What your doctor doesn’t tell you

I will now focus on the relationship between what we eat, drink, and how we feel and behave. There is a lot of research in this area, but it seldom or never reaches the media or the general public. In this, I will address a topic and highlight the consequences that can result from consuming substances that are, in fact, pure poison.

Fluoride
Fluoride is an element that exists in various minerals in nature, such as fluorite (calcium fluoride), apatite (fluoride-containing calcium phosphate), and cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride). Sodium fluoride is classified as a dangerous poison and is used in rat poison.

The fluoride used in tap water and toothpaste is, in fact, a byproduct of aluminum production, specifically, sodium fluoride, which is the waste product after aluminum manufacture. Initially, companies had significant difficulties disposing of this toxic substance, but eventually, they decided to do what the Nazis did – give it to people to consume. The challenge was to convince the public that fluoride was not harmful but rather beneficial.

To achieve this goal, they appointed Oscar Ewing, an attorney for ”The Aluminium Company of America,” as the head of the U.S. Public Health Service in 1947. This was the first agency that advocated for fluoride in drinking water. The company had previously been allied with this agency when it was under the ”The Treasury Department,” whose chief owned a significant portion of Aluminum Company’s shares.

An intensive advertising campaign was launched to convince people that fluoride was not only harmless but beneficial. Even scientific literature was produced. Nine industries that were reported for pollution with fluoride (!) wrote a summary of the industry’s fluoride research.

In 1950, water fluoridation was introduced in ten major U.S. cities. Cancer researcher Dean Burk conducted an extensive analysis of cancer mortality among the populations in these fluoridated cities and those in ten non-fluoridated cities, totaling 18 million people over 30 years. He found that cancer mortality slowly increased between 1940 and 1950 in both groups, but after the introduction of fluoridation, the death rate increased faster, reaching about 10% higher than in the non-fluoridated group within 15 to 20 years.

In 1958, Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati released a compilation of 8,700 scientific articles regarding fluoride, claiming that it was entirely safe. However, researcher Darlene Sherrell revealed that these summaries did not correspond to the original articles.

This is not surprising given that fluoride is a potent enzyme poison. Enzymes are the body’s lubrication, allowing all chemical reactions to take place.

Kettering Laboratory was sponsored by two chemical companies, two oil companies, and six metal companies, three of which manufactured aluminum, all producers of toxic waste they wanted to profit from.

Major George R. Jordan of the US Air Force testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s that during his time as a liaison officer in the Soviet Union, the Soviets openly admitted to using fluoride in their prisons to make the inmates dumber and more manageable.

In a 1986 issue of the journal Nature, it was reported: ”During the period 1979-1981, especially in Western Europe, where fluoridation is not so common, a number of studies were conducted comparing oral health between areas without fluoridation and studies done about a decade earlier. It quickly became apparent that dental caries had significantly decreased in non-fluoridated areas.”

In 1988, the prestigious ”Chemical and Engineering News” published an article describing how voices opposing the use of fluoride had been silenced, using methods like threats, ridicule, and censorship against researchers studying fluoride and criticizing its use.

In 1989, a study was conducted in the USA, India, and Japan, investigating 445,000 children living in areas with naturally high fluoride levels in their drinking water. In all cases, a higher fluoride content in drinking water resulted in more tooth decay.

In 2006, the toxicologist Donald R. Taves and the National Research Center conducted a thorough study of fluoride, presenting a 450-page report in which they declared that the amount of fluoride added to drinking water in the USA undoubtedly damages teeth and bones. Professor Robert L. Isaacson in the same group explained that fluoride also alters the receptors in brain cells.

”Generally, fluoride affects the brain’s ability to perform so-called signaling functions, resulting in information passing along many paths that are either incomplete or incorrect”, explained Isaacson.

Professor Isaacson also stated that fluoride could lead to dementia and that epidemiological studies show that fluoride intake lowers children’s IQ levels.

