Fluorides And The Chemicals That US Goverment Says Are Okay -- The Evidence
By James D. Bowen, MD
Billions of people are now Aspartame victims or their friends. Individual answers to questions are now an impossible approach. The following article is meant to fill in that gap, to meet that need. As you read it you will master the medical knowledge you need to cope in a correctly intuitive manner. You also will painlessly gain the experience you need, vicariously as you follow me down the river of discovery. I am like a beat up, exhausted old salmon with propeller slashes from the political powerboats, gnashes from predators, battered from pounding against the rocks while jumping cataracts, and exhausted from swimming all the way up to this spawning ground against the current. So jump in your armchair. You will lunch upon the fruit of “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:17 and 3:1-22) and your eyes will be opened as we journey down stream. Hopefully this may become a ”river of life” for you (Revelation 22:1-2). May you find healing in the “tree of life.” (Gen 2:9 and 3:1-22). If you find the following article helpful, please help me spread it to any you may be able.
“CHz”--What you need to know about Chemical Hypersensitivity disease: (CHz == Multiple Sensitivities, Poly Chemical Sensitivity, Persian Gulf Syndrome, etc.)”
Because of your and/or your forbearers exposure to toxics like Aspartame, a summation of immune, mitochondrial, DNA, and MtDNA (genetic) damage has occurred in your body that has made your body unable to deal with chemical insults so slight that they might not even be noticed by others. With the lessening of mitochondrial competency, free radicals are produced, and the release of damaging combustion products into the cell occurs, causing exaggerated cellular reactivity and cellular damages from concentrations of substances that you would never even have noticed before. You have become “hyper sensitized.” Now, even millions of times less a concentration of the same chemical exposures that didn’t bother you at all before, will cause severe health damaging reactions, and autoimmune disease. The activation of mast cells and basophiles, and other pro-inflammatory immune mechanisms can really set your health problems off.
This phenomenon tends to spread incrementally because it is a vicious circle type phenomenon. The more damage, the less the metabolic and genetic competence, as a direct result of the DNA and RNA, Mt DNA and, mitochondrial damage to the organism:
The more free radical formation and inappropriate release of abnormal metabolites occurs within and beyond the “mitochondria.” (The little “energy furnaces” within the cell that carry out certain otherwise dangerously energy loaded processes safely for the cell). This leads to more cellular compromise. In addition, specific features of a given chemical may incite damage. E.g., Benzoates directly stimulate the metabolism of the mast cells and basophiles making them more likely to fire off an inflammatory autoimmune response. It only makes sense that for a preservative to “preserve” anything it has to rapidly kill everything that has life or metabolism in it at very low doses. Such a compound cannot be very friendly to human tissue. In bread, for instance: I find vinegar (acetic acid), or calcium propionate harmless for me, but all other preservatives are harmful. Denatured human tissue itself causes massive immune disorientation.
Consider separately now the immune system. When it encounters your protein (cells, sub cellular structures, and substrates such as the myelin sheath or joint cartilage etc.), denatured by things like the formaldehyde, and formic acid from Aspartame, and tissue damaged/denatured by the deranged processes mentioned in the first paragraph, it is highly likely to view it as foreign. This makes your bodies own tissues subject to immune attack. The false memories induced in your immune system are life long, leading to an accumulation of various forms of autoimmunity. Some are very destructive. E.g., Lupus, neuron degenerative diseases, inflammatory arthritis, et al, to the point that the FDA had 92 different reactions to Aspartame categorized until they quit acknowledging anything and then stone walled the public, refusing to even acknowledge the health problems reported to them. Since marketing, 85% of all complaints are about Aspartame alone, of all the 100,000 licensed by FDA! Once poisoned by Aspartame, it is a secure fact that the person will be somewhere well down the road of hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity with those even creating initial presenting symptoms.
Now that you know the ballpark, how do you try to win back as much of your health as possible? How to prevent, to the greatest extent possible, further degradation of your body’s health, and “well being”? The mainstays that you will have to adopt are as follows: You must now become your own doctor, listening very carefully to your body and trying to make sense of what’s going on. Study what things work for yourself and others, and try them out, again listening very carefully to your body. Become the gatekeeper of your body, practicing strict avoidance of ingested and environmental chemicals. Even caffeine promotes free radicals. You cannot at all believe that governmental or corporate integrity offers you any protection. They simply no longer exist.
That means if anything comes ready prepared in a can, bottle, box, or bag’ it is unsafe for you. You need to buy organic and cook from scratch, in so far as possible. Avoid even mixes like cocoa mix, etc. They have tried to give chemicals, even the horribly damaging diketopiperazine of Aspartame, safe sounding names like “natural flavoring, vegetable protein, lo-cal, lo fat, lite, lo salt, robust cheese flavor, and lo fat cheese flavor”. -The list is endless-! Environmental contaminants are also a severe hazard; plastics, new plastics, plastic bottled water, building materials, industrial releases and fumes, contaminated water, “sick” houses and environments are often very damaging to you. Even sitting in front of a new computer, as the new plastics “off gas,” is terrible for me. Most makes of automobiles after ’83 are suspect. Ford remained “clean” until ’89, when they added polyurethane's and thioisocyanates to their products. They had five unexplained deaths, on the floor of their River Rouge plant alone, that first season!
Once you are hyper sensitized, noxious substances from nature: pollens, fungal blooms dusts mites, dander's, etc. now cause major flares of disease. Even atmospheric positive ionization zones from buildings or nature, such as the full moon or foehn, ”Santa Ana” winds, or just living in a neighbor hood or region given to positive ionization will tend to flare your autoimmunity and may cause severe physical and emotional damage! Inhaling positive ions engenders the production of the super oxide type of free radicals in your metabolic processes, and they may consume negative ions from the ambient atmosphere. Atmospheric negative ions in ambient air, on the other hand, are essential to well being because they consume positive ions and other pollutants that would otherwise generate free radicals in your metabolic processes, and they are synergistic and catalytic with ozone as “nature’s air purifiers”.
By now, you may sense that you will seem like a “nut case,” to someone who is not so afflicted. This is mainly because the Nazi like, fascist influence, of the chemical companies prevents doctors from being trained in any knowledge of this immense discipline. This would be an essential first step in adding sanity and effectiveness to the medical profession. As a result, because your body cannot go along with their insane, and inept orientation, you will appear eccentric to them. So, you must become your own doctor, because if your doctor does become keen on treating your real problems he will likely be destroyed by the fascist medical-political power structure. Some doctors do prevail in the field of environmental ecology, in spite of all, and may be able to have a positive therapeutic and working relation with you. But they are few and far between.
