If they eat a meal that contains glutamate or drink a diet cola before practice, it will produce intense cardiac irritability, they'll die of sudden cardiac death, due to two things: arrhythmia and cardio artery spasm, both of which can be produced by glutamate. The death certificate doesn't say they died from MSG, because the admitting physician doesn't know the first thing about any of this research. Most cardiologists I've spoken with have never heard of this. They didn't know there were glutamate receptors throughout the electrical conduction system and in the heart muscle itself. You have a million patients in this country with arrhythmias that are life-threatening, and no one's telling them to avoid MSG and aspartame, yet it's a major source of cardiac irritability.
Mike: Now, didn't baby food manufacturers voluntarily remove this ingredient in the '70s?
Dr. Blaylock: They said they would, but they didn't. What they did is take out pure MSG and substitute it with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate. If you look at most toddler foods, they all have caseinate hydrolyzed protein broth, a significant source of glutamate. We're destroying the nervous systems of these babies. We hear a lot about is childhood obesity. One early observation with excitotoxicity was that it makes animals grossly obese.
Mike: If they banned MSG, the drug companies would lose billions. Think about how much money they make treating all of these symptoms.
Dr. Blaylock: Here the government has all these plans for controlling carbohydrate intake, controlling cereals and sugar and all that. Those add to the problem, because MSG-exposed animals prefer carbohydrates and sugars over protein-rich foods, one of the characteristics of this type of obesity. It's difficult to exercise the weight off and almost impossible to diet it off. The appetite is out of control, but the metabolism is also out of control.
They have metabolic syndrome on top of obesity, and so you have a leptin insensitivity. In terms of obesity, they have a leptin insensitivity. It has been shown that you can produce leptin insensitivity very easily with MSG. It's possible that some day these ingredients may be banned, but you know, it's only going to be by public exposure, through sites like yours. Once the public gets is convinced that this is real, then there'll be an uproar.
Mike: A lot of the vegetarian foods, or so-called health foods, use yeast extracts.
Dr. Blaylock: The worst are the soy extracts. Soybeans, naturally, have one of the highest glutamate levels of any of the plant products. When you hydrolyze it, you release the glutamate, and the soy protein isolates. The glutamate levels are higher than a lot of what you'll find in MSG products, yet the vegetarians eat it like it's the healthiest thing in the world.
There was a 25-year study done with people who consumed the most soy products, and they followed them for 25 years and did serial CT scans. They found out that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia and brain atrophy. These people are destroying their nervous system, and I talked to many who complained of severe migraine headaches.
I said, "Get off the soy'; when they do, that migraine headache goes away. You have very high manganese levels, which is toxic to the very same part of the brain that produces Parkinson's. You've got a mixture of toxins with soy products, and people think they are eating a healthy, nutritious product. It's destroying their nervous system, as well as other organs.
Mike: Have you taken a lot of heat from NutraSweet or other companies? Have you been threatened with lawsuits or anything for going public with this information?
Dr. Blaylock: No, they leave me alone. I know too much. They've never bothered me. When I wrote the book, George Schwartz warned me, "Are you sure you want to write this book? If you do, they're just going to hound you to death." I said, "Yes, I want to write the book." So, I wrote it with one thing in mind: that they would not be able to refute it. I proved the toxicity of glutamate.
I had exchanged this in writing letters to some of their biggest defenders. They all realized that they couldn't answer my arguments. So they leave me alone. They're afraid that if it comes to a big standoff between me and them, they're going to lose. They don't want this information going on the public record.
What they're doing is the old ploy of just ignoring and hoping it will go away. They put pressure on magazines, journals and newspapers not to interview me. They are trying to keep me in the shadows where they hope most people don't hear anything I have to say. Since I first wrote the book in 1995, proof supporting my viewpoint has increased. The new material on peripheral glutamate receptors killed these people. The new information on the dramatic increase in cancer aggressiveness is something that they are terrified of.
Mike: Now you find these receptors outside the brain.
Dr. Blaylock: I proved it can enter the brain and that the companies were lying. There are glutamate receptors on both sides of the blood brain barrier and that when you expose these receptors to glutamate, it opens up the blood brain barrier. So, the glutamate itself can open the barrier, and I list all these conditions.
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