In the spring of 2006, the National Academy of Sciences issued a call to investigate the risks of fluoride. A committee had found numerous troubling reports that had never been adequately investigated. For example, high fluoride content in drinking water could result in poor dental health, including discoloration and weakened enamel, as well as worrying findings about lower IQ, fractures, and skeletal cancer.

Shortly after, a study was published by Harvard dental school, revealing that there seems to be a sensitive period for young boys when their skeleton is growing most rapidly. Boys aged 5 to 10 who drank water with fluoride increased their risk of bone tumors (osteosarcoma) five-fold when they reached 10 to 19 years. The sensitivity was most pronounced between the ages of 6 and 8.

Nobel laureate Dr. Arvid Carlsson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg, who himself criticized fluoride, was one of those who signed the appeal: ”I have seen many studies, and the one from Harvard is a bit difficult to dismiss. The study was a bit too qualified not to be concerning,” said Professor Carlsson.

Professor Olov Lindahl exposed various medical deceptions in his final book, ”Recipes for Health,” including the topic of fluoride. He wrote: ”In my opinion, the belief in the blessed properties of fluoride is one of the greater medical delusions of our time”.

Danish dentist Henrik Lichtenberg’s research shows that fluoride interferes with collagen formation, causing damage to tendons, bones, muscles, skin, lungs, cartilage, kidneys, and bronchi.

Furthermore, fluoride confuses our immune system, making it attack the body’s own tissues, increasing the risk of tumor growth in those predisposed to cancer. Fluoride also inhibits the formation of antibodies in the blood and generates free radicals, as well as inhibiting the body’s normal oxygen consumption.

One who has studied fluoride and other toxins extensively is Dr. Russell Blaylock in the USA. In his excellent book ”Health & Nutrition Secrets that can save your life,” which I highly recommend to anyone interested in their health and the toxins to avoid, he has a very interesting and revealing chapter about fluoride.

He not only tells the dirty history behind fluoride and how researchers manipulated people into believing it was good for them, but he also describes in detail what fluoride actually is and how it affects our health.

Dr. Blaylock writes, among other things:

”Fluoride is so reactive that it can eat through steel, glass, iron, aluminum, and most other substances. Together with mercury, it constitutes one of the most toxic substances on earth”.

Blaylock also writes about how fluoride damages the brain, DNA, reduces male fertility, and lowers IQ levels in people. He also discusses the links between fluoride, ADHD, autism, and other developmental disorders.

One of the most telling examples Dr. Blaylock gives is the following, which I quote directly from his book:

”A question that I am often asked is: if fluoride is so toxic, and those who promote it know it, aren’t they afraid of being poisoned themselves?”

They ARE afraid of fluoridated water. When I asked a well-known opponent of fluoridation the same thing, he told me about the mayor of Sacramento who said she voted for water fluoridation because she didn’t have to worry about the poison since she had a reverse osmosis filter that purified the water.

All you need to do is take a walk through the corridors of Capitol Hill (the U.S. Congress, where senators and powerful figures reside) to see all the water purifiers in the offices of those who used their political power to force fluoridation on millions of helpless and uninformed people.

Professor Hardy Limeback, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, made the following statement:

”As more and more respected researchers and experts begin to speak about the harmful effects of chronic exposure to fluoride, we can only hope that dentists will bother to read the documented research.”

Ph.D. Robert Carton, a toxicologist and former researcher at the US Environmental Protection Agency, said the following about fluoride:

”Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud in this century, if not of all time.”

There are alternatives to brushing your teeth with a poison like fluoride. Visit your health food store, and you will likely find suitable replacements.

Sources:

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_498843.svd?offset=12&forumId=19&maxcount=3

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8436gov1.html

http://www.amazon.com/Health-Nutrition-Secrets-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0929173481

Why I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water

Part 2:

Did you know that already in the 1980s, aspartame was on the Pentagon’s list of biochemical weapons, and malignant brain tumors increased by 10 percent three years after it was introduced to the US market in 1982?

