Welcome to My World – MSG – How It Affects Your Health
Hello World! Today I’m sharing info about MSG which I can’t eat. It makes me sick.
Hope everyone is staying cool today. It’s HOT here & the sun is shining. Today is the eclipse & I was wondering how many of you will watch it? I’ll probably be working on the computer as I don’t have “eclipse” glasses. Do you?
Tomorrow will be another hot one & then it stays hot. Weather forecast in summer in Southeast Texas gets pretty redundant. As I’ve said before, if you don’t like today, wait for tomorrow; but that’s in the winter. In summer, it’s usually hot, Hotter & HOT! Nice picture? 🙂
Not Where I Live, but Pretty & it makes me feel cooler in this heat!
My plumbago are also pretty.
Last winter some of my plants died back. My bougainvillea hasn’t flowered yet this summer. Sometimes it waits for September before I see flowers. My Plumbago is flowering & growing like crazy. The trimming never ends. Either they grow too much or they die back in winter, which is what they are supposed to do. I like plants so I deal with it and then I can enjoy them when they bloom.
When my bougainvillea are in bloom, they are so pretty. (These aren’t mine 🙂 )
Today I found some interesting info about MSG. It is of particular interest to me because I can’t eat it. I get sick if I do. No preservatives in my diet; at least, I keep them to a bare minimum. I always read labels when buying food. It’s amazing what they use to preserve food. I once found carbon monoxide on a label & that went back to the store immediately! Had no clue that was used to preserve food. Disgusting!
If you have stomach issues, try removing all preservatives from your diet & see what happens. I believe more of us, than we realize, are allergic to this junk that our bodies don’t need or want. What I didn’t know was that MSG affects our brain! I was clueless as I’m sure many of you are as well.
Now here’s the info I found. Give me you feedback after reading. I’d appreciate it…
How MSG Affects Your Brain
MSG by any other name would still be just as harmful. When most people
Here’s another “no cook” healthy food (spring rolls) for you to eat if you prepare it yourself.
hear the name monosodium glutamate, or MSG, they assume this chemical food additive is only found in Chinese food. While it is true that this chemical flavor tends to be used in many of our Chinese food restaurants, this brain & nervous system toxin masquerades under many different guises & is found in a huge number of our common foods.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
has been linked to many serious health conditions, including: hormonal imbalances, weight gain, brain damage, 
obesity, headaches & more, you may be shocked to learn how prevalent it is. MSG is almost always found in processed, prepared & packaged foods that most of us buy regularly. Even when there is no sign of it on the label, it is still frequently hidden in many prepared foods. That’s because it goes by a wide variety of other names, including: hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed protein, hydrolyzed plant protein, plant protein extract, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, yeast extract, textured protein, autolyzed yeast & hydrolyzed oat flour.
What’s even more shocking
than MSG’s seemingly ubiquitous nature is how the additive affects our brain. There is a protective mechanism in our brain known as the blood-brain barrier. Our brain depends on careful control of chemicals to operate smoothly. Even small fluctuations in the concentrations of chemicals can cause drastic disruptions in your brain function. When a category of chemicals known as excitotoxins enter your brain, they literally excite brain cells until they die. Monosodium glutamate is added to foods as a taste enhancer, but it is a well-established excitotoxin.
Additionally, some parts of your brain such as the hypothalamus & the 
pineal are not protected by the blood-brain barrier, yet these parts of your brain control many hormones in your body as well as other bodily functions, including your mood. (Hmmm, wondering why you’re so grouchy lately???) When MSG enters your brain, not only does it kill brain cells, it wreaks havoc on your brain functions.
Many people react within 48 hours of eating MSG,
even in minute amounts, which can make it difficult to trace back to the food source that caused your reaction. The effects can include: headaches, hives, canker sores, runny nose, insomnia, seizures, mood swings, panic attacks, heart palpitations & other heart irregularities, nausea, numbness, asthma attacks & migraines. Many people report experiencing restless leg syndrome after accidental ingestion of MSG.
Research by neurologist & author of the book Excitotoxins: the Taste that Kills, 
Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, shows that MSG slowly enters your brain, bypasses the blood-brain barrier & reaches peak concentrations in your brain 3 hours after ingesting it. The high levels of MSG in your brain remain for 24 hours after your initial ingesting of the contaminated food.
According to Dr. Blaylock, MSG can be especially detrimental to people who have experienced some sort of brain injury, or a genetic predisposition to brain disease.
Avoid prepared & packaged foods as much as possible.
Avoid eating at fast food restaurants since they are notorious culprits
If you get your salad from a salad bar, there’s a good chance it contains a preservative. That is what keeps it fresh, but it isn’t good for you.
when it comes to MSG usage. If food products, such as those made in-house at the bakery & deli departments in grocery stores, don’t contain an ingredient list, you should assume it contains MSG. These types of food items frequently contain MSG. Avoiding as many of the MSG-containing culprits listed above can also help reduce your exposure.
I stopped eating at salad bars as I started getting sick from them. They use preservatives to keep the salad fresh…
This is good info we should all read.
I never knew it affected our brain. I know that it affects my stomach. Recently, the super market where I would occasionally buy BBQ chickens, removed the old label where ingredients &
What’s really in it?
nutrients are listed so I stopped buying their cooked chickens. I asked why they removed this from the label, but they had no answer for me as it isn’t done in store. I bought these chickens there because they had a lower sodium content than other super markets chickens, but with the nutrient content no longer listed on the label, I don’t know if there are preservatives in it, or what the sodium content is, so I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Hope you enjoyed the read and gained some useful knowledge…
Have a great healthy day!
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