No doubt you’ve asked yourself a thousand times: Why won’t that stubborn weight come off?
There are over 40 years of scientific evidence behind Dr. Blaylock’s conclusion that MSG, a flavor enhancer traditionally used in Asian food, is at the root of America’s 34% increase in obesity in the last 40 years.
Food manufacturers dump MSG in nearly all processed food. Even if you’re health conscious and stick to packaged organic foods, you are still likely to consume a teaspoon of MSG each day, and never know it.
Food manufacturers contend that MSG is safe because it’s “natural.” But that’s a spin on the real truth.
Dubbed an excitotoxin by Blaylock, monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is the sodium salt of glutamate, a naturally occurring amino acid in your body. MSG’s only role is to alter how food tastes. And it literally excites brain cells to death.
Think of it this way: Let’s say you have a daisy growing in your yard. Then you pick off all the petals. The daisy will still grow, still try to do its job, but now its ability to perform has been impaired. With the missing petals, the other parts of the flower is confused.
Eventually, the flower dies because a necessary part of its normal functioning ability has been removed.
How It Puts On The Pounds
Because MSG is a single part of glutamic acid, it literally becomes an alien invader. Here’s a quick rundown on how MSG can cause obesity:
- Your body only has a teaspoon of sugar flowing in your blood at any one time. If you have more than that, you’ll die.
- When you eat sugar, the pancreas steps in and produces insulin to counteract the sugar. The insulin absorbs the excess sugar, and you put on the pounds.
But MSG also causes an insulin response. Once again, the pancreas produces insulin thinking you’ve just eaten sugar. It orders your cells to store the MSG as sugar. That’s when the dance changes to an all out war.
Within a couple of hours, you think you are low in sugar and eat again. But the food you eat has more MSG in it. You keep this up all day, snacking and munching.
Your pancreas tries to keep up, constantly producing insulin. Your cells keep firing over and over again. Weary soldiers following the orders of their general, they keep at their job relentlessly. Exhaustion overtakes them and finally, they explode and die.
Why You May Have That Stubborn Belly Fat
MSG fat stored in your body stays right where it is, deep in the adipose (fat) layers of the abdomen. For many people, you can’t even diet or exercise away MSG pounds.
If you consume a highly processed diet or eat out a lot, your metabolism is ramped for more and more of the same stuff.
If given a choice, would you choose a candy bar over an apple? Would you choose ice cream over a steak?
With any addiction, your whole body’s metabolism has been thrown off, it can no longer do what it was designed to do.
Disease creeps in and your body begins to break down.
With regular MSG consumption, there is also an extremely high incidence of heart attack, stroke, arteriosclerosis, insomnia, type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol.
The only way to counteract the deadly downward spiral of excitotoxins is to stop consuming them. That means carefully reading labels. Hidden under at least 80 different names, MSG and its cohorts are lurking on every food label. You just have to know how to find it.
But That’s Not The End Of The MSG Story
MSG makes its way into your hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls hunger and damages it. The effects of eating excitotoxins like MSG are generally subtle and take a long time to develop.
Dr. Blaylock puts it like this:
“One can only wonder if the large number of people having difficulty with obesity in the United Sates is related to early exposure to food additive excitotoxins since this obesity is one of the most consistent features of the syndrome.
One characteristic of the obesity induced by excitotoxins is that it doesn’t appear to depend on food intake. This could explain why some people cannot diet away their obesity.”
The Best Defense Is An Offense
If you’re sick, tired and overweight, take charge. You can change the quality of your life by changing what you eat.
Don’t risk your health by consuming products with MSG and aspartame. If you’re eating a lot of processed foods and beverages, cut back. Then, cut them out!
Eat foods with high amounts of vitamin A, C, and flavonoids.
Green, leafy vegetables, including spinach, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and collard greens are all rich in antioxidants.
Fruits such as prunes, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries also counteract MSG’s deadly effects, as do spices such as turmeric and black, green and red teas.
Reclaim your health and send the processed food manufacturers a strong message. Refuse to increase their profits at the expense of your life. By choosing healthier products, you’ll not only feel better, it will be easier for that stubborn weight to come off.
