The Highwire with Del Bigtree - ASPARTAME’S DEADLY SECRET

Episode Date: June 3, 2023

After decades of concerns over serious health effects from aspartame, the WHO has advised against the use of the artificial sweetener, also known as NutraSweet. Dr. Russell Blaylock, retired neurosurgeon and expert in the topic of excitotoxins, joins Del to discuss his decades long investigation into the dangers of these sweeteners. #Aspartame #RussellBlaylock #MSGBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

This amazing story broke this week that shows you why we need someone to go in and rip apart these regulatory agencies that are working for the very industries that were supposed to be protected from. If we do not change this, we will die. We're going to die. The FDA, CDC is going to kill us. Here it is. Artificial sweeteners don't help you lose weight and may carry long-term health risks. The WHO warns. This is an incredible story. We went and did some research on it. What I found actually when we looked into it is apparently aspartame is at the heart of this. This sweetener aspartame was approved in 1974. In 1974 it was approved to be an artificial sweetener, but by 1975 it was pulled off the market.

The FDA retracted it. So first 74, FDA approves it, 75 they retracted. Why? Because there's apparently some animal studies. that were done by Searle, which is the company that makes it. And those studies show that there was tumors in the animals that were in the study. A lot of tumors, more than normal. And so suddenly it got pulled off the market.

So it languished. 75, nothing's happening. It goes all the way to 1980. Nobody wants to let this on the market. And then here's how it goes, folks. Ronald Reagan gets elected. All right? What does Ronald Reagan have to do with it?

Ronald Rumsfeld. joining him. And so Rumsfeld, why is he important? Well, guess what job he had before he works for the United States government? He's the CEO of Searle, the exact company that was trying to sell aspirateen, even though it was causing brain tumors in mice. So as soon as they get in office, they bring in a new head of the FDA. This is that guy, Arthur Hayes Jr. The first thing Arthur Hayes Jr. does is approve aspirin for dry goods. So it didn't matter. what everybody else said, the CEO is now in government of our company, and so we're going to approve it for dry goods. Within two years, he's under investigation by the Congress because it looks like he's taking

a lot of money from outside industries. What a concept. I guess that used to be a problem. And so he quits. He's going to leave. The last thing this guy does is he's walking out the door is he approves Aspartame not only for dry goods, but to be used in beverages around the world. It becomes a boom. Let's look at how big a boom. This is what the article says about the use of these synthetic sweeteners. A brief and bizarre history of artificial sweeteners. Look at this.

The sweetener finally hit the market as NutraSuite in 1981, thanks to Donald Rumsfeld. According to the Oxford companion to sugar and sweets, Aspartame replaced more than a billion pounds of sugar in the American diet. during the 1980s. Diet Coke made with aspartame was launched during this time, and we remember what that boom was like because it looked like this on our television stations. Better known by its brand names NutraSuite or Equal, Aspartame is the most popular sugar substitute in the world. Diet Pepsi. Diet Pepsi, great taste of NutraSuite. Sugar twin, with an advanced formula that tastes more like sugar than ever.

In a taste test, advanced formula sugar-twin diet sweetener was preferred for tasting more like sugar. Exquisitely, deliciously and biting. Only one and a half calories a teaspoon. No added sugar. New light and juicy with NutraSuite from Minutri-Maid. 100% Nutrisweet. Oh, that's the good stuff. Why, some things taste better than others.

Hello, sweet children. Hello. Would you like a bite of my lovely house? No, thanks. brought a lot thing. All made with NutraSuite. NutraSuite tastes just like sugar but without all the calories. Nutra sweet is what I see. Thanks to the new locale sweetener Nutra sweet. Just one drink doesn't leave a bitter aftertaste. Now available in sugar-free, naturally. If you've had bananas and milk you've eaten what's in NutraSuite. Everything in it you find naturally and good things to eat, like two building blocks of protein.

Equal has 100% NutraSweet, no sugar, no saccharin. I choose equal. Would you like to have something sweet? All this enjoyment is brought to you by all the things sweetened with Nutrisweet. Instead of sugar. Something you and your child can appreciate. Just look for the swirl. Aspartame has been proven safe for decades and offers a delicious taste.

America runs on Duncan. Snapple. Made from the best stuff on Earth. Pass me to play. Pepsi Zero sugar. It's Pepsi Zero Sugar. Surprise you all sugar. I've got New Mountain Dew Zero Sugar.