The measure you will begin with is avoidance, as suggested above. Decontamination is sometimes helpful. A negative ionization, precipitation, and ozonation machine, properly installed on an intelligent and perceptive regimen is often lifesaving, as are good house keeping practices to eliminate dust and mold sources. A natural, restorative diet of fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables, simply and healthfully prepared without chemicals is essential. Our world is so contaminated and the production of meat oft so degraded, that Flesh foods, and seafood's are usually laden with environmental contaminants and other toxins and hazards engendered by the dangerous, unethical practices of the feedlot industry. A good intake of minerals and vitamins is essential. Especially to be noted are trace minerals like selenium, and vitamins like folic acid, which is essential, but is consumed by the formic acid (this essential fact is often not detailed in currently published texts) from inadvertent methanol, formaldehyde, or carbon monoxide intake which happens to be one of the toxic axes of the Aspartame molecule. I prefer kelp selenium because it has a whole bouquet of trace minerals from the sea. Sea Sel is a brand I have used.
Other medical interventions will include immunosuppressive therapy, when warranted. Dexamethasone, (Decadron) is my favorite steroid, given in pushes/pulses, on an intermittent basis, as needed to stop a flare of autoimmune attack. It is safe, even at the high doses such as one half to one mg, that are needed to stop an autoimmune flare in its tracks. It is non toxic, and cheaply and easily taken as one dose of a single oral tablet at home. Archaic information based on the medical knowledge and practices of fifty years ago leave a large segment of the profession unawares of its safety and practicability. The fact that it is extremely cheap will ensure that the government will oppose any improvement in medical outlook about this molecule.
The FDA has become a branch office for the pharmaceutical companies, so the worst side effect that a drug can have is that its patent has run out, and that it truly has become multi-sourced and affordable. NO profit in that! Prolonged or steady use of any steroid is hazardous and destructive, even at low doses, and is to be avoided. One antihistamine that is safe for continuous dosage and effective above all others is doxepin. It is the most powerful H1 and H2 antihistamine known to man. It is long out of patent, and thus out of favor with the power structure because it’s cheap! The other benefits for the CHz victim, built into this one molecule, are that it’s a peripheral anti serotonin agent (not central like Aspartame which would be a detriment), a stabilizer of the mast cell, an anticholinergic agent, an inducer of restorative sleep without being sedative (after the initial anti histamine daze wears off) and a mild anxiolytic/antidepressant.
When under patent, doxepin was advertised, and independently rated, as being as harmless as a drink of water, a potent medicine, that when taken properly, had no risks associated with its use except, that because the patient might feel so much better, the doctor might overlook other problems. Now that it is out of patent the FDA and surgeon general want to murder it. Dr Koop runs a special net site to scare people away from it. He unrealistically and untruthfully ascribes all sorts of imaginary and irrelevant ills to it. How does the government figure it can get away with such ignorant behavior? Well the government is playing “dumb like a fox”. It has declared that it can “categorically” issue precautions, and ascribe side effects and toxicities to a medicine. The FDA may elect to assign to any given medicine any of the hazards or side effects of any other chemical merely stated to be in a similar category. In the case of doxepin numerous categories could be assumed in order to play this legal game of false condemnation. This is foolishness: FDA precautions merely another word game to pursue and to perpetuate political objectives. In fact, the only pertinent information to actually ascribe to a medicine is that information which really pertains to it. This FDA fiction is real “pseudo science.” Only the facts matter. All else is simple capriciousness, totally lacking truth, merit, or concern for human welfare. Makes sense, now that I have seen what the FDA and surgeon general really are capable of. Please see Dr Koop’s net site on doxepin to view and appreciate what fatuous punditry the fascist government would like to unload upon you.
I will, as illustration, now give my own hypersensitivity experiences. As a review, CHz is engendered by toxics like Aspartame for the following reasons. First: Genetic damage occurs which both denatures the tissue being formed in your body, and blurs the competency of the immune system to recognize your tissues as “self”. Second: The immune competency to self protect is further blurred by denaturing the already formed tissues of the body by the direct chemical actions of the toxics: Creates “tissue targets”. Third: mitochondrial impairment from the same mechanisms impair detoxification and increase the release of free radicals, which are destructive and inflammatory. Fourth: Many vicious cycles arise to auto perpetuate and broaden the scope of these problems.
Here is my experience. The features especially relevant to CHz are pointed out, along with enough of the bureaucracy and political scenario exemplified to let you know what you are really facing, now and in the future. As I have been writing this account, it has been extremely painful for me to even recall many of these memories, much less relate them to you. Some of the material I must relate will worry my friends because they feel I must hide it to protect myself. You, dear reader, and the billions of human beings around the world who have been, or will be deformed or damaged by the heinous chemicals unleashed upon us are more important than myself, or my welfare. My friends who believe me to be a brilliant and compassionate healer feel I should alter this story to protect myself in hopes of one day again practicing medicine. When I came to realize the horrorific nature of Aspartame and the satanic nature of its promoters, I made the determination that I could not be bought at any price, even if that meant being completely misunderstood.
In fact, the Lord has preserved my life. Various individuals from the satanic organizations have approached me to threaten, buy, or otherwise get me off the Nutra Sweet issue. When I respond to their threats with the reply, “I trust my life to the Lord.” They typically, are forced to admit; “You must be right, that the Lord is protecting you, because we have repeatedly used the best to get rid of you. You can’t even be alive, and yet you are.” Does that sound like something from “The Gladiator”?
“But know this. We are never going allow you to have anything, or be anything, or do anything, and know this also, we are going to keep trying, and when the Lord doesn’t need you anymore we are going to kill you.” The Lord does not indeed guarantee any one of us a single heartbeat into the future. All I could say in response was: “The bible says not to worry about this life, but to trust Him for the life to come, which Satan will defraud you of.” So they find me unanswerable, and impossible to deal with.
