Katherine Reid, PhD

Unblind My Mind: Diet for Health

Date Aired: December 22, 2017

Episode Description

In 2006, her youngest child was diagnosed with autism. Through her research, Katherine determined that certain foods common in the Western diet were associated with her daughter’s autistic behaviors. Seeing the profound effect of diet on the brain with many of her clients, she has become a provocateur questioning medical approaches and food manufacturing practices relating to health. Katherine will discuss how food drive behavior and how it impacts our brains. In particular, she will discuss glutamate and its affect on our health.

www.unblindmymind.org
Reid Reduced excitatory inflammatory diet  – REID

Dr. Reid is a biochemist PhD

  • Worked in biology on stabilizing proteins
  • Her youngest had autism and reacted to food processing in MSG
  • She managed her daughter’s health and got her off the autism spectrum
    • No longer symptomatic
    • No longer on the autism spectrum
    • Is in main stream school
    • Did not qualify for any learning accommodations
    • She is the most social of the family
      • She started out not being able to converse in a conversation
    • If fed daughter previous foods she would be back to where she was
    • As if she has a severe sensitivity to something she ate.

Process

  • There were Anecdotal reports of improvement with elimination of gluten
  • She removed gluten and casein
    • improvement  more imagination
    • Improvement with sensory system:  seeing , hearing
  • Removing Glutamate from her daughter’s diet
    • Glutamate makes up 25 % of proteins
    • She wondered if food processing was making free glutamate
    • Connection glutamate signaling and autism research
    • Many people have trouble with balance of glutamate signaling leading to neurological diseases
    • She researched the manufacturing of foods
    • She eliminated foods which she thought would give her glutamate
    • She ate the same diet as her daughter
  • C went through the food process with her daughter

Glutamate

  • Is a billion dollar industry
  • is aneurotransmitter
  • It activates over 40 % of the nervous system
  • It binds to glutamate receptors on
    • Hormone
  • Secret insulin
  • Signaling for digestive enzyme
  • On skin, eyes, liver, heart
  • Is a common ubiquitous way to signal from one part of body to any other part of the body
  • Microbes can communicate with the host
  • In food is addicting
  • Makes food taste good
  • Lost transparency in food labeling
  • Have to delve into manufacturing processes
  • May do not know this
  • This controls our sensory system
  • Many people have sensory issues
  • Anxiety, depression, digestion sensitive skin, sensitive to noises
  • Sensory dysregulation is a modern disease
  • One cause is food processing
  • Binds to glutamate receptors and activates them
  • Will open ion gate into cell allowing ions flow into the cell
    • Flow of calcium into cell activates cell and propagates signal down the line
    • Excess calcium in a cell will cause cell to die
    • Glutamate binds to receptors resulting in insulin secretion linked to diabetes and obesity
    • Create rat models to get fat rats feed them MSG to get rats obese
  • Is an excitotoxin
    • Activates microglia in brain
    • Is gut to brain connection
    • Receives signal in brain
    • Release of glutamate in brain,
    • Activates microglial
    • Activatesglial cells in intestine
    • Leaky gut associated with permeable blood brain barrier
    • So glutamate gets into our brain
    • John Loney in late 60 ‘s found glutamate causes brain lesions
    • Blood brain barrier becomes weak
      • Infant, sick, glucose deprived, fatigued
      • Increasedinflammation:, barriers not as strong
  • Role in Diseases
    • Related to entire inflammatory pathway
    • 2/3 Americans
    • the link with immune inflammatory modulator
    • balance response to environment
    • excessive signal it triggers the inflammatory pathway
    • it induces pain
    • AD se glutamate blocking drugs which have lots of side effects as we have lots of receptor
    • Ketamine mask pain
    • Is glutamate based depression
    • Multiple Sclerosis , Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive Disease, Bipolar Disease, Tourette’s sensory dysregulation, Lyme
    • Borellia needs osmolality
    • Glutamate provides osmolality so borrellia can become more pathogenic
    • Glutamate factor in developing intestinal permeability
  • Glutamate Role in Gut pathology
  • Glial cells to protect
  • When become saturated, glial cells erode
  • Glial protect intestinal layer
  • Erosion of intestinal wall
  • Changes environment of the microbes
  • Inflammation creating lower pH erodes that layer
  • Erode all barriers
  • Cell wall, intestinal, blood brain barrier

Source of Glutamate

  • Viruses can contribute to glutamate signaling as perceived to be under attack
  • Physical, injury to brain is a flood of glutamate
    • Need to take care of surge quickly before all cytokines come to aid of injury
    • Is in inflammatory response
  • Food
    • Processed proteins
    • Fermentation
    • Acid hydrolysis
    • Fat removal
  • 4200 patents to put glutamate or MSG in natural flavoring
  • isolated processed protein soy, whey
    • natural flavourings
    • cheese
      • protein rich food (lot of glutamate
      • add cultures created in lab to make enough glutamate to be aromatic, addicting
      • fermentation of protein food
      • microbes make glutamate
      • breakdowns down food
      • autolyzed yeast, modified products
    • tomato has free glutamate