Lyle Hurd: Dr. Gilbère, we recently talked about MSG and some of the problems that
it creates.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: Yes, many, many.
Lyle Hurd: I’d like you to take that as a subject category. Take if for granted that there
is aspartame that has, kind of, pretty much that same cascade and maybe
others, all of which we consume in the period of a day, period of a week.
So tell us a little bit about these problems that are caused by just that one
particular ingredient.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: Just the MSG?
Lyle Hurd: Just the MSG.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: Well, the MSG has a tremendous set of symptoms. Many people, and I
live in the part of the world in North Idaho, that happens to have the
largest concentration of multiple sclerosis anywhere in the country. And
they believe it’s from the Hanford Nuclear Plant when they had the, what
they call the downwinders. When they had that—in the 1950s, they had
that escape of toxins that waffled up into North Idaho, the Spokane,
Washington area, North Idaho. But MS-type symptoms are very often—
and I have found this true over and over in my practice—are the effects of
excitotoxins from articifial sweeteners and from MSG. And so you’ve got
dementia-type symptoms, headache, Parkinson’s-like symptoms; people
start trembling. I have a patient who was a retired school teacher and they
told her she had the start of Parkinson’s; put her on Parkinson’s
medications. And when I did her initial work-up, and hour and a half on
her history, I asked on her questionnaire, do you drink any soft drinks and
if so, what brand and how many do you drink a day. She was drinking six
Diet Pepsis a day. And I’m not picking on Pepsi—just the fact that she
was drinking something with artificial sweeteners. And so, I asked her if
she would stop if for 90 days, and she said, “well, that’s really hard.”
Okay, then cut it down to one a day for a month and then a half of one for
a month and then none the third month. Do you know that at the end of
three months, her Parkinson’s symptoms were gone? So it’s very
important that we understand that many of these syndromes—that’s why I
don’t call it a disease—because it’s a syndrome—they’re not really sure
what causes it and they’re giving you medication for the symptoms
because you fit that particular set of symptoms that are that category. And
racing heartbeat, skipped heartbeat, tachycardia, nausea—people say, “but
all of a sudden, I’m getting nauseous and I never used to be.” They may
not be drinking a Diet Pepsi or a Diet Coke or diet drink of some type, but
they may be getting artificial sweeteners in something else that they’re
taking—breathe mints for instance or gum and they don’t realize it. So, if
it says sugar-free, trust me, it’s got an artificial sweetener. So it’s very,
very important that we understand that these—and the depletion of the
retinal cells in the eyes is one of the biggest ones. And I wonder if that
wasn’t part of my eye problem, even though I’ve had, as you know, had
implants and I’ve had several eye surgeries since my illness with the leaky
gut that I’ve recovered from. But I had a lot of artificial sweeteners
growing up because my grandmother, who raised me, was a diabetic. So
we always had artificial sweeteners.
Lyle Hurd: I see.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: And so I’m wondering if some of the deterioration of my eyes—especially
after my accident and the drugs that consequently caused all my other
problems—if it wasn’t something that actually started that cascade of eye
problems because of all the artificial—I mean, probably to the age of 30,
from the time that I was a child, I had artificial sweeteners until I was in
health and realized what it was doing to me, so.
Lyle Hurd: Now, I—from what we’ve been talking about, it seem to me that what we
eat can almost be as dangerous as smoking cigarettes or abusing alcohol.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: Absolutely. Without a doubt and even more dangerous than some
prescription medications you know, you and I are not against conventional
medicine. It saves lives. It saved my life. But if you’re taking medications
because you’re telling your doctor a group of symptoms and he’s giving
you medications for just symptoms, there’s something wrong, because
many times you need that medication to control the symptoms—such as
heart disease or hypertension that gets out of control—but you need to find
out what changes you need to make in your own life—in your diet, in the
food, in the quality of food that you’re eating. And as we talked earlier,
read the labels.
Lyle Hurd: That’s right.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: Know what you’re eating because it’s very important. You wouldn’t go
out there and put in vegetable oil in your car instead of regular oil if you
knew that it wasn’t equipped to do so. And yet, we put all this garbage in
our body without ever reading the labels or ever paying attention.
Lyle Hurd: Well, it’s integral to Total Health Management and that’s what we preach
in Total Health Magazine, but it’s the basis for establishing, maintaining
and reclaiming health and I appreciate your time.
Dr. Gloria Gilbère: You’re welcome.
Lyle Hurd: Thank you.
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