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my book us that I found the cause. People say they’ve got all sorts of trig- is physically hurting them. Anyhow, I found the
gers—the weather, heat, certain foods—but really, you have one trigger. word “excitotoxin” and its meaning, and I had
You have sensitive nerves. A lot of different things can become triggers, some hope. I thought, “this is one more thing
and you can’t really pinpoint what the trigger is. I can try.”
Two weeks later, at one of our local Weston
HG: So for each person, it might be a different thing that triggers it, but Price meetings, we had a talk by Dr. Wayne
the common root that everyone has are these sensitive nerves? Feister from Rawson, Ohio. He was talking
about chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. I took
JL: The root is excitotoxicity. That was the main lightbulb moment. note because the doctors were trying to give
After I had been through weeks’ worth of doctors’ appointments, I went me fibromyalgia drugs. Dr. Feister talked about
to a world-renowned medical facility that had eight-hour doctor appoint- monosodium glutamate (MSG) and mentioned
ments for fifteen hundred dollars out of pocket fees. They didn’t have that it goes by about seventy different names. I
any additional suggestions beyond what I had already done. I had done had no idea! But I remembered that when I went
all of the regular migraine medicines and even Botox for migraines, to that world-renowned medical facility, their
getting thirty shots in the head and neck every three months for two list of migraine triggers included MSG. I already
and a half years. It helped a little, keeping away the big ones, and I was had been looking for “MSG” on ingredient lists,
kind of functional. But then it started to wear off. My last appointment but I had not realized that it was in 95 percent of
was with a pain doctor. He said that he thought that I was getting to the processed foods under other names, including
place where I couldn’t tolerate the pain. He wanted to put an implant yeast extract, soy protein, and protein isolates.
in my spinal cord called a neurostimulator. I was sitting in the office The doctors had already told me to avoid it.
listening to him and looking at the surgery pamphlet. It showed a lady I didn’t think that food was my problem since
jogging with her dog, but I knew that if I had that surgery, that was not as far as I knew I had been avoiding MSG and
how it was going to be for me. Luckily, I didn’t get the surgery. When it hadn’t helped me at all. I didn’t realize all
I left there that day, I was so upset. Here I was, young, with the perfect the other names for MSG. I was eating tons of
family and everything going right, but I just couldn’t get control of my it, all the time! The difference between a good
health—it was a sinking ship. When I got home, I was so upset, I didn’t day and a bad day was dosage. I’ve seen cakes
even tell my husband what the doctor had said. I couldn’t even talk about that have thirty of these disguised ingredients
it. I started searching for things on the Internet because the doctor said, in them. That’s a lot of MSG. And the thing that

“Your nerves are all firing and I don’t know why. They are rapid firing.” made finding the cause more difficult was that
When I typed that in, I got the word “excitotoxins.” my reactions were severe but delayed. They'd
occur up to thirty-six hours later.
HG: And until that time, you hadn’t heard about excitotoxins?
HG: So that makes it difficult to make the as-
JL: I hadn’t heard that word before. Excitotoxins are substances that sociation?
make nerves rapid fire. Most of the time, they are a food additive, but
they also are in perfumes and different chemicals. A lot of people who JL: It makes it very hard. The doctors would
have migraines have trouble being around fragrances. It is not in their tell me to keep a food diary. The normal person
head, and it is not that they dislike the fragrance—it is that the fragrance will write down “cheeseburger,” “cake” and so

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