Wow, that's really, really ridiculously good tasting. Zero never tasted so good. Well, obviously it was a boom, and I am sure many of you out there watching this and saying, oh my God, I don't think I want to hear this. Well, I suppose there's always been people that have been speaking. out. Now the vaccines, we've managed to make this a worldwide topic. That's part of what people like me and others and Peter Corrie's do. But with Aspartame, there was also a body of scientists. One of them was a neurosurgeon named Dr. Russell Blaylock, who has been, you know, shouting from

the mountaintops for decades about the issues of Aspartame and other, you know, artificial products that are going into our food system. He's written many books. This is him. in an interview in a documentary nearly 20 years ago. Look what he was warning us about. GD. Cerro Company in the quest to get approval for their product, aspartame, they conducted a study on animals. When they submitted this to the FDA and the FDA looked at it, there was some question about the study.

Well, one of the scientists and neuroscientists looked at some of this, and he saw a lot of red flags. said there's some real questions here about tumors being caused by this product, particularly brain tumors. So they ordered a study to be done by the Bureau of Foods, which was the precursor to the FDA. That's what the Bressler reported about. And this is the report here. Basically what it shows is that either a lot of purposeful shenanigans was carried on to get this product approved. or as he states it it was the world's worst research.

They found that what they did is the animals that died after being fed Nutrisweet, they had animal tissues that had obvious tumors in it that were reported normal. They had, in one of the cases here, that's reported, a lymph node that was enlarged. and this G.D. Cerro pathologist reported it as a normal lymph node. When the scientists from the Bureau of Foods looked at it, they say it was an obvious lymphocircoma, highly malignant tumor. There were just numerous, numerous things in this report that showed that in my estimation, there was an effort to cover up what was being found so that they could get approval.

Well, it's my honor and pleasure to be joined now by one of those warriors that has been out there, you know, speaking truth for a very long time, long before I ever got involved. And Dr. Blaylock, thank you for taking the time to join us today. Well, thank you. I've always been an admirer of your program. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. That's an honor.

It's saying a lot because you have really been prolific in the space of, of speaking truth of power. So were you aware of this WHO ruling? Finally, it looks like there's some attention being brought here. It's not that much, right? It's kind of a light little slap on the wrists. But you've been at this a long time. How bad is this stuff?

It's terrible. There's quite a few scientists who have looked at this intimately. And one was a good friend of mine named John Olney, who was a neuroscientist. at the University of Washington, and he looked at it, and he said, well, you know, the study showed there's a six-fold increase in brain tumor

with the use of this. Well, the Bressler report was a report in which they looked at this, and they found out that the researchers were actually cutting the tumors out of these animals and throwing them away and reporting normal. Numerous cases of these animals

had these tumors in it. Well, recently, Scafetti, who is a researcher, who does almost all the research on carcinogenic effect of natural product. And so they garnered his research laboratory to do the study on it. He did a study on it, which extended most of the life of the animal, but not all. And he found there was a tremendous increase in lymphoma and leukemia. among the animals as well as brain tumors. And he further found out that, well, if you look at society today, there's a tremendous increase in lymphoma and leukemia, particularly below age 30.

In the United States, it's just rampant. It keeps increasing. People are drinking this nutritious wheat, which in this study. So he repeated the study twice. repeated the study twice more. He was more animal. And he made a lifetime study. In his study, he found out the same thing. Once again, you're seeing a tremendous increase in lymphoma and leukemia, as well as these other tumors. And they tried to cover it up. They said, well, why did you do a lifetime study? Well, you're feeding it to little children. You're feeding it to pregnant mothers. It is a lifetime.

And I was on a radio station locally and the reporter said, you know, I heard your report and I didn't believe it at first. And then I realized I was just really having a problem. I couldn't read the reports. I couldn't do my job. And I stopped the neutral suite like you said. And it all went away. I worked with a researcher, Betty Martini, very closely. She had a lot of pilots who were going blind. People who are having seizures. all from this product. And some of the products had real high level. And they would have seizures in these people. And they would stop it. The seizures would go away. The blindness, of course, would ruin their career. I mean, here you're a pilot,

and you have blindness and impaired vision. You can't fly anymore. Right. So we're seeing the same thing. Of course, we're seeing this with this COVID vaccine as well. We're seeing these people have heart defect. Well, what does the airport do? They changed the whole testing.

They say, well, the EKG now is declared normal. Right. Well, we know, and the car they're still, it's not normal. These pilots could die at any time, and they'd kill everybody on the plane. I mean, what if he had a heart attack just at the moment he happened to be landed? There wouldn't be time for the co-pilot to take charge. He would die, and everybody on the plane would die. Right.