How have I come to this point? About January of 1983 I received a flyer from Searle, whom I considered an ethical drug company. I was especially fond of them because, years before, I had a close personal relationship with one of the Searle sisters. In spite of this, their flyer troubled me. In essence, it stated “We are putting a marvelous new artificial sweetener on the market called -Nutra Sweet-. It is just a couple of harmless protein fragments, Drink up and enjoy.” It gave not so much as a stick drawing of the chemical, nor did it even name it! “None the less.” I bit. When the Lo-cal Kool-Aid hit the market I started using it. Within two days I went from being a two-mile at a session, swimmer to being in such a toxic cardiomyopathy and heart failure, that I couldn’t even climb the stairs to my apartment. Loss of balance, and hearing acuity, and energy was also an immediate effect. I abandoned the swimming pool and became a couch potato. My wife became frantic, and then rejective, because of the changes in me. At that point, any intelligent person would have known that the lo-cal Kool-Aid was suspect. My personal experience will strongly exemplify how doctors can be made to be real dummies, in any given circumstance, by believing what they have been trained to believe by our fascist, and fallible government and medical-pharmaceutical axis power structure.
Lab work up revealed only a mildly increased eosinophile count, and decreased platelet count in my blood, and low voltage on the EKG. It was all “non diagnostic,” but only because of my lack of knowledge about Aspartame’s chemical formula and toxicity. Had I been allowed to know either, this story would have ended right there.
So, I persisted using the lo-cal Kool-Aid. With the passing of a few more days I developed many symptoms of methanol (methyl alcohol) /formaldehyde poisoning, and progressive classic symptoms of chemical hypersensitivity. My skin turned red and inflamed, and was photosensitive. I was short of breath and drained of energy. I lost my ability to withstand thermal stress and stayed inside out of the summer warmth. I could not acclimatize. In spite of staying in the air-conditioned environment, parts of my body felt cold and others, hot. I got stinging sensations in my skin, shooting down my extremities, and around my body. My thirst markedly increased. Things began to taste salty to me. That didn’t stop me from craving corn chips and other pure carbohydrates. A bowl of corn chips became my constant companion at home.
My sense of smell became outrageously keen. Be there even one leaf of stale lettuce in the kitchen garbage can, I could smell it, even though the lid was closed. This common feature of CHz (chemical hypersensitivity disease) apparently is due the fact that the sense of smell, which is designed to alert to chemical hazards, begins to note damage potential from chemicals at millions of times lower concentrations; which is in keeping with the facts of the case of CHz.
At the same time, my ability to taste the sensation of sweetness in foods became markedly impaired, and remains so to this day. My mild, easily controlled osteo arthritis flared into a full blown inflammatory and destructive arthritis and my right knee became acutely painful. It had developed a large crack clear across the joint surface. I have since seen people who had experienced well nigh total cartilaginous destruction, throughout their bodies, from this flare of arthritic processes by Aspartame. They usually gave the history of only about six weeks from onset, to total destruction.
As I continued on Aspartame, my visual acuity lessened and until I had a severe loss of visual acuity, my night vision also disappeared and did not return for six years. I thank the Lord that it suddenly returned in 1989. I lost my sense of balance in the first couple of days of lo-cal Kool-Aid use. My eye-hand coordination was the next to go. My enjoyment of sex went first. Next came impairment of sexual function, which has never resolved. Many men are ashamed to talk about this, but they should overcome that, and let the world know what Nutra Sweet did to them. My wife thought I had lost interest in her, and had perhaps become enamored of someone else.
In my early research, the disruption of marriages was one of the things the government studies reported as a result of CHz, and methanol/formaldehyde exposure. Shortly after I started writing about, and publicizing these problems my file was robbed of all Aspartame and formaldehyde/methanol related materials and this information has since become unfindable: Largely replaced by punditry that would make you think there is but little hazard. Common to the literature of the time, was that other victims, like myself found the whole experience to be a totally perplexing, disintegrative destruction of their lives.
My ability to sleep became increasingly impaired and soon a deep depression set in. Life became one long, dark, pleasureless, sleepless night. About then I tried using the sleeper Placidyl. It works by virtue of solvency, just like ether or chloroform. I didn’t yet even know I was being felled by CHz. Solvents of all kinds worsen CHz, especially formaldehyde related CHz. So, neither sleep nor anything good came of that, and my symptoms all worsened, especially the neurological symptoms. The small town of Ashland, KS where I was practicing saw this happening to me and came to the conclusion I was an alcoholic because my impairment and depression were apparent to all, and I looked hung over all the time. That was a very astute correlation, because the “hang over” experience is caused by the traces of methanol in beverage alcohol. I was using no alcoholic beverages, but I was getting methyl alcohol from Nutra Sweet and had become a methoholic, the most vicious and destructive form of alcoholism. By now I craved the lo-cal Kool-Aid. I used it before I went to the clinic and as soon as I arrived home again. I had quit hospitalizing patients and my clinic practice was, of course dwindling due to my impaired performance. By now I only wanted to get through the day.
I felt, some how, that it was “all my fault.” Aspartame is a brainwashing agent. You lose your ability to think independently and effectively, or to realistically challenge anything. I wondered how I could get so old so fast. In fact, Aspartame aged me about thirty years in six weeks. When your immune system is aging you instead of protecting you, your Mt DNA is rapidly being mutated and degraded, RNA transmission is being deranged and deleted, when free radicals are being flooded through out your body and plasticizing agents and blister poisons are destroying your tissues from the inside out, that pretty well describes progeria. I had a full head of dark brown hair when I started drinking lo-cal Kool-Aid. Six weeks later it looked like I had silver gray hair that I had dyed dark brown and the gray roots were showing. My hair was grayed forever. It’s Mt DNA, which determines youthfulness of hair, forever “fried” by the Aspartame. There were no real hair dyes marketed just for men at that time. Starting in 1984, those became a brisk and expanding market served by several new brand names.
I was now experiencing the horrors of deteriorating with neuro degenerative dz. I can empathize with those going through this as no one who hasn’t been there really can. My body and brain were now neurologically and functionally falling apart. What a hopeless feeling! I felt that I was going crazy. There was just no known medical explanation for what was happening to me.
I went to see Dr. Max Teare in Garden City, Kansas, a psychiatrist, who specialized in treating impaired physicians. Max was marvelous, but had no inkling that Aspartame was toxic. I frankly told him all about myself, including all the meds I was using. Max recognized that nothing that I was sharing with him would explain the messed up man sitting in interview with him. I was sobbing desperately in my pleas for help. I could barely get my hands to my mouth. I could hardly swallow my own saliva. Talking or maintaining a normal posture was nearly impossible for me. My speech was slurred. I couldn’t even hold myself erect, and I was grossly uncoordinated.
