Excitotoxins – Part 4 Catch the beginning of this story here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-3/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ Is it worth it to ingest these excitotoxins? Hardly! Now that you know, will you keep feeding processed food and diet drinks to your children? Will you keep eating it yourself? Remember if [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 16th, 2011 | No Comments »
Excitotoxins – Part 3 Review the previous articles here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ How much processed food and diet drinks or candies or mints are you eating on a daily basis? If that’s your main diet, you are ingesting a heavy load of excitotoxins. You will have trouble finding prepared [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Excitotoxins – Part 2 MSG, Aspartame dangers uncovered. You will find part 1 here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ Turns out the original assumption that glutamate supplied energy to the brain was almost right. But rather than supplying energy to the brain glutamate, aspartate and several other amino acids carry nerve messages [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 1st, 2011 | No Comments »
What would you do? If you found out that your daily meals contain a chemical additive that could cause brain damage in your children? If evidence indicates that this chemical could affect how your child’s brain forms and develops. If the damage caused by this chemical might not show itself until your child was older, manifesting [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on August 29th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
From Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills: “As discussed previously, the glutamate manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise MSG added to food. Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins aspartate and L-cysteine are frequently added to foods [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Sweeteners on August 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
So what’s the problem with eating sweets? The short answer – they all elevate your blood sugar too much! Sugar and bad fats are your worst enemies. When we’re told to stop eating sugar, we think, “Oh, I can’t eat table sugar (cane or beet sugar)”, so we look for a substitute. We think that [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition, Sweeteners on August 5th, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Since lectins found in our food can cause serious inflammation in our bodies leading to misery, pain, gas, bloat, diarrhea, constipation, dementia, brain irritability and chronic degenerative disease, we’re embarking on a journey to eliminate them from our diets. We want out of this vicious cycle! Avoiding lectin-containing food can be difficult but highly [...]
Filed under: Food toxins on March 26th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Wheat may be killing us gradually and insidiously. Also, wheat intolerance and/or other food sensitivity may have put many folks in mental institutions. And what do they get fed while in those mental institutions? Right, lots of wheat. Many years ago one of my patients sat across from me in my office and told me [...]
Filed under: Food toxins on March 9th, 2010 | No Comments »