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To: Mase
Unbound glutamate acts as a neurotoxin.

This is unmitigated BS. Of course, if you eat MSG by the bucketload, all sorts of bad things could happen to you....just like if you drink too much water. But water is good for you, right?


Too bad you do not know what you are talking about. My wife gets 3 day migraines if she eats foods with MSG and any of its re-named compounds like Autolyzed yeast, and Yeast extract. Her tolerance is so low, she can eat four flavored tortilla chips, but 6 will give her the headaches. This we discovered 20 years ago and it is as predicatable as the sunrise. We take more than an hour to shop, reading every label. Me? MSG does not seem to effect me at all.

Just like any other food, such as peanuts, some people are allergic or have almost no tolerance. Nice that you proclaim BS, when some people react. I know a man personally who gets the shakes like MS after consuming MSG. If he avoids it he never has an attack, but have a single cup of broth (for example) and it is two days of symptoms.
34 posted on 03/11/2013 8:20:00 AM PDT by jps098
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To: jps098
My wife gets 3 day migraines if she eats foods with MSG

The glutamate that is added to food as a flavor enhancer is exactly the same as the glutamate that is found naturally in cheese, meat, seafood, and vegetables. Your body treats glutamate from these different sources in exactly the same way. If your wife gets headaches from foods with added MSG, then she should also get them from eating tomatoes, mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, and any other food high in glutamate.

...and any of its re-named compounds like Autolyzed yeast, and Yeast extract.

Renamed compounds? That makes no sense whatsoever. Autolyzed yeast is autolyzed yeast, and yeast extract is yeast extract. Hydrolyzed vegetable protein is hydrolyzed vegetable protein.

We take more than an hour to shop, reading every label.

How do you manage to avoid the foods where glutamate occurs naturally? What in the world do you eat? It's a fact that the average diet delivers 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than is derived from added sources. That being the case, and glutamate being responsible for your wife's migraines, she should be spending her entire life in a dark room pounding down triptans. She does have a blood brain barrier, right?

Just like any other food, such as peanuts, some people are allergic or have almost no tolerance.

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but this is also unmitigated BS, just like the other poster was offering. Allergic reactions are normally caused by large molecules, like proteins. MSG is a small molecule that has never been shown to cause an IgE response.

Again, if MSG causes all the things you say it does, these same reactions would also come from consuming foods where glutamate occurs naturally. Since they don't, I'd say your correlations are all wrong. But since your conclusions are based on emotion rather than science, I'll place you in the same category as the other guy in this thread who doesn't know what he's talking about. Not to worry, though, you have lots of company.

35 posted on 03/11/2013 10:52:15 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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