Oddball;4846117; said:
Those who suffer from migraines avoid MSG like the plague since it can bring on a migraine (same as all nitrates used as food additives).
agreed
it causes some HORRIBLE migraines in me
it can be addictive
Monosodium glutamate is a rapidly acting neurotoxin that causes widespread damage to the brain, especially the dendrites. Dendrites are the functional extensions of the brain cells and nerves that are involved in relaying information between the brain and the entire nervous system.
Neurotoxins are toxic substances that change the normal activity of the central nervous system in a way that causes damage. They can disrupt and destroy vital cells that relay information between the brain and the nervous system.
To protect the brain, tissue cells rapidly usher any available glutamate into synaptic sacs to stop its excitatory response on brain cells. Most of these sacs are located in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex in the brain.
When the concentration of glutamate increases to higher levels than the brain cells can handle, the brain cells are destroyed.
It is important to note that the areas in the brain that are most frequently affected following strokes, cardiac arrest, head injury and asphyxia from suffocation are in the pathways of the glutamate storage sacs.
During these events, not only is the injured brain tissue unable to absorb the glutamate as readily, it releases any stored glutamate into the surrounding tissue. This leads to an extension of the original brain tissue injury.
Autopsies showed that the neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques, common Alzheimer’s disease, were found in the pathways of the glutamate receptors in the brain.
Chronic long term ingestion of this potent neurotoxin has been linked to MS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, seizures, stroke, depression, brain trauma, anxiety, schizophrenia, epilepsy, addiction, neuropathic pain and other diseases of the central nervous system.
MSG has also been linked to macular and retinal degeneration, obesity, stunted growth, behavioral disorders, neuro-endocrine and reproductive disorders, hyperglycemia, memory loss and learning disorders.
The damaging effects of MSG are so far reaching that in 1998 the National Institutes of Health held a conference where researchers shared their input on MSG and the Central Nervous System Disease States.
