Gelatin Capsules Cause Migraine Headaches

CONTENT="Gelatin Capsules Cause Migraine Headaches"

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Migraine Headaches from gelatin capsules?
         Yes, it would appear so.
Gelatin capsules are manufactured by the use of gelatin produced at the numerous rendering plants across the world today. The gelatin product is a confirmed source of MSG, or Mono sodium Glutamate. Well if you have not lived under a rock or in an far away jungle village, you have heard about MSG, and the many horrible reactions many adults and children have to this chemical preservative, and so-called food taste enhancer. I will bet that you have not heard that MSG also makes you FAT!
          Yes, Ladies it make syou fat, and women are affected by this wonderful trait of MSG in a ratio of 2 to 1 over men.
         MSG really came to light many years ago when the FDA had been investigating thousands of cases of an illness that had come to be known as "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" it gained this infamous name due to the thousands of people that fell ill almost immediately after they had visited the local Chinese restaurant for a nice meal out.
          The ill effects are not discriminate, matter of fact all age groups are affected, however, the very young, seniors, and immune system depressed individuals are far more susceptible to the ill effects of MSG exposure.
          In April 1968, Robert Ho Man Kwok wrote a letter to the New England Journal Of Medicine, in which was the first time the term "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" was used to address these illness to the J.O.M.
His Letter began:
              "I have experienced a strange syndrome whenever I have eaten out in a Chinese restaurant. The syndrome, which usually begins 15 to 20 minutes after I have eaten the first dish, lasts for about two hours, without hangover effect. The most prominent symptoms are numbness at the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness and palpitations............"
Mr. Kwok goes on to report excruciatingly painful migraine headaches.

(Robert Ho Man Kwok (1968). "Chinese restaurant syndrome". N. Engl. J. Med. 18 (178): 796.)

*****The Scientific community has determined that MSG is an "excitatoxin" or artificial stress promoter that leads to brain tissue damage and neurotoxicity. Glutamate also readily and quickly affects the cerebellum, and other areas of the brain within minutes of ingestion due to it's high absorbability in the intestinal tract leading to chronic diseases.

Excitotoxicity

Because glutamate is absorbed very quickly in the digestive tract, and MSG spikes blood plasma levels of glutamate. Glutamic acid is in a class of chemicals known as Excitotoxins, It also "accumulates in soft tissues and organs. High levels of MSG have been shown in studies to cause damage to areas of the brain unprotected by the blood brain barrier and that a variety of chronic diseases can arise out of this neurotoxicity There has been debate among scientists on the significance of these findings since the early 1970s, when John Olney found that glutamic acid caused damage to the brains of infant mice.

Other scientists including John Olney state that indeed primates are susceptible to excitotoxic damage and that humans concentrate excitotoxins in the blood more than primates. Based on these findings, they advised that humans are approximately 5-6 times more susceptible to the effects of excitotoxins than animals are. While they agree that typical use of monosodium glutamate does not spike glutamic acid to extremely high levels in adults, they are particularly concerned with potential effects in infants and young children and the potential long-term neurodegenitive effects of small-to-moderate spikes on plasma excitotoxin levels.

Obesity

In 2008, a collaboration between American researchers found a positive statistical association between MSG intake and obesity in humans: Prevalence of overweight was significantly higher in MSG users than in non-users. The majority of the affected test subjects were women.

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The symptoms of MSG exposure are fairly uniform.

• burning sensations
• numbness
• tingling
• feeling flushed
• facial pressure or tightness
• chest pain
• extreme headache
• nausea
• rapid heartbeat
• lung spasm resembling asthma or allergies
• drowsiness
• general weakness

Gelatin Capsules not only contain MSG as a preservative chemical they also contain over 20 other known solvents.

ORIGINS OF THE GELATIN USED

The gelatin that is used to produce these capsules, and is also the source of their name are RENDERING PLANTS. Animal Rendering Plants.

       The term for these capsules by people in the capsule business is "Animal Caps"

Pile of deceased pigs waiting transport to
the Rendering Plant

Dogs and Cats from dog Pounds

Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, value-added materials. Rendering can refer to any processing of animal byproducts into more useful materials, or more narrowly to the rendering of whole animal fatty tissue into purified fats like lard or tallow. Rendering can be carried out on an industrial, farm, or kitchen scale.

The majority of tissue processed comes from slaughterhouses, but also includes restaurant grease and butcher shop trimmings, farms, and "other" sources. This material can include the fatty tissue, bones, hides, ect. as well as entire carcasses of animals condemned at slaughterhouses, and those that have died on farms, or other sources (dead stock), in transit, etc.

COLORED AND FLAVORED GELATIN CAPSULES:

Yes, colored Gelatin Capsules also contain large amounts of red, and blue toxic dyes, and titanium dioxide.
These dyes have been linked directly to many nerological disorders and titanium dioxide creates radicals. These radicals are scientifically proven to be carcinogenic.
Even with this scientific fact the FDA has allowed the use of these toxic chemicals in Gelatin Capsules thru this exemption:
Federal Register Final Rule - 71 FR 31927 June 2, 2006: Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification;
Effectively opening the door for abuse as the use of these toxic chemicals is no longer regulated.


I believe that with true knowledge concerning these Gelatin Capsules the choice for capsules that you would ingest would be Certified Vegetable Based Capsules or "plant caps" as they are termed by people in the capsule business.
I think it wise to research further on your own, but of course I welcome your comments or questions to further this discussion.

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