Aspartame
According to toxicologists Nils-Gunnar Ilbäck, Ulla Beckman Sund, and laboratory manager Leif Busk at the Swedish National Food Agency, aspartame is safe.

Now, let’s take a closer look at the history of aspartame and what other researchers say about aspartame and what it really is and does to people.

The artificial sweetener aspartame (E 951), also known as NutraSweet, was discovered by accident in 1965 when chemist James Schlater at C.D. Searle Company was trying to find an ulcer remedy. It is a synthetic sweetener that is about 200 times sweeter than sugar and has been used since 1982 in products such as diet drinks, ice cream, candy, gum, and fruit yogurt, among others.

Aspartame is a molecule composed of 2 amino acids: phenylalanine and aspartic acid, as well as methanol. Methanol is released in the body when aspartame is heated to above 30 degrees Celsius. It breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde, substances that are toxic even in very small amounts.

Individuals with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) can develop mental developmental disorders and brain damage when consuming aspartame since they have limited ability to break down phenylalanine.

Globally, around 18,000 tons of aspartame are produced each year, with approximately 9,600 tons consumed in the United States, where more than half of the population consumes aspartame.

A study from the College of Medicine in Youngstown, Ohio, shows that depressed individuals feel even worse when using aspartame. Dr. Ralph Walton claims that aspartame causes depression because it reduces serotonin availability.

In animal experiments, very high doses of aspartame have been shown to affect neurotransmitters in the brain, which influence brain function and animal behavior. Monkeys exposed to large doses of aspartame experienced seizures similar to epileptic fits.

In the 1970s, Searle was involved in a scandal, and U.S. authorities began investigating their activities in 1976, finding evidence of misconduct in animal experiments and research studies that Searle had submitted to the authorities. This involved several drugs and the sweetener aspartame.

In the Willigan Report, one of Searle’s own studies of aspartame, four cancer cases discovered by a researcher working at Searle were concealed. They classified the tumors as benign, even though they were malignant. When the fraud was revealed, it was blamed on computer errors, although the same ”errors” had occurred on four different occasions by three different researchers.

Dr. Adrian Gross, who participated in the FDA’s unique review of Searle’s laboratories, testified before the U.S. Congress in 1985, stating:

”The studies conducted by Searle to assess whether aspartame is safe are largely unreliable. At least one of the research studies actually proves that aspartame can cause brain tumors in experimental animals and that the substance’s carcinogenic effect can be established with very high statistical significance.”

The plan was to introduce aspartame as early as 1974, but Dr. John W. Olney, a neuroscientist and consumer advocate, and attorney James Turner managed to stop it. Aspartame was allowed again in the early 1980s, and the reason for this was Donald Rumsfeld, a member of Nixon’s staff in 1969, Defense Secretary under Ford in 1975, and George Bush Jr. from 2001 to 2006. Rumsfeld became chairman of Searle in 1977, and along with a group of political colleagues and lawyers on Searle’s board, he lobbied hard to allow aspartame despite earlier warnings about the risks.

Ronald Reagan was a close friend of Searle, the company’s owner, and when he became president, the then-critical FDA head left his post. Dr. A. Hayes was a member of the FDA’s commission and, despite opposition from a specially appointed investigative committee, he decided to introduce aspartame to the U.S. market. Shortly after allowing aspartame to be marketed, Hayes was hired by Searle’s company.

Rumsfeld, in 1993, as Reagan’s special envoy to Iraq, ensured that Saddam Hussein could buy, among other things, chemical weapons from the United States. It’s hard not to see the tragic symbolism in this context.

In 1985, Searle was taken over by Monsanto Company, known for its genetically modified crops and how it forces its products on farmers in poor countries, often destroying natural crops. They also produce the highly criticized pesticide Roundup. Monsanto moved its international section from St. Louis, Missouri, to Brussels and has been very effective in promoting aspartame.

