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media type="custom" key="7685897" What Are the Effects of Monosodium Glutamate on the Body?

Monosodium Glutamate may not sound familiar to many and hence seems harmless and without effects on health. But mention its abbreviation MSG, brand names Ajinomoto and Vetsin and everyone wakes up. Many associate hair loss to Ajinomoto and that is as much as many know about Monosodium Glutamate.

MSG is an excitotoxin, which in a nut shell means, these chemical transmitters excite your brain cells to death. Children seem to be more susceptible. Russell Blaylock, Author of Excitotoxins the Taste that Kills, discovered that excitotoxins, like MSG, may aggravate or precipitate many neurological disorders. With what seems like more and more awareness about neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, most people want to do all they can to avoid developing these disorders. The safest and easiest way to take care of your brain health is avoid all food additives by eating a raw food, whole food diet. After all, your body was not created to assimilate and utilize artificial or man made anything. Your body was created to utilize food as it was created. So avoid MSG side effects and eat food in its most natural form. Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) has been claimed worldwide for its effects on health. The only positive effect it has seems to be that it can whet anybody's appetite and make us addicted to the food it is used to flavor. Unfortunately, it seems that even the positive effect brings on the ill effects of Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). MSG is frequently associated with chinese food and as chinese food catches on with peoples of the world and ends up in foreign bodies which are not used to it, chinese food get negatively connected with MSG. As chnese wine usually accompanies chinese food, a mixture could bring about ill effects such as slight headaches, dizziness or airy feeling, flushing and a burning sensation in the chest area or even chest pain. Many people will probably recall drinking glasses of water, wine or tea when eating food with lots of MSG, such as crackers and fast food. It is especially so with chinese food. However, the usual practice for modern chinese restaurants especially those in hotels to declare themselves MSG-free. Perspiration, nausea and shortness of breath are less common signs of MSG aversion. Others report having general weakness or lethargy which could also be due to over-eating. Some complain of a slight burning or tingling sensation around the mouth or tongue, which may be due to the presence of chilli or pepper in the food, especially which Asian Cuisine is concerned. Others complain of a higher heart beat or heart palpitations. In a report, "Sensory And Autonomic Nerve Changes In The Msg-Treated Rat : A Model Of Type II Diabetes" by Morrison JF, Shehab S, Sheen R, Dhanasekaran S, Shaffiullah M, Mensah-Brown E At UAE University, we learn, "There was also a significant increase in adrenal adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin, largely attributable to changes of weight of the adrenal gland in the MSG animals. 5. The results indicate that MSG-treated animals develop a form of Type II diabetes by about 60 weeks of age." America is experiencing an obesity epidemic! If rats become obese through consumption of unnatural amounts of monosodium glutamate, it's not a big leap to attribute the same response in the human body. The fact of the matter is, MSG causes usto crave the foods processed with MSGand a majority of processed and prepackaged foods now contain monosodium glutamate. In fact, monosodium glutamate is a crucial ingredient in low-fat and non-fat foods since much of the natural flavors are lost when oil extracted. One characteristic of the obesity induced by excitotoxins is that it doesn't appear to depend on food intake. This could explain why some people cannot diet away their obesity," according to Dr. Russell L. Blaylock in his book Excitotoxins.

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