So I would be afraid to fly. You know, they've had all these pilots vaccinated from all over. They've, as you've reported, a tremendous report about these immunologic effects. And I've written extensively about this COVID vaccine as well. So, you know, this truth telling that you do and the others do is vitally important. Like you said, I started 20 years ago with this. trying to warn people about after-penter. I used to go in the supermarket and there would be a mother with a little child in the basket,

two or three years old, and she would be giving them some diet coli drink. So people looked at that, well, the amount of nutrist wheat was far in excess, even of what the FDA had approved. They said it's way above that. So people were consuming a lot of it. And one of the researchers found, well, it's metabolized to formaldehyde. And the formaldehyde forms a protein addict and forms an addict with the DNA. It destroys it.

It attaches to it. So even drinking a single colon, I was the first person to say that. I said, you drink a single colon. And then later you drink another one. And it's permanent on your DNA. It's destroyed. And you're likely to get a tumor. You're likely to have brain malformation.

we compare what was done and the regulatory agencies with this aspartame it's amazing it's almost exactly what they're doing with the COVID vaccine they're lying about they're lying from start to finish the regulatory agencies were captured by these companies making it and that's the problem is people don't realize you're trusting the CDC you're trusting the FDA you're trusting the regulatory agencies they are owned by the pharmaceuticals of companies. They're taking the, like this case here, they took these tumors and threw them away. I was on the David Adkins show one time. He called me and asked me, he said, would you be willing to talk about Aphrotain? I said, sure I wouldn't. And so he called

me back and he said, well, we canceled the program. I said, why? And he said, well, the company, Monsanto Company, sent a whole bunch of lawyers to my office. They sat down, they opened up these suitcases and held, I said, if you interview him, we're going to sue you. Wow. And I, and he said, what should I do? And I said, one thing. Say, what about the Bresler report? I said, just say that. And he called me back and he said, we're going to do the interview. What happened? He said, I did just exactly what you said. I said, the Bressel report. Let's look at that. They all put their suitcases left. And he said, then we did the program, and I told everything.

I didn't leave anything. Good. All you had to do is talk about the Bressler report. Now, you discussed the Bressler report, and that was the one in which they took the tumors, and they removed them, and they said it was normal. They took that. The malformed baby animals, and so they were normal. They tried it on higher primates.

They all died. All, every one of them got. seizures. So, you know, you're right on the mark with every bit of this. You were very early in this COVID thing. Yeah. I used to watch a program constant and you were saying everything exactly right. And I look at this vaccine. I've written several reports about the vaccine in medical reviews in a neurosurgery germ and in which I showed that you're going to see a tremendous, increase in autism, you're going to tremendous increase in neurodegenergid diseases, and that's happened. We're seeing it. Yeah. Yeah.

We're seeing autism increase. We're seeing neurodeme disease increase. And they're denying this. They're calling this misinformation. No, it's not misinformation. It's published. We have, and I have references. Let me go ahead. You talked about your friend, Dr. John only, that had done a lot of work on this. This is that we have a little video, clip of him discussing this just sort of corroborate what you're saying here take a look at this but dr john only who has been studying aspartame's effects on the brain for more than 20 years disagrees he is a neuroscientist at washington university school of medicine his new study analyzes u.s brain cancer data in the years before and since aspartame's approval We've found that in the last eight or nine years, which is about three to five years after Aspartame was approved, there's been a striking increase in the incidence of malignant brain tumors.

Dr. Olney does not say flat out that Aspartame is responsible for the rise in brain tumors, but he does believe that his analysis of the data shows that it's the most likely suspect. Because he says many researchers have discounted other environmental factors and only says the same types of aggressive brain tumors that showed up in the Aspartame animal studies over 20 years ago are now increasing in the American human population. I mean, so for 20 years, you know, and before that, obviously it was reproved in 1981, but you've been in this fight. Why only now?

Like, what, I mean, you know, you even had 60 minutes, which I don't even think 60 minutes, they're clearly not covering. You won't see the WHO now ruling that Aspartame is toxic. We won't see this on the news because, as you know, they're all owned by Monsanto. They're being funded to do Monsanto commercial, so they're not going to cover it. But did you expect, I mean, as a neurosurgeon, that you would be able to get this stuff stopped? and why didn't, why did it just seem to persist in it's everywhere? Well, you know, the more I looked, the more I saw this as a cover. And then it was advertised.

