Pain In Fibromyalgia Is Linked To Changes In Brain Molecule

[odetoverse]

From ScienceDaily. I dunno if anybody saw this already. It's about glutamate in the brains of people with fibro.
I'm so dorky. ScienceDaily makes my world go round :P

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2008) - Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a key linkage between pain and a specific brain molecule, a discovery that lends new

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[odetoverse]

Could we put a tag for glutamate on this? if it actually ends up being something i wanna look back and remember this as progress :P

[tcregan]

I cut MSG from my diet and about four weeks after that, I had half a bag of potato chips and I was in SO much pain the day after. Never again, I tell you. But this does explain a LOT...

[tcregan]

OOH! Look what I found. It's a chart telling you what foods naturally have MSG in them, rather than the ones that are added.

http://www.msgtruth.org/avoid.htm

It's easy to read a label and avoid food like potato chips and whatnot, foods that to which MSG is added, but the FDA doesn't require a label for things that have MSG naturally in them. I'm going to start cutting this stuff out, too and see if it helps.

Thank you for this article.

[odetoverse]

awww there's so much stuff on the list >.<

damnnniitt

it's okay, i mean a lot of it is high fat junkfood. the only thing i actually care about are the peas and the wheat.

i wonder if soy protein powder from whole foods would have added msg. i don't think so. that would suck. i make breakfast bars with that.

i can do the no msg thing again. i used to have migraines (it'll probably turn out to be connected especially since msg aggravated it so much) so it shouldnt be so bad.

thanks for the list!

[tcregan]

I know - the list is so amazingly... just... big. I'm going to try to work around it, though.

Good luck!