Today, more than 70 excitotoxins lurk in most packaged and processed foods, including soups, sauces, gravy mixes, frozen dinners, diet foods, beverages, chips, and fast foods. The main culprits are MSG, aspartame (NutraSweet), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid.
Unfortunately, MSG goes by at least 30 different names on food labels, including, as I mentioned, the simple and oh-so-harmless-seeming word, “spice.” Lippman’s office provides a handout with a detailed list of hidden names for excitotoxins.
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Blaylock says that we now “know that the excitotoxic process plays a major role in many life-threatening maladies.” He cites possible associations between excitotoxins and a slew of serious health conditions, including:
• strokes
• brain injury
• brain tumors
• degenerative brain diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s disease)
• meningitis
• neurological Lyme disease
• encephalitis
• schizophrenia