Let’s add one more story about NutraSweet: This one is fresh, happened last week. A friend of mine (not a patient) suffers from Epilepsy due to an automobile accident two years ago, resulting in a brain injury. She is homebound and unable to work due to the frequency of her seizures. At times she finds it very difficult to concentrate, communicate and remember things that are common place to you or me. (The word refrigerator = That box with the food in it; File cabinet = That thing where I keep my papers; etc.)
Last month I was visiting and she offered me Iced Tea, sweetened with NutraSweet. I declined and informed her that I had my doubts about this product and would just assume avoid it. Many friends feel it’s a “depressant”. Although I had not researched it, I just had a gut feeling to avoid it. I then mentioned that with her condition, I doubt that it can be helping matters any. She consumes Diet products exclusively.
This was last month. Last week I got a very large hug and a kiss on the cheek! She took my advice and her seizures had almost completely disappeared. She can go for days now without one at all as opposed to ONE every Half-Hour! Her concentration and memory were like having a “New Brain” (as she described it)
I will not spew out a lot of techno-biological-chemical babble on this subject or this product because, again, I have not done the research, nor do I plan to. I’ll just continue to use my gut instincts and avoid things that just don’t sound like they can possibly be good for you.