From: Jaffe, Lyle D
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:32 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: [Filtered] A question about retinitis pigmentosa

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From: Dr. Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 4:08 PM
To: Christiane Martens
Cc: FOCUS
Subject: Re: [Filtered] A question about retinitis pigmentosa

Dear Christiane,

Focus (RP Magazine) published the article on aspartame on 
www.dorway.com  Scroll down to experts , its listed under Dr. H. J. Roberts 
- It's Titled "What's Blinding the World".  Your friend might want to 
contact my friend Linda Kaspari at Focus  - focus@focusnewsletter.org

As you know, RP, by itself can cause blindness so when they start using a 
"blinding agent" it would naturally speed up the disease.  The wood alcohol 
in aspartame converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the 
eye and destroys the optic nerve.   Class action cases include aspartame 
triggered blindness although those have yet to be filed.

The late Dr. Morgan Raiford was "the specialist in methanol toxicity" in 
the US and even testified before Congress about the blinding effects of 
aspartame.  I inherited some of his papers and he did say if vision was in 
the "wet stage" it could improve or return when you get off of 
aspartame.  So we've seen many people's cases were their vision has even 
returned to 20/20.  Some who were diagnosed as legally blind have had their 
vision return like Mary Reiff.  She is a lady using aspartame  who suffered 
an aspartame seizure and was in a terrible automobile accident.  Eventually 
she was declared legally blind.  We got her off aspartame and her seizures 
stopped.  A few years ago I was on Texas TV with her.  Her sight had 
completely returned, her seizures were gone and she was driving again.

There is also 50% phenylalanine in aspartame which is neurotoxic and goes 
directly into the brain lowering the seizure threshold and depleting 
serotonin.  Lowering serotonin can trigger manic depression, suicidal 
tendencies, mood swings, insomnia, etc.  I noticed when I met Mary Reiff 
that her wrists were slit and asked her what happened.  She said:  "When I 
was using NutraSweet I kept wanting to commit suicide.  I didn't know why, 
I just did.  When I got off of aspartame those tendencies 
disappeared."  You can understand why we have an epidemic of suicides in 
this country.  In the news lately they talk about the coverup of 
antidepressants causing suicidal tendencies.  The problem is we have 70% of 
the population and 40% of the children on aspartame triggering suicidal 
tendencies, and then being prescribed antidepressants which ALL interact 
with aspartame per H. J. Roberts, M.D., in the medical text, Aspartame 
Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991.

The FDA, of course, knows this.  They were the one who tried to get the 
original manufacturer, Searle, indicted for fraud.  Unfortunately both U.S. 
Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations 
expired.  They kept aspartame off the market for 16 years and then Don 
Rumsfeld who at the time was CEO of Searle, said he would call in her 
markers and get it approved anyway.  Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's 
transition team and the day after he took office he appointed Dr. Arthur 
Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to approve it.  Even then the FDA set up a 
Board of Inquiry of the finest scientists they had to offer.  It was their 
decision that aspartame was not safe and triggered brain tumors  (breaks 
down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent).  They said to revoke the 
petition for approval.  And Bob Flint (greatfalls@gwi.net) has a CD which 
has the original Board of Inquiry report, one of the congressional records 
and Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board (founded the field of 
neuroscience called excitotoxicity).  Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes over-ruled the 
Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the 
manufacturer and has refused to talk to the press ever since.  In fact, if 
you go to www.dorway.com  and have audio you can hear the Fox News expose 
of aspartame in Washington, D.C. several years ago.  They actually went to 
Dr. Hayes home and asked him why he did it and he closed the door in their 
face.

After vocally screaming that aspartame was not safe for 16 years, once 
approved, the FDA commenced to tell the world this was a safe food 
additive, and willingly listed all the manufacturer's propaganda on their 
web site to mislead the world.  You can understand the FDA couldn't say 
"yes we approved aspartame, but it is poison", so they sold out the health 
of the world.  What should have been done?  These FDA scientists should 
have gotten on TV and said:  "A political ploy approved aspartame.  It is 
not safe, don't use it."  Yes, maybe they would have lost their jobs and 
their pensions and their revolving door to industry's high paying 
jobs.  But they could have maintained something more valuable, their 
integrity and position before God.  Millions of lives would have been 
saved.  And millions today who live in blindness could see.

I've never known personally but one man who worked for the FDA who had 
integrity and cared more for people's lives than a job, and that's Arthur 
Evangelista.  He left the FDA because of their corruption and you will see 
his note  on www.wnho.net (click on aspartame) that aspartame is deadly 
neurotoxin unfit for human consumption.  These people are rare gems.

In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington D.C. petitioned the 
FDA to ban aspartame because it was causing consumers to go blind.  The 
story was told in the Chicago Sun Times, October 17, l986.  The FDA had an 
opportunity to redeem itself and now outlaw aspartame.  By this time the 
FDA was known as the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical industry and again 
sold out the people.

The FDA in this country serves above the law.  I filed a petition with the 
FDA for aspartame to be banned two years ago in June, based on the fact 
that I have their records and aspartame is a deadly chemical poison, and 
they lie to the public.  The law states they have 180 days to answer 
me.  They never have because they can't.  They know I refuse to accept a 
packet of federal registers which is their usual modus operandi.  They are 
mostly concerned with snatching healthful supplements for industry like 
they recently did with ephedra, used for thousands of years.  Aspartame 
damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death, no doubt why 
so many athletes are dropping dead.  They used ephedra as an excuse so they 
wouldn't have to tell the world aspartame triggers an irregular heart 
rhythm, interacts with all cardiac medication and causes sudden 
death.  These articles are on www.wnho.net (click on aspartame).

I'm going to send this over to the I-see list and the owner Alex Eulenberg, 
who may be able to give you more information.  I know there is an RP 
list.  Someone there may be able to give good advice to the 
physician.  Also, have Dr. Kohdr go to www.whno.net, click on aspartame and 
read Dr. Blaylock's paper on "What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame".  The 
information is taken from his book Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your 
Life which has such valuable information, www.russellblaylockmd.com

All my best,
Betty

  At 07:34 PM 5/16/2004, Christiane Martens wrote:
>Dear Betty,
>
>A friend, Mohamed Kohdr M.D. is suffering from retinitis pigmentosa which is
>considered a genetcally inherited disease.  Having read some of your e-mails
>about the side effects of additives and your links to eye specialists I
>wonder if there is any information available that could be of help to Dr.
>Kohdr.
>
>He is no longer practising medicine because of this illness, but is writing
>articles and is an activist for all sorts of humanitarian causes.  This
>illness must make his activities doubly difficult.
>
>I looked at the pages at Foundation for Fighting Blindness where they
>publish a pamphlet on a medical trial, conducted on 600 people, which
>included specific forms and doses of Vitamin A with, I believe, changes of
>diet to arrest the condition.
>
>I have sent him copies of some of your e-mails and he has stopped consuming
>diet sodas.
>
>I realise that you are probably over worked and would be grateful for any
>information about this which I could send to him, or ask him to write
>directly to you.
>
>Sincerely,
>Christiane