What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast and as always I'm

your host Mike Milner and today we are going to continue with the neurotransmitter series and we're going to be talking about

glutamate which I think is such a fascinating neurotransmitter. it is responsible for emotions and is also responsible

for our memory.

So I like to think of glutamate as the emotional amplifier. So what that means is that if glutamate is high,

if levels are high and let's say you are feeling happy,

then you are going to feel very happy.

And if you are feeling sad, you are going to feel very happy and if you are feeling sad you're going to feel

very sad so those with high levels of glutamate tend to be very emotional because

again it's our emotional amplifier and it also plays a

role in memory so it's not the type of thing where we want glutamate to be too

low because if that happens then we're going to have issues with retaining

information and feel like you know brain fog or just not feel like ourselves and

we don't want that so you know it's kind of like the Goldilocks situation

where too much is not right and too little is not right

and we just want that middle ideal level

when it comes to glutamate. And the reason why I think that it's such a fascinating

Neurotransmitter is because it has been used as a food additive for a long time so many of you have probably heard of MSG, which is basically just a easily convertible form of glutamate. And that has been used in fast foods, commercial coffees, frozen meals, that sort of thing to,

you know, and really it's kind of messed up if you think about it but it's like playing on our

brain chemistry to get us to enjoy that food more so if you think about like a

fast food just like a burger and it has MSG in it. Well that emotional response, that pleasure response that

you're going to get from the food is now going to be amplified because of the higher

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