SGU COMMUNITY Livestream // Friday May 21st 2021
Added 2021-05-21 14:54:20 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvYH_KzKO6Y
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Likely it became a fad to be "allergic" to it, much in the way ADD became the go to fad diagnosis for every child who didn't pay 100% attention to teachers. It doesn't seem to overly different to mass hysteria epidemics.
Asymetra
2021-05-25 18:49:48 +0000 UTCmonosodium glutamate is the conjugate base of glutamic acid which is an extremely common amino acid and neurotransmitter. I find it interesting that people claim to be allergic to something that naturally exists in vast quantities in the body. "MSG sensitivity" hasn't been demonstrated in placebo-controlled trials. That said, the added sodium is probably not healthy for people with hypertension, so, there's that.
NotAPreppie
2021-05-25 17:55:08 +0000 UTCMSG was used primarily in Chinese cooking, and spread into wider usage. MSG got a bad rep when a half-Chinese doctor complained that he got an upset stomach after eating food seasoned with it (possibly a Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy), so that blows away the myth that MSG's rep is racism. My hypothesis is that it had a bad reputation because snob chefs snubbed the use of it. (I think salt suffers the same snubbing, but is not likely to ever go away.) The unsubstantiated claim went viral and suddenly way too many people were "allergic" to it and it fell out of favor. I suspect that, like many "new" diagnoses, it became a fad to self-diagnose an "allergy." Some people will definitely be intolerant, which isn't the same thing as an allergy.
Asymetra
2021-05-22 19:34:10 +0000 UTCI saw an article on that study. 12 week delay between shots produced 3.5 times stronger immune response (I assume 3.5x number of antibodies or something similar).
Eddie Hunnell
2021-05-21 21:45:35 +0000 UTC