Max repeatedly pressed me to tell him about the drugs I was using, or the alcohol I was imbibing but I had nothing further to tell him. Finally I sobbed, ”Max all I know is that nothing you are suggesting will help me at all. If I don’t get some help I am going to die! I want you to send me to the best mental hospital that you know of.” Never did Max ask about Nutra Sweet consumption, nor did I volunteer any such information. We as MDs were simply programmed to view it as an inert food additive. All food additives must, by law, be proven inert at one hundred times the maximum conceivable human dose. No wonder we were mislead by our blind faith in the FDA.
Max was visibly upset by my request for hospitalization, and said, “ Man, you don’t know what that would do to your career.” I replied. “Max right now I don’t care about my career, all I know is that I am a dying man”. So, Max reluctantly gave very thoughtful contemplation to the matter, discussing various options with me and asking me about them. I assured him that I was in no condition to choose, but that I would appreciate him choosing the one he would want to go to if he were in my shoes. After a long deliberation with himself, he said he would choose Prairie View, a Mennonite institution in Newton, Ks. Thank God for Prairie View! It’s quiet, pleasant, chemical free rural environment, and loving, supportive staff were to prove to be just what my Nutra Sweet and CHz ravished body needed!
Meanwhile Max had sent me home to wait while he arranged an appointment to enter Prairie View. I was no longer practicing but only staying in my air-conditioned apartment, avoiding the ferociously hot Kansas summer, and desperately sliding downhill into a Lou Gehrig’s Disease like picture. Still slugging down the lo-cal Kool-Aid, and saying “Thank God for Nutra Sweet in such a hot summer.” A week or two later Max called and said he had arranged for my admission, but that it would be another week before Prairie View would have room for me. Ah! Hope at last! With this newfound hope, my ravaged mind must have subconsciously gone into high gear. I subconsciously, and only subconsciously came to suspect. “Nutra Sweet.” I said to myself, for no apparent conscious reason, “No more Nutra Sweet.” Lacking Aspartame, my body and mind slowly began to make the early phases of recovery.
I presented to Prairie View in a state of withdrawal, but a very little partially recovered, and totally broken in spirit. What were they to think! “Boy do we have an addict coming to us in withdrawal or what!” Was their highly logical conclusion. I was palsied with a bulbar palsy. This was evident on exam, in addition to being hyper reflexic and ataxic, all classical signs of being damaged by, and in withdrawal from some mind destroying toxic substance. I got to meet the very overworked Dr Peter O’Toole, the only full time psychiatrist for about 300 inpatients on my second day. Again, he did not ask and I did not volunteer any information about my Nutra Sweet consumption.
Why should we? It had been fed to the public along with the greatest media blitzkrieg of the history of the world. I now know that we live in a day and age unparalleled for manipulation of the media as propaganda. If any thing is highly promoted, you’d best back right away from it. Right now our rights and liberties are being destroyed and our bodies are being violated by the government assuming “emergency powers” and taking other fascist measures under the guise of a “war on terrorism”. Were all facts known, the only emergencies that have occurred were fostered by US intelligence agencies, and the only crisis we face is a media event designed to make us gullible and pliant to the notion of being defrauded of our personal and civil liberties. Note how the Bush family is now being promoted in a media blitz, as innocuous Americans, just as vulnerable as all other Americans; It would be made to seem. Better ask: “Where have my rights gone?” “And my liberties?,” “And our economy?,” And, Oh Yes!, “The social security funds.” You might consider boycotting all the press involved in this propaganda smoke screen operation. You see Bush et al, and Rummsfeld, almost daily, promoted as model citizens in a way never previously exhibited by our media, on behalf of anyone. I think these fascist denizens even may come to believe their own propaganda and enjoy false adulation. Some dictators demand it, with staged demonstrations, etc.
The “National Enquirer” ran a prominent article detailing a few of the ties between the Bush dynasty and Nazi Germany. April 24, 2001, was the publication date, as I remember. It was removed from all the K Mart and Fred Meyer store chains, over night, before the stores were opened for the business in the morning, and for a long time, this fascist act was covered by providing the following weeks Enquirer a week early. It still is here in Portland. Both chains are owned by the Kroger dynasty, who now control 52%+ of the nations grocery supply. All this virtually defines “burn the books” fascism.
I saw but little of Dr O’Toole for most of my stay at Prairie View, but a psychologist, Dr White, oversaw my care. Upon my arrival at Prairie View, I was pleasantly surprised. It was rural and pastoral, situated on a 350-acre farm outside of town amidst the rolling, rural Kansas landscape. The buildings were rustic and informal, having been built in the immediate post WWII era, when Mennonites who had served as medics in the war, were inspired by their wartime experiences to build a place where war torn psyches could heal. The buildings were simple, and pleasant, but not air-conditioned. I was panicked. I had, since starting Nutra Sweet, been completely defeated by the heat of the Kansas summer. Now I had to live without air conditioning. A large part of the time was spent out of doors in vigorous recreational activities in the heat of Kansas’ hottest month, August! What a disconcerting prospect for me. I was utterly defeated by the heat. Nutra Sweet had withered my ability to withstand thermal, or any other kind of stress.
Much to my surprise, I rapidly acclimatized and was not even bothered by the heat any more. The healing process was not painless. The simple occupational therapies were terrifying to me because they revealed the extreme neurological incapacities I had sustained. Other doctors who worked with me in surgery had complimented me on my surgical dexterity and skills. Now those hands, once so capable, could hardly be directed to scratch a random line on a recreational exercise. The personnel were marvelously supportive and shared every little victory with me as my functional abilities began to return. The food was simple, cooked from scratch in the inimitable, and excellent Mennonite cuisine, and free of chemicals.
There were a few rough spots engendered by my Aspartame induced picture, though. The psychological personnel were intent on finding out just what had so neurologically degenerated me. This led to a lot of confrontations about drug abuse, but I had nothing more that I could tell them. I earnestly wished I could give them anything to go on. I wanted, above all else, to get well. They knew of my biochemical expertise. In defiance of all logic, they came to the misguided conclusion that I simply had to be the cleverest addict they had ever seen, but an addict, nonetheless. Most of the personnel were of a congenial nature, but the Gestapo teams they sent around in the middle of the night to roughly extract blood and urine samples for drug testing were an exception. I so badly wanted to get well! I submitted, out of blind faith, without protest for a couple of weeks, actually hoping they could find anything by this misdirected activity.
