulted by the makers of
aspartame. He
said
he would never do another research project concerning aspartame. Well, a number
of researchers
have
said the same thing. Once they published their results, the full weight of these
companies come
down
on their head. NutraSweet will contribute millions to a university and threaten
to pull their
donations if someone isn't quieted.
Mike:
So there's blatant scientific censorship at work here.
Dr.
Blaylock: There's blatant, and then there's just understood. You have NutraSweet
manufacturers
donating several million dollars to your university. The director of that
laboratory, or the president of
the
university, will just quietly let them know that they'd really like to see such
negative research come
to a
stop.
The
biochemical editor of the Chemical Abstracts Service, Dr. John Yiamounuyiannis,
went through that
with
fluoride. They fired him because he refused to be quiet about fluoride toxicity,
and they had just
received this huge grant from Colgate-Palmolive. His supervisor said, "We'll
lose our grant if you don't
get
quiet about fluoride." He wouldn't, and they fired him. Researchers know this.
Mike:
I want to commend you for being willing to stand up and tell the truth about all
of this. I think
you're
doing a great, positive service to public-health.
Dr.
Blaylock: You're the one doing the service, because you're putting the word out
there. Without
you, I
would just be sitting in a room fussing at the walls. It's people like you that
get this word out and
let
people know what's going on in the world.
Mike:
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to pass a bill to outlaw health talk on
the internet.
Dr.
Blaylock: They're trying to do it. You know, they passed a law at one time in
several states that
no one
but dietitians could speak on the subject of nutrition. Several states had that
law passed. This
meant
Ph.D. biochemists couldn't talk about health. It was ridiculous. I'm sure that
one day they're
going
to have an internet bill saying there's just too much dangerous material is
coming over the
internet on health issues, and we need to regulate it.
Mike:
Well, I want to thank you very much for all your time.
Dr.
Blaylock: Thank you. I appreciate you giving me this opportunity.