Several attempts have been made to ban the substance, but the propaganda has been too powerful. Ironically, authorities did ban STEVIA, a Japanese herb that has been used as a natural sweetener for many years. Stevia has no side effects, and the reason for the ban was simply that it could replace aspartame.

In 1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report stating:

”Aspartame accounts for 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives, including headaches, migraines, dizziness, fainting, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, skin rash, tinnitus, memory loss, joint pain.”

In 1996, American researchers conducted a study of aspartame that showed a link between aspartame and the ten percent increase in brain tumors in the United States since it was introduced in the early 1980s. The study was published in the ”Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology,” the official journal of American neuropathologists.

In 2001, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology released a report in which Norwegian researchers concluded that aspartame kills brain cells in large numbers. The researchers in Norway conducted 400 experiments with half a billion brain cells from mice and specifically warned against giving it to children.

The Ramazzini Institute of Bologna conducted an extensive 7-year study on 1,900 mice between 1998-2005, which showed convincingly that the group of rats that consumed aspartame had a significantly higher incidence of kidney, urinary tract, and lymphatic cancers.

It wasn’t long before lobbyists for the sweetener industry approached the European Food Safety Authority, which was to investigate the risks of consuming aspartame following the reports from the Ramazzini Institute. Already the day after the report was published, they began to criticize the study.

The EU’s Scientific Panel had several objections to the study, including that they allowed the rats to live a whole lifetime. The diseases occurred with increasing age, according to the EFSA.

So, who was on the committee that reviewed the study? Two of the committee’s members, Susan Barlow and Herman Koeter, work or have worked for the organization Ilsi, which supports research worldwide. The funders of Ilsi’s activities include Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Monsanto, NutraSweet, and Procter & Gamble, which happen to be manufacturers of aspartame.

Does that raise any alarm bells?
Professor Erik Millstone at Sussex University, an internationally renowned expert on food additives, described the Ramazzini study as a prime example:

”It is undoubtedly the largest and best-executed study ever conducted. The basis of that study is larger than all previous studies combined.”

Millstone allowed SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) to access a critical review of the research that was used to support aspartame.

According to the dossier, the most important studies consistently tied to the industry have extensive methodological errors, which, at best, can only be attributed to incompetence.

Professor Lenart Hardell, a cancer researcher and head of the oncology clinic in Örebro, Sweden, has been critical of aspartame and has been accused by some colleagues of not being sufficiently professional.

In response, Professor Hardell says, among other things:

”The debaters express the view that data should not be made public before ’the state of knowledge becomes clear,’ and they argue that consensus has been reached within the entire scientific community”.

One of those who criticized Professor Hardell’s views on aspartame, Dr. Hans Olov Adami, participated in a meeting in South Korea in September (Dioxin 2001). The trip was paid for by a large American PR firm, Exponent, which has been commissioned by the chemical industry to facilitate the official reclassification of the dangers of dioxins.

One of Adami’s colleagues, John Wahren, received 1.4 million SEK from the tobacco company Philip Morris. Exponent, for which Adami moonlighted, has clients in the oil industry, chemical companies, and General Motors. Do I need to say more?

They hire researchers to question cancer alarms so that the industry can continue to make money without being bothered by critical studies.

Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery who has extensively examined aspartame and other toxins and written a detailed study on it in the book ”Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills,” cites nearly 500 scientific research findings when describing how harmful aspartame is.

Blaylock says, among other things:

”Methanol is a very potent neurotoxin. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) strictly controls its exposure and allows only very small amounts in food and the environment. But it is interesting that the amount allowed in aspartame is 7 times higher than what the EPA allows anyone else to use”.

For those who didn’t already know, methanol is better known as wood alcohol.

Sources:

https://www.svd.se/a/bcb802cb-58be-3092-9716-ba53e9c6fd3a/konsumentens-basta-gloms-bort

https://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-Taste-Russell-L-Blaylock/dp/0929173252

Part 3:

Did you know that in the UK, glutamate is banned by several major food chains, and in the US, restaurants have signs indicating that their food does not contain the substance?

