THINK ABOUT IT, “betcha can’t eat just one” It seems somewhat silly that it took me so long to determine why there were so many nights that i didn’t sleep well, or sleep at all, and it seems sadder that i still get tripped up by the same problem. I know well that “big food” and “big pharma” are BFFs and that the FDA is powerless (or blind) in trying to get between that friendship.
Case in point from my personal experience (it may not apply to you, we all come to the table with different DNA, different epigenetic tags, different environments , but it certainly is relevant to me) where consuming MSG from commercial foods acts as a stimulant (the glutamines and glutamic acid) and if i consume food containing these, night becomes a nightmare. I fall asleep for one REM cycle, and then cannot go back to sleep for the remainder of the night. 1) MSG is not leaving the “big food” industry anytime soon, even though it is clearly addictive and also a stimulant, so it becomes my job to guard against consuming food with high levels of ADDED glutamines (check the internet for other names under which glutamines are cloaked like hydrolysed vegetable protein, umami and “natural flavors” (please give it a rest” LOL) and 2) to avoid slipping into the trap from “big pharma” that would have me take sleep aids to cure my free glutamine stimulated insomnia. Glutamate is one of the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitters in the brain. It also can be addictive. The issue here is “free” glutamines. glutamines bound up in cellular form (as in plants and meat) is NOT FREE.
I have no clue how individuals who don’t understand things like this make it through life with any semblance of peace. I get tripped up often and I recognize the risk of eating in a restaurant…. last night at my grandaughter’s birthday dinner, ha ha, a couple small (because their servings are unfortunately small) i ate Marion’s Piazza pizza which must be loaded with MSG or free glutamines and spent the night awake. So how does a mother who has small children cope with a child, who like me, is sensitive to free glutamines, who would be awake all night from the MSG, and get them off to school and expect a productive learning day. It is really sad, and I feel for them. ”
It is all about the sensitivity, and while I may recognize my symptoms and avoid adding extra glutamines salted onto my food as umami, or soaked into my raw chicken as “natural flavors” , or added to my canned soup — i worry that so many don’t understand the difference between the consuming them bound in the natural cell structures of the plants and meat and the latter, where they are unbound.
Read two views here: http://www.rense.com/general52/msg.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate