8 replies to this topic

[ironfistx]

Certain websites say that aspartame contains aspartate which is what causes the problems. Some supplements contain aspartate, so could taking these be the same as using the other kind? Would a better course of action be to use different types of supplements?

[D Mason]

Personaly I don't trust many supplements.   They could care less what their customer's put in their body.    Most of them hae the attitude that if the government says it's safe, then that's good enough to put in my product.    If you have any doubts about an ingredient, then you're probably right.  It's best to find another brand that does not use asparate.

 

 

Edited by D Mason, 13 September 2014 - 04:52 AM.

[ironfistx]

There was a mention of mgnesium aspartate helping erstore impacted hearing so I ordered some but then I was thinking it might be like aspartame.

[niner]

Aspartic acid and Aspartame are completely different molecules.  There is nothing wrong with Aspartic acid.  It's just an amino acid, a component of the proteins you need to survive. 

[Dolph]

And by the way there is absolutely nothing wrong with Aspartame either...

[timar]

...except that it is - like all other artificial sweeteners - a marker for junk-food

[Dolph]

OK, that's true, of course. Otherwise it's perfectly fine to use it instead of sugar, if one just desperately needs something to be sweetened, e.g. coffee or tea.

[krillin]

Artificial sweeteners mess with your control systems. The only super-sweet things I eat are glycine and honey.

[holdorfold]

According to this article, there's the following quote in regards to Magnesium Aspartate found in this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm...ubmed/16542786 

 

"Magnesium glutamate and magnesium aspartate greatly worsened the 59–year old man’s depression…These magnesium compounds should be considered as neurotoxic to depressives, and perhaps all people, and should not be used during treatment of depression, anxiety or similar hyperemotional disorders."