date:Apr 08, 2013
Research has recently discovered that MSG is a neurotoxin, that is, it can kill or injure neurons. A studymost recently published in Human and Experimental Toxicology suggests that SMG can induce oxidativedamage and genotoxicity in the liver, kidney and brain of at least rats for now.
Olatunde Farombi and O. O. Onyema from College of Medicine University of Ibadan in Nigeria found ratsexposed to MSG increased the production of a toxic chemical known as malondialdehyde in the liver,kidney and bra