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I suspect that there is some truth the the "Chinese-restaurant syndrome" beyond the racism of the times. Chinese food contains much soy sauce and other fermente

I suspect that there is some truth the the "Chinese-restaurant syndrome" beyond the racism of the times. Chinese food contains much soy sauce and other fermented ingredients. These foods contain yeasts which are naturally inflammatory via multiple innate immune system pathways. MSG is even produced via fermentation but is probably more devoid of yeast and bacterial cell wall polysaccharides than other ingredients. Inflammation is most probably the cause of these mysterious headaches that are reported.

1MachineElf 6y ago
The cause of the headaches is the G in MSG, the glutamate. It's an excitotoxin. Common discourse deflects the true cause and points to the S, Sodium. This is because if the public really became conscious of glutamate, it would put at risk the bottom line of everyone who has disguised glutamate as Natural Flavors, Yeast Extract, etc.
1MachineElf 6y ago
My previous comment was downvoted when I was simply summarizing what researchers have already studied and analyzed for us. This paper has 76 references, including studies critical of MSG by both Chinese and Japanese scientists: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10942912.2020.1733016 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10942912.2020.1...