It's Dan here. And so we've been doing these reheats for a while. And I always say, hey, do you have a request for a reheat? And more and more of you are responding. And I love these responses. Because listen to as you remind me of an episode that I haven't even thought about in a long time. And then I remember how much I like that one. This one we're going to reheat for you today was requested by a long time. Hi, Sporkful Team. This is Ayeshi from Memphis, Tennessee,

and I would love to re-listen to the episode, this podcast contains MSG. I love how it looked

at cultural bias through the lens of food and science, and I'd love to hear it again.

Ayushi tells us she first heard this episode with her mom and sister when she was in eighth grade. Now she's going into her senior year of college, which makes me feel a little bit old. Although I kind of love, I'm hearing this more and more about like young people, young adults who have grown up listening to this porkfall. I actually really love it. So Iushi, we send this one out to you. We're happy to dust off this episode from 2018 for

you. And as I said, be like Ayushi. Request a reheat. Send us an email or voice memo to hello at

sporkful.com. Tell me your name, location, and what episode you want to hear, and why. Thanks so much

and enjoy. Well, if you've been listening to this program for the last few years and have been listening

to very much about nutrition, you realize that you've been hearing about a silent killer.

It's a killer that's worse than alcohol, worse than nicotine, worse than drugs.

It's called monosodium glutamate.

Last year, Sam Kastic got so sick he had to be rushed to the hospital.

Diagnosis, reaction to MSG. The range of reactions is amazing to be as a physician, asthma, heart

computations, headache, dizziness.

Now how many people out there would think that this has hidden MSG in it?

It does.

In 1968, a doctor named Robert Kwok wrote a letter to the England Journal of Medicine.

He said after he ate Chinese food, he often got a headache, felt feverish.

He suggested maybe it was the MSG in the food. After that, tons of people came forward with

similar complaints. The letter coined the term Chinese restaurant syndrome, and the thing just snowballed.

There were studies done, but they were problematic.

They took enormous amounts of MSG and then injected it under the skin of mice to see if problems occurred.

And it did. But no one is suggesting that human beings should inject huge amounts of MSG under their skin.

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