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Thanks both for responding. Tito, your symptoms match mine, especially the loss of balance and cold feet. I go into this terrible brainfog frame of mind, which kind of fits your other symptoms. I also get the "MSG chinese syndrome" headache and this is even triggered from the natural gluten in especially wheat.

The diet change has helped stop my panick attacks and I haven't had one since. Quite unbelieveable really as I was scaringly close to starting antidepressants before I found the solution. I also go into a zombie kind of state from the glutamic acid in wheat. It really puts me in a depressed kind of state. As if I haven't any emotions.

Like Tito, I have stopped buying processed food as almost everything has glutamate in it......and by now I feel I have read every label out there <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Now I eat salads, fruit, vegetables and some fresh chicken which is the kind of meat with the least natural glutamic acid. I do have some brown and wild rice and just a little potatoe as these two are lower than wheat, rye, oats.

I have read that B6 is necessary to convert glutamic acid (which is exitorary amino) into the calming GABA, so I probably will try this.

With regards to tomatoes which M mentioned, I think I read that the least ripe ones had less glutamic acid. I react to tomatoes too, especially any ready made tomatoe sauce or paste and these are even without MSG. But unripe tomates I can handle ok.

A chewing gum was recommended from a guy who can't handle glutamate/aspartate either. It's called Big Red from Wrigleys. I have found Polo Original Peppermint from Nestle to be G/A free. I contacted Nestle which confirmed it. Every other chewing gum seems to have aspartame!

This is what I have found so far: High: Turkey, pork, oats, very ripe tomatoes, wheat, beef, nuts especially peanuts and cashews (pecans have less), beans, lentils, cheese and soya and of course processed products with pure MSG disguised under many names...........Aspartame in soda, chewing gum and most "sugarfree" candy.

Tito, do you know if eggs contain high natural glutamic acid?