Does anyone else get these? I've found that any free-glutamate food causes me to twitch (in moderate doses) and fatigue (in high doses)
The worst offender so far was a packet of chips (yeast), and a very MSG-laden Italian restaurant meal.
I realize that the mayo-MSG myth is half based off racism, but I think there's a kernel of truth, which is that too much free-glutamate just causes cellular excitation. Meaning the cell is expending energy faster than it can create it.
I guess I'm not completely sure. But I associate those symptoms with excess glutamate in the central nervous system, which I've experienced from benzo withdrawal and read a lot about. It could also be happening in the peripheral nervous system as glutamate receptors are also expressed there, but I'll admit that I don't know much about glutamate's role outside of the CNS.