Eliminate the artificial sweetener aspartame which
contains excitotoxins known to affect nerve cells, triggering migraines.
If you're sensitive to other
excitotoxins like msg, the glutamate in gelatin can over excite your neurons and give you a headache.
If the glutamine accumulates outside the brain, then typically there are no problems, but if levels rise high enough and accumulate inside the brain, then problems such as those associated with
other excitotoxins can occur.
It hides in tofu dogs under aliases such as textured vegetable protein, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and lecithin — which is troubling, since the processing required to hydrolyze soy protein into vegetable protein produces
excitotoxins such as glutamate (think MSG) and aspartate (a component of aspartame), which cause brain - cell death.
Thank you doctor, but I have a question; does the Egg Protein Powder or Casein Protein
include excitotoxins?
Consumption of artificial compounds: Aspartame, splenda and MSG (mono sodium glutamate) are
known excitotoxins.
Excitotoxins also cause long - term, serious neuro - degenerative damage, including Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease (source).
Cooking homemade meals from simple basic ingredients is the solution to avoiding most
excitotoxins at home.
I have found several sources that seem to be reliable about how to
avoid excitotoxins, but absolutely nothing about what to expect when one stops them.
In the brain, which burns sugar (and cholesterol and other substances) for energy, the inability of cells to get sugar causes them to
release excitotoxins.
The bottom line is these flavor -
enhancing excitotoxins, which are used virtually everywhere, kill your testosterone levels.
According to neurosurgeon and
excitotoxin expert Russell Blaylock, MD, «this is a mechanism unrelated to excito - toxicity» though it is possible «daidzein may trigger excitotoxicity indirectly — say by activating microglia.»
Excitotoxins interfere with normal brain function by overstimulating neuron receptors in the hypothalamus and causing the death of neurons.
«When an excess of food -
borne excitotoxins, such as MSG, hydrolyzed protein soy protein isolate and concentrate, natural flavoring, sodium caseinate and aspartate from aspartame, are consumed, these glutamate receptors are over-stimulated, producing cardiac arrhythmias.
The acne prospects are especially good if you have the digestive problems outlined above or other symptoms of MSG /
excitotoxin sensitivity.
In this episode of Wise Traditions, Jodi Ledley joins us to talk about her life - long journey battling migraines and chronic pain, and how she was able to stop them by
removing excitotoxins from her diet.
And if that happens, well, this will all joggle your brain because you've got
toxic excitotoxins.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock's
book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills outlines all the research on why MSG is to be avoided as much as possible in the diet.
Unless you're some type of super-human creature with a central nervous system made of steel, the evil
of excitotoxins will catch up to you.
I've read extensively online
about excitotoxins, but can't seem to find a clear answer to if my NOW brand PEA PROTEIN POWDER is harmful.
Lithium also may protect the brain against damage
from excitotoxins, compounds that in excess can induce nerve damage.
And the mistaken goal of eating less meat will drive many consumers to buy processed and packaged vegetarian entrees full of soy protein isolate, corn syrup, MSG and
other excitotoxins, «natural» or artificial colorings and flavorings as well as other dubious and non-green ingredients.