Does Red Clover Block Neurological Damage From MSG

[Guest guest]

Recently I received an email from a Natural Medicine Web site that referred

to a report that a recent study was done that hypothesized that the natural

mixture of phytoestrogenic isoflavones found in red clover could protect the

brain from glutamate toxicity. It was based on an idea generated by the

knowledge that estrogen has been shown to affect neuronal growth,

differentiation and survival. Genistein, diadzein and other isoflavones have

been shown to mimic the pharmacological actions of the steroid estrogen, due

to their similarity of structure. So, researchers. They used a human

cortical cell line to test the efficacy of the red clover.

Neuronal viability was determined and neuronal membrane damage was

quantitatively measured. According to the report, the neurons treated with

red clover isoflavones were protected from the cell death induced by

glutamate exposure. In addition, the pretreatment with the isoflavone

enriched fraction prevented the morphological disruption caused by glutamate

as shown in microscopic inspection.

You can read about the study at the following link.

http://www.naturalnews.com/024275.html

What are your thoughts on this? Is red clover something any of you have

tried? I still have severe brain issues so my ability to analyze this info

and determine of it is relevant to ME is limited

[Modeartor: Good question! First step is to start searching pubmed for any

studies -- speculation is what happens with no evidence. It is better to base on

some evidence (even if just animal studied).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ -- I will let the group start working on

this one...]