Glutamate
According to the National Food Agency, there is no established limit for an acceptable intake of glutamate. In other words, they consider the substance to be harmless.

I will now show scientific studies from various sources that indicate that it is, in fact, very unhealthy and should be avoided.

Glutamate (E620-E625), also known as sodium glutamate and MSG (MonoSodium Glutamate), is a flavor enhancer added to a large portion of processed food and partly or fully prepared meals, as well as many spices.

It is a salt composed of a positively charged sodium ion and a negatively charged glutamic acid molecule. Glutamate is a chemical substance that stimulates the brain, making flavors taste more intense than normal.

Glutamate is naturally present in some foods and in the human body, as it is one of the 20 amino acids in humans. It is needed in small amounts for muscles and the nervous system to function, and the body uses glutamate in the brain as a neurotransmitter.

The problem lies with the artificial glutamate added to food, as several research results suggest that it can be harmful.

Let’s start from the beginning:

In 1908, Kikunae Ikeda, a chemistry professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo, discovered glutamate.

The food industry in Japan soon realized that it could be used to make money. They started extracting glutamate from seaweed and began production for use in food products.

In 1909, together with Dr. Suzuki, Ikeda founded Ajinomoto Co, the world’s leading producer of monosodium glutamate.

By 1910, Dr. George M. Gould in the USA was one of the first to point out the connection between diet and behavior.

In 1935, it was discovered that hypoglycemia, i.e., low blood sugar, could lead to anxiety, hysterical symptoms, nervous weakness, and even psychoses. Common symptoms of hypoglycemia include pallor, trembling, hunger, anxiety, anger, and irritability.

In the late 1940s, MSG production started from corn and wheat gluten in the USA. Today, it is produced through fermentation of substances like sugar beet molasses.

In 1957, British researchers Lucas and Newhouse conducted the first study that demonstrated the dangers of glutamate. They were trying to find a remedy for a rare eye disease by feeding mice glutamate, believing it would work as fuel for certain nerve cells. Instead, they found that the test animals suffered serious cell damage.

The same year, Majken Arvidsson, who later became a consumer advisor in Nybro municipality, worked as an intern at KLS Livsmedel AB in Kalmar, Sweden. She recalls that as early as the 1950s, glutamate was used to mask the taste of stale meat:

”I interned at KLS in the 1950s and I know that glutamate was used to cover up the fact that the meat wasn’t perfectly fresh. Every morning, we received large quantities of meat that stores hadn’t managed to sell. It was minced down in large pots to make 300 kilos of sausages. I peeled and chopped 30 kilos of onions that were mixed in, and finally, a scoop of glutamate was added. Everyone knew it was to mask the taste”.

In 1968, Dr. John Olney in the USA replicated the British researchers’ experiments, hoping to use the ability of MSG to destroy retinal cells to study nerve connections that die deep inside the brain’s structure.

What he found shocked him: The study showed that MSG not only killed retinal cells but also vital neurons in the brain itself. Upon closer examination, Dr. Olney found that MSG killed neurons by exciting them to death.

In 1969, Dr. Olney reported that laboratory animals fed with glutamate suffered brain damage and neuroendocrine disorders. He discovered that mice that were fed glutamate became significantly overweight and exhibited brain damage. Dr. Olney believed that glutamate affected the hypothalamus, which regulates various endocrine functions, including weight control.

That same year, the International Glutamate Technical Committee (IGTC) was established to assist the glutamate industry in promoting glutamate. They hired a group of researchers, many of whom had no expertise in glutamate, to legitimize its continued use in consumers’ food.

In 1972, Dr. Olney testified before The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, warning against giving glutamate to people, especially young individuals. A National Academy of Science panel that would decide whether MSG could be used in baby food created a myth that glutamate was harmless, with the help of the glutamate industry and a group of researchers with little experience in neuropathology.

Today, researchers know that the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from glutamate intake, is not fully developed until puberty.

