How I started having fainting problems and what I've done to help it.
MSG sensitivity and Dr. visit
At my visit with Dr. Wright I mentioned that while taking the multi-vitamin Equilib I constantly had a twitch under my left eye, but I didn't when taking Super Supplemental vitamins from Natures Sunshine. He thought I might have a sensitivity to some of the ingredients in Equilib that are supposed to support the central nervous system. He asked if I also got the twitch after having a diet soda or anything with MSG in it. I hadn't really paid attention to that, so I didn't know how to answer. However, later in the week I made some homemade chicken soup with brown rice shell noodles, and even though I used organic chicken broth without msg, I put in a can of cream of chicken soup to make it creamy so my kids would eat it and that had msg. Not long after dinner I developed the twitch under my left eye again. If Dr. Wright wouldn't have said something about MSG I would not have made the connection. After doing some research on MSG, I discovered disturbing news about the effects it has on the nervous system -- even on the FDA's website! I can tell you that from now on I'm going to avoid MSG like the plague -- which is hard to do because it is hidden in things by all kind of names. Go to http://www.truthinlabeling.org to read more about how MSG is hidden. I'm wondering if MSG, especially in soups (which I love to eat a lot of), is partly to blame for my continuing adrenal fatigue, erratic heart rate and blood pressure, etc. I'm trying to do the candida-free diet for a while and will see how it goes.
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