MSG vs Glutamate: What's the Difference?

I want to talk about MSG monosodium glutamate versus glutamate because sometimes you hear glutamate and you think wow it's not going to turn into MSG is that bad I've done videos on talking about cancer consuming glutamate glutamate is an amino acid cancer can live on glucose or glutamate glutamate doesn't cause cancer but if you have cancer cancer cells could live on glutamate this is why we recommend intermón fasting for those people that have cancer but if you don't have cancer you don't have to worry about it simply because every single food that you eat has glutamate okay it's an amino acid like I said and the body actually has about four point four pounds of glutamate that makes up its tissue so it's part of our food supply it's part of our body now in 1909 there's a patent at MSG and they call it accent they still sell it now and it's a flavor enhancer and basically the problem with them is G is that it tricks your taste buds in making the food taste better than it really is and it gives you that savory sensation I remember living in San Diego with my wife Karen this is before we were into nutrition or he knew anything about nutrition we would go to this restaurant and we would love to consume this hot and sour soup okay it was loaded with msg it tastes so good but after we would consume it I noticed my hands would be so swollen and puffy I had so much flu to attention because you're talking about monosodium glutamate and then I noticed my blood sugar is kind of crash after as well and then about hour later I was starving for more of it so the problem with MSG is it can raise your insulin levels and push down your blood sugars give you like more of a hypoglycemic reaction and then now you're hungry for more food and plus it has a lot of other side effects which I'll get into so let me just differentiate between MSG and glutamate all right so right here we have something called el glutamic acid now when I'm talking about glutamic acid I'm really talking about glutamate because one will turn into the other okay so don't get hung up on the terminology but l Lu tannic acid is the natural form of glutamate found in foods and D glutamic acid is artificially made and I want to talk about the difference between these two this is MSG okay so when you have the D before it that means it's MSG when it has the L it's not MSG so it's not going to create a reaction now what's so unique about D glutamic acid is it's unbound versus the L version is bound to a protein so when you consume food with this glutamate it's always bound with protein now if you're consuming just pure fat for example you're not gonna have glutamate and that's why when I said almost every food contains glutamate I said almost okay fats don't contain glutamate so we have this version which is bound to a protein and this version that's unbound and what this means is when you digest the food this is much slower going into your body this is super fast it's gonna spike the amount of glutamate by eight to ten times in your blood when you consume this because it goes in like a rocket ship but this is slower and our body regulates how much it wants okay so it can shut off any excess amounts this we're just shoving it into the blood large amounts and it can create a problem this version is artificially made and maybe you've seen this in some of the ingredients hydrolyzed okay that basically makes this protein unbound okay so it breaks it up so it's free it can go on your body or Otto lies which is another term to describe how it's broken down into a smaller particle or modified so simply this is free unbound glutamate and this is bound glutamate okay now here's the problem when you go to the grocery store there are so many products that have msg that are not on the label that is the problem especially if it's listed as a processing aid they don't have to put it in the label here are some of the symptoms that people have when they're exposed to msg hives rashes they become irritable forgetfulness with simple words mood swings which describe maybe some of your friends and family members achy joints pain headaches and the list goes on and on and on now here are some of the names in the ingredients that potentially could have msg natural flavorings flavorings a vegetable broth textured vegetable protein multiple dextran bouillon cube authorized yeast protein isolates smoke flavoring like those barbecued potato chips that people eat gelatin imitations soy sauce so anyway I just wanted to be increased your awareness of all the different versions of MSG and the difference between MSG and glutamate thanks for watching if you're liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 5min 36sec (336 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 20 2019