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Excitotoxins – Part 4 –

Is it worth it to ingest these excitotoxins?

Catch the beginning of this story here:
https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/excitotoxins-part-1/

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/09/excitotoxins-part-2/

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/09/excitotoxins-part-3/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/hidden-sources-of-msg/

Is it worth it to ingest these excitotoxins?

Hardly!

Now that you know, will you keep feeding processed food and diet drinks to your children?

Will you keep eating it yourself?

Remember if you eat any kind of packaged, processed food or eat out at restaurants, you will be eating MSG. That’s another reason that I advocate eating whole foods, meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds and whole grains. … Read the rest

Excitotoxins – Part 3

Review the previous articles here:

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/excitotoxins-part-1/

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/09/excitotoxins-part-2/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/hidden-sources-of-msg/

How much processed food and diet drinks or candies or mints are you eating on a daily basis?

If that’s your main diet, you are ingesting a heavy load of excitotoxins. You will have trouble finding prepared foods without MSG. It may not say MSG on the package label because there are a lot of other tricky names for MSG or substances containing MSG. So beware, check out this page for the other names for MSG.

Those diet drinks contain aspartame – … Read the rest

Excitotoxins – Part 2 MSG, Aspartame dangers uncovered.

You will find part 1 here:

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/excitotoxins-part-1/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

https://www.drjomd.com/2011/08/hidden-sources-of-msg/

Turns out the original assumption that glutamate supplied energy to the brain was almost right. But rather than supplying energy to the brain glutamate, aspartate and several other amino acids carry nerve messages from one nerve to another and are thus known as neurotransmitters. With proper regulation and in the right concentration and balance these amino acids function as vital transmitters of information that regulates bodily functions.

Some of Us Are More Susceptible to the Adverse Effects … Read the rest

What would you do?

If you found out that your daily meals contain a chemical additive that could cause brain damage in your children?

If evidence indicates that this chemical could affect how your child’s brain forms and develops.

If the damage caused by this chemical might not show itself until your child was older, manifesting as learning or emotional difficulties.

If this chemical damaged the part of the brain that controls hormones, resulting in hormonal imbalances later in life.

If this chemical might aggravate or even precipitate degenerative diseases of the nervous system and brain such as Parkinson’s Disease, … Read the rest

By request we’re taking a look at artificial sweeteners, their pros and cons. Then you can decide whether you really want to put these chemicals in your body.

Thought that you would be interested in a list of the FDA approved artificial sweeteners with their generic and trade names:

Saccharin (SugarTwin, Sweet’N Low)
Acesulfame potassium (Sunett, Sweet One)
Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet)
Neotame
Sucralose (Splenda)

Saccharin (SugarTwin, Sweet’N Low)

Saccharin has been around the longest and went through a period of intense controversy in 1977 because it caused bladder tumors in rats. Although the FDA proposed banning it from the … Read the rest