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- From: sher@bbn.com (Lawrence D. Sher)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: MSG
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 12:35:33 GMT
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- I have read this thread on MSG with much interest, since I have an
- unusual dietary sensitivity to MSG that I have not seen mentioned:
- 18-24 hours after I eat something prepared with MSG, I get a mild dull
- headache of ~18 hours duration and pronounced insomnia.
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- It took me many years and painstaking dietary recording to find this
- cause/effect relationship. I suspect that other people have a similar
- reaction (the insomnia can be quite unpleasant) but have not made the
- connection.
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- Defects in glutamate clearance from the brain was recently reported as
- being linked to ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral
- sclerosis). Glutamate is also known to be neuroexcitatory, and I have
- wondered whether that is the basis for its "flavor enhancer" qualities.
- It certainly could be the basis for insomnia.
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