New Study Links Aspartame To Metabolic Disease & Digestive Tract Abnormalities

[donnay]

I assume you have read all of those? Or just posted a list you found? The first one is actually about MSG injected into mice. Not aspertame. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v227/n5258/pdf/227609b0.pdf Costs $32 to read the article so I can't see what it really says.

Excitotoxins look it up.

 

[twoggle]

I assume you have read all of those? Or just posted a list you found? The first one is actually about MSG injected into mice. Not aspertame. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v227/n5258/pdf/227609b0.pdf Costs $32 to read the article so I can't see what it really says.

Dose was equal to a 150 pound person being given 34 grams a day. Average consumption of MSG is about half a gram a day so it was 70 times what the average person may consume. https://authoritynutrition.com/msg-good-or-bad/

Actually the study is about aspartame and MSG. It tested three different excitotoxins, one of which is a metabolite of aspartame. The dose figures you have are incorrect. Humans concentrate excitotoxins in the bloodstream at a level of 5 times higher than mice. That would put the experiments' dose equivalent to 12 times the average daily dose. However, the study wasn't concerned with the average daily dose. It was concerned with a single dose that could cause irreversible damage to parts of the brain by the excitotoxins and that is what it found. This irreversible brain damage from a single dose is seen in infant and very young mice in these experiments. Given the low body weight of infants, it is very easy for them to obtain a high dose (mg of excitotoxin per kg of body weight). MSG was removed from all baby food as a direct result of this and other experiments on excitotoxins. However, an infant or young child could obtain a fairly high dose of excitotoxin from non-baby food products such as diet drinks or soup (for example).

 

[donnay]

Actually the study is about aspartame and MSG. It tested three different excitotoxins, one of which is a metabolite of aspartame. The dose figures you have are incorrect. Humans concentrate excitotoxins in the bloodstream at a level of 5 times higher than mice. That would put the experiments' dose equivalent to 12 times the average daily dose. However, the study wasn't concerned with the average daily dose. It was concerned with a single dose that could cause irreversible damage to parts of the brain by the excitotoxins and that is what it found. This irreversible brain damage from a single dose is seen in infant and very young mice in these experiments. Given the low body weight of infants, it is very easy for them to obtain a high dose (mg of excitotoxin per kg of body weight). MSG was removed from all baby food as a direct result of this and other experiments on excitotoxins. However, an infant or young child could obtain a fairly high dose of excitotoxin from non-baby food products such as diet drinks or soup (for example).

Well said. Thank you.

 

[AZJoe]