Root Canal & Cavitation Info Center http://www.HolisticMed.com/dental/root.html Root Canal & Cavitation Toxicity Report Samples ----------------------------------------------- Extensive resources for nutrition, general wellness and healing can be found on the main web page: http://www.holisticmed.com/ HOW TO USE THIS LIST -------------------- The list is now in *reverse* chronological order such that the newest aspartame toxicity reaction is at the top. If you are reading the list for the first time, please print out the whole list and ***read from the bottom up.*** For updates, *read from the top down* until you reach an adverse reaction that you have read before. ----------- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 08:07:00 To: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx Subject: Re: Lupus connection to nutrasweet I am a Lupus victim that has done considerable research over the years, and in my opinion have cured my Lupus. I was intrigued by the connection of nutrasweet to Lupus and it does correlate to my theory but in a way you probably have not considered. Years ago I became suspicious that all the diseases in my family showed up in the Lupus literature -- Lupus supposedly mimicked these disorders. So I began to browse the literature related to each disease to see if I could find any commonality. Yes, I found one -- LOW SEROTONIN. Lupus, migraine headaches, ulcers, bipolar disease, schizophrenia, ulcerative colitis, down syndrome, and suicide have all been diagnosed in my immediate family and all are correlated to LOW SEROTONIN. While I had Lupus my family doctor looked at my research and was willing to experiment by placing me on Nardil. The results were fantastic. For several years a combination of Plaquenil and Nardil worked well (I did try going off the Plaquenil for experimental reasons; however I had a severe skin outbreak and had to resume the use of Plaquenil). In 1990 (due to my intuition) I thought that I had an abscessed tooth. My dentist could find nothing wrong on the X-rays but was willing to drill into a suspicious tooth. It was dead and had been dead for along= time. I insisted that there were more and all my teeth were root-canaled; 7 teeth were dead and the rest were in some state of the dying process. They looked as if they were being strangulated as the blood supply was being shut off. My Lupus improved dramatically and it was then I stopped my Plaquenil to see if the skin lesions had lessened. They had, and I have never taken anymore Plaquenil. But I began having headaches and earaches and insisted that the root canaled teeth had to be removed. It was a different dentist that told me that I was absolutely correct and that everything I had discovered had been discovered 75 years ago by a dentist by the name of Weston Price. An Internet search of "focal infections" will take you to several of the sites discussing this connection to the autoimmune diseases. By the way, Dr. Price (who in his day was a big wig, he began the research division of the American Dental Association) had included ulcers and mental illness in his category of rheumatic diseases caused by these hidden dental infections. He believed that 25% of the population was susceptible due to genetic reasons. He felt the genetic defect was a response to Tuberculosis and those people with a genetic heritage in areas of high Tuberculosis had these genes to protect them from TB (similar to the relationship of sickle cell anemia and malaria). I showed an oral surgeon Dr. Price's works and based on this he was willing to remove all my teeth. Since then I have had no Lupus symptoms but have remained on Nardil because I believe Low Serotonin is the underlying cause which I will get to in a moment. Current research indicates that there is a bacteria link to the autoimmune diseases. It is felt that the bacteria itself is not the cause but that the toxins produced cause a mimicry for the immune system. An Internet search of "bacteria AND arthritis" will bring lots of sites. It is conclusive for a type of arthritis called Reactive Arthritis which is correlated to the HLA-B27 antigen which by the way I have. In the Lupus literature vasculitis is correlated to Lupus. It is felt that Lupus causes vasculitis. My theory is that it is the reverse. Vasculitis causes Lupus. Something caused my teeth to die. They appeared to be strangulated (vasculitis). In the Serotonin literature I found that Low Serotonin causes vasculitis. Hence my thinking is that Low Serotonin leads to vasculitis among other things, the vasculitis causes tissue to die (in my case the teeth), the dead tissue becomes a breeding ground for bacteria (dead teeth are especially good incubators since it is hard, i.e. impossible, for the immune system to get into them to kill the bacteria, the bacteria release toxins which mimic chemicals in the victims own body and hence lead to autoimmune diseases. Probably nutrasweet depletes the Serotonin or somehow interferes with its chemical pathway, especially in those people who have a genetic problem causing serotonin malfunctioning which I definitely think fits my family. Hence if not the actual cause, certainly nutrasweet would exacerbate the problem. ------------