DR. BLAYLOCK: "Well, a lot of the book that I wrote about excitotoxins concerns glutamate, MSG and that sort of thing or the glutamate that accumulates naturally in the brain in pathological conditions, but the story of aspartame is that aspartame contains aspartic acid which is also an isolated amino acid that is just as toxic as glutamate. What makes aspartame particularly dangerous is that it contains three neurotoxins. Methanol is a very powerful neurotoxin, in fact the EPA controls methanol exposure very carefully allowing only very minute levels to be found in foods or in environmental exposures. But, it's interesting that the level allowed in NutraSweet is seven (7) times the amount that the EPA will allow anyone else to use." -- physican/author Dr. Russell Blaylock in a Mission Possible radio interview, 3-Jun-99.