It it important to remember that aspartame, which is now found in over 5,000 food products and medicines is a drug. It's not a food derivative like corn syrup or beet frutose even though it fuses two amino acids. Both of the amino acids in aspartame are chemically manufactured. They are fused with another chemical, methanol. Clearly, if L-phenylalanine or D-phenylalanine dissipated from the body like other nutrients, the only problem with aspartame would be the use of a toxin to fuse the two amino acids.

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