History Of Aspartame

Aspartame was initially tested as an anti-ulcer medicine in 1965 by a chemist for G.D. Searle Company, but it found its way into the food industry as a sweetener in the early 1980s. Researchers who tested aspartame determined that it caused brain tumors, pancreatic tumors, uterine tumors, and mammary tumors in lab rats.  These findings caused an appropriate delay in approval of the use of aspartame in the mid- 1970s.  In spite of aspartame's detrimental effects on lab animals, politics and profits won out. In 1977 , U.S> Attorney Samuel Skinner was chosen by the FDA to prosecute G.D. Searle Company for withholding or misrepresenting important research about the effects of aspartame on lab rats. After a meeting with Searle's Law firm, Skinner mysteriously quit the FDA and started working for the other side. Eventually, the formal objections to the FDA about not approving aspartame were dismissed, and aspartame began seeping into mainstream food. Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener composed of phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol. while each chemical poses its own risk to the body, research indicates that this combination makes aspartame even deadlier.

Aspartame is also an excitatory neurotransmitter.  A neurotransmitter excites the brain neurons and increases levels of electrical activity in the brain and the auditory cortex which increases levels of tinnitus (ringing in the ears.)