Ode Coyote wrote: > When I first read that article, I visited a biochemist friend involved in > drug research. > He outlined the metabolytes of aspertame from memory. Many of the > metabolytes are common in our environment..various hydrocarbons etc. [my > memory is not as good as his even though he took a lot more drugs when we > were kids] > He was not alarmed by them but did say, basically, that caution and > moderation was a good thing... for just about all things. [Yea, he's one to > talk] > I see in further examination of the articles and follow up that methonal > toxicity is considered to be the main problem. Did you know that one of > the metabolytes of booze is methonol? [ If i recall, another is > formaldehyde] Some people metabolize ethonol into methonol at greater > rates and in higher ratios [to sugars] than others. Given the difference in > a normal 'dose' of nutrasweet and the amounts of booze that many people > drink, just what IS a toxic dose of methonal? You can smell it strong on > the morning after a good drunk. Does a teaspoon or two of aspertame make > you smell like that? > > Does aspertame "contain" methonal? I doubt it. Methonal is a liquid and > neutrasweet is a powder. > Methonal cannot be made into a powder. If I recall, acetylene was one of > the metabolytes mentioned by my friend and he said it goes straight to the > liver...like ethonol [booze]. Possibly it can metabolize into methonal there. > > Just because something will kill ants does not mean it's an ant poison. > It kills ants because ants can't tell the difference between sugar and > nutrasweet and they get no nutrition. > Eating nothing but Wonderbread will kill you too. >
Aspartame does break down into Methanol when it gets hot. I believe that is a taw dog. That is, the industry admits that so it can then say that the amounts of methanol are so small that it would not cause problems. This I believe is most likely correct. That deflects the argument that it is a neurotoxin. Being a neurotoxin is the bad part, and they tend to ignore that by arguing instead that the amount of methanol is trivial. That is like saying that saying that moonshine that contains lethal amounts of lead is not toxic because the alcohol is metabolized. Aspertame IS an ant poison. You cannot kill a pound of ants with something that weight 1/1000 that amount through lack of nutrition. It only takes one packet of aspertame to wipe out a colony of ants, and I cannot even tell the ate any. I can feed them 100 packets of sugar which has no nutrition either and they come back for more. Thus the argument holds no water. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
