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June 28, 2010 Neuroexcitotoxicity 6:  Deceptive Behavior, Science and the FDA  Topic: Brain Health Reference:  The Taste that Kills  by Russell Blaylock  MSG has been studied by a variety of scientists and found to have neurotoxic effects in human children, laboratory science, and animal models.  However,  we have other studies funded and paid for by the MSG… Continue reading Neuroexcitotoxicity 6: Deceptive behavior, science and the FDA

June 21, 2010 Neuroexcitotoxicity #5:  Brain Diseases  Competency Brain Health Reference Russell Blaylock and the Taste that Kills, CDC Tables on Disease Incidence  What is it with glutamate and brain diseases?  Well, we are stepping off the cliff of solid science into conjecture and possibility, but follow the thread of logic here with me and see if… Continue reading Neuroexcitotoxicity #5: Brain Diseases

June 14, 2010 Excitotoxins #4 How MSG Kills Brain Cells Source:  Excitotoxins by Russell Blaylock MD Competency: Brain Health This sounds really gruesome.  Sorry.  It’s what we need to know to understand this mystery.  This might be one of the keys to unlocking the story of why we are having so many neurological diseases in… Continue reading Excitotoxins #4 How MSG Kills Brain Cells

June 08, 2010 MSG III and Dr Olney Before Congress  Competency: Brain Health Reference:  Russell Blaylock and “Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills”   It didn’t take long after the discovery of pure MSG when a neuroscientist, Dr. John Olney, found that damage was caused to the retina in rats.  But it wasn’t just the retina.  The rats became… Continue reading MSG III and Dr Olney Before Congress

June 01, 2010 Excitotoxins #2: MonoSodium Glutamate and Your Brain  Reference: Russell Blaylock Excitotoxins, the Taste That Kills Competency:  Brain Health   Glutamate is not just an amino acid from which our proteins are constructed.  It turns out to be a critical and one of the most abundant neurotransmitters.  Here is how your brain works.  When a nerve… Continue reading Excitotoxins #2: MonoSodium Glutamate and Your Brain

May 24, 2010 Excitotoxins:  How to Turn Your Brain to Jelly  Reference  The Taste That Kills, Blaylock Competency: Brain Health   What’s an excito-toxin?  It’s a chemical that turns on your brain in a fashion that causes damage by the stimulation that it causes.  I want to learn how that works.  This is a story worthy of a… Continue reading Excitotoxins #1: How to Turn Your Brain to Jelly

May 20, 2010 Vitamin D and Pregnancy:  3 Stories  Competency:  Vitamin D Reference:  Adit Ginde, University of Colorado, Journal of Obstetrics June 2009  # 1.   The first story about Vitamin D in pregnancy comes from Colorado where Dr. Ginde reports that 70% of pregnant American women are deficient in Vitamin D.  Low levels of D… Continue reading Vitamin D and Pregnancy: 3 Stories

May 05, 2010Break Your Bones #3: Acid from Food   Competency: #5 The Way to Eat Reference:  Building Bone Vitality by Michael Castleman and Amy Joy Lanou, McGraw Hill May 5th, 2009   We’ve learned that eating more calcium does not reduce fractures last week.  We’ve learned that societies that eat the most calcium and drink the most milk have,… Continue reading Break Your Bones #3: Acid from Food

April 27, 2010 Break Your Bones 2: Bone Density Mistakes   Competency: #5 The Way to Eat Reference:  Building Bone Vitality by Michael Castleman and Amy Joy Lanou, McGraw Hill 2009 Bone Mineral Density.   It’s how we measure your risk for a broken bone.  We put you under a big machine that takes a snap shot of how many… Continue reading Bone Density Mistakes

April 09, 2010 How to Change Your Genes, The Science of Epigentics  Reference:  Time Magazine, Jan 18, 2010 Competence:  Environment  Well, I get home from work each day and change into my jeans.  That’s not what we are talking about here.  I want you to change how your genes are expressed.  Each of us was… Continue reading How to Change Your Genes, The Science of Epigentics