Accidentally, the CBS News accidentally sent me a fax one day. It was out, I led the charge on the MSG as well, monosodium glutamate. I received an accidental fact from the CBS News that told methods to keep me quiet. And they contacted me, CBS News, and said, please throw away that fact that was accidentally shit to you. I said, no, I'm not going to throw away. I'm going to kill everybody.

That's amazing. And I was in Chicago where my book first came out about it, and one of the researchers said, the manufacturer research, he said, we're going to put MSG in food. We're going to change the name. We're going to call it something out. He said, no matter what you say, we're going to do it.

And I said, well, that's interesting. He told me that. You know, I'm going to use what you just told me that every time I talk about it. Yeah. Every time I talked about it, I talked about this company. I said, this guy worked for him, and he makes it, and he says, it's going to change the name.

And you're not going to know what it is. And they wrote it in the favor. They put it in Chicago Tribune. The reporter was there, and he talked to him. Well, and he put it in the room. And as you point out, they try to science you. We looked up, I always, you know, it's always fun with the guests coming on the show to look up their Wikipedia. Your Wikipedia has this paragraph in it.

Blaylock, allegations of health dangers, Blaylock claims the supposed toxicity of numerous substances that according to scientific studies are safe at customary exposure levels. He's been quoted several times in media outlets regarding his position that MSG is toxic to the brain. He also states that the widely used artificial sweetener aspiratame is toxic and maybe the cause of multiple sclerosis. He's now being proven right by the WHO doesn't say that. He is additionally cautioned against heavy use of the artificial sweetener splendor, which is sucralose. These positions are not supported by scientific consensus. There's that word we love on the high wire or regulatory bodies as extensive studies support the safety of asphratame, sucralose, and MSG. To wrap this up, obviously, you know, aspartame is horrid.

It's clear that, you know, the science was manipulated. I think everyone on our audience now gets that, that we cannot trust these experts, we cannot trust regulatory agencies. But let me ask you this then, since this is a focus of your interest, what are the products and foods that we should be looking out right now? If you were, and I know that you've got great books and we can read those books, but the long and the short of it, what should I be avoiding in my diet right now that is really going to be causing me long-term health problems for me and my children?

Well, the worst thing, of course, is excitotoxins. These are amino acids most likely. The aspartame contains one of them, spartic acid, and glutamate. It's added to virtually everything, and this is one of the things. This is how I met Olney. Dr. Olney was doing research on this, and he testified for Congress and said, you need to quit putting this MSG in food, particularly toddler foods and baby food.

and Congress contacted Sierra Company, some of these other companies that were putting MSG in the baby food, and said, you know, we're talking about banning it. Well, they agreed to take it out of the baby food. They didn't take it out of the toddler food. Wow. It raised it. Now, the Germans, to their credit, studied the MSG, and he said, everything you said about it is true.

It causes enormous weight gain. this is the epidemic of obesity, and this is one of the things I visited Olney's lab one time and stayed at his house. And he said, the woman working with me, she was a research assistant, she said, have you noticed that all their mice are obese? Every one of them's grossly obese. And he started looking at it. And he said, you're right. They're all grossly obese. And it's hard to get rid of the obesity.

And so he found out that what glutamate does is a nucleus in the hypothalam. It's called the arcate nucleus. And that MSG and the food destroys it. And so the animal gets fat. Same thing happens to humans. Humans eat this as babies. By the time they're adolescents or they're in a teenage years, they start getting grossly obese.

By the time they're adults, they're grossly obese, they get diabetes, they get other diseases associated with obesity. obesity causes inflammation. All the neurodegenerative brain diseases are caused by inflammation. And so now we have an epidemic called all these diseases. We have all partious disease, Alzheimer's disease. We have all these things cropping up. And it's directly connected to obesity.

It's directly connected to what's been put in your food. And I write about it. I write about it. I've written a book about it. I've done all these things to warn people. And I found peanuts. As good as peanuts taste, I looked on there at one of the brands of peanut, and they put MSG salty, the peanuts with MSG.

Wow. This is ridiculous. So people are consuming foods that naturally have glutamate in it as high, and they put extra glutamate in it as an additive. That's the number one thing that you put in for it. If you look at most contents, information on most foods, it looks like a chemistry text. Yeah. I mean, I looked at it and I say half the stuff on here, I don't even recognize it.

And I looked at it and I said, they don't want you to recognize it. They changed the name. So you won't recognize it. And this is what's happened to MSG. I've seen foods that contains no MSG, and I look on there, it's filled with objects that have glutamate in it, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, natural flavors. All these things are glutamate. And they know it. And that's what that guy told me. He said, we changed their name. We're going to trick people to take it. I said, fine, I'm going to tell everybody about it. Wow, thank you.

