Dr. Daniel Amen
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Something has happened in our society where in California now, it's insane.
One in 12 boys.
Whoa.
will meet the diagnostic criteria for autism.
And so what is different?
Is it Tylenol?
Is it phthalates?
Is it parabens?
Is it aspartame?
There's this crazy study on aspartame, which is in diet sodas and many diet products.
Aspartame is in 5,000 diet products.
They did this study on rats and they gave rats aspartame and it made them insanely anxious.
And then they gave them Valium and it calmed them down.
It's like, okay, that was pretty crazy.
But the part about this study that bothered me the most-
was their babies, who had never been exposed to aspartame, were anxious.
And their grandbabies were anxious.
It had generational consequences.
Does that mean it altered the genetics of the rats?
The epigenetics.