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Just because the human body produces small quantities of it at a time doesn't mean that you can flood the digestive tract with orders of magnitude more and expe
by akiselev 7y ago
Just because the human body produces small quantities of it at a time doesn't mean that you can flood the digestive tract with orders of magnitude more and expect no ill effect.
- kop316 7y agoAn amino acid is a building block for proteins. It isn't something you produce small quantities of, it's a basic component of how organic life is made. I say that to say you make a lot of them. And you eat a lot of them whenever you eat organic matter. And to your point, even water can be deadly if you drink too much too fast. That doesn't mean you have a water allergy.
- akiselev 7y agoMonosodium glutamate is a salt not an amino acid. It does not disassociate perfectly (or instantly) in the gut and uptake through the digestive system is slow [1]. There are several steps before your metabolic system can turn MSG into amino acids and surprise, surprise: until then it behaves like a different chemical. [1] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Monosodium-glutamate https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Monosodium-glutama...
- kop316 7y agoThe first sentence in Section 10.2 (Absorption, Distribution and Excretion): "Glutamate is absorbed from the gut by an active transport system specific for amino acids." I'm not convinced you read what you just cited.