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 Real-life experience backs this up July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this book for many years and recently skimmed it again. I bought it during the years when my husband was having bizarre symptoms after eating almost any kind of food. He visited many doctors and specialists, and an allergist finally suggested that it might be MSG and referred him to a dietician (who was useless). Since then, we've been on our own fighting this, and this book lifted the fog of ignorance!
I'm an engineer, a conservative and a skeptic. I was not ready to believe that there is "bad stuff" in our everyday food. But based on my husband's experiences, the empirical evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. His symptoms initially only occurred after lunch but not after dinner, even if he ate the same thing. How does this make sense? Dr. Blaylock explains the mystery by pointing out how hypoglycemia exacerbates the effects of glutamate. I was ecstatic when I understood the phenomenon. My husband has a tendency, common in his family, toward hypoglycemia. With lunch being his first meal of the day, he was already in a hypoglycemic state and highly susceptible to the effects of MSG. By dinnertime, his brain had more glucose and was better able to clear the glutamate. Based on this theory, when he accidentally eats MSG and starts to experience the effects, he consumes a candy bar or sugared soda and it lessens the symptoms. (Dessert can be good for you!)
The explanations in this book are the only ones that satisfactorily explain what I see my husband go through every day. He has an immediate and recognizable response to glutamate, which makes confirmation of those theories simple, if not painless.
There is one hypothesis in the book that is contradicted by my husband's experience. He can consume aspartame (diet soda) with none of the effects that he experiences from glutamate.
I wonder how many people are capable of making the lifestyle changes required to avoid glutamate? If you don't have a detector (like my poor husband) to tell you what food does and does not have glutamate in it, you must avoid all prepared food that doesn't have an ingredient list. Yes, sadly, glutamate is that prevalent in our food.
Very informative - but deep May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered this book along with another book on the subject of food additives. This book is written by a doctor and is much more technical. I was glad to have both books on the subject. This book is deeper and harder to read, but it leaves the reader who is willing to wade through the information some very somber knowledge of what is going to happen to many people in the long run if they keep ingesting these horrible food additives. Unlike myself not everyone has such immediate and violent reactions to these excitotoxins, but I am convinced that the long term use of these substances is harmful to almost everyone, and some will have catastrophic results. I am not sorry I have this book in my library.
SEARCHING May 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Blaylock is on to much about the rip-off, and health destroying additives/preservatives that are being placed in our foods, and poisonous pharmaceuticals that are literally ruining and destroying our health, our lives, all in the name of greed/profit.
It is up to the individual to inform oneself as to the dangers of excitotoxins in our foods, vaccines, and pharmaceuticals; and give
thoughtful, coherent consideration to the information that has been made
available by a credible source.
My husband and I have already made changes in what we ingest that taste
so damn good, i.e., those addictive additives in our foods; unnecessary, damaging poisonous pharmaceuticals that place all of us in a 'revolving door' to physician calls, sickness,and surgery.
I have subscribed to Blaylock's newsletters,and will continue to eliminate
those 'excitotoxins,' which are gradually killing us. The side-effects
resulting from poisonous pharmaceuticals and food additives must give one pause.
Leta Head Carter
One for your library February 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was a great book, a bit hard for a non scientific person, but still great. It is well written by a very knowledgeable person that seems to care. It should be Oprah's book of the month. It you eat, have kids or are concerned about health, then this is the book for you. I do have to warn you, some parts are pretty scary. It was amazing to find out all of the things the government doesn't tell us about our food supply. I can speak to this because I was diagnosed with MS in March of 07' and now I'm aspartame and MS free. I gave up that poison a few months ago and my MS went away within 2 weeks!!!
 Very in-depth analysis of the effects of exitotoxins December 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a well written book, in my opinion, a little too technical at times. It explains in great detail the effects of excitoxins on the human body, which at some stages I found (not of medical profession background) too intense to read in long segments. However, it is very informative, and if this is a subject you are interested in depth you would love this book. I would have liked to see more pro-active suggestions in the book such as where to now, how do you rid your body of the harm done by excitotoxins, etc.
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