Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

by Blaylock, Russell L.

• ISBN13: 9780929173252
• ISBN10: 0929173252
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Health Pr

Summary

"Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins "explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG and other substances added to our food. This is an electrifying and important book that should be available to every American consumer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Forward	xiii
Introduction	xvii
A Crash Course in How the Brain Works	3	(18)
The Interior of the Brain
The Brain Stem
The Master Gland and Its Control
The Electrochemical Brain
Synaptic Transfer of Information
The Blood Brain Barrier
Very Special Amino Acids	21	(12)
What is an Amino Acid?
A Lock and Key
Exciting Cells To Death	33	(26)
Too Much of a Good Thing
The Developing Brain
How Excitotoxins Work
Brain Cell Energy Analyzing Research Data
Effect Of Excitotoxins On The Developing Brain	59	(32)
The Malleable Brain: Plasticity
Protecting the Developing Brain Excitotoxins in Food
the Pregnant Woman
Endocrine Effects Children
Truth in the Sciences
Creeping Death: The Neurodegenerative Diseases	91	(42)
Neurological Time Bombs
Designer Drugs
The Big Surprise Panalysis Agitans
Parkinson's Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Lou Gehrig's Disease Huntington's Chorea
Alzheimer's Disease: A Classical Case of Excitotoxin Damage	133	(58)
The Effect of Normal Aging
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Microscopic Changes Seen in Alzheimer's Diseases
Excitotoxins and Alzheimer
Specific Proteins
Memory Loss
What Causes Alzheimer's Disease?
The Hit Men
Other Connections to Excitotoxins
Energy: The Key to Brain
Protection
Getting Glucose to the Brain
Failure of the Gatekeeper: The Blood-Brain Barrier
Domoic Acid: Mussel Madness
Magnesium
Cysteine
Animal Studies
What Should Those With Alzheimer's Disease Do?
Other Neurological Disorders Related To Excitotoxins	191	(32)
Seizures
Headaches
Brain Injury
Strokes: Ischemia
Anoxia
Hypoglycemia
AIDS Dementia
Aspartame, Brain Tumors and the FDA
Conclusion	215	(8)
Update and Analysis	223	(32)
Pharmaceutical Agents
Improving Brain Function Nutritionally
Stabilizing the Blood- Brain Barrier
What Did The FASEB Report Really Say?
Appendix 1	255	(2)
Glossary	257	(4)
Notes	261	(28)
Index	289	(8)
Index to Update	297