Hi Jim, Thank you for this further information. Neurosurgeons also talk of an aspartame ring. Wish someone would take a picture of it. Here is the Trocho study that shows the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and destroys DNA. http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf I will always believe this is one of the worst plagues in world history because as you said it can damage DNA for generations to come. It's definitely hard to know which metabolite is the worst since every component of aspartame is poisonous (aspartic acid, an excitotoxin, methanol, a neurotoxin, phenylalanine as an isolate a neurotoxin, DKP, a brain tumor agent). Thank you for your extremely well expressed further information. Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com Resources: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D. Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com by Russell Blaylock, M.D., neurosurgeon Aspartame Documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv From Dr. James Bowen, MD aspartamehelp@juno.com 12-29-7 Dear Dr Martini, Referring to Dr Woodrow C Monte's article about methanol neural degenerations as "seminal" was very well put, because with an Eminent Scientist like himself drawing a partial background to build upon I can go on to mention several ways in which Aspartame is far worse than methanol. The Di Keto Piperazine ring isomer of Aspartame, consisting of that entire Aspartame molecule wrapped around upon itself and doubly bonded to itself, is a far more potent and farther reaching polymerizer of proteins, than formaldehyde. As a matter of note: Many plastics chemical substrates are also Diketopiperazines, because of their extreme polymer reactivity. Surgeons operating upon Aspartame brain tumors often note a WHITE PLASTIC being formed throughout those Aspartame afflicted brains! The next metabolic step in that methyl alcohol toxicity is that formaldehyde when formed in the human, is then very rapidly oxidized, metabolized into formic acid, Fire Ant Poison: Which can be such a potent poisoning that a single fire ant can sometimes kill a human weighing millions of times more than itself. This entire chain methanol of poisonings occurs 75% within the mitochondria, which usually are about only 1% of cellular volume. This formic acid, then shatters mitochondria, killing that cell and diffuses on into many more cells, until it has created a blister of dead tissue: Why it is called then called a blister poison! From an Autoimmunity standpoint, your macrophages (Captains of Immune responses) then are stimulated by all of these: polymerized neural tissues, (some further denatured with Di Keto Piperazine,) and various fragments of now denatured human nervous system tissues of every type. Because dicarboxylic acid neural excito toxins(from Aspartame, including its diketopiperazine) do not cross the blood brain barrier, but rather, are secreted into the ventricles by the choroid plexus, many of those areas mentioned by Dr Monte are the ones extremely afflicted by these Aspartame neural degenerations, to produce symptoms and disabilities from those specific areas arising, before plasticizing of the entire brain becomes specifically noticed, because diffuse plasticizing causes diffuse mental disabilities, while those structures mentioned by Dr Monte cause well defined syndromes and symptoms, beyond mental degenerations. Sincerely, Dr Jim Bowen

