Is MSG Bad For You? 5 Surprising Things MSG Does To Your Body

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Comments

1. sugar is worse then msg why not inject sugar in to some baby hush puppy's and see if they get trippy after some time
2. Good god Olive Gardens Minestrone soup has msg in it. Sad because that soup is awesome tasting. Crazy headache right now and I just got done throwing up. Never again.
3. There is MSG in just about everything not just Chinese. I've seen in American food canned food Progresso clam chowder. You can't blame everything on Chinese food.
   
   In American food it can be known as sodium.
4. What a load of it. MSG is natural. This video is pure CR.. There are not real Science only rubbish that has no basis. There were no real tests and the ones described are certainly not significant and would not be accepted by any real Scientist. Lets just avoid everything and stop eating or drinking that will work - your a moron.
5. MSG is an addictive spice thats the other reason they use it in things like chicfila "food" & potato chips, bet ya cant eat just one... ugh. addictive food = fat ppl
6. I wonder why so many people in japan are healthy and lived long years if MSG was so bad. I think your video lacks research. Ive watched a lot of msg videos and their arguments on why it is not bad for you is stronger than ur arguments. Our body produces glutamate and msg is just a salt form. It is part of our reward system as a neurotransmitter. U havent provided enough evidence why they give some people headaches. Some people have glutamate sensitivity. I think you are just adding to the myth.
7. Lol greenscreen
8. Please explain why Chinese are more fit than these obese Americans?
9. MSG is naturally occuring delicious molecule. I actually cook with it at home. I never experience any side effects.
10. Ching Chang Chong
11. I can't believe people believe this.......
12. False info. Our bodies naturally produce glutamate (non salt form of MSG)
    And people feel bad because they expect to.
    It is healthy at normal doses. (30mg per KG of body weight)
    you can't trust the internet.
13. You find loads more videos saying its safe than dangerous, I suspects
    they are sponsored. I get massive pounding headaches and have to lay
    down in a dark room if I have too much MSG.
    
    I read the labels a never buy it if its added to food.
    
    Any amount appears to be too much as it builds up in my system. It kills
    neurons makes crap food taste edible, its used to kill dogs in the
    Philippines.
    
    You're welcome to it, but keep it away from me.
    
    This video is very wise in introducing the precautionary principle.
    
    You know not so long ago doctors and nurses used to give patients tobacco cigarettes as a way of dealing with a patient in shock.
14. Wow! I'm definitely going to stop injecting myself with MSG. Maybe I'm using it wrong?
15. In the mice studies, they use an inhumanely large concentration of msg injected into the mice to get neurons to die. You can achieve the same effect if you use an inhumanely large concentration of salt solution injected into the mice. I think the public has been mislead by these researchers. MSG was discovered in Japan and the Japanese remains the biggest consumers of MSG. I wonder how most Japanese live to a ripe old age living a fully active life without Alzheimer's disease if MSG was so bad for the brain. If the meat industry finds MSG is competing with the use of meat and started to bad mouth MSG then , I think they have achieved their agenda. You can cook anything without meat and have it taste like it has tons of meat cooked with it. That's what MSG does. In Japan, the older generation uses very little meat in their cooking and instead adds MSG into their foods. The result = more active and longer life span than it is in those in the MSG-fearing West. MSG is harmful only if you overdose it just as salt is harmful if you overdose it. Infact, everything is harmful if you overdose it. IYou probably had heard frequently that potassium is good for you and everyone should have more. Well you can design an experiment injecting an insane amount of potassium chloride into mice and they'll die instantly. Infact, that's what they use in execution by lethal injection. You can also do the same with concentrated sodium chloride solution too but the prisoner would suffer a longer death process. Anyway, the West has been misinformed about MSG, probably as a result of the meat industry's propaganda. And now, every doctors, from naturopaths to allopaths in the West are fearing MSG like poison. Why don't they replace potassium with MSG in lethal injections I wonder?????
16. What a bunch of babble bullshit.
17. This all bullshit.
18. Why not injecting mice with honey, milk, potato salad orange juice or olive oil to test the effects on their body?
    
    While we don't consume msg or honey by injection, that experiment is irrelevant.
19. nice explnation about msg
20. Any replacement for Msg?