Episode 299: The Hidden Ingredient Making Us Sick and Anxious with Katherine Reid, PhD
Update: 2025-07-22
Description
Katherine “Katie” Reid, PhD is the founder of Unblind My Mind, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to improving health through informed food choices. With a background in biotech cancer pharmaceuticals, she brings a wealth of scientific knowledge to her work on chronic inflammatory illnesses.
Dr. Reid is a co-author with Dr. Barbara Price of "Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America's Health Crisis" which presents compelling scientific evidence that glutamate—commonly known as MSG—found in processed foods contributes to a range of preventable inflammatory diseases.
Key Topics:
- Dr. Reid’s journey to understanding the impact of MSG as a scientist as well as her personal journey as a parent
- MSG’s impact on health conditions and how processed food items are creating the most issues
- The hidden dangers in soy, whey, and hydrolyzed proteins
- How glutamate wrecks neurotransmitter balance and contributes to mental and emotional dysregulation
- Strategies for reducing processed foods
- Glutamate sensitivity and how school foods affect it
- Food industry labeling and regulations
Learn more about Dr. Reid’s work at katherinereidphd.com
Join Erin’s monthly mailing list to get health tips and fresh meal plans and recipes every month:
https://mailchi.mp/adde1b3a4af3/monthlysparksignup
Preorder Erin’s new book, Live Beyond Your Label, at erinbkerry.com/upcomingbook/
For video highlight clips of this episode and others, go to YouTube.com/@erinbkerry
Dr. Reid is a co-author with Dr. Barbara Price of "Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America's Health Crisis" which presents compelling scientific evidence that glutamate—commonly known as MSG—found in processed foods contributes to a range of preventable inflammatory diseases.
Key Topics:
- Dr. Reid’s journey to understanding the impact of MSG as a scientist as well as her personal journey as a parent
- MSG’s impact on health conditions and how processed food items are creating the most issues
- The hidden dangers in soy, whey, and hydrolyzed proteins
- How glutamate wrecks neurotransmitter balance and contributes to mental and emotional dysregulation
- Strategies for reducing processed foods
- Glutamate sensitivity and how school foods affect it
- Food industry labeling and regulations
Learn more about Dr. Reid’s work at katherinereidphd.com
Join Erin’s monthly mailing list to get health tips and fresh meal plans and recipes every month:
https://mailchi.mp/adde1b3a4af3/monthlysparksignup
Preorder Erin’s new book, Live Beyond Your Label, at erinbkerry.com/upcomingbook/
For video highlight clips of this episode and others, go to YouTube.com/@erinbkerry
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