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he also was overweight, although at the time he stand the thought of someone else suffering with migraines like I did.
seemed normal to me. When we changed our The changes I describe in the book are ones anyone can easily try to see
diet, he dropped the weight and the asthma was if they would get rid of their migraines. It has helped many of the people
gone. We started doing 5Ks together, which he around me. Another thing that I talk about in my book is that a lot of
couldn’t do before. He couldn’t make one lap the drugs that doctors give—especially to teens—for ADD, ADHD and
around our house without feeling unwell; he anxiety—block glutamate as their mechanism of action. I just want to
would just sit down and he wouldn’t exercise at shout from the rooftops: “Just get this stuff out of your food instead of
all. My husband had high blood pressure and blocking it, and you will feel so much better!”
sinus problems. His sinus problems went away.
I since have discovered that people who lack HG: That is a key point. The people that are on these meds think that
certain bacteria get chronic sinus infections. I the little pill is the solution, but you’re saying there's a way around that
think all of our fermenting and other changes if we simply get rid of the glutamate ourselves instead of relying on the
have eliminated so much. medicine to do it.

HG: Is this why your book has the subtitle, JL: Right. The sad thing is that a lot of these young people with anxiety—
“How one girl stopped migraines and chronic a lot of them are girls—think there is something wrong with them, but
pain and accidently improved her family’s there is not. It is what is being done to them through our food system.
health”? In other words, you didn’t expect the
side benefits to happen for your family, did you? HG: I want to back up a bit. When you described excitotoxins, you said
it was like your nerves were “rapid firing” all the time. Are you saying
JL: I didn’t expect it, and I really thought all that glutamate and other things in our diet are causing those nerves to
of their problems were “normal.” Recently, I rapid fire? And when you pull them out, it solves the problem?
found a nebulizer in the closet. It’s a machine
to administer Albuterol to people who have JL: Right, but specifically free glutamate. The body actually needs glu-
asthma. I thought, “Well, there’s my machine, tamate and has glutamate receptors. Regular glutamate is bound, so it
and I haven’t used it in years.” But when I absorbs really slowly—which is good—and doesn’t affect nerve function.
opened the box, there were prescriptions with Free glutamate, on the other hand, comes along in mega-doses and the
both of my kids’ names on it—I had forgotten body can’t tell the difference, so it really disrupts your nerve function. It
that they were both using it, too. They also were can even make nerves rapid fire until they die. Going back to just good
on antibiotics all the time. My daughter had quality food that is not processed is everything as far as neurological
strep eleven times one summer. After we made function goes.
our changes, she never had strep again. All the
changes with the kids—it is so obvious to me HG: What foods should avoid the most? Let’s say someone has a problem
now—were food-related. Before, we lacked with anxiety or ADD, what are the foods that are the biggest triggers?
quality food. I wrote my book because I can’t Which ones contain the most free glutamate?

QUOTES FROM RECENT PODCASTS
#121 LOW-CARB HIGH-FAT DIET ON TRIAL with Professor Tim Noakes
“If you cut out sugar it’s like if you stop smoking or remove alcohol. . . you feel terrible for a period. [But] once you get
over that first week or two and start to adapt, it’s amazing.”

#118 THE STORY BEHIND “KALE V. COW” with Diana Rodgers
“The idea of the film is to basically de-vilify animal products, specifically beef. Red meat is one of the most nutrient-dense
foods possible and one of our best chances at mitigating climate change. Every time a new study comes out talking about
how bad meat is, I like to point out the fact that most of these studies are looking at epidemiology. Correlation doesn’t
prove any cause at all. Cancers take a long time to develop, and it’s ridiculous to pinpoint meat as the sole cause of that.”

#116 CHEMICALS THAT WREAK HAVOC WITH YOUR HEALTH with Dr. Anthony Jay
“There are all these artificial estrogens that I’ve become more and more aware of, and people aren’t talking about them.
Breast cancer is up 250 percent since 1980. . . the solution is recognizing these [estrogenic] chemicals and avoiding them.
The estrogenic paradox: these chemicals store in your fat, and they signal your body to store more fat.”

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