MSG, Cancer, and Your Heart

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MSG, Cancer, and Your Heart

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By Gailon Totheroh

CBN News February 28, 2007

 

 

CBNNews.com - Recently we covered the first two segments of our series on

MSG, or monosodium glutamate, and the related food additives that contain MSG.

 

Those segments covered MSG's impact on obesity and brain health.

 

Today we're looking at the effect these largely hidden additives have on the

nation's two main killers -- heart disease and cancer.

 

Monosodium glutamate is adding flavor to your food, but many researchers

believe it's also subtracting years from your life.

 

Jack Samuels wonders how he's dodged the MSG bullet for 35 years.

 

" I began to collapse toward the end of certain meals at restaurants, " he

said. " And frankly, I thought I was dying. "

 

And frankly, he could have -- a physician diagnosed him with atrial

fibrillation.

 

" That is, my heart becomes like Jell-O, " said Samuels, " and just beats all

over the place. It sometimes takes me five to six days to get over the

attack. "

 

The Hidden Danger in Your Food

 

But how could MSG be responsible? Dr. Russell Blaylock says it's because

glutamate gets into the blood quickly and stays there. So a person eating MSG

throughout the day can raise glutamate blood levels dangerously high.

 

He explained, " In other words, with each meal, it rises, it stays elevated

-- you eat another meal, then it rises even further, -- and you eat another

meal and it rises even further. It stays elevated through a good portion of the

night. "

 

Blaylock says even moderate blood levels of MSG can cause harm because

specific organs have actual biological triggers called " glutamate receptors. "

 

A group of them in the heart controls heart rhythm.

 

" You can induce a fatal arrhythmia, " Blaylock warned. " That is, the heart

beats abnormally and people could die from it. Well, arrhythmia is the number

one cause of death with heart attack. It's been noted in the medical

literature for decades that people who die of sudden cardiac death frequently do

so

after a meal. "

 

And Samuels, a retired hospital administrator, says that ER doctors

" immediately recognize that this may be an MSG reaction. Sadly that knowledge

has not

gone up beyond the first floor. "

 

In other words, most cardiologists don't know about the connection to MSG.

 

This can even happen to teen football players. Blaylock says glutamate,

especially combined with magnesium deficiency, can produce this sudden death.

Magnesium deficiency is very common.

 

And 2006 animal research shows that MSG damages blood vessels with

substances known as free radicals. That can lead to weak, clogged arteries and

blood

clots:

 

Blaylock said, " With humans consuming it every day -- not just a single

injection -- but every day, they're constantly increasing the free radical

generation inside the walls of their blood vessels. "

 

That's how most heart attacks and strokes come about.

 

Research shows that MSG attacks over 40 percent of the population in some

obvious way -- migraines, throat swelling, diarrhea, vomiting, or irregular

heartbeats.

 

 

Your Brain's Biggest Enemy

 

But what about the less obvious, even silent damage?

 

Glutamate receptors on the lungs could explain the rising affliction of

juvenile asthma.

 

" This is one of the things everybody agrees on -- that it will produce

worsening of asthma, even fatal asthma, " Blaylock said.

 

And don't forget the nasty plague of diabetes affecting tens of millions of

Americans. There are glutamate receptors on the pancreas that can lead to

diabetes or loss of diabetic control, once the disease is present.

 

Blaylock has also studied cancer extensively and written a book for cancer

patients, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients. "

 

In the last five years, researchers have found many cancers have --

glutamate receptors.

 

He said, " The total picture is -- if you're consuming a diet with glutamate

in it, particularly high levels, you're making your cancer grow very rapidly.

I refer to it as cancer fertilizer. "

 

The cancers of this type include several brain cancers, colon cancer, breast

cancer, and others as well.

 

With all these afflictions, Jack Samuels felt he had to get the word out --

with a Web site called TruthinLabeling.org responding to questions from

around the world.

 

For Samuels and others who are concerned about avoiding MSG's impact on

health, there is hope. And as hard as navigating the grocery store to avoid

hidden MSG is -- safe shopping is doable.

 

 

 

 

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