MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a common name that most people familiar of. It is known that adding some MSG in the food during cooking can make the dish so much more delicious, and I suspect almost all foods that we buy from any restaurants and hawker stalls are MSG-added. The advertisements said it enhances the taste of the dishes while providing us amino acids that are needed by our body. Is it really so? Is it really harmless to our health?
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
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