If MSG is so safe, then why are there so many glutamate blocking drugs on the market?
Research all points to an excess of glutamate in the brain as being part of the problem or associated with many neurological diseases.
In excess, MSG is a neuro-excytotoxin.
Note that glutamate is referred to as an excitotoxin when it causes cellular damage.
Here is a list of diseases or conditions for which glutamate blocking drugs are being used or investigated.
Huntington’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Parkinson’s Disease (PD)
Epilepsy (seizures)
Here is a list of drugs with a glutamate-blocking potential.
Remacemide: An anti-glutamate drug and energy buffer
Memantine: An anti-glutamate drug
Riluzole: An anti-glutamate drug and energy buffer.
Lamotrigine – An anti-glutamate and anticonvulsant drug
Budipine
Gabapentin
Here is a novel idea: Avoid MSG, live long, live healthy and prosper.