Tattoos have become widely popular among all age groups as a form of personal artistic expression, but are they safe? Many people believe that tattoo ink is made from vegetable dye but the truth is that most tattoo pigments are made up of metal salts and sometimes plastic that is dissolved in a solvent liquid…
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Aspartame – A Severe Metabolic Poison
What? That can’t be right, you are likely thinking. It is. The methanol in aspartame affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, is classified as a severe metabolic poison. Aspartame is a dipeptide molecule produced by joining phenylalanine and aspartic acid. Aspartame itself does not occur naturally but is…