When all the results were in, I again saw Dr. O’Toole. He was illogically confrontational. He said “Jim you are just too smart for your own good. We have repeatedly, again and again, done all sorts of drug testing. We have even used the most refined labs in the nation and have taken tests that would detect any abuse drugs even in trace amounts. That should detect anything, even six weeks to three months back, and you are clean. How are you doing this?” They thought, that with my sound knowledge of applied biochemistry, I had cleverly devised a method to defeat their testing. How illogical!
I came to them of my own volition, not having been found guilty of anything, nor was I referred to them because any agency was suspicious of drug abuse. I lived without privacy in their Spartan quarters, and there was no logical reason to believe that I could have concocted any method that could have defeated the results of all their extensive blood and urine testing. This has direct application forever, to the life of any who have used Aspartame. Your doctors will be clueless, unless they learn about Asp and CHz.
Many doctors are in satanic agencies like the Masonic orders, B'nai B'rith, etc., or are afraid of politics, or afraid to disbelieve the fascist power structure, or if they disbelieve, to do anything, but keep it to themselves, because they have, from medical school on been taught to never cross politics, at the cost of losing their careers. Or, just as myself, and my therapists were at that time, they have come to no conscious admission of the dangers of Aspartame. No matter how insanely illogical it is not to follow their observations to the logical conclusion, which you have documented to them, that you need help because of serious problems with Aspartame, or CHz, they will throw you on the medical trash heap as a “nut” or malingerer, rather than cooperate with you in treating you for the problems for which you so badly need to be helped.
It is a sad fact, that the medical profession has been, as a matter of routine in their training, been taught to stay off the frontiers of medicine. That’s real bad because those patients “out in the frontier” may present to them and need their help at any time. I, for one, am a “frontiersman” and will remain so due the insights I have gained in almost twenty years of studying the Aspartame problem. Well, OK, I was a “frontiersman” before. If you do not “fire” any doctor who will not relate realistically to your problems from Aspartame with CHz, you are doomed. Once you have been so afflicted, you must forever dethrone your doctors as high priests. Seek your own welfare, because the only alternative is toxic genetic and immunologic destruction. By reading this article you have become a frontiersman, having gone way beyond the frontier of mass mind control that your government would keep you, and your doctor confined to.
Happily, with the good environment at Prairie View, I was steadily improving. Little credit can be given to my therapists, who were in a hapless position, because at that time they had no access to any knowledge of the hazards of Aspartame. That is no longer true. Any doctor or therapist who does not, or will not explore the vast amount of information available is simply an inadequate personality, and a shame and disgrace to his profession. You should, though, give them a chance by pointing out the excellent net sites like “dorway” and “holisticmed” to them. The bibliographies therein are extensive. A compilation from “holisticmed,” called “the bitter truth about artificial sweeteners” has 1100 pages of crystal clear material with rock hard documentation from 70 pages of bibliography. There is just no longer any excuse for a doctor to sell himself to the power structure and ignore the facts of the horrible Aspartame problem! Dr Hyman Roberts has published a comprehensive medical textbook, and even when I was a doctor/patient, there existed all sorts of information that would have alerted us all to the deadly hazard called Aspartame, had we been allowed to know of it. NO thanks to media who covered for it!
Dr Adrian gross, the head toxicologist at the EPA, had already, for over ten years been condemning Aspartame with the full weight of his agency. Donald Rummsfeld, et al, had faced felony charges pressed by the US congress. All of which should have hit the media like a meteor strike. The major media was and remains sworn to silence on the Aspartame and CHz issue, which is far more of interest to the populace, and millions of times more essential to our welfare and political democracy than say “Watergate,” in which the media doused the public for months, to defrock a president guilty of nothing approaching the heinous Aspartame atrocity. Yes, “Monica” isn’t even noteworthy, but she was made a porn queen to pander to the public’s prurient interests and, for a year or so, used to divert the public attention from real issues. I personally wasn’t interested. It came to the point where I refused to even pick up a periodical that was pandering with her.
Back to Prairie View, August 1983. My stay was marked by much of the pathos that you might expect in a mental hospital. Highly depressed, I was but little help to the outlook of my extremely depressed roommate.. He hung himself after I had been there about a week. When my depression began to lift, and my neurological function began to heal, it was ambivalent from the standpoint of “Out there, in the real world, I was a total mess, here in a sheltered environment, I’m getting better. Hmmm, does that mean that I am so defective I can’t function in society? So inadequate I can’t take the stress?” This was beginning to become a real problem with my “self image.” Shirley, my RN wife saw this and began to urge me: “Come on Jim. Get out of here. They’re making a patient out of you! You are starting to like this.” Broken in spirit, all I could reply was: “I am not well yet, and they have found no answers for me.”
About three weeks after I got off of Nutra Sweet, I had progressed from hardly being able to get my hands above my shoulders, to being able to clumsily hit a volleyball. That was some real improvement. The attempts of the psychotherapy staff had convinced me that there was definitely some chemical substance involved, because that was what they kept pressing me for. “But what could it be?” I really wanted to know!
My first answer came incidentally. I customarily use Palmolive liquid dish soap to wash and bathe with because it is extremely friendly to my body. I asked my wife to bring in a bottle of Prell shampoo for me to use in the dormitory. She had asked me if I would like anything special after I got over my acute toxicity enough to care. The very first time I used Prell, one evening just before bedtime, I was in for a rude awakening! Shortly after I fell asleep, I awoke, itching all over, my body covered with intensely pruritic red hives. I went to the shower and began to soak the chemical, whatever it was, out of my skin. That led to a pretty stiff confrontation with the staff, which ran into the shower, screaming “You can’t be in here now it is almost midnight.” When I told them I had no intention of leaving until I got better, and explained what had happened they were incredulous, but reluctantly relented. When my skin got comfortable again, I went back to bed.
That episode caused me to ask myself, “What is in Prell that is not in Palmolive or the soap I have used here?” The answer came to me. “Formaldehyde is added to Prell as a polymerizing agent to make the hair tougher, and willing to take a set as you comb it out after shampooing.” So, now I had it! Whatever had done this to me had caused formaldehyde poisoning in my body, and had left me formaldehyde sensitized. This is, in fact, one of the Nutra Sweet “cogeners”, one of the multitudinous bad reactions it engenders in human beings from the time of manufacture and onwards ad infinitum. Formaldehyde, which is the strongest organic base, and a polymerizing agent cross binds, and plasticizes your own tissues, DNA, and RNA ”denaturing” them. Your immune system then fails to recognize, as “self“, your own tissues, which have been ”denatured”, made foreign to it by formaldehyde polymerization. It sees them as “foreign” and therefore needing to be destroyed by immune attack. So your immune system targets attacks your own tissues, or the fetus if you are carrying a baby.