The blood-brain barrier prevents most harmful substances in the blood from entering deeper parts of the brain. It is typically a good gatekeeper. Unfortunately, the constant manipulation of our food disrupts the natural balance to maintain this system properly.

By artificially adding high concentrations of glutamate to food, glutamate levels in the blood rise much higher than intended, reducing the protection of the blood-brain barrier. If the level remains high, glutamate can gradually seep past the barrier and create chaos.

In 1988, Dr. George R. Schwartz published the book ”In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome.” He describes how MSG works in the body and how manufacturers hide it by, for example, labeling products as containing ”natural flavorings.”

Dr. Schwartz says:

”Arsenic is also a natural substance, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless. Knowing how to avoid this flavor enhancer can dramatically change people’s lives”.

In 1989, Dr. Schwartz, along with other researchers, testified before the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) about the dangers of glutamate and the importance of identifying it in food.

In 1991, Dr. Ronald Simon at Scripps Clinic in California praised Dr. David Allen, whose studies showed that glutamate triggered asthma and included his work in the book ”Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives.”

In 1995, the FDA (the same organization that approved aspartame after the critical leader was replaced by Reagan and later became a board member of the company that marketed aspartame) released a report on MSG prepared by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

In that report, FASEB explained that glutamate was an asthma trigger, and even doses as low as 5 grams had caused reactions. They also believed that pregnant women, children, and infants should avoid glutamic acid/glutamate/MSG.

The day before the secret report was to be released by the FDA, Dr. Simon, who had praised Dr. Allen’s revealing studies on glutamate a few years earlier, along with a colleague, wrote that they believed the studies in the glutamate-critical report contained serious flaws. It later turned out that Simon had been recruited by IGTC, the glutamate industry’s leading lobby organization.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, claims that ALS, Alzheimer’s, and strokes are related to high glutamate intake. In the brilliant documentary ”Nutrition & Behavior,” he explains how both aspartame and glutamate increase hypoglycemia in people, causing their hunger to increase, ultimately leading to obesity.

He explains how many people consume diet drinks, thinking it will help them lose weight, when, in fact, it has the opposite effect. According to Blaylock, many people are hypoglycemic due to their dietary habits. Since the early 1900s, sugar consumption in the USA has increased by 2500%.

High sugar intake causes insulin to be released in the body, and blood sugar drops, causing the adrenal glands to produce adrenaline and noradrenaline to raise blood sugar levels.

Noradrenaline is both a neurotransmitter and a circulating hormone that increases heart activity and raises blood pressure. It stimulates the brain to higher activity, which, in turn, produces glutamate, the primary neurotransmitter for excitement, meaning it revs up the brain.

In the documentary, Dr. Blaylock provides examples of the frightening effects of sugar, aspartame, and glutamate intake on people. He demonstrated how inmates in the USA who were put on a diet without these substances showed entirely different behavior after years of being repeat offenders with severe criminal behavior. He also showed how students who stopped consuming a lot of sugar and fast food had significantly better academic results.

In ”Health & Nutrition Secrets,” Dr. Blaylock writes that several studies show that high doses of glutamate lead to the destruction of vital cells in the hypothalamus. He also describes how glutamate stimulates children’s brains because they are four times more sensitive to the substance than adults.

Björn Meister, a professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, has studied how glutamate affects animals. The study showed that newborn rats injected with glutamate for five days became overweight, blind, stunted, and brain-damaged as adults. The part of the brain that controls hunger, satiety, and growth was largely destroyed in them.

Charlotte Erlandson-Albertsson, a professor of medical and physiological chemistry at Lund University, has the final word:

”Glutamate is toxic to nerve cells and can, in the long run, increase the risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementia diseases. I don’t understand why it’s not banned”.

Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/227609b0

https://www.truthinlabeling.org/l-manuscript.html

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Taste-MSG-Syndrome-Signet/dp/0451165144

What your doctor doesn’t tell you