Just exactly what you told me. And he was the chief guy who was responsible for putting us in the foods, changing the name. So you can't even trust the label. And what the law says, if it's not pure MSG in the label. You can put on the food it contains no MSG. Wow. That's the law. It allows you to lie on the label. And so I usually have a list of things. They use these artificial names that are high in glutamate and tell people to avoid them. Ordealize yeast, hydrolyzed protein, soy product. Soy is very high in glutamate. They had women, just gulping down tons of soy. I said, soy is very high in glutamate.

I met a young lady who wrote a book about soy, and she sent me the manuscript before it was published, and she said, would you read this and see that it's okay? And I said, there it is. I said, but you've got to put there about this, this is high in glutamate. These people drink soy salts. Soy salts is almost pure glutamine.

Wow. It produces severe brain damage. And I've had people who said they can't think when they, they consume it. They've had seizures as are uncontrollable. They have all kinds of problems with this glutamate in there. And I was on the 700 Club and I said, well, it's very simple. I said, they have one of the women that worked for the company that was the spokesman for it. I said, get her on this program. We'll make sure she eats nothing before she gets on the program and we'll feed her MSG and see if she'll have a seizure. Of course, she wouldn't do it.

Wow. Wow. So these kind of things are very simple to show. And it's just like you do with the COVID vaccine. Well, take some of these people their elite and say, I've found a COVID vaccine. I'm going to give it to you. You're not going to get saline.

You're going to get the real vaccine. And I once was on a program and I said, I said, if you would tell these people that work with this company, we're going to give you the vaccines. give everybody else. They jump out of the window getting away from you. Yeah, wow. It's true. And it's true. They would not let you give their product. And here's these companies that make these vaccines and say, we won't catch up. We want to catch up on all these vaccines. And say, well, let's get you to take the vaccine. Let's get your family to take vaccine. And you know what?

I had a friend in Maryland and his governor was trying to force people to take the vaccines to catch up. They had a thousand people in a courtroom and they gave them all the vaccines at once. At once. And I said, tell the reporter to ask the governor of that state, Maryland, let's see your medical records and your children. He refused to do it. Really? He said, that's personal information. I said, it's not personal.

you're a public official. I want to see the vaccine rate of your children. You're a liar. They're all liars. Wow. See, and that's what you've got to point out. It's that there's a double standard. Well, I don't take it.

My children don't take it. I know it doesn't work. I know it's dangerous. But I want you to take it. I'm going to pass a law. You have to take it. Yeah. So you will have the charge on this.

You know, I have to give the credit to you and the people that's been behind what you've said. I watch your reports when all this started. Well, look, right on target. I just want to say, you know, we're able to do what we do because we're standing on the shoulders of giants. You are one of those people that really, you know, laid the groundwork for how we fight for truth.

I want to thank you for the work you've done. Is the best way of people want to see what you're writing about and the work that you're doing is is is go to your website is that is that where you sort of put out most of your information I think we have it here I don't have a late lock wellness report right the blight lot wellness report I usually keep up today on the nutrition and right but I've written a lot about the COVID vaccine and my wellness report a warning people what to do about it how to avoid it why they should avoid it and the reports now are starting to come out back

what you've said all along. These people are going blind. These people are developing prion diseases. They're developing neurodegeneration. I've written several articles connecting the vaccine to neurodegeneration and why it occurs. No one is writing about this. But you're exactly right.

You're exactly right. And the other people that have been behind this were exactly right. What I did is I worked on the mechanism. And you would know, I mean, look, you have a background in neurology. That's why it's so important that people like you, you know, really lay out these mechanisms, how they work. It's so important. And we really are looking at a crisis now.

I mean, you know, aspartame widespread use, MSG widespread use. But at least these products are not being mandated technically upon us. I can still go to a store buy whole foods, make sure that everything I'm eating. I understand what I'm reading on the label. If I can't understand the words, I should probably step away from it. But these vaccines go to a whole other level as being mandated and forced upon us, which is really the greatest horror of all times. Dr. Blaylock, I want to thank you for joining us.

This is a bucketless moment for me. I've so honored and respected your works for many, many years. It's really great to have this opportunity in sharing such important information. Hopefully everyone in our audience will now at least be avoiding Aspartainment, MS. wherever they get the opportunity. Well, thank you. I really appreciate that, Del. You do great work and keep it up.

I will. Just keep it. All right, we'll do this again sometime. Thank you. You take care. All the best. Thank you. I appreciate.