As I contemplated this I could not, in any way, come to suspect our government, but rather felt that our democracy could be threatened by exposing our leaders to it, and then deranging them at will by exposing them to minute amounts of formaldehyde vapors. In a very close sense, I was right. Nancy had been regularly pushing Aspartame on Ronny. She had given him a cute little silver tube to carry it around in, and this man, always a follower and actor rather than a leader, was all the more under her control, and thus of her handlers. He was to become so neurologically degenerated by Aspartame, that by the time he made run for his second term of Presidency, you may remember that he had to visibly struggle, openly before the cameras, to even poorly read his lines. At that point he was no longer even a competent actor. Just the kind of man his keepers wanted in the oval office. Reagan went on to full blown Alzheimer’s dz, one of the over ninety known problems from Aspartame. Having not the slightest inkling of anything wrong with the FDA, I remained convinced of only one thing. Whatever chemical had done this to me was a formaldehyde compound, and had left me formaldehyde sensitized.
I could never have dreamed that my own government would have exposed me to a concoction of methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, or methanol. Methanol has been well known, for over a hundred years, to cause the most vicious form of alcoholism, “metholism.” It is noted for extreme depression and degeneration of about every system in the body as well as immunologic disorders and death, in even minute amounts. A prominent “skull and cross bones” and “poison” label are required on everything containing methanol along with the words, “Warning, poisonous, contains methanol do not breath fumes or ingest.” Obviously Nutra Sweet could not be anything like that. It certainly did not have any warning like that on the label. Methanol causes a form of formaldehyde poisoning about fifty times as deadly as straight formaldehyde, and when estherized into a larger molecule like Aspartame, becomes far more toxic and sensitizing. I had been ingesting an alcohol/formaldehyde poison about twenty thousand times as toxic as regular old “sipping alcohol”, ethanol or grain alcohol, (on mg per mg basis). I was clueless, only because uninformed. Most ingested Aspartame is broken down into about ten other poisons in the digestive tract. The small amount, like a mg or so, that is absorbed “buccally”, directly through the mouth, is enough to be, an extreme poisoning because of the extreme potency of the intact molecule.
So I sat around the hospital feeling more and more a lost, inadequate soul because I had no idea what my problem had been out in the world and I didn’t want to go out there and get slapped down by it again. Whatever it was! One evening I paused for just a few minutes to watch the news. I was given my answer. The female TV newsperson gave about a five second warning at the end of her newscast: “The FDA has issued warnings on Nutra Sweet. It can cause chemical imbalances in the brain”. The FDA had not. Dr Dick Wurtman, the head of neuro endocrinology at MIT had gotten her to say it. This was his area of special expertise, and special concern with Aspartame. Wow! Some authority figure had given me permission to think!
It became so obvious. I had started Nutra Sweet. I got sick and fell apart. I stopped it. I got well, or at least better, except for formaldehyde sensitivity. The next morning I jubilantly went to Dr O’Toole, and told him what I had discovered. His only response was to become desperately upset, and speechless. Then his lack of any rational knowledge of Aspartame toxicity once again predominated and clouded the issue. He was going to prove that Aspartame was not the culprit! He again reordered all the testing I had already gone through: In some instances, several times already. I said “Dr O’Toole, you have even reordered a cat scan of the brain, for which you have a negative report from just three weeks ago!” He seemed to melt into a total collapse of hopelessness right on the spot, and had nothing more to offer. Such is the immense conundrum that the government has created for doctors by putting this horrendous poison on the market, along with others, and mandating of medical doctors that they dare not find it so. Dr Hyman Roberts has well documented it, that up to $60,000 or more, per patient in unnecessary workups are occurring because of lack of medical knowledge of Aspartame.
I gave my three days of notice to Prairie View that I was leaving. My wife was jubilant. She had her husband back, unafraid to face the world. Well I should have been though, Had I but had any inkling of what was going to happen to me when I started talking about the biochemistry of Aspartame. (There will be room in this article for but a very small part of what I have been put through.) Of course I wanted to know more. So I sent Shirley down to the drugstore to ask the pharmacist what he might know about Aspartame. He knew nothing. A PhD pharmacologist, a pharmaceutical salesman from Salina Kansas who was passing through, happened upon the conversation and said; “Well I really wondered about that. I have held a lot of Searle stock, and they told us in their stock reports ten years ago that Aspartame was far too toxic to ever even consider for human consumption, and now I see it on the market!” In the meanwhile, I called the FDA and got Tony Burnetti, who maintained the Nutra Sweet file.
Tony said “ Why no, there is nothing at all wrong with Nutra Sweet. If there were anything wrong with Nutra Sweet we would pull it right off the market.” Tony’s voice was so full of false bravado that he sounded just like a man who was being forced to say something he didn’t believe. I was right. He shortly later became a very valuable mole and let us get some of the most damning toxicity studies you could conceive of, directly from his files at the FDA. Such as: In normal doses Aspartame is the number one brain tumor carcinogen known to man. In the same low dose, equivalent to 3 cans of pop/ day, it within 60 days, it caused a 250% increase in visible human illness, and was demonstrated to be extremely carcinogenic in the human study group. It was also demonstrated to be an extreme epileptogenic agent.
At the moment though, he was standing pat on the “party line.” So I asked. “Tony, I am an MD and biochemist and I have a pretty good understanding of applied biochemistry. Maybe, if you just told me the chemical formula of Nutra Sweet, I could figure out what’s happened to me here, because the stuff almost killed me.” Tony’s reply: “I can’t give you the formula.” I protested: “Back up here now Tony. This stuff has been released for general consumption. The formula should be public knowledge, and now you are telling me you can’t even give me the formula? That you can’t even give the formula to a concerned physician!” Tony’s reply: “Well, it’s a controversial issue, and we never release the formula on controversial issues.” A moment ago it was perfectly safe, and now it was so “controversial” that even a medical doctor was not to be allowed to know what it was! You didn’t have to tell me any more than that to let me know I had just stumbled on something big and bloody. All on our first day of looking!
