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Is monosodium glutamate (msg) harmful?
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Neurotoxic: It acts like the natural neurotransmitter glutamate in the brain to excessively allow influx of calcium into brain cells thus causing their early death, a condition called abnormal apoptosis.
Answered 9/28/2016
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