Fat, Stressed, & Sick: The Role of Glutamate and Hidden MSG in Our Food Supply with Katherine Reid, PhD
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Dhru Purohit
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Glutamate is a neurotransmitter essential for our health and plays a crucial role in activating our nervous system and immune response.
However, when foods are ultra-processed, they can create glutamate in excess amounts, which, when overly consumed, can cause symptoms associated with anxiety, ADHD, Autism, and increase chronic inflammation in our body.
Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Katherine Reid to discuss glutamate, its link to monosodium glutamate, and the alarming amount created in our food supply through processed proteins.
Dr. Katherine Reid earned her PhD in biochemistry, specifically focusing on protein chemistry. She switched focus soon after her daughter was diagnosed with autism and discovered that reducing MSG in the diet managed many of her daughter’s symptoms.
Dr. Reid is the founder of Unblind My Mind, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health through informed food choices, and now works closely with the public, including the medical community, to devise food solutions for people suffering from a wide variety of chronic inflammatory conditions. She is also the author of the newly released book Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America’s Health Crisis.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Reid dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
-What is glutamate and its connection to monosodium glutamate (MSG) (2:51 / 2:51)
-The top food sources of glutamate and MSG (11:00 / 8:00)
-Independent testing for glutamate in a product (28:15 / 25:10)
-Dr. Reid’s personal experience with changing her daughter’s diet after a diagnosis of Autism spectrum disorder (35:14 / 30:38)
-The FDA’s position on glutamate (58:40 / 54:12)
-Why are some individuals more impacted by glutamate exposure and lifestyle factors that can reduce glutamate release within our body (1:02:42 / 58:06)
-The REID Diet protocol and who can benefit from it (1:11:25 / 1:06:49)
-The correlation between glutamate levels in gluten and dairy in Europe versus America (1:31:44 / 1:27:10)
-Research on glutamate and the work that still needs to be done (1:41:26 / 1:36:54)
Also mentioned in this episode:
-Dr. Reid’s new book Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Foods, and America's Health Crisis
-Unblind My Mind - Dr. Reid’s Nonprofit
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| 0:00.0 | The ultra-processed food category containing, you know, high proteins are going to create |
| 0:05.4 | free glutamate. And people are just not aware that the MSG glutamate connection from processed |
| 0:11.0 | proteins is rampant in our diet. The standard American diet has 10 grams of consumption of MSG per day. |
| 0:21.6 | Did you know that there's a neurotransmitter? That's essential for a health, but at high levels, |
| 0:27.2 | which is what we're getting here in the Western world that are mostly found in ultra-process |
| 0:32.0 | foods. This neurotransmitter could be breaking our brains. Welcome to the Drupurot podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | Each week, we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest |
| 0:41.7 | minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset. This week's guest is Dr. Catherine Reed. Dr. |
| 0:46.8 | Catherine Reed is the founder of Unblind My Mind, and she's here today to talk about her new book, |
| 0:52.6 | Fat, Stress, and Sick. MSG, Process Foods, and America's Health Crisis, which focus on the |
| 1:00.0 | extremely high levels of MSG and glutamate that we're getting in our diet largely from ultra-process |
| 1:06.7 | foods and how this MSG and glutamate is linked to a whole list of brain disorders as well as |
| 1:13.2 | chronic diseases. Now, a little bit more about Dr. Reed. Catherine earned her PhD in biochemistry |
| 1:18.4 | with a specific focus in protein chemistry. She's had a 20-year career in biotechnology focused |
| 1:24.5 | on the development of protein pharmaceuticals and cancer diagnostics. She switched her focus |
| 1:29.6 | soon after her daughter was diagnosed with autism, and she discovered that reducing MSG in the diet |
| 1:36.7 | managed many of her daughter's symptoms. She now works closely with the public, including the |
| 1:42.2 | medical community, to devise food solutions for people suffering from a wide variety of chronic |
| 1:47.8 | inflammatory conditions. Stay tuned for a fantastic episode on all things glutamate, an MSG, |
| 1:54.5 | and ultra-process foods, and how they are increasing our risk of chronic disease with Dr. |
| 2:00.9 | Catherine Reed. Dr. Reed, welcome to the podcast. So, here's a few additional list of disorders, |
| 2:09.2 | dysfunctions, brain disorders, as well as chronic diseases that you say are tied to glutamate, |
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