I went to the “freedom of information” act and requested access to the Nutra Sweet formula, and file. A little later, I got a letter acknowledging my request and assuring me I would get the information in due time. It has been 19 years, and nothing has been forth coming! I didn’t wait for FIA, but went to the sugar industry trade journals, where I found the chemical formula of Aspartame, and thus made it known to the public. After contemplating the formula carefully, for quite a while, and thinking about the known properties intrinsic in its chemical constitution, I quite correctly came to the conclusion this was not anything that any conscientious scientist would ever allow in the human body. This was the kind of perverted, sick science they had been doing in Nazi Germany. I have since discovered that horrid possibility to be just the fact.
“Operation paperclip” was so named when the satanic king makers and power brokers who presently run our world, and are destroying it, brought Nazi war criminals to the US at the end of WWII, to continue their “scientific” projects here. They placed paperclips on the files, so their clerks could type clean dossiers for President Truman’s review. From their work came the HIV virus, Aspartame, and the “Schools of the Americas”, etc. If you look at the seven last plagues of Revelation (Ch 16), you will read of the culmination of the satanic degradation that the US, which will remain the most powerful (Rev 13:11-17), and thus the most responsible, leader of the nations until the end of time (Rev17: 7-11), and will bring destruction upon the world. This satanic degradation of society and the world will bring the US to its knees in the dust of the world it has destroyed. (Rev 6:13-17), and (Rev 19:17-21). To force the public to support such heinous programs, the leaders need fascist powers, just like Rome and Nazi Germany exercised. Aspartame is a heinous chemical agent designed to help bring this about. Welcome to the new world order! (Rev 16:13-16) Aspartame is Satan, its leader’s chemical agent of first choice for population control, and mass mind control.
Upon arriving back in Ashland Kansas, I found that the small town power structure viewed me as an unrepentant alcoholic. It was no longer possible for me to succeed there. So I began to look for alternatives. My wife and myself soon discovered that things had mysteriously changed with our health. It is to my shame that Shirley, almost as soon as I started drinking the lo-cal Kool-Aid, spotted the fact that Nutra Sweet was what was breaking my health. She would plead with me “Jim get off the Nutra Sweet. It is killing you.” I would respond. “No. It is a safe, FDA approved product. It couldn’t be doing this to me.” So she, out of respect to my incorrect opinion, and her faith in the FDA as an RN nurse, began to use the lo-cal Kool-Aid along with me. She was about ten weeks pregnant at the time, and shortly after she became symptomatic with the Aspartame poisoning, she lost the baby. I found Aspartame to be a common fertility problem, and not surprisingly, many who carry to delivery while consuming, deliver seriously damaged or deformed babies, or the more subtle “pervasive developmental disorders” occur. All in keeping with the known toxicity and biochemistry of the Aspartame molecule. My wife used far less Aspartame than I did. She had much milder primary symptoms. We didn’t understand at all, in spite of her initial recognition of Aspartame’s horrible effects on me. So exemplary of the brain washing effects of Asp, once you come under its influence. >From that six-week period of ingestion, we had both contracted CHz.
Our first inkling that anything was wrong was that, while we both loved to eat at salad bars, they now made us sick. Weird health phenomena that we couldn’t understand began to occur. It became obvious that the sexual dynamo that I had been just before I started lo-cal Kool-Aid was never to be again. My hair had gone gray, and was rapidly thinning. It now took regular, careful combing to make it appear to cover the top, and careful photography to avoid the appearance of balding. When I first enrolled in Prairie View, my hair hadn’t shed yet, and the gray shining through, in streaks, looked rather attractive, I thought. A month later, the shedding had occurred. I now had a whole new set of problems with it. I had never before known.
We selected the town of Ridgefield, Washington as our next practice location. We started across country with a U Haul and a car. We arrived at Sinclair, Wyoming, an oil refinery town with noticeable air pollution of a sulfurous nature. This pollution flared our sensitivities. We however, didn’t have an inkling of the existence of CHz, or that Aspartame had anything to do with our newfound CHz health problems. Many of our mutual experiences therefore, provide an elegant health study of CHz, with two cohorts well trained to observe medical phenomena, and blinded as to what we were going through, and as to CHz, or Asp as the cause. We thought the Nutra Sweet episode was behind us and we were in state of hopeful denial. We believed we could go back to the world that existed for us before we encountered Asp. That was never to be! For a treat, we went to the finest restaurant in Sinclair for some good, home style cooking. Even that was not to be! When the waitress brought us the soup, I found it to be way too salty, but thought it to be “just me.” I tried to choke it down but just couldn’t. I looked at Shirley, who was going through just the exact same experience. Our eyes met, and with a smile of shared experience, we said simultaneously, “ this soup is just too salty.” we smiled and decided to set the soup aside and go on with the meal, without complaint.
When the waitress brought the excellent main course we had the same experience. The food was just way too salty to eat! The waitress was cool. She said: ”The cook probably over salted the food.” and brought us some chicken nuggets from outside sources. While she was gone we noted that Shirley’s daughter, Sherry, and all the other customers were eating the food, and enjoying it just fine. When the chicken nuggets arrived, they also tasted way too salty to eat. Talk about a couple of perplexed people! Shirley and I didn’t have a clue what was going on. In fact: Our CHz was flared into full reactivity by the sulfurous petrochemicals in the air from the refinery, and as is typically often the case, our sense of thirst and perception of salty taste were grossly exaggerated. Shirley asked the waitress for a doggy bag. I remonstrated with her. ”Woman what do you want to bring those chicken nuggets along for, they are way too salty to eat!” Shirley was cool and didn’t answer, but brought the nuggets along. After several hours in the pure air of rural Wyoming, we later arrived in Rock Springs. Shirley got out the chicken nuggets to try them. I asked, “Why are you messing with those? You know they are way too salty.” Shirley tasted some and said “these are delicious, here try some.” I did and they were! We looked at each other, puzzled? Clueless we were.
Ridgefield, Washington was one of the worst places that a Dr afflicted with CHz could have chosen to practice. The greater Portland area is horribly polluted due to polluted politics. Pulp mills lined the Columbia all the way in from the coast, and the Willamette all the way south to Albany. The Columbia then turns eastward. It, and the Snake host more huge pulp industries all the way from Camas, WA to Lewiston, Idaho. Not to mention the ones inside Portland and Vancouver. Just north of Ridgefield, Kalama, WA hosts a large concentration of chemical manufacturing in its port. 98% of the Nation’s benzoates and numerous other chemicals are manufactured there. The emissions are just not controlled. Benzoates are “death” to most CHz victims. In the whole greater Portland Metroplex, to ask any of the enforcement agencies to stop major polluters is to merely submit yourself to scrutiny and abuse. The Willamette River at Portland now contains 1000 times the max permissible levels of dioxin and PCBs. The fish have deformed spines and skulls. Happily? At least there are signs along the river warning you that the fish are inedible. They long fooled the public, but couldn’t “fool” the fish that have to swim up the river. The last salmon arrived at Willamette Falls in Oregon City years ago.
