Reasons to Avoid MSG
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008MSG (monosodium glutamate), is used as a flavor enhancer in countless processed foods. But while it works enhancing your food’s flavor it is also at work doing potential damage to your brain and body.
MSG is an excitotoxin, a type of chemical transmitter that allows brain cells to communicate. The problem is that excitotoxins can literally excite your brain cells to death. Aside from harming your brain, MSG has also been linked to eye damage, headaches, fatigue, disorientation and depression.
Children are most at risk from MSG. The blood barrier, which keeps toxins in the blood from entering the brain, is not fully developed in children. MSG can also penetrate the placental barrier and affect unborn children as well. Nonetheless, most major brands of infant formula contain some processed free glutamic acid (a form of MSG). Most fast foods contain large amounts of MSG.
Processed free glutamic acid (MSG) is hidden in food, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, cosmetics, fertilizers, desiccants, disinfectants, growth regulators, pesticides, and fungicide products.
Why is it hidden in food and other products? MSG is a very big money maker for those who produce it, sell it and use it in their products. MSG is harmful and has many adverse reactions. If MSG isn’t harmful, why is it hidden?
Recommended book: Excitotoxins by Russell Blaylock
Recommended websites: www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html (a list of more than 44 different names used for MSG!) and www.truthinlabeling.org and www.msgmyth.com/cover.html.