Comments on: What health issues are associated with MSG? http://www.talk-about-health.net/medicine/what-health-issues-are-associated-with-msg/ Discussions are Health Issues and Improving Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: greydoc6 http://www.talk-about-health.net/medicine/what-health-issues-are-associated-with-msg/#comment-1175 greydoc6 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:06:22 +0000 http://www.talk-about-health.net/medicine/what-health-issues-are-associated-with-msg/#comment-1175 If my memory is correct, the term Chinese Restaurant Syndrome first appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine sometime in the mid to late 1960s. After eating at Chinese restaurants, certain patients complained of headaches, sweating and flushing, paresthesias around the mouth, and sometimes chest pain and heart palpitations. The cause of CRS was attributed to MSG, monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer popular in Asian cuisine. At the time they hypothesized that glutamate sensitive synapses in the brain were excited by a heavy dose. I don't recall if it was in that first paper or later that vitamin B6 was proposed as an antidote. At any rate, headaches and drowsiness are side-effects of MSG consumption in sensitive individuals. If my memory is correct, the term Chinese Restaurant Syndrome first appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine sometime in the mid to late 1960s. After eating at Chinese restaurants, certain patients complained of headaches, sweating and flushing, paresthesias around the mouth, and sometimes chest pain and heart palpitations. The cause of CRS was attributed to MSG, monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer popular in Asian cuisine. At the time they hypothesized that glutamate sensitive synapses in the brain were excited by a heavy dose. I don’t recall if it was in that first paper or later that vitamin B6 was proposed as an antidote.

At any rate, headaches and drowsiness are side-effects of MSG consumption in sensitive individuals.

]]> By: Doctor J http://www.talk-about-health.net/medicine/what-health-issues-are-associated-with-msg/#comment-1174 Doctor J Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:37:04 +0000 http://www.talk-about-health.net/medicine/what-health-issues-are-associated-with-msg/#comment-1174 Hi Shane. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter that is highly toxic in excess. MSG is a source of Glutamate. A recent study in animals concluded: "GLU (glutamate) is a widely used nutritional subtance that potentially exhibits significant neuronal toxicity." I hope this is helpful to you. Best wishes and good luck. Hi Shane. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter that is highly toxic in excess. MSG is a source of Glutamate. A recent study in animals concluded: “GLU (glutamate) is a widely used nutritional subtance that potentially exhibits significant neuronal toxicity.”

I hope this is helpful to you.

Best wishes and good luck.

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