Ridgefield was the “company town” of PWT, Pacific Wood Treatment’s plant. They putrified the environment there with pentachlorophenol and other toxic wastes, emitting them into the air and water, even burying them in shallow graves. The excellent Redmond aquifer blesses the whole of Clark County with abundant high quality water. Other industries have also damaged it permanently by dumping poisons in it that will be there forever, some even pumping pollutants down into it! The world’s largest pulp mill is just across the Columbia from Ridgefield, at Saint Helens, OR. The pulp pollutants would often billow out of its stacks in a huge plume and arc across the river, settling down and mixing with the PWT emissions in air already chemically fouled by Kalama, just up the beach. This enveloped Ridgefield in a toxic cloud of multi sourced pollutants. Many of the townspeople suffered the resultant diseases.
My real education in CHz was just about to begin! What a nightmare! My problems with Aspartame, which I had hoped to leave far, and forever behind me began to recur in many destructively intrusive ways. The “bonfire” effect set in because my CHz was kept “flared up” to an extremely high level of destructiveness. Where shall I start with all the symptoms? Alzheimer like loss of short-term memory? I would leave town to drive into downtown Vancouver just a few exits down I-5, and drive right on past the Fourth Plain exit and be forced to go on across the Columbia River Bridge into Portland, circle back north across the bridge and forget to exit the down town, Mill Plain and Fourth plain exits, circle back south again and once more miss the Fourth Plain exit south bound and once again be forced go across to Portland, completely failing to get to Vancouver.
My Lou Gehrig’s like neurological symptoms with throat paralysis would recur when the pollution built up, especially when I went home and lay down in bed. My latex mattress, which I had owned for 18 years, had never bothered me until then. It now caused paralysis. When I replaced it with a cotton mattress, the foam pillows then sickened me. When I replaced them with feather pillows, I had then to learn that feathers for pillows are regularly sterilized and toughened to give them body with formaldehyde. I often appeared drunk to my patients and talked to them much as a drunk would. Shirley was made so ill that she could not remain downtown, where the pollution was the worst, and my office was located, long enough to help me in the office.
My office apparently had polyurethane insulation because it smelled strongly of formaldehyde and urea to me, and worsened my condition. In an attempt to live with my “formaldehyde sensitivity” I would keep its door opened which caused my receptionist to resign even though I provided her with a personal heater to keep warm with. She thought that my problems with the office “were just a bunch of nonsense.” After all it didn’t bother her. My arthritis, usually well controlled with Feldene (piroxicam), flared into high gear. I developed chronic fatigue/polymyalgia symptoms. I had started writing for newspapers about the problems that Aspartame had caused me, and was causing my patients, while still in Kansas.
A startlingly explicit illustration of how quickly Aspartame can alter the genetic and immune status of a population occurred late that fall in Ridgefield, and the whole lower Columbia/Willamette river basin. About once a year a massive, extensive inversion forms over Portland, usually extending from Longview to the north, to Salem or Albany to the south. It starts with the usual nightly inversion when the pollutant-laden upper atmosphere is cooled from the lack of sun and further loses warmth, radiating it into the night sky, and then tumbles down unto the populace, while the air that remained warmed by contact with the ground runs up the mountain valleys and gets on top. This is then joined by a gently sloping warm front coming in from off the Pacific, which then becomes stationary and layered above. The pollutants can be trapped for days, and the populace has to breathe them. The only thing that made the few inverted days starting December 17, 1983 different from other years was that the population had just been introduced to Aspartame in a media blitz, starting in July of that year. The companies had ruthlessly even left off even the FDA mandated warning for PKU. “So what if PKU infants were severely brain damaged.” Aspartame must be consumed. No matter what!
Nothing was to alert the public to any possible problem from Aspartame! The inversion hit as usual. Overhead the moon was building for a December 20th full date. The negatively charged moon, which orbits in close to the earth’s surface, as it shows full, was pushing the ionosphere down towards the earth by same charge repellency, because the ionosphere is negatively charged on top. The positively charged bottom of the ionosphere was generating toxic positive ions in the stable, inverted chemical mess enveloping the Portland/Vancouver area. I was there to observe the effect on the now sensitized population of Ridgefield, which was the epicenter. Shirley and I were ill, and we knew why. Others in town were ill but hapless. Our good friends and neighbors who ran a large silkscreen factory across the street from the clinic put a huge banner across the whole front of their business stating “someone is trying to run us out of town”. They locked up their business and took off! A few days later when the inversion lifted, they quietly came back and resumed business without further comment. The Oregonian reported more than triple the arrests for prostitution that Portland usually had. And! These were not professional tarts they were ordinary housewives with no prior criminal record. The paper could offer no explanation.
I went to visit Mayor Bill, a capable, stable, broad based man. He sat at his desk sobbing. When I asked him the problem, he could merely state that he “just couldn’t do anything right the last day or two.” I assured him it was the inverted pollutants stacked on top of Nutra Sweet toxicity, and the CHz there from. The city clerk, a very chaste married woman, had become totally disinhibited. Shirley and I went up to the Oak Tree, about twenty miles away in Woodland, for supper in hopes of escaping from the pollution. The waitresses there were totally disinhibited. It might have been “Bachelors Paradise” that night. We drove east up along the Lewis River after supper to try and escape the chemically fouled air and couldn’t get out of it until we passed Merwin Dam about twenty miles up into the mountains. Oh! It felt so good to be able to breath pure air again! But having no place to sleep, after a brief respite, we had to submit to the misery of returning to the fouled air. When the inversion cleared in a few days, life returned to its usual routines. My premonitions of what could become of a population sensitized by Aspartame and then exposed to formaldehyde, or the likes, had proved to be all to correct. From Reagan at the top, down to a few poor housewives wanting to get a little cash for Christmas, our society had already been demonstrably turned topsy-turvy by it.
I now resumed writing for the local newspapers, and went on Cox Cable TV, discussing the hazards of Asparta