Prof. Grant Schofield is the Professor of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology, director of the University’s Human Potential Centre, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, co-author of four best-selling books and Chief Science Officer for PREKURE.
Grant’s career has focused on preventing the diseases of modern times, and seeing what it takes to help people live a long, healthy and happy life. He lives and breathes the motto “be the best you can be”, and sees this as a game-changer for the health system – capable of transforming the current health (sickness) model, to one in which we aspire to be well. He is redefining public health as the science of human potential; the study of what it takes to have a great life.
Prof. Schofield is well known for thinking outside the box and challenging conventional wisdom in nutrition and weight loss, as well as physical activity and exercise.
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18 responses to “Prof. Grant Schofield – ‘Glutamate: why it might matter’”
Open and honest, can’t ask four more!
Just ask for three more then…
how about three more?
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I became hooked on Pringles Sour Cream and Chives chips (this was back in the 1990s well before I went low carb – Oct 2021) and became* glutamate intolerant* (proven by an elimination diet and weekly food challenge). Six hours after consuming MSG I would get severe diarrhea which smelled really bad and become very weak with an extremely fast heart rate, sweating and hives. After the food challenge I went on a low glutamate diet for several years and after that time I was able to introduce small amounts of high/er glutamate foods.
Good you see some improvement. When seeing the slides of foods to avoid due to high glutamate content and success in trials, I wonder if the same effect could be achieved “just” by fixing leaky gut and leaky blood brain barrier. So, if you are healthy to start with it’s probably not necessary to avoid glutamate in the diet, but to avoid a high glutamate/pro leaky gut diet. Like eating lots of pringles with either a high sugar soda or a diet soda.
I’m interested in the glutamine glutamate pathway feeding cancer tumor growth, along with glucose.
Now we’re talking
Check out Prof. Thomas Seyfried
Thomas Seyfried has written at length on anaerobic glutamine fermentation as one of the obligatory energy pathways in cancer cells. We need more research on access to therapeutic glutamine-glutamate targeting
Great metabolic health comes from human behavior and that includes eating human food.
Very interesting chap. Thank you.
Thank you. Very interesting indeed.
switched off when he said he was a professor of public health. After the last few years I’ll never listen to a word from a guy with that title
Interesting….I had the same thought. 😮
Came to comments section to see what others had to say about his presentation.
I ate a packet of cheap store brand potato chips, possibly salt n vinegar, that night I had nightmares all night.
min 29:44 i’d say that creatine has an effect since it spares glycine and glycine will be turned into more glutathione
Wow! I knew for many years that the disfunction of glutamate caused neurological problems. But in my deep dive to become metabolically healthier, due to familial motor neurone disease in my family. I think this is the clearest indication yet of the link between mitochondrial damage and toxicity caused by diet and lifestyle. It’s a big wake up call for me and I hope changes healthcare from base level up.