[varelse]

This is a lot like my occasional bouts with MSG sensitivity (cue MSG pedants in 3 2 1...). I thoroughly believe the science that shows a lack of correlation between pure MSG and the reported symptoms of said MSG sensitivity, but so what?

Every time I get the characteristic syndrome: a splitting migraine with auras and a general sense of fatigue it has been after eating heavily MSG-laden food. What makes this frustrating is that it doesn't always happen. But again, so what? The easiest way to avoid this unpleasant state of being is to avoid heavily MSG-laden food and by that I mean MSG's use as a food additive and not the amounts naturally present in just about everything (so calm down MSG pedants). It is one of the 20 basic amino acids after all.

I have my own theory here but no inclination to investigate because the above rule has almost no perceptible effect on my life, and life is too short to go on some sort of crusade to prove the existence of something I already know exists because I have experienced it repeatedly.

I suspect there is some additive (i.e. an anti-caking agent or preservative) put into some commercial MSGs that is the real culprit and not the MSG itself. I further suspect the sensitivity itself is variable depending on metabolic state.

And this relates to the person you're replying to: WTH would they want to do your blind test on GMO versus non GMO if eating non GMO is working for them and they can afford it? I'd hope that given recent events involving contamination of pet and human food from China that you'd be open to the presence of inappropriate substances in the food chain: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/world/asia/08food.html?pag...

Is it really such a stretch to be open to the notion that there's something real but difficult to quantify going on here?