Posted by Larry Hoover on June 8, 2003, at 8:12:45
In reply to Re: MSG and aspartame etc, posted by samplemethod on June 7, 2003, at 23:10:55
> Lar, can you explain your reasoning about avoiding the excitatory glutamate and aspartate substances in light of you taking NADH and TMG.Darn good question.
The answer is very subjective. Some excitatory substances have a net beneficial effect on my energy budget, and some decrease my available reserves.
Because of chronic fatigue syndrome, I have been forced into exquisite awareness of my available energy reserves. If I use too much, it's like being overdrawn at the bank; penalty charges can be grossly out of proportion to the overdraft. Stay within the budget, however, and you can proceed normally.
Against that background, I have my own experiences with a variety of stimuli. Some, like the hydrolyzed protein flavour enhancers, seem to reduce my energy reserves. Others, like NADH and TMG, increase my energy availability.
Maybe it's my personal dose-responsiveness that determines these outcomes; certainly, I've already found that too much NADH leads to adverse reactions. And I do use a little hydrolyzed protein when I'm making soup. (I'm full of contradictions, in case you were wondering. If I think there's a "line" between two phenomena, I will play with the parameters without even realizing I'm doing so.) I didn't even realize I've always added this stuff to soup, until I stopped to read the ingredients one day. Chicken broth powder isn't really about chickens.
In any case, what I take to be an MSG-reaction only occurs when I eat out. I don't get it at home from my cooking. Of course, it could be something else causing the problem.
I've never liked the taste of aspartame; it tastes metallic to me, rather than sweet.
Whatever the purported toxic activity of aspartame arises from, I doubt it's from the methanol moiety. There's more methanol in a glass of orange juice than in a large bottle of diet soda. Your liver is just waiting to destroy a little methanol. More likely is the accidental mimicry of an existing dipeptide signalling molecule, the sensitivity to which will vary with your genetic makeup.
Lar
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