The #1 Ingredient That Makes You Fat (NOT SUGAR)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about a dangerous ingredient that’s making you fat and damaging your health. The FDA classifies this ingredient as GRAS, which means “generally recognized as safe.”

Monosodium glutamate, also known as MSG, is a flavor enhancer. Studies have shown that it causes obesity, diabetes, metabolic problems, and a fatty liver in mice, so how can it be safe for humans?

Monosodium glutamate overstimulates a part of the hypothalamus that regulates the balance of hunger and satiation. It prevents the utilization of energy and also affects fertility. The average daily consumption of MSG is 590 mg to 2330 mg. Some people consume up to 5000 mg in one day! Consuming carbs and MSG together accentuates its effects.

Not only does MSG contribute to obesity, but it may also cause headaches, allergy symptoms, irritability, sleeping problems, and dizziness.

Many people consume hidden MSG unknowingly. If there’s less than half a gram of MSG in a product, it’s not required to be listed as an ingredient!

Foods high in monosodium glutamate include the following:

•Instant noodles

•Chips

•Flavored popcorn

•Canned soups

•Bouillon cubes

•Processed meat

•Fast food

•Seasonings

•Salad dressings

•Frozen dinners

•Gravy

•Appetizers

•Flavored crackers

•Canned vegetables

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/557837/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5093957/

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about the number one ingredient that is making you fat and no it's not sugar.
0:05.6	And the FDA even granted this ingredient as what's called gross generally recognized as safe.
0:11.3	And some people might mistakenly think this causes the Chinese
0:14.7	restaurant syndrome where you might get headaches, dizziness after consuming the
0:20.2	food with this certain ingredient in it. But rest assured, Wikipedia says that it doesn't cause
0:24.8	headaches. It is non-toxic. There's no high quality information that it has any negative effects
0:30.0	on our body. If consumed in moderate amounts, there's no established causation related to
0:36.0	this ingredient. Most of the symptom reports are anecdotal and they're just not scientific.
0:40.8	Phew, good, because I really like this ingredient, and this ingredient is monosodium
0:46.6	glutamate, MSG.
0:48.1	Now what actually is MSG?
0:49.9	MSG is a flavor enhancer.
0:53.1	It will make the food explode with this incredible pleasure sensation.
0:59.0	The science has definitely settled on that,
1:00.7	so we can just forget about it. Well you know there's just this one
1:05.1	little piece of information that kind of just stands out that I want to just
1:09.7	bring up. Why did they use MSG to make mice obese?
1:14.0	And how is it safe for our bodies, but not necessarily too safe with mice?
1:20.0	In fact, mice don't just get obesity, they get diabetes, they have metabolic problems.
1:24.8	They can develop fatty livers, they develop a large midsection weight.
1:29.2	But the interesting thing about this is what MSG does to rats.
1:33.4	Why does it make a rat fat when it's not really a
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