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Let's Get Metabolical with Dr. Robert Lustig

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

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Is Glutamate a Neurotoxin?

Every scientist on the planet agrees that glutemate is an excitatory neurotoxin. It looks like most of the glutomate actually gets converted to alanine in the gut and does not go up to the brain. But if your gut were working righte glutomate should be detoxified, become alanine and should never reach the brain.

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