I am sorry about your reaction to aspartame, that sounds rough.
I think in regards to your final point, though, it’s important to remember the adage: “the dose makes the poison.”[0]
I think in regards to your final point, though, it’s important to remember the adage: “the dose makes the poison.”[0]
Tangent ahead:
It is empirically evident that exposure to urban envorinments as a child shortens your lifespan.
Of course this is an example where it seems impossible to clean the correlation of common causes that you might not want to consider.
But, it is also proven that processed sugar causes cancer, obesity etc
It is proven that noise and air pollution cause cancer, strokes, mental health issues, etc
It is also proven that processed foods in general cause health issues.
The examples are intentionally diverse. Another one:
It has even been proven that there is a direct link between air pollution and suicide rates: https://www.google.de/search?q=study+pollution+suicide
intentionally linking to google here because there are many studies about the topic, with varying amounts of effort to "control" for factors like income and "pre-existing conditions".
Summary of my long post:
The meme "everything causes cancer" is overused, and the reality is that we just don't care a lot about many things.
What this means for aspartame, I cannot tell, still consuming it occasionaly. But I also drank at least a litre of regular cola when young :D