Didn't watch the video yet but I read that other info. Extremely interesting! Thanks for posting it. Both my boys drank Nutramigen the first year of their lives. And so it makes me feel kind of ill to read things like this. :(

But I am so thankful that because I found a way to prevent reflux and milk intolerance, I will never have to give this formula to any of my children again!

Edited by Happy Mom - 18 May 2012 at 10:40am

Babies are 4x more susceptible than adults because their blood brain barrier is not fully developed. I changed the second link in top post because it has all the same info but a lot more underneath also.

Another thing I found out is that the flu shot has these things in it. A while ago I had come across a website about vaccine dangers & many parents were saying things like their kids or babies having seizures after flu shot or sleeping for days after vaccines.

Here is just a small portion of the following link-

-Excitotoxins promote cancer growth and metastasis.
-Cancer cells become more mobile when exposed to aspartate or glutamate.
-Exposing a tumor to glutamate has been compared with giving it fertilizer -- it grows like wildfire.
-It can make a curable cancer incurable.
http://www.sailhome.org/Concerns/Excitotoxins.html

Some more good info

Edited by jackie225 - 20 May 2012 at 5:16pm

If you watch any of that video above it even shows how most doctors, nutritionists & even people working for the food companies do not know or understand that these products contain these dangerous neurotoxins. No it does not contain aspartame per se but if you did research you would see that they are very similar & aspartic acid is one of the 3 ingredients used to make aspartame. Just because these substances are natural, when broken down into amino acid state they are very toxic! Here is some info about Aspartate/aspartic acid. There are links below each for where they came from.

***NOTE - None of my links work so please copy and paste the link in to your browser.

Any ingredient that contains protein as well as acids or enzymes, or any protein product that has been fermented, will very likely contain MSG. Even "a little" protein combined with acids or enzymes will create MSG
How the food companies hide the way msg is used in their products.-
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/understanding-manufacturer's-deceptive-tactics.html

neurotoxic amino acids =glutamic acid, aspartic acid, and L-cysteine
The greatest concentration of MSG fed to children will be found in infant formula. MSG as well as other excitotoxic amino acids are found in infant formula, with the greatest amounts found in hypoallergenic formula
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/formulacopy.html

The Canadian Study leaves no room for doubt that ingredients that contain processed free glutamic acid
(MSG) and free aspartic acid — known neurotoxins— are used in baby formula. The fact that neurotoxins
are present in baby formula is of particular concern since the blood brain barrier is not fully developed in
infants, allowing neurotoxins to be more accessible to the brain than is the case in healthy adults.
The amounts of aspartic acid and glutamic acid found in the formulas analyzed in the Canadian Study have
been listed separately in the tables. However, in studies using experimental animals, neuroscientists have
found that glutamic acid and aspartic acid load on the same receptors in the brain, cause identical brain
lesions and neuroendocrine disorders, and act in an additive fashionhttp://livinganointed.com/protect-our-babies/msg-in-infant-formula.pdf

Aspartate (the conjugate base of aspartic acid) stimulates NMDA receptors, though not as strongly as the amino acid neurotransmitter glutamate does
Aspartic acid is not an essential amino acid, which means that it can be synthesized from central metabolic pathway intermediates in humans. Aspartic acid is found in:
Animal sources: luncheon meats, sausage meat, wild game
Vegetable sources: sprouting seeds, oat flakes, avocado, asparagus[citation needed], young sugarcane, and molasses from sugar beets.[1]
Dietary supplements, either as aspartic acid itself or salts (such as magnesium aspartate)
The sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, etc.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartic_acid

Aspartame (L-Aspartyl-L-Phenylalanine Methyl Ester) is made up of two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, and bound together with methanol. These break down to formaldehyde (used for embalming and known to cause cancer), formic acid (a venom in ant stings) and DKP (known to cause brain tumours). While aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol occur naturally in various foods, aspartic acid and phenylalanine are usually bound up with other amino acids and methanol is counterbalanced with ethanol. In aspartame these compounds are not bound up (isolated phenylalanine is a neurotoxin), and the influx is readily absorbed into the brain, causing an excess of free radicals and over stimulating brain cells. Ultimately, holes are made in the brain


Therefore, amounts of neurotoxic glutamic acid and neurotoxic aspartic acid ingested daily by an average infant on each of the analyzed formulas would be as follows:http://www.truthinlabeling.org/formulacopy.html

If you would take the time to read a few of these links you would understand that Neocate must have dangerous neurotoxins in it. Especially if you look at the studies that show the hypoallergenic formulas have the highest amount.

Remember: By food industry definition, all MSG is "naturally occurring." "Natural" doesn't mean "safe." "Natural" only means that the ingredient started out in nature, like arsenic and hydrochloric acid.http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html

If there is a chance that I am wrong then I do apologize but I whole heartedly believe that I am correct. Think about it, do you think they are going to tell us that it contains ingredients that are altered from their natural state, in turn making them extremely toxic? Especially when this is one of the most expensive formulas? Do you know how much money they are making from it?? I'll guarantee any of the makers that actually understand the science behind aLL OF THIS WOULD never HAVE THEIR BABY ON THIS FORMULA.

I have nothing against Neocate & I understand how much it helps so many babies but I also believe that everyone should be informed on exactly what they are feeding their child & the mostly long term health affects.

Edited by jackie225 - 05 June 2012 at 7:01am