It is already known that children with higher levels of glutathione are better at chelating mercury (a suspected cause of autism) and removing it from the body. However, MSG, when injected into mice, has been proven to reduce these glutathione levels that are protective against mercury poisoning. Could the ever-increasing amounts of MSG in the diet of developed countries be putting children at unnecessary risk of mercury poisoning?
The website is full of a lot of information on MSG and aspartame. For those of you who don't know what MSG is, it is monosodium glutamate, used for adding flavor to processed American foods, and especially Chinese food. Food manufacturing companies have found all different sorts of ways to hide the fact that MSG is an ingredient in their products by calling them different names.
The reason why I include this information here is so that you can do your research - if you don't think you're mercury poisoned but still have many of the symptoms that mercury can cause, you need to consider maybe you're sensitive to MSG. We at the Happy Camper household have cut out as much MSG as possible and it's been that way for a while. Sparky has even started getting headaches from eating foods laden with the stuff.
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